CURATORIAL TEAM
Elena Sorokina
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
simona markel dvorák
BOARD
Mabel Tapia : President
Nicole Fernandez-Ferrer : Vice-president
Marion Mille : General Secretary and Projects Coordinator
Johanna Fayau : Treasurer
FRIENDS OF THE INITIATIVE
Brok Andrew
BLAK C.O.R.E. https://blakcore.edu.au/
ACTIV MEMBERS OF THE INITIATIVE
Ismail Afghan
Nathalie Harb
d harding
Ibro Hasanović
Bani Khoshnoudi
Estelle Labes
Violaine Le Fur
Olivier Marboeuf
Magdi Masaraa
Myriam Mihindou
Hura Mirshekari
Benoît Piéron
Carlos Prieto Acevedo
Catherine Radosa
Famille Rester.Étranger
Tawfiq Sediqi
Pierre Alexandre Sevriacouty
Tamara Singh
Fabiana Ex Souza
Katy'taya Catitu Tayassu
Charwei Tsai
Paula Valero Comin
Anne Dressen
French version
Elena Sorokina
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
simona markel dvorák
BOARD
Mabel Tapia : President
Nicole Fernandez-Ferrer : Vice-president
Marion Mille : General Secretary and Projects Coordinator
Johanna Fayau : Treasurer
FRIENDS OF THE INITIATIVE
Brok Andrew
BLAK C.O.R.E. https://blakcore.edu.au/
ACTIV MEMBERS OF THE INITIATIVE
Ismail Afghan
Nathalie Harb
d harding
Ibro Hasanović
Bani Khoshnoudi
Estelle Labes
Violaine Le Fur
Olivier Marboeuf
Magdi Masaraa
Myriam Mihindou
Hura Mirshekari
Benoît Piéron
Carlos Prieto Acevedo
Catherine Radosa
Famille Rester.Étranger
Tawfiq Sediqi
Pierre Alexandre Sevriacouty
Tamara Singh
Fabiana Ex Souza
Katy'taya Catitu Tayassu
Charwei Tsai
Paula Valero Comin
Anne Dressen
French version
CURATORIAL TEAM
Elena Sorokina
Elena Sorokina, co-founder of the Initiative for practices and visions of Radical Care, is an art curator, author, and lecturer. She was co-curator of the Armenian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022 and chief curator at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK) in Belgium in 2017-2018. She worked as associate curator at Documenta 14 in Athens/Kassel.
A graduate of the Whitney Museum of American Art ISP in NewYork City and the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Bonn, Germany, Sorokina has curated projects at BOZAR, Art Brussels and WIELS (Belgium) as well as at the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d'art moderne of Paris, the SMBA/Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Pera Museum in Istanbul and other institutions.
Recent exhibitions include More Than Dreams, Less Than Things at NIKA Project Space Paris in 2025, Fragilités at the Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague in 2023 and Crystal Clear : Travels in Sustainable Exhibition Making at the Pera Museum in Istanbul in 2021. She has published several catalogues and written for Artforum, Flash Art, Cabinet Magazine and Manifesta Journal.
Elena Sorokina is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has been invited to lecture at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) and Independent Curators International (Curating under Lockdown in 2020), the Centre Pompidou and other institutions.
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
An interdependent curator, co-founder of the Initiative for practices and visions of Radical Care, Nataša Petrešin- Bachelez is also an editor and art critic. Currently, she is Head of Curatorial, Public Art Abu Dhabi.
Petrešin- Bachelez was previously co-director of the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers between 2010 and 2012, with Alice Chauchat and Grégory Castéra. A former editor-in-chief of Manifesta Journal (2012-14) and L’Internationale Online (2014- 2017), she was also editor-in-chief of Versopolis Review and curator of the project Not Fully Human, Not Human at All, supported by KADIST, Paris (2017-2021). She is currently an artistic advisor for the forthcoming Jogja Biennale in Indonesia.
With Patricia Falguières and Elisabeth Lebovici, she co-organised the Something You Should Know seminar (2016 - ongoing, EHESS, Paris). Since 2019, she has been working as a professor at the Sint Lucas School of Fine Arts in Antwerp.Curated exhibitions include Contour Biennale 9: Coltan as Cotton (2019, Mechelen); Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives of 1970s and 1980s France at LaM, Lille, and the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid (2019-2020, with Giovanna Zapperi). This exhibition was also shown at the Würrtembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart from February to May 2023.
simona markel dvorák
simona markel dvorák is a curator and researcher working at the intersection of art, ecology, and care, combining critical theory, poethical imagination, and collaboration-based methodologies. She is curator of the Initiative for practices and visions of Radical Care since 2020.
