Curator in Residence Programm

September-October 2024

Sergey Kantsedal (he/him, *1989, Ukraine) is a curator based in Italy. He is running a non-profit space Barriera in Turin. Through a series of exhibitions and long-term projects, this institution creates opportunities for dialogue between artists, curators, collectors and engenders contamination with other cultural environments and disciplines. 

Over the years, he has collaborated with various public and private institutions, including the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR) in Turin, Fabbrica del Vapore and MUDEC Museo delle Culture in Milan, MAMbo - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Bologna, PinchukArtCentre and the National Art Museum in Kyiv. 

During his residency at the Salzburger Kunstverein, additionally supported by Culture Moves Europe, he will further explore his diverse curatorial interests, which intersect artistic, musical, and fashion perspectives. His primary focus will be to delve into historical archives as abundant sources of inspiration and hidden potential.

The residency by Sergey Kantsedal at the Salzburger Kunstverein is founded by the European Union and the Goethe-Institut.

Every second year / Open Call
 

This international one-month program in partnership with the City of Salzburg’s Residency program aims to spur curatorial research and discourse in Salzburg. Resident curators are provided time and space to develop independent projects. He:she:they may conduct research according to their interests. This biennial program is managed by the Salzburger Kunstverein. The open call is made public by our newsletter and social media channels.

Curators in Residence so far included:

September 2023

Chiara Ianeselli has gained her Ph.D. in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage (IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy). Acknowledged on curatorial projects and exhibition coordination, Ianeselli has worked on several large- scale projects, including dOCUMENTA (13), the 14th Istanbul Biennial and documenta fifteen. She also collaborated with a variety of private foundations and public cultural institutions, along with museums and universities. She specializes in originating and leading research-based creative initiatives, with a drive on multidisciplinary collaborations and trans-historical perspectives. Interested in experimental approaches, combining art-historical research with critical engagement in current and pressuring debates around the accessibility of collections, she has promoted numerous methodological inquiries around the making of exhibitions. After receiving the Frontier Proposal Fellowship in 2021, due to the relevant scientific and cultural contribution to the field of art history, Ianeselli has been selected for the Falling Walls Female Science Talents Intensive Track 2023.
 

2021

Bernardo José de Souza makes exhibitions, writes and investigates contemporary art. Former Artistic Director of Fundação Iberê Camargo, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, he now works as an independent curator based in Madrid. He was part of the curatorial team of 19th Biennial of Contemporary Art SESC_Videobrasil, held in São Paulo in 2015, and also a member of Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy’s curatorial team in the 9th Mercosul Biennial | Porto Alegre Brazil in 2013; from 2005 until 2013 he worked as the Director of the Department of Cinema, Video and Photography at the Secretary of Culture of Porto Alegre, Brazil. He was selected from 68 international applications.

2018
Caterina Avataneo (*1989, Turin) is an independent curator based in London. She holds an MA in architecture (Politecnico di Torino 2015) and an MA in curating (London MET and Whitechapel Gallery 2017). Her curatorial projects have appeared in institutions and galleries including Arcade, Zabludowicz Collection, Kunstraum, White Crypt and Gossamer Fog (all London). In 2017 she was awarded the NEON curatorial award by Neon Foundation and Whitechapel Gallery. Currently she is Associate Curator at Arcade Gallery, London and Assistant Curator for the Golden-Lion winning Lithuanian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.

2018
Eleni Michaelidi (*1983, GR) is a contemporary art historian, editor and curator. She studied art history and archaeology in Athens and Berlin, and holds an MA in media art histories from the Donau University, Krems. Her research interests encompass experimental time-based media, sound art, and the history of the exhibition form. She has worked as senior archivist, coordinator and editor for the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, and was curatorial advisor for the residency project ‘in ατhεns’ - Austrian Artist Residency, a project by Antonia Rahofer in partnership with Kunstverein Extra, Vienna, and Snehta Residency, Athens.

2017
Yara Sonseca Mas is a Spanish-born Curator and Art Historian. Between 2006 and 2015, she was Director of Exhibitions at La Casa Encendida, Madrid. She has curated institutional exhibitions including solo and site specific projects and has commissioned artworks by emerging artists as well as coordinated various other exhibitions. In 2016 she curated the exhibition Amie Siegel: Double Negative at Museum Villa Stuck, Munich. She has edited publications on Antonin Artaud, John Cage, Louise Bourgeois, Arthur Rimbaud, Joseph Kosuth, Andy Warhol, among others.