Curate a Hayward Touring Exhibition

Hayward Touring invites proposals for an exhibition of contemporary art to be shown in four UK galleries in 2017/18. You don’t have to be a professional curator or exhibition-maker to submit an idea. We welcome suggestions for innovative projects from artists, writers and imaginative thinkers in all walks of life, as well as from people working in galleries and museums. Your proposal might be for an exhibition that re-invents the way we think about art; it might be a new and surprising take on a well-worn subject; there may be a theme or tendency in contemporary art and visual culture that you think deserves to be explored in new ways; or a theme that you have always thought would make a great exhibition.

The exhibition will open in MAC, Belfast in autumn 2017 and then tour to DCA, Dundee and two further venues to be announced.

The successful applicant will receive an honorarium and a budget for research and travel. S/he will work in collaboration with Hayward Touring and the participating galleries on an exhibition of around 350 square metres, to open in October 2017. The selection panel will include curators from Hayward Touring and the participating galleries.

Application deadline: 9am, Monday 5 September 2016
Short-listing: mid-September 2016
Interviews: End September / First week of October

Download the application form and guidelines or contact curatorialopen@southbankcentre.co.uk for details.

About Hayward Touring

Hayward Touring organises exhibitions travelling to galleries and museums throughout the UK. Current exhibitions include: British Art Show 8, a partnership with galleries in Leeds, Edinburgh, Norwich and Southampton; Elizabeth Price Curates: In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy recently opened at the Whitworth Museum in Manchester before touring to De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea and Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; and Art Fund International’s Art from Elsewhere in Bristol Museums, the final city after a tour that included galleries in Glasgow, Birmingham, Middlesborough, Preston and Eastbourne. The most recent Curatorial Open, Listening, curated by Sam Belinfante, has just finished its UK tour working with Baltic 39 in Newcastle; Site Gallery, Sheffield; The Bluecoat, Liverpool; and Firstsite and Art Exchange, Colchester.

For more information on the programme visit southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/hayward-gallery/hayward-touring

About MAC, Belfast

The MAC is a cultural powerhouse, regarded as one of the leading visual arts spaces in the UK and Ireland. We are members of the Plus Tate network and were a Finalist in the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2015. The MAC presents between 6-8 exhibitions per year including the very best contemporary Irish art practice within the context of a high profile, tightly curated international programme, enabling artists and audiences to engage with a wide range of contemporary visual arts culture.

About DCA, Dundee

DCA is an organisation that has established itself as a major force in contemporary art, cultural cinema and community and education practice and as a vibrant social and cultural hub. The secret of its success has been the imagination, ambition, commitment, intricate care and hard work of those who conceived the idea of DCA and those who brought it into being and those whose energy and ideas have earned it national and international acclaim while ensuring that it is embraced by the community that is its home.