Duration: Jul 14 – Aug 25, 2022
Live sessions: 2 hrs/week
Enroll before:Jul 9, 2022

*This course offers University credits. To opt for credits read this page

This course gives insights into all practical aspects of curating from finalising a concept to launching an exhibition. Curators can have very different working approaches, but certain practical aspects will be the same and should be kept in mind for developing a successful project.

Over 6 weeks we will go through the major steps of curating, starting with how you develop an idea to finding collaborators, funding and an exhibition space; managing practical aspects such as transport, insurance and install; thinking about PR strategies and gaining audiences; to finally closing the project with deinstall. This course is for aspiring curators who are yet to launch their own exhibition as well as those who have past experience and are looking for a more structured understanding of curating.

At the end of A Practical Guide to Curating, participants should have an understanding of the skills necessary to operate as competent and responsible practitioners. Come with an already existing project idea or start from a blank page. Throughout the course you will develop a concrete outline of how to realise your exhibition.

About Nora Mayr

Nora Mayr is an independent curator working in Berlin. After completing her studies of Communication Science and Art History at the universities of Vienna and Utrecht in 2008, she was responsible for the International Studio Programme of Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin for three years. Since 2012 she had been co-director of the exhibition space insitu, Berlin, as well as is a co-founder of the Project Space Festival Berlin. Exhibitions include ‘Kann es Liebe sein’ in Luxemburg, Vienna and Berlin; ‘Open Lab: Irreversible Moment’ at Schering Stiftung Berlin. As insitu she has exhibited at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and Another Space, Copenhagen, taken part in talks for Aarhus Art Weekend 2015; and is regularly invited panelists as events like the Curatorial Marathon for Picture Berlin and the Grosses Treffen – Portfolio Review for Nordic Artists.