Call for curators

🖼️ From Vision to Opening: A Practical Guide to Organising Art Exhibitions 🖼️  Whether you’re planning your first show or refining your curatorial process, this guide breaks down the essentials of organizing compelling art exhibitions, step by step. From timelines to teamwork, we've got you covered. 📌 In this guide: 1️⃣ Key stages of exhibition planning - from concept to install 2️⃣ Tips for budgeting, venue sourcing, and working with artists 3️⃣ How to build timelines that actually work 4️⃣ Common challenges (and how to avoid them) ✨ Bonus for Members: Access our downloadable Exhibition Planning Checklist - your go-to tool for smooth coordination and clear planning. Not a Member yet? Start your FREE 1-week trial and unlock tools, tips, and resources tailored to curators for just €3.50/month. 🔗 Ready to organize your next exhibition with confidence? 👉 Read the full article and download your checklist:  https://lnkd.in/eDbywRGA

OPEN CALL: UNIDEE Residency Modules 2025/26 at Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte in Biella, Italy.  Read the full listing on our website:  https://lnkd.in/ehsQPaFH  💸 Suggested fee of 280 euros per module, covering accommodation and administrative expenses 🗓 Residency dates: 9 - 20 June 2025 📧 Residency application deadline: 27 April 2025 Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte and UNIDEE Residency Programs are pleased to present the curatorial framework for the 2025/26 edition of the UNIDEE Residency Modules, curated by the newly appointed Visiting Curators, Nina Fiocco and Gaia Martino. “Languages, Please” is an invitation to a collective series of rehearsals that explores languages as geopolitical spaces of dispute, narratives, and encounters. It is a call to engage with the porosity of our bodies in action and the narratives that can infuse and strengthen our practice of remaining polyphonic, amid the crumbling circumstances of the present. The next two years of the UNIDEE Residency Programs will be about breaking the habit of synthesis, shifting our attention from the stories that worlds tell us to the intricate micro-processes that compose these stories—memories, muscles, and multiple interwoven connections occurring at once. Furthermore, the first two modules within the programme Languages, Please. The Summer 2025 modules are curated by UNIDEE Visiting Curator with invited mentors: visual artist who writes Verónica Gerber Bicecci with singer, composer and vocal researcher Meike Clarelli, and researcher, sound artist, and educator Pedro Oliveira with performer, composer and musician, Ece Canli. The Residency Modules will take place at Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte, in Biella, Italy from 9 to 20 June 2025. The UNIDEE and Cittadellarte spaces will host a large part of the programme, while further opportunities for exploring the urban and rural landscape of Biella and its immediate surroundings will be offered. Photo: Courtesy of Oscar Formacio Mendoza.

✨ CFC Members Spotlight: Edith Doove ✨ We're excited to share with you the CFC Members Spotlight featuring an inspiring interview with Edith Doove, exploring her curatorial journey, insights on the art world and passion for art.  Edith Doove (°1963) is a curator, writer and researcher, specifically interested in notions of emergence and contingency, cross- and trans-disciplinary collaborations. She started curating in 1987 and was director-curator of MDD-Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (1999-2004). Most recently she curated the Arts Festival Watou and The Research Group - an artists collective 1967-1972. In this new blog series, we spotlight CFC Members who share their insights and experiences. Read the full interview on our blog:  https://lnkd.in/eaADtnmK

Looking for jobs, fellowships, or professional development opportunities? Explore exclusive listings with the CFC Members program. This week’s top picks, and plenty more, are waiting for you on our website 🙌 By joining our community of curators and art and culture professionals, you get access to: ✨ more opportunities from all around the world 📧 our weekly newsletter 👩💻 Members-only live events with institutions 🎧 full-length episodes of the Curating Tools podcast! Try it today for free for 1 week. After the trial period, get the Membership for only €3.50/month: https://lnkd.in/eGPQ5EyV

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in Chicago, USA.  Read the full listing on our website: https://lnkd.in/ejutUfgy  💸 Salary: $20.30 Hourly 📧 Application deadline: 10 May 2025 The Fellow assists the Deputy Director and Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Manilow Senior Curator with all aspects of exhibition programming and organization. They are also responsible for general research on artists and other special projects as assigned.  The successful candidate will assist in research and organization of exhibitions, including: compiling informational packets on traveling exhibitions; preparing, coordinating, and monitoring loan agreements and forms; compiling bibliographies, entries, and photographic materials for catalogue preparation; and drafting wall texts and labels.

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OPEN CALL: Arts Writers Grant Program 2025 from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in the United States.  Read the full listing on our website:  https://lnkd.in/e63k7Zg7  💸 Funding: $15,000–$50,000 depending on project type 📍 Location: United States (only U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or O-1 visa holders are eligible) 📧 Application deadline: May 7, 2025, 11:59pm ET The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program supports both emerging and established writers producing critical writing on contemporary visual art. Grants range from $15,000 to $50,000 and are available in three categories: Articles, Books and Short-Form Writing.  A new Translation Grant is also available in 2025 for book projects translating texts about contemporary visual art into English. The program encourages writing that engages broad or specialized audiences and supports projects that use interdisciplinary methods or experimental literary styles. Writers may propose reviews, journalistic articles, or scholarly studies.

NEWS: Pierre Terjanian appointed director of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) has announced Pierre Terjanian as its next director and CEO. Terjanian will take over the reigns from Matthew Teitelbaum on 1 July, moving from his current role as chief of curatorial affairs and conservation at the MFA. Terjanian joined the MFA in 2024 to oversee the conservation of the museum’s collection of more than 500,000 objects. Previously, Terjanian was a curator of arms and amour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for ten years, and before that served a curator and acting head of the Department of European sculpture and Decorative Arts before 1700 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Read the full story on our website: 

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