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2026年4月5日（周日）下午2:30，策展人、艺术史研究者 Eléonore Varone 将在新造空间分享她多年来的策展实践与工作方法。在此前，Eléonore已在珠三角开展了短期的驻地研究。该项目由瑞士文化基金会支持，并由王子芸、王超、许冰煌策划组织。

在2024年于伊斯坦布尔创立 Secant Space 之前，Eléonore 已长期活跃于瑞士及多个国际艺术现场，发展出一条高度关注空间、历史与具体处境的策展路径。在这次分享中，她将介绍一系列策展项目，并回顾那些长期塑造她策展的方法与问题意识。

对 Eléonore 而言，策展首先是一种对“张力现场”的辨认：在那些原本并不被期待会生发创作的情境中，寻找创造过程得以显现、关系得以生成的契机。

她始终从具体语境出发，关注一处现场中真正悬而未决的问题——无论是地域、历史，还是人与人之间的关系——并由此发展出一种将艺术家置于核心的位置化工作过程。由这些过程生长出的作品，总是深深嵌入其所处情境之中：它们不是被放置到某个环境里的对象，而是在与环境持续对话中逐渐成形。她的关注点并不在于制造可见性，而在于为某种有意义的形式、立场与感知方式的生成创造条件。

她的工作往往通过长期、缓慢、甚至安静的方式展开，其结果既可能体现为作品，也可能体现为关系、连接与新的工作条件的建立。这种实践要求人们接纳不确定性，为尚未被解决之物保留空间，并允许变化与转化在过程中自然发生。

她曾围绕多个议题展开策展与研究，包括公共空间中的艺术实践与在地介入、被掩埋的历史（如阿尔卑斯地区与女巫相关的历史叙事）、地方记忆、女性在社会中的位置（尤其聚焦西方社会与瑞士语境），以及在未来世界的想象下，人类与自然关系的持续变化。

关于Eléonore Varone

Eléonore Varone 拥有当代史与艺术史背景，并在此基础上逐渐发展出一种高度关注空间与具体情境的策展实践。对她而言，策展始终与场域紧密相关：每一个项目都被视为一次与地方、历史和建筑相遇的过程，同时也关心作品与观众如何与场所的记忆及其周围环境建立联系。

她成长于米兰，在瑞士完成学业，职业生涯则起步于纽约现代艺术博物（MoMA）与孟买的 Lakeeren Gallery。此后，她在瑞士参与推动区域性艺术机构的发展，包括伊韦尔东-莱班当代艺术中心（Centre d’art contemporain d’Yverdon-les-Bains, CACY）；也曾策划瑞士重要的户外当代艺术三年展 Bex&Arts 2023，与 Les Créatives（日内瓦）、Belluard Bollwerk International（弗里堡）等国际艺术节合作，并在瑞士最大的考古博物馆 Laténium 工作。

自 2024 年起，她将自己的策展实践延伸至伊斯坦布尔，并创立了 Secant Space。这是一个以研究、档案工作与长期艺术发展为核心的策展平台及艺术家驻地项目，通过深入且敏感于具体语境的工作过程，为艺术家提供支持。

On the afternoon of April 5 (Sunday) at 2:30 PM, curator and art historian Eléonore Varone will share her long-term curatorial practice at Making Space. Prior to this talk, Eléonore has been conducting a short-term research residency in the Pearl River Delta. The project is supported by Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council, and hosted/curated by Wang Ziyun, Wang Chao, and Xu Binghuang.

Before founding Secant Space in Istanbul in 2024, Eléonore had already developed projects across Switzerland and internationally. In this talk, she will introduce a selection of curatorial projects and reflect on the working methods and questions that have shaped her practice over time.

For Eléonore, her practice is grounded in identifying points of tension where creative processes can emerge in contexts where they were not initially expected.

Working from context as a point of departure, attentive to what is at stake within a given situation (territory, history, human dynamics), she develops situated processes that place artists at the center. The works that emerge are always context-specific, shaped in dialogue with their environment rather than imposed onto it. The aim is to create the conditions for meaningful forms and positions to take shape, rather than to produce visibility.

Her work unfolds over long-term, often quiet processes, where outcomes may take the form of artistic productions or the creation of relationships. It involves accepting uncertainty, leaving space for what remains unresolved, and allowing transformation to occur.

She has worked, among other, on themes such as art in public space and in situ interventions, buried histories (including witchcraft in Alpine regions), the memory of places, the role of women in society (focus on western society and Switzerland) and evolving relationships to nature in the context of future worlds.

About Eléonore Varone

Eléonore Varone studied contemporary history and art history before developing a curatorial practice attentive to space and context. At the core of her work lies a strong commitment to site-specific approaches: each project is conceived as an encounter with a place, its history, and its architecture, considering how artworks and audiences interact with the memory of sites and their environments.

She grew up in Milan, studied in Switzerland, and began her professional journey at MoMA in New York and at Lakeeren Gallery in Mumbai. In Switzerland she contributed to the development of a new regional art center, the Centre d’art contemporain d’Yverdon-les-Bains (CACY), curated a major open-air contemporary art triennale in Switzerland (Bex&Arts 2023), collaborated with international festivals such as Les Créatives (Geneva) and Belluard Bollwerk International (Fribourg), and worked with the Laténium, Switzerland’s largest archaeological museum.

Since 2024, she has extended her curatorial practice to Istanbul, where she founded Secant Space. A curatorial platform and artist residency that prioritizes research, archival work, and long-term artistic development, supporting artists through in-depth, context-sensitive processes.

讲者 speaker: Eléonore Varone

时间/date：2026年4月5日（周日 Sun） 14:30

研究者/researcher ：骆钰槟 Cora Yubin Luo

策划：王子芸、王超、许冰煌

Curators: Ziyun Wang, Chao Wang, Binghuang Xu

海报设计/poster：傅思睿 Sirui Fu

该项目由瑞士文化基金会支持

Supported by Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council