Sergey Kantsedal is a curator based in Turin.
He is currently running a non-profit space BARRIERA. Through a series of exhibitions and long-term projects, this institution creates opportunities for dialogue between artists, curators, collectors and engenders contamination with other cultural environments and disciplinary perspectives.
His curatorial practice explores a diverse range of interests that intersect artistic, musical, and fashion perspectives. His most current research delves into archives as abundant sources of inspiration and hidden potential.
Over the years, he has collaborated with various public and private institutions in Italy and internationally: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR) in Turin; Triennale Milano, Fabbrica del Vapore and MUDEC Museo delle Culture in Milan; Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, MAMbo - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Bologna, PinchukArtCentre and National Art Museum in Kyiv.
He took part in MEDITERRANEA 18, Young Artists Biennial in Tirana and a transnational research program A Natural Oasis? (San Marino-Kosovo-Montenegro-Malta). In 2024, he was a curator in residency at Salzburger Kunstverein (Austria).
He graduated from the State Academy of Design and Arts of Kharkiv, attended Third Moscow Curatorial Summer School by V-A-C Foundation and CAMPO, curatorial practices course at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin (2015-2016).
He is currently running a non-profit space BARRIERA. Through a series of exhibitions and long-term projects, this institution creates opportunities for dialogue between artists, curators, collectors and engenders contamination with other cultural environments and disciplinary perspectives.
His curatorial practice explores a diverse range of interests that intersect artistic, musical, and fashion perspectives. His most current research delves into archives as abundant sources of inspiration and hidden potential.
Over the years, he has collaborated with various public and private institutions in Italy and internationally: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR) in Turin; Triennale Milano, Fabbrica del Vapore and MUDEC Museo delle Culture in Milan; Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, MAMbo - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Bologna, PinchukArtCentre and National Art Museum in Kyiv.
He took part in MEDITERRANEA 18, Young Artists Biennial in Tirana and a transnational research program A Natural Oasis? (San Marino-Kosovo-Montenegro-Malta). In 2024, he was a curator in residency at Salzburger Kunstverein (Austria).
He graduated from the State Academy of Design and Arts of Kharkiv, attended Third Moscow Curatorial Summer School by V-A-C Foundation and CAMPO, curatorial practices course at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin (2015-2016).
GENETIC / Jenna Marvin, Anastasia Kreslina, MRZB
- exhibition, curator (together with Katya Kabalina)
presented by MRZB
20.09. — 30.09.2024
Milan, Italy
The exhibition featured a selection of video works by artist Jenna Marvin and a new sound piece by Anastasia Kreslina (IC3PEAK) in a televisual cyber-brutalist display by MRZB.
Anastasia’s repetitive lo-fi text-based sound loop Whisper2 was amplified through the speakers of seven televisions broadcasting a selection of Jenna Marvin’s video works produced in Paris in 2023-24. The landscape of the city, functioning as a scenographical suburban display to Jenna’s performances and costumes, was scored by Anastasia’s wall of whispers, screeched soft repetitions dissolving into nothingness.
The presentation was accompanied by a print-on-demand publication produced by MRZB featuring a text by writer Max Lawton and contributions by all the artists and curators involved.
Photography by MRZB
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- exhibition, curator (together with Katya Kabalina)
presented by MRZB
20.09. — 30.09.2024
Milan, Italy
The exhibition featured a selection of video works by artist Jenna Marvin and a new sound piece by Anastasia Kreslina (IC3PEAK) in a televisual cyber-brutalist display by MRZB.
Anastasia’s repetitive lo-fi text-based sound loop Whisper2 was amplified through the speakers of seven televisions broadcasting a selection of Jenna Marvin’s video works produced in Paris in 2023-24. The landscape of the city, functioning as a scenographical suburban display to Jenna’s performances and costumes, was scored by Anastasia’s wall of whispers, screeched soft repetitions dissolving into nothingness.
The presentation was accompanied by a print-on-demand publication produced by MRZB featuring a text by writer Max Lawton and contributions by all the artists and curators involved.
Photography by MRZB
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Brilla Brilla e Scompari / Alan Stefanato
- exhibition, curator
Lateral Roma
23.05. — 13.06.2024
Alan Stefanato’s practice is the result of an autodidact path, characterized by the expressiveness of the technique, the centrality of the pictorial sign, and its gradual dissolution. The exhibition highlights the synthesis of the various languages the artist uses, such as painting, sculpture, and writing. The exhibition introduces a new assemblage of works contained in suitcases. Portable and free of the constraints imposed by a definitive exhibition format, these works emphasize the ephemeral and itinerant nature of the exhibition. Both object and subject, the suitcase not only physically transports the painting, but also preserves it intimately.
