Curating Goldsmiths, University of London

Overview

The programme is situated within the Department of Art, and draws it understanding of contemporary art as a practice from this setting. As a curating student, you will thus be working alongside the postgraduate fine art students and MA artist film students, allowing for a unique dialogue among emerging practitioners about contemporary and future practice, and the most pressing concerns of our day. We are currently based in same building in Deptford, an area fast becoming an important hub for emerging artists and galleries.

MFA Curating at Goldsmiths focuses in-depth on aesthetic, social, political and philosophical questions that are brought to bear in any place or at any event in which contemporary art takes place.

The Curating programme offered by the Goldsmiths, University of London is designed to provide a practice-led research context for students at any stage of their professional practice and is aimed at curators, artists and those with relevant academic and practical experience.

As a two-part programme, MFA Curating enables you to experiment and innovate in the expanded field of curatorial practice, to collaborate on an interdisciplinary basis and extend your and other students' knowledge through this process, through an ongoing conversation in the forms of seminars, workshops, tutorials, reading groups and writing classes. Our teaching is based on an art school model of individual trajectories, and we will help you develop the style and area of practice you want to pursue and refine; but just in terms of exhibition-making, but also public programming, screening series, social projects and various forms of curatorial writing.

Skills

Independent research and practice; public presentation; oral and written communication; project development; exhibition administration; concept development; collaboration; intellectual analysis; catalogue, essay and review writing; research organisation and presentation.

Careers

Graduates from the MFA Curating go on to work in galleries and museums; as managers and directors in commercial galleries; independent curators; cultural policymakers, teachers and academics; writers and critics.

Recent employers of our MFA Curating students and graduates include:

Public sector

• Tate Britain, London
• Tate Modern, London
• Guggenheim Museum, New York
• Documenta, Kassel
• Venice Biennale
• Athens Biennial
• Sydney Biennale
• Portikus, Frankfurt
• Witte de With, Rotterdam
• FRAC Lorraine
• Hayward Gallery, London
• Hayward Touring Exhibitions, London
• Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
• Modern Art Oxford
• London Olympic Park (art sector)
• Artists Space, New York
• Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
• Art on the Underground, London
• Art Space, Auckland, New Zealand
• Austrian Cultural Foundation. London
• Romanian Cultural Institute, London
• Spike Island, Bristol
• Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham

• 176 Gallery, Zabludowicz Collection, London
• Bloomberg Space, London
• Christie’s, Amsterdam
• Deitch Projects, New York
• Deste Foundation, Athens
• Frith Street Gallery, London
• Haunch of Venison, Berlin
• Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
• Kate MacGarry Gallery, London
• Kurimanzutto, Mexico City
• Lisson Gallery, London
• Matt’s Gallery, London
• David Roberts Collection, London
• White Cube Gallery, London
• Vienna Art Fair, Vienna

• Artforum, New York
• Frieze, London
• Flash Art International, Milan