A Practical Guide to Curating
Duration: August 5 – September 16, 2024
Fee: 224€
Max Seats: 32
Enroll Before: August 1, 2024
Live Sessions: 2 hours/week
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 and program coordinator at the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL), a platform for art, science and artistic research projects at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. After completing her degrees in Communication Science and Art History at the Universities of Vienna and Utrecht in 2008, she coordinated the International Studio Programme of Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin. Since 2012, she has been co-director of insitu collective and co-founded the Project Space Festival Berlin in 2014. As insitu collective she has curated exhibitions at Casino Luxembourg; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and MeetFactory, Prague, among others. Nora’s independently curated projects include the exhibitions ‘Open Lab: Irreversible Moment’ at Schering Stiftung Berlin; ‘RADICAL CARE‘, Vienna; and the art in public space series ‘Wandertag‘, Vienna.