Week 1: Presentation

• The lecturer will introduce the program and participants will introduce themselves. No prior preparation is necessary, however, you could think of a project that has made an impression: either in a bad or good way
  

Week 2: Curator as organic intellectual

• Curator as an initiator
  
• Curatorial ethics and societal responsibility
  
• Artist-curator relationship: collaborative and dialogical ways of working
  
• From concept to realisation - how to prevent the dilution of ideas when negotiating practicalities
  

Week 3: Meaning-making through exhibition contexts – in the white cube

• Considerations on how different gallery and exhibition contexts change the work
  
• The longue durée of an artwork/project: each new presentation of an artwork is also its new incarnation
  
• Challenging the idea of an exhibition as a monolith, fulfilled, finished “thing”
  
• Durational projects
  

Week 4: How to prevent the artwork from being thrown into the river?

• Site-specific projects and the creation of context
  
• Expanding audiences – potential new audiences
  
• Practical challenges of working outside gallery and museum environments
  

Week 5: Beyond exhibitions – non-representational curating

• Non-exhibition focused curating
  
• Publications
  
• Programming as a way of curating spaces and institutions
  
• Interdisciplinary breeding grounds and collaboration with other stakeholders