Exhibiting and Curating

This course corresponds with the practical development of exhibitions, and introduces a research-informed, experimental approach to the analysis and making of contemporary exhibitions as a distinctive form of cultural production. It invites students from a wide range of creative disciplines with interest in practice-based work and regards exhibitions as a process of co-creation, shaping as well as showcasing research-led and practice-based art for public interest.

Students are familiar with current curatorial practices, including case-study analysis in dialogue with curatorial positions. Students can explore the potential of the exhibition as a process, that can generate knowledge that can inform current and future practice of exhibiting. Students have skills and training required in order to manage successful exhibitions needed to embark on careers in the cultural sector. Students can equip themselves with practical and theoretical tools to organise an exhibition. Students can collaborate on a presentational format in developing spatial strategies and support for: • Site-based studies with a studio-based practice • Externally curated exhibitions • Individual and institutional research projects

The course will have a hands on approach and introduce students to the many layered procedures and challenges of exhibition making through active participation in the current activities in Gallery KIT and by a collaborative project to install an exhibition on agreed upon subject or material. Based on the mutual interests of the students this class will develop one or several visual concepts and forms for presenting the ideas the student group(s) develop. The vision for this class is finding forms for contents yet unseen within disciplines we don't know, in other words to explore the limits of our knowledge, be it in ourselves, in the class or in the field, to become familiar with innovative thinking and innovation processes. To contextualise this endeavor our class looks for partners to work with. 

Specific conditions

The course will be cancelled in case of not enough students have signed up.

Approved compulsory assignments are valid in the current semester.