Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo chooses three young curators. Here's who they are

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo has announced the three young curators participating in the 16th Young Curators Residency Program Torino, scheduled from February to May 2022. They are Sukanya Baskar (India), Shaelyn Hanes (United States) and Eunice Tsang (Hong Kong); coordinator and mentor is Michele Bertolino. They were chosen by a jury composed of Antonia Alampi, director of Spore Initiative in Berlin, and Zoé Whitley, director of Chisenhale Gallery in London.

The Young Curators Residency Program Torino consists of a research residency in Italy that has the dual objective of developing the professional and critical skills of the selected curators and that of promoting the Italian contemporary art scene internationally. The three candidates will have the opportunity to meet and collaborate with many Italian artists, confirming Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s commitment to supporting national contemporary art. They will visit more than two hundred artist studios, museums and art institutions on the national territory under the guidance of a leading Italian curator and then create a curated exhibition with the support of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo team.

The selection of participants took place in collaboration with the most significant international curatorial programs: Royal College of Art, London; Graduate Program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York; Curatorial Program, De Appel, Amsterdam; CuratorLab, Konstfack University of Arts, Stockholm; Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; MFA Curating, Goldsmiths University of London; MA Curatorial Practice, California College of the Arts, San Francisco; MAS/CAS Curating, Zurich University of the Arts. As of 2021, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo has decided to involve new institutional entities as promoters of the candidacies, with the aim of achieving ever greater representativeness of the international scene. An agreement was established with the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, which through the establishment of a curatorial committee responsible for nominations proposed candidates from China and Southeast Asia. In 2022, the committee, coordinated by Billy Tang and Tiantian Xu for RAM, consists of Merv Espina, Esther Lu, Alia Swastika, X Zhu-Nowell, and Weiwei Zhang.

The project will end with an exhibition at the Foundation’s historic headquarters. The preparation of the exhibition will be preceded by the study of bibliographic material and dialogue with artists, curators, gallery owners, collectors and museum directors from the most important centers of cultural production throughout the country. The residency is organized with the support of Compagnia di San Paolo.

Here are who the three selected curators are.

Sukanya Baskar is an independent curator and researcher with a specific focus on photography and the moving image. In her practice, graphic design and curatorial research evolve simultaneously, intersecting with research on archives as places and devices of memory. She has collaborated with several magazines and editorial projects, including Witness / Kashmir 1986-2016 / Nine photographers, included by the New York Times in its list of the best photography books of 2017. As a researcher, she has been involved in several organizations, including The Museum of Art and Photography, Bengaluru; Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi; Light Industry and UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art, New York. Currently, Baskar studies the overlaps between the history of photography and cultural magazines in India. She is a graduate of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and the Center for Curatorial Studies, (CCS) at Bard College, New York.

Shaelyn Hanes is a curator and writer, based in San Francisco. In her work she explores the radical potential of the collective imagination. She has worked on curatorial projects organized at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive and di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art. From 2016 to 2019, she oversaw the organizational and administrative management of Creativity Explored - a nonprofit space dedicated to artistsÉ™ with disabilities. She is currently the art collections coordinator at Zlot Buell + Associates, an art advisory firm specializing in contemporary art. Hanes graduated in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts in 2021 and in Interdisciplinary Field Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010.

Eunice Tsang is a curator, artist, researcher and journalist living in Hong Kong. She founded and is curator of Current Plans (formerly known as Present Projects), an experimental art space that aims to encourage interdisciplinary dialogues between different fields of knowledge through organizing exhibitions. She organized the Asian Artist Book Library at Tai Kwun Contemporary, focusing her research on independent publishing and alternative distribution strategies. Her curatorial interests focus on the ways in which lÉ™ artistÉ™ develop languages and symbols in contact with contexts of important political and social change. Her practice investigates the intersections between opposing liminal spaces, the relationship between legality and illegality, fact and fiction, using magic realism, sarcasm, humor, and myth as methodologies of analysis.

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo chooses three young curators. Here's who they are

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