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.

Program

Week 1: The role of the curator

• Definitions of a curator
• Key figures in curatorial history who have shaped the zeitgeist
• The artist as curator as artist – where do we draw the line?

Week 2: Curatorial Frameworks

• Rethinking traditional curatorial approaches
• Building a narrative within an exhibition
• Producing vs. illustrating ideas

Week 3: Outside the white cube

• About the white cube
• Where can we curate?
• What about the audience? Who, where, how?

Week 4: Beyond the art field

• How can we combine art with other fields?
• Thinking interdisciplinarily – benefits and problems
• Navigating different audiences
• Future potentials of curatorial practice