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Postgraduate Programme in Curating
Institute Cultural Studies in the Arts
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich
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Description
The Postgraduate Programme in Curating (MAS/ CAS) is a discursive platform designed to impart specialist knowledge of contemporary curating practices through practice-oriented projects. With instruction modules, group activities, seminars and lectures held by an international selection of guest lecturers, various fields of knowledge are researched and projects are developed and carried to realization. The programme focuses less on the ‘genius concept’ of the exhibition planner as individual author – a highly controversial topic since the 1990s – than on cooperative, interdisciplinary working methods, as employed, for example, in film productions or non-government organizations.
Exhibition-making / curating means the creation of innovative structures for the presentation of cultural artefacts through interdisciplinary collaboration. In this field, art, digital media, design, and architecture intermesh in new ways. The manner of working employed by curators, artists, architects, designers, museum educationalists and writers has become increasingly unified, bringing about new forms of mediation, lounges, archives, reading rooms and new virtual forums – and with them new means of access and forms of interpretation. At the same time, we are witnessing a shift in the organization of work processes throughout society. Individual areas of action are merging on new meta-levels, namely those of networks and know-how transfer. The Postgraduate Programme in Curating responds to these changes in the processes of the production of cultural meaning. The course creates a model situation in which students can gain practical experience of curating and learn to think critically about the issues involved. The modular structure ensures the programme’s contemporary and innovative standards.
Areas of Competence
The Postgraduate Programme in Curating offers two study opportunities:
The postgraduate diploma (CAS) is a one-year, part-time course providing participants with key qualifications in all areas of curatorial practice: research, conception, organization and communication as well as basic theoretical knowledge.
The Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) is a two-year, part-time study programme culminating in an advanced qualification. It guides participants in an in-depth enquiry into the key areas of curatorial practice and relevant theory. Students have the opportunity to develop and situate their own curatorial projects and access cultural networks. The programme concludes with a major project and written dissertation.
Course Aim
The aim of the Postgraduate Programme in Curating is to examine changes in current cultural production and develop innovative displays in that context. Particularly for participants from the fields of design, art, culture and media, the programme aims to open new perspectives in the professional field. The programme accordingly also fosters the development of an international network by involving an international spectrum of lecturers and providing opportunities for students to conduct internationally oriented projects.
Programme Director
Dorothee Richter, art scholar, curator, author. dorothee.richter[a]zhdk.ch
Siri Peyer, assistant to the director
Lecturers and Tutors to Date
we are in contact with some of the most interesting curators, artists and theorists in contemporary curating and we invite some of them every term for talks, presentations and workshops.
Rosanne Altstatt
art historian, art critic and media art curator;
Marius Babias
curator and cultural theorist; commissary of the Romanian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2005; director NBK Berlin
Diana Baldon
lecturer Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, curator Athen Bienual
Ursula Biemann,
artist
Beatrice von Bismarck
author, curator, art historian; DOCK Projektbereich, Projektraum of Universität Lüneburg
René Block
collector and curator
Lionel Bovier
critic and free-lance curator; director of JRP-Ringier, publishing company for contemporary art
Sabeth Buchmann
art historian and art critic, professor academy of fine arts, Vienna
Sarah Cook
media art curator; co-director of CRUMB, Curatorial Resource for New Media Curating
Diedrich Diederichsen
writer, pop and art theorist, professor academy of fine arts, Vienna
Barnaby Drabble
free-lance curator, art scholar and author
Sönke Gau
curator, Shedhalle Zurich
Jeanne van Heeswijck,
artist
Wolfgang Hockenjos
networker, interaction director, musician and DJ
Annemarie Hürlimann
Office for exhibition realisation and theory, Berlin
Oliver Kielmayer
director Kunsthalle Winterthur
Oliver Marchart
philosopher and political theorist, University of Luzern
Carmen Mörsch
Head of Institute for Art Eductation
Heike Munder
director migros museum, Zurich
Lise Nellemann
artist, curator, Sparwasser HQ Berlin
Marion von Osten
artist, author and exhibition curator, Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Gerald Raunig
European Institute for progressive cultural policies, lecturer university of fine arts Zurich
Stella Rollig
curator, author; director of Lentos, Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Linz
Beatrix Ruf
director, Kunsthalle Zürich
Nikolaus Schafhausen
director Witte de With Rotterdam
Annette Schindler,
director of Plug in, art and new media, Basel
Karin Seinsoth
projectmanager Hauser and Wirth, Zurich
Mischa Senn
director Institute for cultural law, ZHdK
Simon Sheikh
curator, critic; professor of art theory, coordinator of the Critical Studies Program, Malmö Art Academy, Sweden
Peter Spillmann
artist and projectmanager art and research, University Luzern
Support Structure
(Gavin Wade and Celine Condorelli) collaborative projects, artist/curator and architect
Adam Szymczyk
director Kunsthalle Basel
Szuper Gallery
(Susanne Clausen and Pawlo Kerestey) Artists Group
Value
(Christoph Lang and Stephan Meylan)
artists, curators and scenographers
Yvonne Volkart
curator Shedhalle, Zürich
Marc-Olivier Wahler
curator Palais de Tokyo
Florian Waldvogel
director Hamburger Kunstverein
Axel John Wieder
curator Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart,
Michael Zinganel
artist and architect
Modules
Project work
Theory of aesthetics, cultural theory
Recent art history
Exhibition design
Digital media
Project management and fine art administration
Rereading of collections
Plenary events and excursions
Competence in English
Study Times
Friday afternoon and Saturday
Flexibility is required in relation to project work.
Duration of Study, Qualifications and Fees
MAS – 4 terms part-time / Master of Advanced Studies
CAS – 2 terms part-time / postgraduate certificate
Both study options cost CHF 4500.– per term
Further Information and Registration
Universtiy of Fine Arts, Zurich
Esther Notz
Coordination Postgraduate Programmes
Limmatstrasse 47, Postfach
CH-8031 Zürich
Telephone +41 43 446 40 20
Fax +41 43 446 45 11
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