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).
CV
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