Course content

The process of making artistic work public requires circumspect considerations and decisions as well as a thorough approach to communication. This includes developing an idea of an audience and a context in which to realise the artistic work, as well as contacting institutions and seeking a range of funding opportunities. The course facilitates a practical, dialogic and theoretical learning environment to become familiar with site-specific implications and to develop collaborative strategies for interacting in public space and to work independently with a proactive way of thinking and approach. This encompasses the development of public programs and the investigation of contemporary exhibitions from a curatorial and practical perspective. With the aim of critically reflecting on the role of art and its methods and questioning what it can do as part of society.

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

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.

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. 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

Specific conditions