Course for Non-Curators: New Roles for a Changing Art Field

Most curatorial programmes still prepare professionals for a model of exhibition-making developed decades ago. The Course for Non-Curators starts from a different assumption: the future of art will require entirely new formats, roles and institutions. What can emerge when art intersects with philosophy, technology, ecology, design, education, and social research? The Course for Non-Curators: New Roles for a Changing Art Field is among the very first advanced graduate programmes of its kind, designed for practitioners who want to rethink how art is produced, experienced, circulated, and discussed in the twenty-first century. Contributors include Hou Hanru, Charles Esche, Suzanne Lacy, Miwako Tezuka, Rirkrit Tiravanija, CLIMAVORE, Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Marcus Schmickler, gudskul, Fabio Beltram, Daniel Godínez-Nivón, Ute Meta Bauer, Colleen Macklin, Caroline Woolard, András Szántó, Federica Fragapane, and Joice Pereira , and many others. Furthermore, the programme counts among its contributors philosophers Christopher Fynsk and Sven-Olov Wallenstein , as well as curator and theoretician Vesna Madžoski, all members of the European Graduate School faculty. Read here the full programme. Through lectures, talks, seminars, workshops, collective discussions and project development, the 27 selected participants will form a virtual cohort, critically engaging with the structures, assumptions and narratives that have shaped curatorial practice in direct dialogue with guest professors and the School team. Admission to the programme also means becoming part of a carefully selected international group whose members will be actively introduced to museums, biennials and cultural organisations looking for new profiles. Alongside the theoretical programme, students will develop their own projects through a series of mentored workshops and tutorials. Throughout the course, they will receive feedback from faculty members and invited practitioners while