Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
CuratorLab is an international self-directed curatorial course dedicated to the advancement of curatorial practices based on research in the arts, crafts and design. It is designed to offer time to conduct research and to explore new directions and ideas in order to develop artistic or theoretical work while linking academic study to cultural projects.
The course offers the participants the possibility to develop and realize one individual and/or collaborative project in the form of a public presentation, i.e. exhibition, lecture series, publication, screenings, seminar, for which CuratorLab provides professional feedback and practical support as well as a moderate production budget. The final form, and where it will be presented, is decided by each participant in dialogue with his or her personal advisor.
Programme director for 2014/2015: Joanna Warsza
For more information please visit: http://www.konstfack.se/Utbildning/Fristaende-kurser/CuratorLab/
Participants of CuratorLab 2014/2015:
PATRIK HAGGREN
Patrik Haggren writes and curates, most recently the exhibition Linear Imaginations and articles for Terremoto Magazine and Paletten. A second iteration of From Here to Afternoon, an exhibition on the accumulation and projection of movements within dance, photography, economy, labor struggle and sculpture will happen in the fall of 2015. For CuratorLab Haggren has developed research and writing that was brought to the collaboration Loose Connections, Strong Symphathies at Tensta Konsthall and will inform a project together with Elke Marhöfer and Mikhail Lylov in Göteborg in September 2015.
JACOB HURTIG
Jacob Hurtig live and work in Gothenburg since the last ten years. With a background as an artist (Hurtig recived his MFA 2011 from Valand Academy, Gothenburg) his curatorial practices evolves around printed matter and how artists can and have been approaching it, mostly in the form of artists´ books and fanzines but also as scores, posters, flyers and alike.
This has taken form in Jarko for which Hurtig is one of the two founders of, a project that aims to collect, publish and exhibit fanzines, made by artists worldwide. He is now curating a series of exhibitions at Gothenburg University Library concerning different kinds of printed matter by artists, writers and graphical designers like Åke Hodell, Lotta Lotass, PUSS (the Swedish underground newspaper), John Melin and Öyvind Fahlström.
For CuratorLab Hurtig is developing a project called The exhibition as publication/ the publication as exhibition. It circles around artists’ publications in Sweden, both it´s history and it´s contemporary expression. The project is planned to end up in one publication and one exhibition.
VALERIA MANCINELLI
Valeria Mancinelli is a curator who lives and works in Venice. Since 2008 she is one of the curators of the independent space for contemporary arts S.a.L.E. Docks and she is co-founder of the curatorial urban project Trial Version. She has curated several exhibitions in Venice, Florence, Milan and Trento.
KIM MCALEESE
McAleese recently completed a six week curatorial residency at SOMA, Mexico City, and was one of the participants in the first European Independent Curators International Curatorial Intensive in 2013. She was the first recipient of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Career Enhancement Scheme for Curatorial Practice, and is completing Curatorlab at Konstfack, Stockholm.
DOROTA MICHALSKA
Dorota Michalska (born in 1988) is a curator, writer and art critic based in Warsaw. She graduated from the Faculty of Art History of the Warsaw University (BA 2012). She also studied at Ca’Foscari University in Venice (2010), Faculty of Music and Performing Arts. Since 2013, she has been working at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw as a curator assistant. She is a regular contributor to Obieg art magazine (www.obieg.pl).
CHIARA NUZZI
Chiara Nuzzi is an independent curator working both in non profit spaces and on independent projects. Her survey deals with the relations between art and collectivity, questioning how art can affect reality itself functioning as a tool to shape society.
SAM PERRY
Sam Perry is an independent curator and writer working on multidisciplinary projects with an international community of emerging contemporary artists and collectives. In recent years he has drawn particular thematic influence from literary tendencies and has developed a sense of the tangential and the explorative, aiming to work in different and invoking contexts. Sam’s recent projects have incorporated creative writing and talk-based events, the latter utilising his project’s surplus curatorial research and thematic ‘detritus’, often with tangential and performative results.
VALENTINA SANSONE is a contemporary art writer and an independent curator. Managing Editor of Flash Art International from 2007 to 2009, she was curator at The Swiss Institute of Rome (Rome/Milan) from 2009 to 2014. Lives and works in Stockholm.
KALLIOPI TSIPNI-KOLAZA
Kalliopi or Kelly is an independent “curator” with no permanent address. She holds an MA in Visual Culture from the University of Westminster in London where she has lived for a while working in public art institutions such as the Serpentine Galleries, the Architecture Foundation and the Contemporary Art Society. She is interested in thinking about art thinking and re-thinks things all the time. For her final CuratorLab project she is working with spatial practitioners Cooking Sections towards the production of a mediated performance featuring interviews with orange trees. She is part of the Mnemoscape curatorial board and she has recently been awarded the Samos International Curatorial Fellowship 2015.
JOSEFIN VARGÖ is an independent curator and experience designer from Sweden who develops new platforms, ephemeral experiences and processes that connect people, places and objects. She is co-founder and curator of the Experience Design platform UNDERVERK. Her clients include AWB, Byggstudio, Häberlein & Mauerer, Nike, Norah, Media Surf Communications, Roskilde Festival and Singleton Whisky. She is situated in Stockholm after having spent half her life living in Japan, USA, UK, Poland and Libya.
Head of the project: Joanna Warsza is an independant curator for visual and perfromings arts and architecture. Recently curator of the Georgian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, Public Program of Manifesta 10 in St. Petersburg, and associate curator of the 7. Berlin Biennale