The suggestion of the journey, as a tangible path and mental experience, is enhanced by a narrative dimension embodied in the series of poems written by the artist, which accentuate the tension between reality and fiction. Inspired by the names of the paintings in the exhibition, such as “Shine Shine and Vanish”, “A Race Against Time”, “Ghost Salad” and others, the small stories-anecdotes are gateways to a universe of fragments and suggestions that unfold through visions and associations, painting a picture of daily life permeated by an erratic, at times melancholy, sense. Each work is nourished by a rich mosaic of references and feelings evoked by the wandering experience, weaving a narrative that transforms painting into a form of visual storytelling.
Photography by Tiziano Ercoli
- exhibition, curator
Lateral Roma
23.05. — 13.06.2024
Alan Stefanato’s practice is the result of an autodidact path, characterized by the expressiveness of the technique, the centrality of the pictorial sign, and its gradual dissolution. The exhibition highlights the synthesis of the various languages the artist uses, such as painting, sculpture, and writing. The exhibition introduces a new assemblage of works contained in suitcases. Portable and free of the constraints imposed by a definitive exhibition format, these works emphasize the ephemeral and itinerant nature of the exhibition. Both object and subject, the suitcase not only physically transports the painting, but also preserves it intimately.
The suggestion of the journey, as a tangible path and mental experience, is enhanced by a narrative dimension embodied in the series of poems written by the artist, which accentuate the tension between reality and fiction. Inspired by the names of the paintings in the exhibition, such as “Shine Shine and Vanish”, “A Race Against Time”, “Ghost Salad” and others, the small stories-anecdotes are gateways to a universe of fragments and suggestions that unfold through visions and associations, painting a picture of daily life permeated by an erratic, at times melancholy, sense. Each work is nourished by a rich mosaic of references and feelings evoked by the wandering experience, weaving a narrative that transforms painting into a form of visual storytelling.
Photography by Tiziano Ercoli
NO GATEKEEPERS OF MY HEART / FRANKO B
- exhibition, curator (together with Katya Kabalina)
Associazione Barriera, Turin
03.05. — 02.06.2024
In the frame of EXPOSED, the new international photography festival, Barriera presents Franko B’s solo show NO GATE KEEPERS OF MY HEART. The artist, internationally recognized for his diverse body of work including painting, sculpture, installations, and performances characterized by the extreme use of the body, explores themes such as love, death, eroticism, and pain. These topics are deeply intertwined with his personal life trajectory, which has been rooted in punk and queer contexts since the 1990s.
Conceived for the spaces of Barriera and developed in dialogue with the artist, the exhibition focuses on the role of photography and image in his work, acting both as a documentation tool and as a testimony of time. From the tragedy of the geopolitical chronicle to the fragile and seductive of everyday life, Franko B’s work is always permeated by a profound feeling of empathy and suffering, representing a decisive stance in favour of the weakest in this world.
Photography by Gabriele Abbruzzese
FLASH ART MAGAZINE
- exhibition, curator (together with Katya Kabalina)
Associazione Barriera, Turin
03.05. — 02.06.2024
In the frame of EXPOSED, the new international photography festival, Barriera presents Franko B’s solo show NO GATE KEEPERS OF MY HEART. The artist, internationally recognized for his diverse body of work including painting, sculpture, installations, and performances characterized by the extreme use of the body, explores themes such as love, death, eroticism, and pain. These topics are deeply intertwined with his personal life trajectory, which has been rooted in punk and queer contexts since the 1990s.
Conceived for the spaces of Barriera and developed in dialogue with the artist, the exhibition focuses on the role of photography and image in his work, acting both as a documentation tool and as a testimony of time. From the tragedy of the geopolitical chronicle to the fragile and seductive of everyday life, Franko B’s work is always permeated by a profound feeling of empathy and suffering, representing a decisive stance in favour of the weakest in this world.
Photography by Gabriele Abbruzzese
FLASH ART MAGAZINE
HOW YOU DARE? / Publication
- catalogue, editor and curator of the project
Published by Nova Express
Design: Andrea Magnani (Siliqoon Agency)
Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
May 2020 — April 2023
This publication, edited by Sergey Kantsedal (with Antonella Prasse) and produced by Nova Express Publishing with design by Andrea Magnani (Siliqoon Agency), documents the residency program for Ukrainan artists HOW YOU DARE? which took place at at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan from May 2022 to April 2023.
Constructed as a diary of the residency, including a series of textual and visual contributions, the final publication of HOW YOU DARE? seeks to encapsulate and preserve the entire experience over time, presenting it in the most direct and sencere possible way.
- catalogue, editor and curator of the project
Published by Nova Express
Design: Andrea Magnani (Siliqoon Agency)
Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
May 2020 — April 2023
This publication, edited by Sergey Kantsedal (with Antonella Prasse) and produced by Nova Express Publishing with design by Andrea Magnani (Siliqoon Agency), documents the residency program for Ukrainan artists HOW YOU DARE? which took place at at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan from May 2022 to April 2023.
Constructed as a diary of the residency, including a series of textual and visual contributions, the final publication of HOW YOU DARE? seeks to encapsulate and preserve the entire experience over time, presenting it in the most direct and sencere possible way.
