CURATORIAL TEAM
Elena Sorokina
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
Simona Dvorák
BOARD
Mabel Tapia : President
Nicole Fernandez-Ferrer : Vice-president
Marion Mille : General Secretary and Projects Coordinator
Johanna Fayau : Treasurer
French version
Elena Sorokina
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
Simona Dvorák
BOARD
Mabel Tapia : President
Nicole Fernandez-Ferrer : Vice-president
Marion Mille : General Secretary and Projects Coordinator
Johanna Fayau : Treasurer
French version
CURATORIAL TEAM
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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.
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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 in charge of cultural programming at the Cité International des Arts in Paris, she
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.
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Simona Dvorák
Simona Dvorák is a curator and art historian based in Paris. She is interested in performative, sound, radiophonic and video practices, with an emphasis on long-term collective work. As a curator at the Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care, she explores how we can create spaces of commons in the cultural sphere.
More recently, she was fellow of Art and Education Programme at Documenta 15 in Kassel and collaborated on the public program Walking with Water, as part of the Serbian pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. She was also in charge of programming at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and associate curator, with Tadeo Kohan, for the curatorial project Actes de Langage (2023) at the Maison populaire in Montreuil. She is currently developing the research on the politics of archives at the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, and is working as artist liaison with Nataša Petrešin Bachelez for the 60th Venice Biennale in collaboration with Alserkal Initiatives and the Cité internationale des arts.
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 in charge of cultural programming at the Cité International des Arts in Paris, she
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 Dvorák
Simona Dvorák is a curator and art historian based in Paris. She is interested in performative, sound, radiophonic and video practices, with an emphasis on long-term collective work. As a curator at the Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care, she explores how we can create spaces of commons in the cultural sphere.
More recently, she was fellow of Art and Education Programme at Documenta 15 in Kassel and collaborated on the public program Walking with Water, as part of the Serbian pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. She was also in charge of programming at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and associate curator, with Tadeo Kohan, for the curatorial project Actes de Langage (2023) at the Maison populaire in Montreuil. She is currently developing the research on the politics of archives at the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, and is working as artist liaison with Nataša Petrešin Bachelez for the 60th Venice Biennale in collaboration with Alserkal Initiatives and the Cité internationale des arts.