M+ Museum, West Kowloon Cultural District
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. In 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 that builds on Hong Kong’s historic balance of the local and international to define a distinctive and innovative voice for Asia’s twenty-first century.
Job Highlights
- Curatorial position for M+ Museum
- Knowledge of ink painting sought
- Curatorial experience in contemporary arts sought
Job Description
- contributing to the development of the museum’s collecting and programming strategy in the area of Ink Art, a sub-area within the discipline of Visual Art. The area of Ink Art at M+ encompasses modern and contemporary ink painting, calligraphy, drawings and other traditional media or works on paper, as well as more broad engagements with ink aesthetics;
- researching and developing interpretation around Ink Art in the M+ Collections and M+ Collection Archives;
- proposing public programmes and digital content that can further a transnational and multidisciplinary understanding of Ink Art practices within East Asia and extending to other parts of Asia;
- fostering and maintaining professional relations with a network of individuals, institutions and organisations that M+ can develop partnerships in the area of Ink Art;
- conducting research and proposing works of Ink Art for possible acquisition consideration; and
- performing other ad hoc duties as assigned by supervisor.You should:
- possess a recognised university degree, preferably in History of art, or equivalent;
- have at least 10 years of relevant research and curatorial experience in the field of modern and contemporary Chinese art or Asian art, with specialist knowledge based on ink art,
- possess in-depth knowledge of ink painting, calligraphy and other traditional media especially within Greater China,
- have proven experience in research, curating and staging exhibitions;
- have relevant international networks and knowledge of other museums, institutions and organisations; and
- possess excellent spoken and written communication skills in English, and preferably Chinese and/or another Asian language.
For interested parties, please submit your application with detailed CV on or before 17 May 2022. Applicants are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible. The review of applications will continue until the post is filled.
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