Week 1: Developing Your Curatorial Concept

• What is a curatorial practice?
  
• Introduction to types of exhibition formats, exhibition spaces and platforms
  
• 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 finalisation)
  
• Strategies of research. How to find fitting artistic positions and related topics?
  
• Turning your idea in a practicable concept
  

Week 2: Exhibition Making - Artists, Collaborators, Funding and Practical Skills

• Contacting artists: open calls, invitations, commissions
  
• Lending works from artists and galleries (how to source the works and how to secure loans)
  
• Proposing your exhibition ideas to an independent or institutional entity
  
• Working with collaborators (exhibition spaces, institutions)
  
• Defining contracts
  
• Different types of fundraising (governmental, private, embassies)
  
• Writing a budget
  
• What to consider when organising a transport (insurance, customs, costs)
  

Week 3: Exhibition Making - Working in the Space

• Ways of displaying artworks
  
• Thinking about scenography and communication between the artworks
  
• Creating a checklist of works with display details
  
• Lighting and sound
  
• Install (working with technicians, artists and considering packaging and access)
  
• Time management
  
• Deinstall and returns
  

Week 4: Communication

• Developing a Press Kit (writing 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)
  
• Communication in the exhibition space (handout, labels; guided tours)
  
• Public programming (artist talks, performances, education)