Amandine Vabre Chau is a French-Hongkonger independent curator and art practitioner with a focus on Asian contemporary art, especially Hong Kong artists.

As a curator, she is interested in complex sites of identity-formation and how cultural studies, humanities and post-colonial theory can intersect with contemporary art. Recently, she has been looking at the influence of botanical imperialism and urban planning on physical and artistic environments, leading her to pay particular attention to postcolonial port-cities as a contentious cultural site. She often finds herself drawn to artists with research-based practices and a penchant for the intimate.

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 ‘Faan1jik6 Zi1gaan1 (In Between Translations)’ - A Group show at Square Street Gallery (Hong Kong, 2026); ‘Otherworld Communication’ - A Prune Phi solo exhibition at galerie 15 Beautreillis (Paris, 2025); Ripple Effects: Colours of Humanity Arts Prize at the Goethe-Institut, Hong Kong (2024-5); Sueño de la Madrugada (South London Gallery, 2024) and Between Trenches’ at The Koppel Project, an exhibition highlighting the experience of young diasporic artists (London, 2023).

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 a zine maker has appeared in Focal Point, Sharjah (2025), the Tokyo Art Book Fair (2025), Fanzineist Vienna (2024), the BOOKED: Hong Kong Art Bookfair and Tsundoku Art Bookfair (2023), PhotoIreland Festival. Her photography has appeared in Gypsophila Zine (2024). Her poetry has been featured in Magma Poetry.