Amandine Vabre Chau is a French-Hongkonger curator and art practitioner with a focus on Asian contemporary art, especially Hong Kong artists. She is currently the gallery executive of Yrellag Gallery.

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. Amandine 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). Her poetry has been featured in Magma Poetry.