Assistant Curator | Hong Kong
Assistant Curator, Visual Art
Hong Kong Island (Cyberport Office)
(Candidate with less experience may be considered for the post of Curatorial Assistant)
M+ is a museum dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting visual art, design and architecture, moving image, and Hong Kong visual culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Within Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District we are building one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world, with a bold ambition to establish ourselves as one of the world’s leading cultural institutions. Our aim is to create a new kind of museum that reflects our unique time and place, a museum built upon Hong Kong’s historic balance of the local and the international to define a distinctive and innovative museum for Asia’s twenty-first century.
The M+ Pavilion, which opened in September 2016, serves as the primary site for M+ exhibitions in the run-up to the completion of the M+ building. After M+ opens it will become a new space for artists, designers and organisations to stage independent small-scale exhibitions and events in the Art Park.
You will be responsible for:
- supporting the Curatorial team in all events and activities related to museum business and curatorial affairs with a focus on Visual Art;
- assisting in maintaining records of objects in the museum collection;
- assisting in the planning and execution of acquisitions, collection display, exhibitions and other visual art related programmes;
- conducting research on given topics relating to visual art and communicating findings to the Curatorial team independently;
- working with other curatorial areas (including design, architecture and moving image) in the above capacities when required; and
- contributing to the general development of the future M+, including the different stages of the programme and design of the museum building.
You should:
- possess a recognised university degree relevant to art history, fine arts, visual studies, or other related disciplines;
- have at least 4 years of experience in coordinating, planning and/or organising exhibitions and other public programmes;
- have knowledge of twentieth and twenty-first centuries visual art from Hong Kong, China and Asia in particular;
- possess strong research skills and experience; and
- have good oral and written communication skills in English and Chinese including Putonghua.
For more information please visit: https://careers.westkowloon.hk/jobsearch/