Exhibition Curator for Kunsthaus Graz

With its 4.5 million exhibits and around 420 permanent staff, Universalmuseum Joanneum is the most important scientific and cultural institution of the Province of Styria and the largest Universal Museum in Central Europe.

As of September 2014, we are seeking an Exhibition Curator for Kunsthaus Graz

Contract: full-time / one year

Kunsthaus Graz is looking for a curator who is able to curate, link and broaden the exhibition program with a dynamic public program. Together with the other curators and the museum staff, you are responsible for designing and developing exhibitions and their related frame programs in the sense of a “Curator of Public Programs”, including lectures, symposia, music, dance, workshops, tours, festivals, artist and scholar dialogues, and artist residencies. You are in charge of organizing exhibitions and therefore responsible for meeting all deadlines, including all related publications, in close co-operation with the Director and our Museum and Service Departments. You will develop, implement and evaluate the Museum’s programmatic offerings to enhance and broaden engagement with the Museum for the general public, the University and the broader community. The successful candidate will be a highly creative thinker capable of conceptualizing wide-ranging, exciting, and informative programs that consider the Museum as a production space, its exhibitions, as well as of the global issues around which the Museum’s mission has evolved. Additionally, as Curator of Public Programs you should be efficient and detail-oriented in order to produce events and manage their myriad details. In your capacity as Curator, you are not only aware that you represent Kunsthaus Graz through the respective exhibition, but are also willing to collaborate in positioning the Kunsthaus in both a local and international artistic context. You are also open for co-operation and networking with other partners in the cultural scene in Graz. You will be part of the curatorial team and works together with education and communications staff to help strategize the museum’s outreach efforts for public programs

Other key areas of responsibility:

– Your focus is on curating public programs. You develop concepts in connection with the exhibition program for diverse public spheres.
– You are responsible for budget compliance.
– You seek and establish contact to lenders in co-operation with the registrar’s office,
– develop the design and layout of exhibitions in co-operation with artists and the central workshop,
– are responsible for the content of publications, for writing press and folder texts and searching for suitable authors,
– and closely observe international and regional art events and developments.
– You are responsible for networking and requisition /co-ordination of interests with local institutions
– and for PR (writing scientific publications insofar as they concern the Museum, and initiating public events).

Person specification:

– You have innovative ideas about how to communicate art through exhibitions, publications and other formats to the local and international public and how to put those ideas into practice,
– profound knowledge of the contemporary art scene,
– ability to communicate in a multi-lingual environment,
– experience in designing, realizing and organising exhibitions on various subjects relating to contemporary art,
– business acumen,
– a university degree in the area of contemporary art,
– experience in working with and motivating other experts involved in graphic design or technical and manual exhibition construction, as well as experience in using films and new media in exhibitions,
– You have experience in managing projects,
– are able to think on an interdisciplinary level and assert yourself,
– and have a flair for artistic developments in their social context.

We offer you an interesting and challenging job in an exciting environment. You will have the opportunity to develop interdisciplinary exhibition concepts and implement them independently with the support of an experienced team. You can expect a minimum monthly salary of 2,400 euros full-time equivalent in accordance with our salary scale, depending on your working hours and the qualifications we have taken into account.

Please email your application together with a short concept for a program development and CV by 15 July 2014 to:

Dkfr. Laura Schick
Mariahilferstraße 4
8020 Graz
personal@museum-joanneum.at
+43(0)664/8017-9701