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 coordination and 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.
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Tactics Against Apathy
from 5 of June to 2 of July 2025
With Claudia Claremi, Colectivo Ayllu, Las Jamaiconas, Lumbung Press, Ximena Ferrer Pizarro y Maya Al Khaldi & Sarouna
Apathy is not absence. It is a structure of delay, repetition, and deferral. It regenerates quietly under the weight of systems that prefer inertia. In this logic, linear histories march linearly toward foreclosed futures; colonial modernity plants the seeds of colonial futurity–unless, of course, something is interrupted. To interrupt what appears predetermined is not simply a matter of resistance, but of attention—of noticing the cracks in what claims to be inevitable, and prying them open. Possibility does not arrive fully formed; it emerges in gestures, refusals, transgressions, and solidarities; in the minor acts through which the pace of the present is disturbed, and the script of the future hesitates. In rejection of the myth of inevitability, and a commitment to the labor of imagining otherwise, the practices on display in this exhibition propose ways of interrupting apathy—not through spectacle, but in stubborn, daily, often quiet acts of resistance and reconfiguration. Refusal is not an end in itself, but a beginning.
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).
