Young Curators Residency Programme 2025. Fundación Sandretto

Madrid

Madrid, Barcelona, Santiago, A Coruña, Córdoba & Málaga

For the third consecutive year, hablarenarte is coordinating the Young Curators Residency Programme (YCRP) at the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation in Spain. The program is organized as an intensive research residency with the dual objective of supporting the professional and critical development of the participating curators, while also contributing to the internationalization of art produced in Spain.

The residency provides the three selected curators with the opportunity to explore current visual creation in Madrid, as well as to travel to other cities, visiting studios, museums, residency programs, and independent spaces, with the mediation of the hablarenarte team.

This intense research process culminates in an exhibition that will take place during the month of June at Nadie Nunca Nada No. During their stay, the curators will be housed at Espositivo in the city.

The three participating curators are:

Chadrack Kakule is a researcher and curator based in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The main strands of his practice are primarily concerned with alternative epistemologies, non-extractive curatorial/artistic practices and contemporary art from Africa. His work examines the role of curatorial research in addressing the histories that have been affected by extractivism. He has participated in various curatorial and educational programs, including the Independent Curators International (ICI) Curatorial Intensive in Kampala, Uganda (2022) and the Zeitz MOCAA & the University of the Western Cape Museum Fellowship program (2024).

Elias Rizek is a Palestinian curator from Jerusalem, and the founder of Al-Mustawda3, an independent cultural space in Ramallah. At Al-Mustawda3, Elias curated a number of exhibitions and collaborated with many in developing a public programme that spanned visual arts, music, theatre, cinema, and education. Elias's curatorial practice is grounded in decolonial methodologies that reconsider conventional institutional frameworks. He employs a speculative approach to explore how enmeshed colonial structures shape contemporary artistic production, proposing collective-first modes of instituting instead.

Henriette Gillerot has a particular interest in topics related to the sense of place and space, the concept of landscape and the notion of interiority. In her curatorial projects, she examines from a historical and ecological perspective how we come to know spaces and how we might live with their evolving conditions. She holds a Master's degree in Art History and Archaeology from the VUB, Brussels (2021) and a Master's degree in Curating from Goldsmiths College, London (2023).