Expanding Exhibitions

Expanding Exhibitions: Innovative Approaches to Curating with Lauren Reid

Duration: Feb 09 – Mar 9, 2021

Fee: 172€ Max

seats: 32

Enroll before: Feb 5, 2021

Dedication: 3 hrs/week

This course will explore interesting strategies in exhibition-making and ways of thinking about curating by sharing a wide variety of innovative curatorial approaches that are designed to inspire. Expanding Exhibitions is for emerging and established curators who want to open up ways of thinking about their practice from the white cube and beyond.

This course will focus on key themes and debates within exhibition-making such as the role of the curator, boundary-pushing curatorial concepts, exhibiting outside the art space and working with other disciplines. It will cross both inventive exhibition strategies as well as curatorial critique that will provide opportunity for lively debate and the sharing of ideas between each other each week.

Week 1. Introduction

Introduction to the program and course overview.
This is a one-hour-only welcome session. The lecturer will introduce the program and participants will introduce themselves. No prior preparation is necessary.

Week 2: The role of the curator

• Definitions of a curator

• Key curatorial models: the curator-as-trendsetter, curator-as-catalyst, the artist-as-curator and more

• Further approaches and reflection

Week 3: Curatorial Frameworks

• Concepts and formats

• Composing a narrative within an exhibition

• Producing vs. illustrating ideas

Week 4: Outside the white cube

• Where can we curate?

• Melding concept and context

• What about the audience? Who, where, how?

Week 5: Beyond the art field

• Working with and across different disciplines

• Shifting lenses

• Navigating different audiences

• Future potentials of curatorial practice

Lauren Reid is an independent curator who works across exhibition-making, film and anthropology. She is Coordinator at Node Center for Curatorial Studies (since 2012). In 2014 she joined the curatorial collective insitu as Co-Director and initiated the Project Space Festival Berlin with the insitu collective team. Exhibitions include ‘Haunted Thresholds: Spirituality in Contemporary Southeast Asia’ in collaboration with the research network DORISEA and ‘A Brief History of Memory’, a strategic project at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, IV Moscow Biennial of Young Art 2014.

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