Week 1: Introduction.

• Introduction to the program and course overview.
  

This is a one-hour-only welcome session. The lecturer will introduce the program and participants will introduce themselves. No prior preparation is necessary.

Week 2: Developing Your Curatorial Concept.

• What is a curatorial practice?
  
• Introduction to types of exhibition formats, exhibition spaces, and platforms
  
• Public programming (artist talks, performances, education)
  
• Audiences (What kind of audiences can one expect? What kind of audiences are you addressing?)
  
• Strategies of developing a concept (Define your concept, from brainstorming to finalization)
  

Week 3: Exhibition-Making I - Artists, Collaborators, and Practical Skills.

• Turning your concept into a practicable project
  
• Strategies of research. How to find fitting artistic positions and related topics?
  
• Contacting artists: open calls, invitations, commissions
  
• Lending works from artists and galleries (how to source works and secure loans)
  
• Proposing your exhibition ideas to an independent or institutional entity
  
• Working with collaborators (exhibition spaces, institutions)
  
• Defining contracts
  

Week 4: Exhibition-Making II - Finances & Funding; Install & Time management.

• Different types of fundraising (governmental, private, embassies)
  
• Writing a budget (including ways to calculating artists and curators fees)
  
• Successful time management
  
• Creating a checklist of works with display details
  
• Install (working with technicians, artists and considering packaging and access)
  
• What to consider when organizing transport (insurance, customs, costs)
  
• Deinstall and returns
  

Week 5: Displaying Artworks, Scenography, Narration.

• Ways of displaying artworks (from video work, sculpture, 2D works to performance art)
  
• Thinking about scenography and dialogs between artworks
  
• Creating a narrative in an exhibition
  
• Lighting and sound
  
• Communication in the exhibition space (handouts, labels; guided tours)
  

Week 6: Communication.

• Developing a Press Kit (writing a press release, press images)
  
• Communicating the exhibition (invite cards, newsletters, private invites)
  
• How to use or not use social media
  
• How to address the press and journalists
  
• Documentation (taking pics, website, archive, catalogue)
  

Live captioning will be available during the video conference.