Expanding Exhibitions: Innovative Approaches to Curating

*This course offers University credits. To opt for credits read this page

Since the heyday of the white cube, curating has transformed and developed to become much more than staging an exhibition. This course explores the expanded field of curating, looking beyond traditional exhibitions to examine how curators respond to changing cultural, social, and spatial contexts. Over five weeks, we will delve into recent groundbreaking curatorial projects and identify practical ways of realizing innovative concepts.

Through in-class exercises and group reflections, we aim to find new and experimental models and methods that can be carried forward into your curatorial practice. Together, we will develop ways of producing projects and exhibitions that expand beyond the expected, incubate new ideas and inspire the audiences to imagine a (better) future.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Identify key shifts in curatorial practice from traditional exhibitions to expanded formats.
• Analyze the ethical and societal role of curators in contemporary practice.
• Design strategies to activate non-art spaces as platforms for artistic and curatorial experimentation.
• Develop curatorial proposals that are context-sensitive and aim to engage potential new audiences.

This course is ideal for emerging and practicing curators, artists with an interest in curatorial work, and anyone looking to push the boundaries of what curating can be.