Tascha Sciarone
Tascha Sciarone in the fall of 2020 in a woods in Leiden, The Netherlands. Photo by Benjamin de Groot.
Art is an overarching theme in Tascha's academic and social life.
About Tascha Sciarone - the gallery manager
While it was a logical turn, it took a few years of training, assessing life goals, and building the necessary toolkit to take on this role confidently.
What informs Tascha's motivations behind the gallery
Formative years
Art should just be there, intertwined in our daily lives.
Be part of your day, your home, your thoughts, your breaks and sometimes, just sometimes, part of your conversation and intellectual thought process.
Art can frame your world or create beauty and dimension in the world we live in. Art can give a voice to a known unknown and representation of complicated identities and emotions.
This vision is not unique but was further embedded in her understanding when she studied Art History at Leiden University.
Formal Education
Tascha chose not to pursue making art but studied Art History and Anthropology at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands. She also has a minor in Business Studies and International Law, as well as having followed an interdisciplinary Honours traject in Art and Pedagogy. She has published several books about the complicated postcolonial museum landscape of South Africa and African lives in Renaissance Europe. Tascha has worked in art auction houses, galleries, and museums before writing during her maternity leave and managing a gallery in Amsterdam's (ad-interim). Since 2017 she lives and works in the idyllic village of Voorschoten, where she started running Gallery Sorelle from her home office in 2019. As the gallery grew even during the pandemic, the gallery was run from an industrial office space in Leiden, above the cities archives (Zaalbergweg 15, Leiden). In November 2021 Gallery Sorelle Sciarone will be opening together with Domo Eclectica in Gouda on the Lange Tiendeweg 68.
You can come find Tascha on Thursday through to Sunday at the Gallery on the Lange Tiendeweg 68 28011KG Gouda.
Future plans
2022
We hope to attend PAN Amsterdam in 2023 as well as Art Basel. We will continue to work on showcasing our artists. Building our selection of artist to a total of 20. With one solo exhibition per artist every two years.
Pre 2022 Goals
Tascha currently works part-time at the Gallery. She combines the Gallery with raising her two young sons. Her youngest will be in school by 2022, and the Gallery will be three years old. Gallery Sorelle Sciarone can then join the Dutch Gallery Association.
When there is a physical gallery space, Tascha hopes to employ and develop young art historians and curators together with the burgeoning art scene in Gouda. As well as developing our ties within our physical community and in the art world at large.
Tascha Sciarone, Art Historian and Gallery Manager bij Gallery Sorelle Sciarone. Photo: Nicole Sciarone (2019).
Her heart beats faster for the beauty of a thunderstorm viewed over the South African veld. Tascha loves nature, but also what humans hearts and hands can create.
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Tascha outside the Gallery
Museum Voorschoten
Lecture co-ordinator at Museum Voorschoten;
17th Century Portraiture in The Netherlands. When money overruled the divine right of kings.
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Dutch Golden Age, 2020
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Zomer Groen, ZoMaar Groen 2019
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PJPJ Jubileum tentoonstelling 2019
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Books
Africans in Renaissance Europe: Tracing African lives in the Renaissance and what that tells us about Renaissance society (2014)
Book has been rewritten, and only stays available on Amazon as an example of Professor Abraham X Kendi in acknowledging racism in yourself and your creation and doing better in the future. The language used in the 2014 text held unscrutinised biased language, even though the intentions were the opposite of.
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South African Museums: Spaces of Paradox (2014)
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The Paradox Of What The Migrant Dreams and the State Expects (2013)
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Post Apartheid Museum Practices (2016)
Master thesis available at the online archives of the University of Leiden or upon request.
The thesis has been rewritten in regards to grammar and structure for readability (2019)