Call for a curatorial project La Box 2017-2018

The Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art (National School of Art/ENSA) in Bourges is housed in a 17th-century building in the Old Town. Bourges itself is in central France, two hours from Paris. Covering some 7,000 square metres, the school offers its students extensive workspaces plus well equipped technical workshops that are regularly renovated and updated.The School is qualified to award a National Postgraduate Degree in Fine Arts – a Master’s – and its emphasis is on the kind of inventiveness and creativity that are only possible in a setting where interpersonal exchange and ideas are part of the everyday scene; this is a generous, receptive place conducive to artistic encounters and intermeshings. The teaching programme is part of a study and research context whose constantly evolving methods stimulate creative thinking, open-mindedness and discussion, while also sparking students’ curiosity and combining practical applications with critical analysis.

The La Box gallery is one of ENSA’s principal teaching tools. Every year it features artists from France and abroad in ten exhibitions relating to the study programme.For more than ten years now the gallery has entrusted part of its planning to young guest curators. Chosen and monitored by the ENSA teaching team, the curators work on experimental programmes involving the active participation of the students, who thus find themselves in close contact with major figures on the contemporary scene and with the realities of drawing up an exhibition project.

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Applications to be sent by email to la.box@ensa-bourges.fr before 15 March 2017
The candidature application must be sent by email, in PDF format
Shortlist of 6 applications: March 2017
Applicants interviewed by the selection committee
(each application is sponsored by a member of the teaching staff): April 2017
Initial proposal of a schedule for January 2018: June 2017

For any further information, please visit ensa-bourges.fr 

La Box
9 rue Édouard Branly
18000 Bourges
ensa-bourges.fr