Curator

Curator
The Barbican Centre
£35,300 – £40,060 

Barbican Centre is a world renowned multi-disciplinary art centre. The visual arts are crucially important to its success. The Art Gallery is a leading venue for the presentation of modern and contemporary art, photography, and architecture/design exhibitions, whereas The Curve is devoted to the commissioning of large scale site specific installations by contemporary artists.

An exciting opportunity has now arisen for a dynamic curator to join the Visual Arts team in a key role, helping realise our highly regarded exhibition and Curve commissions, occasional off-site projects and public talks and events programme.

You will be expected to develop innovative exhibition ideas and have a flair for realising authoritative exhibitions which also reach a broad audience.

We are looking for someone with an exceptional knowledge of 20th and 21st century art, an international network, considerable experience of curating loan-based exhibitions and working with artists, as well as having impressive communication skills.

You can find further information about the Barbican at www.barbican.org.uk
To apply online, please visit www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/jobs.

Alternatively, please contact the Corporate Recruitment Unit on 020 7332 3978 (24hr answerphone) or email cru@cityoflondon.gov.uk quoting reference BC476

Minicom service for the hearing impaired available on 020 7332 3732.

Closing date: 4pm on Friday, 7th November 2014. Late applications will not be accepted.

Interviews will be held second half of November

The Barbican is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.