ABOUT
Amandine Vabre Chau is a French-Hongkonger curator, artist and writer with a focus on the politics of memory and migration. She has a particular interest in Asian contemporary art and the port-city as a site of complex identity formation. She is most fascinated by multidisciplinary practices, and hopes to champion Hong Kong artists.
Amandine graduated with honors from the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Paris-Cergy in 2022 and worked as an assistant editor for the bilingual online media platform Asian Contemporary Art. In 2023, she curated Between Trenches at The Koppel Project, London, a group exhibition highlighting diasporic and immigrant experiences of young artists. That same year, she co-organised a talk on inclusivity in art schools at the National School of Arts of Paris (ENSBA). She was selected to participate in the 2023 Tsundoku Art Bookfair for the PhotoIreland Festival and had her publication presented at the 2024 BOOKED: Hong Kong Art Bookfair.
Amandine was part of the inaugural cohort of New Curators, a paid twelve months curatorial training programme based in London for aspiring curators from lower socio-economic backgrounds. This resulted in her co-curating artist Firelei Báez’s first UK solo show at the South London Gallery, 2024. That same year, she was selected as an Emerging Arts Professional by Para Site.
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EXPERIENCE
Co-curated artist Firelei Báez's first solo show in the UK as part of the inaugural cohort of New Cura-tors. Project managing the production of a new work from its conception and fabrication to installation. Contributing to the exhibition design, rendering Sketchup layouts, liaising and collaborating with external parties, assisting on technical installation. Completing risk assessments, condition checks, research, minute-taking and proof-reading. Co-leading the press preview, delivering curator's tours and supervising multiple school workshops as part of public programming.
South London Gallery, London
Curatorial Fellow - New Curators
09/2023 - 09/2024
Communications and administrative Assistant - Asia Forum
02/2023 - 05/2024
Supported Asia Forum's social media campaign for their participation at the 60th Venice Biennale's Collateral Events ‘A World of Many Worlds’. Liaising with Partners on content, guidelines and contributors material. Assistance with production and administrative work on the founder's independent projects. Proof-reading, liaising and coordinating.
London
04/2023 - 07/2023
Editorial Assistant - Asian Contemporary Art
Research and content writing including articles, reviews and interviews. Translation of content in French and English. Assistance with digital communication : mailing, social media, management of website back office. Proposal of content, development, partnerships and funding.
Asian Contemporary Art, Paris
OPENing Gallery, The Koppel Project, London Opening dates : 26/01/2023-03/02/2023
Curator - Between Trenches
09/2022 - 02/2023
Initiated and curated a group exhibition highlighting diasporic and immigrant experiences of young artists. Curation, research, management, content writing, scheduling, socials and programming.
11/2022 - 02/2023
Communications intern - Asia-Art-Activism
Supported the research network for their kickstarter campaign.
London
06/2021 - 07/2021
Artist Assistant - Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien
Supported the artist and her curator in view of her next show at l’Orangerie du Sénat.
Paris
EDUCATION
Exchange term - Fine Arts
Central St Martins
09/2022 - 03/2023
École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy
2019 - 2022
Bachelor’s degree obtained in 2022 with honours
EXHIBITIONS / ART FAIRS
2024
BOOKED: Hong Kong Art Book Fair
Publication produced and published by The Sandwich Club, participating publisher
Publication produced and published by The Sandwich Club, participating publisher
Ghent Art Book Fair
2023
Tsundoku Art Book Fair - PhotoIreland Festival
Selected as participant, self-published artist category - Dublin, PhotoIreland festival
Group Show at Ygrec- ENSAPC Art Center, Aubervilliers, France
Maltaverne in/and/at Aubervilliers
2021
Curator : Guillaume Breton
Group Show at ENSAPC, Cergy, France
Intérieur / Extérieur
2020
Curator : Emma Huang
Group Show at ENSAPC, Cergy, France
Fétiches d’Artistes
2019
Curator : Nina Azoulay
PUBLICATIONS
Photography publication, produced and published by The Sandwich Club
2024
Contributed a poem to the fanzine FFLINTA*, part of artist Juliette Barthe’s proposition for “L’Avancée”, a collaborative programme between the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Fondation Pernod Ricard.
2023
Photography publication, self published
2022
Pinted with the help of Slow Reading Club, a semi-fictional reading group led by dancer and choreogra- pher Bryana Fritz and artist Henry Andersen.
Available at lulu.com/shop
The book of our revelations
2022