ABOUT

Amandine Vabre Chau is a French-Hongkonger curator and art practitioner with a focus on Asian contemporary art, especially Hong Kong artists.

She worked as an editorial assistant for the online media platform Asian Contemporary Art before becoming 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. Amandine’s curatorial background includes Between Trenches at The Koppel Project, an exhibition highlighting the experience of young diasporic artists (London, 2023); Sueño de la Madrugada (South London Gallery, 2024) and most recently Ripple Effects: Colours of Humanity Arts Prize at the Goethe-Institut, Hong Kong (2024-5), under curator Eunice Tsang.

Amandine was co-organiser and moderator of ‘Quelles solutions pour une école d’art plus inclusive ?’, a talk on inclusivity in art schools (ENSBA, Paris, 2023) and has worked for various Asian-led research networks and curatorial platforms such as Asia-Art-Activism and Asia Forum. The latter of which she assisted for their Collateral Event at the 60th Venice Biennale, ‘A World of Many Worlds’. She was selected as an Emerging Arts Professional by Para Site in 2024 and is currently based between Paris and Hong Kong. She holds a BFA from the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Paris-Cergy.

Amandine’s work as an artist has appeared in the Tsundoku Art Bookfair (2023), the BOOKED: Hong Kong Art Bookfair (2024), Gypsophila Zine (2024) and 香港・擴充實境 HKSAR (2024).

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EXPERIENCE

Supported curator Eunice Tsang in delivering the annual Colours of Humanity’s Arts prize, formerly the Human Rights Arts Prize, at the Goethe-Institut Hong Kong.

01/10/2024 - 14/11/2024

Curatorial Assistant - Colours of Humanity Arts Prize

Emerging Art Professional - Para Site

09/2024

Selected as participant for the 2024 Worshops for Emerging Art Professionals by Para Site.

Curatorial Fellow - New Curators

South London Gallery, London

09/2023 - 09/2024

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.

Communications and administrative Assistant - Asia Forum, London

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.

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

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.

Supported the research network for their kickstarter campaign.

London

11/2022 - 02/2023

Communications intern - Asia-Art-Activism

Paris

Artist Assistant - Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien

Supported the artist and her curator in view of her next show at l’Orangerie du Sénat.

06/2021 - 07/2021


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