Originally from former Czechoslovakia and now based in the Greater Paris region, she brings a diasporic perspective informed by feminist thought and social justice, challenging dominant historical narratives.
dvorák has worked and collaborated with numerous institutions, including the National Gallery Prague, the Centre Pompidou, the Musée Picasso–Paris, the Beaux-Arts de Paris, the Frac Île-de-France, the Cité internationale des arts, the Rockbund Art Museum, SAVVY Contemporary, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. She was a fellow at documenta fifteen (2022), contributed to conception of Walking with Water for the Serbian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, and was part of the curatorial team led by Natasa Petrešin-Bachelez for When Solidarity Is Not a Metaphor at the 60th Venice Biennale. Between 2021 and 2023, she served as Curator of Public Programs at the Centre Pompidou, co-curated, with Tadeo Kohan, actes de langage (Maison Populaire, 2023).
Elena Sorokina
Elena Sorokina, co-founder of the Initiative for practices and visions of Radical Care, is an art curator, author, and lecturer. She was co-curator of the Armenian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022 and chief curator at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK) in Belgium in 2017-2018. She worked as associate curator at Documenta 14 in Athens/Kassel.
A graduate of the Whitney Museum of American Art ISP in NewYork City and the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Bonn, Germany, Sorokina has curated projects at BOZAR, Art Brussels and WIELS (Belgium) as well as at the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d'art moderne of Paris, the SMBA/Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Pera Museum in Istanbul and other institutions.
Recent exhibitions include More Than Dreams, Less Than Things at NIKA Project Space Paris in 2025, Fragilités at the Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague in 2023 and Crystal Clear : Travels in Sustainable Exhibition Making at the Pera Museum in Istanbul in 2021. She has published several catalogues and written for Artforum, Flash Art, Cabinet Magazine and Manifesta Journal.
Elena Sorokina is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has been invited to lecture at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) and Independent Curators International (Curating under Lockdown in 2020), the Centre Pompidou and other institutions.
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
An interdependent curator, co-founder of the Initiative for practices and visions of Radical Care, Nataša Petrešin- Bachelez is also an editor and art critic. Currently, she is Head of Curatorial, Public Art Abu Dhabi.
Petrešin- Bachelez was previously co-director of the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers between 2010 and 2012, with Alice Chauchat and Grégory Castéra. A former editor-in-chief of Manifesta Journal (2012-14) and L’Internationale Online (2014- 2017), she was also editor-in-chief of Versopolis Review and curator of the project Not Fully Human, Not Human at All, supported by KADIST, Paris (2017-2021). She is currently an artistic advisor for the forthcoming Jogja Biennale in Indonesia.
With Patricia Falguières and Elisabeth Lebovici, she co-organised the Something You Should Know seminar (2016 - ongoing, EHESS, Paris). Since 2019, she has been working as a professor at the Sint Lucas School of Fine Arts in Antwerp.Curated exhibitions include Contour Biennale 9: Coltan as Cotton (2019, Mechelen); Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives of 1970s and 1980s France at LaM, Lille, and the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid (2019-2020, with Giovanna Zapperi). This exhibition was also shown at the Würrtembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart from February to May 2023.
simona markel dvorák
simona markel dvorák is a curator and researcher working at the intersection of art, ecology, and care, combining critical theory, poethical imagination, and collaboration-based methodologies. She is curator of the Initiative for practices and visions of Radical Care since 2020.
Originally from former Czechoslovakia and now based in the Greater Paris region, she brings a diasporic perspective informed by feminist thought and social justice, challenging dominant historical narratives.
dvorák has worked and collaborated with numerous institutions, including the National Gallery Prague, the Centre Pompidou, the Musée Picasso–Paris, the Beaux-Arts de Paris, the Frac Île-de-France, the Cité internationale des arts, the Rockbund Art Museum, SAVVY Contemporary, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. She was a fellow at documenta fifteen (2022), contributed to conception of Walking with Water for the Serbian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, and was part of the curatorial team led by Natasa Petrešin-Bachelez for When Solidarity Is Not a Metaphor at the 60th Venice Biennale. Between 2021 and 2023, she served as Curator of Public Programs at the Centre Pompidou, co-curated, with Tadeo Kohan, actes de langage (Maison Populaire, 2023).