Examination arrangement

Course content

Exhibitions are the central function of museums and art galleries and the dominant format to showcase artworks by individuals or groups of artists, particular genres, thematic areas, or collections. This course focuses on the process of exhibition making within the context of an educational institution. During the term involved students will examine contemporary exhibitions in relation to curatorial and practical aspects. The course engages with exhibition-making as a collaborative practice, not only from an artist perspective, but through engagement with processes that involve all parties relevant to specific presentations. Spatial decision making, handling and placement of objects, and public program development will be considered in a practical learning environment.

Learning outcome

• Students can understand and engage with a space, making use of existing elements in order to make exhibition content coherent and accessible.
• Students have practical skills, such as project administration and writing for exhibition announcements and preparing materials for press usage.
• Students can analyze the meaning installing and organising has for artistic practice.
• The students know how exhibitions are installed today

Learning methods and activities

The course will have a hands on approach and introduce students to the many layered procedures and challenges of exhibition making through active participation in the current activities in Gallery KIT and by a collaborative project to install an exhibition on agreed upon subject or material. Based on the mutual interests of the students this class will develop one or several visual concepts and forms for presenting the ideas the student group(s) develop. The vision for this class is finding forms for contents yet unseen within disciplines we do not know, in other words to explore the limits of our knowledge, be it in ourselves, in the class or in the field, to become familiar with innovative thinking and innovation processes. To contextualise this endeavor our class looks for partners to work with.

Specific conditions

Approved compulsory assignments are valid in the current semester.

Compulsory assignments

• Participation in course activities
• Practical assignment
• Presentation

Further on evaluation

• Assessment of artistic progression by presentation or submission of work produced in the course or documentation hereof.
• Documentation: Sufficient visual, audiovisual, written or other documentation of activities, proces and results in order to represent development of the work and/or project in the course.
• Postponed evaluation will be held in the next semester.

Specific conditions