OPEN CALL:Applications 2021/22: CAS/MAS in Curating at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)

380734_1b5d05e7d2fef7bf65712a38f4b0b621The Postgraduate Programme in Curating was established in 2005, adding an international trajectory in 2008. We are constantly broadening our international network, reaching out to contemporary art curators worldwide and critiquing “Western” canons and conventional formats of exhibiting. Since 2018, programme participants have been able to attend all courses online.

The programme is embedded into the ecosystem with the OnCurating.org journal, and the travelling workshop series “Curating on the Move” and hosts a vast network of international guest lecturers. Last year, we collaborated with the Bucharest Biennale and the Taipei Biennale. The upcoming international event “Situated Knowledges—Curating on the Move” will be a conference hosted by the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art in Zurich and the Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong on June 25–27, 2021.

Head of the programme: Prof Dr Dorothee Richter, dorothee.richter@zhdk.ch
Application deadline: June 30

Postgraduate Programme in Curating
The Postgraduate Programme in Curating is conceived of as a discursive platform which involves key areas of contemporary exhibition-making by way of praxis-oriented project ­work. With instruction modules, group activities, seminars and lectures held by an international selection of guest lecturers, from various fields.

The CAS/MAS in Curating is an international, English-speaking, part-time postgraduate programme founded in 2005; our alumni work worldwide. The programme focuses less on the “genius concept” of the exhibition planner as individual author—a highly controversial topic since the 1990s—and more on cooperative, interdisciplinary working methods, as employed, for example, in film production or non-government organisations. Exhibition-making/curating means the creation of innovative structures for the presentation of cultural artefacts and contemporary discourse through interdisciplinary collaboration. In this field art, digital media, design, and architecture intermesh in new ways.

Brief outline
–Contemporary discourse on art and curating (see www.curating.org/talks)
–Carrying out single and collaborative exhibition projects and cooperation projects
–Distance-learning opportunity (for participants from abroad every session can be attended online)
–MAS with 90 ECTS
–Possibility to advance to the PhD Programme in Practice in Curating

Guest lecturers: Sarah Spies, Independent Curator / Paz Guevara, Curator, researcher and author, Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Martin Fritz, Curator, advisor, and publicist / Shwetal A Patel, Kochi Muziris Biennale

Guest speakers: In addition to the teaching team at the University of the Arts, Dorothee Richter, Ronald Kolb, Martin Fritz and Sarah Spies, we invite a wide range of international curators, scholars and artists, recently including, among others latest Johan Hartle, Raqs Media Collective, Ana Paula Cohen, Paz Guevara, Annette Bhagwati, Michael Birchall, Elke Krasny, Tobias Berger, Maria Hlavajova, Hajnalka Somogyi, Björn Gottstein, Maura Reilly, Olivia Anani, Michelle Wong, Sören Grammel, Charles Esche, Sabih Ahmed, Marius Babias, Jeebesh Bagchi, Ursula Biemann, Beatrice von Bismarck, René Block, Lionel Bovier, Sabeth Buchmann, Zasha Colah, Sergio Edelsztein, Claire Farago & Donald Preziosi, Alistair Hudson, Jeanne van Heeswijck, Daniel Kurjakovic, Maria Lind, Florian Malzacher, Oliver Marchart, Cesare Pietroiusti, Shwetal Patel, Farid Ragun (ruangrupa), Oliver Ressler, Stella Rollig, Henk Slager, Support Structure, Adam Szymczyk, Mirjam Varadinis, Axel John Wieder, Dmitry Vilensky, Joanna Warsza, Rein Wolfs, and more.

Cooperation partners: Migros Museum fuer Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthalle Zürich, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Kunstmuseum Thun, Kunstmuseum Bern, Grafik Museum Lljubljana, Centre for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; Connecting Space Hong Kong, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien/Centre for art and media, Karlsruhe; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, OnCurating Project Space, Zürich, Kunstverein Baden Württemberg, Corner College Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien, Kunstakademie Stuttgart, University of Reading, OnCurating.org, Webjournal, Kunstmuseum Basel, Tai Kwon, Hong Kong.

Collaborations with: the publication platform Oncurating.org and the PhD in Practice in Curating, Practice-Based Doctoral Programme, University of Reading

ZHdK and Zurich
Zurich University of the Arts is amongst the largest art schools in Europe. While firmly anchored in greater Zurich, our influence extends well beyond Switzerland to the wider international stage. As the cultural centre for art in Switzerland, Zurich provides a unique and vibrant cultural scene at the heart of Europe.

Note
English language skills are required for classes. Papers can be written either in German or in English. You can find additional information on the study programme and the conditions of admission at curating.org or zhdk.ch. For inquiries, please contact: dorothee.richter@zhdk.ch.