"Curating Contemporary Art" Seminar Program
Program Director: Billur Tansel
“Curating Contemporary Art” is a 8 month-long seminar series organized in cooperation by Open Dialogue Istanbul and Akbank Sanat. The purpose of these seminars is to initiate a comprehensive program on curating that is on an international level, thus creating a prestigious and unequalled platform of education in this field in Turkey. The program will consist of both theory and practice. The program, which will run under the coordination of Billur Tansel, will be carried out with an educational, practice-based and research-oriented approach. The seminars will be presented in Turkish and English. Speakers will be renowned actors from the international art platform. The seminars will also feature case studies on biennials, galleries, museums and art fairs. At the end of the seminars, if approved by the Jury, the final exhibition projects suggested by the participants will be displayed in either Akbank Sanat or other collaborative institutions and participants will be presented with a certificate of completion.
* To learn conditions of participation in a single seminar, we would kindly ask you to send an e-mail to apply@curatingcontemporaryart.org address noting the required seminar details. Single seminar participation fee is 650 TL.
* The program will take place on the online platform Zoom.
The Story of Curating
Online Platform – Zoom
4 November 2024|18:00
The Story of Modern and Contemporary Art - I
Online Platform – Zoom
7 November 2024|19:00
The Story of Modern and Contemporary Art - II
Online Platform – Zoom
11 November 2024|18:00
The Culture & Ideology of Art
Online Platform – Zoom
14 November 2024|18:00
Curatorial Strategies: Independent Spaces and Biennials: The Case of the Sinop Bienial
Online Platform – Zoom
2 December 2024|18:00
History of Exhibitions
Online Platform – Zoom
5 December 2024|19:00
Art, Architecture and Cities From An Anthropomorphic Perspective
Online Platform – Zoom
9 December 2024|18:00
The Birth Of the Language Of Criticism, Its Limits and Dilemmas
Online Platform – Zoom
12 December 2024|18:00
An Analysis of Exhibition Models - I
Online Platform – Zoom
9 January 2025|19:00
An Analysis of Exhibition Models - II
Online Platform – Zoom
22 January 2025|19:00
Critical Constellations in Curating Performance Art
Online Platform – Zoom
23 January 2025|18:00
Strategic Planning & Project Development - I
Online Platform – Zoom
27 January 2025|18:00
Strategic Planning & Project Development - II
Online Platform – Zoom
28 January 2025|18:00
Preventive Conversation: Packing, Shipping and Storage Management - I
Online Platform – Zoom
30 January 2025|18:00
Preventive Conversation: Packing, Shipping and Storage Management - II
Online Platform – Zoom
3 February 2025|18:00
Narrating with Light
Online Platform – Zoom
13 February 2025|18:00
The Making Of A Biennial: Models, Institutions, Stakeholders
Online Platform – Zoom
17 February 2025|18:00
3 Degrees? - Science and Politics as the Climate Crisis Accelerates
Online Platform – Zoom
20 February 2025|18:00
Residency Programs From A Curatorial Perspective
Online Platform – Zoom
10 March 2025|18:00
On the Freedom of Artistic Expression and Creativity
Akbank Sanat
11 March 2025|18:00
From Genius to Celebrity: Entertainment Culture and Contemporary Art
Online Platform – Zoom
20 March 2025|18:00
A Tool for Reflecting on Society: Emotions
Online Platform – Zoom
24 March 2025|18:00
Fair Cultural Cooperation
Online Platform – Zoom
27 March 2025|18:00
The Art of Communication, Communication of Art
Online Platform – Zoom
3 April 2025|18:00
Planted In Our Commonality
Online Platform – Zoom
14 April 2025|18:00
Curation: Intervention
Online Platform – Zoom
24 April 2025|18:00
Designing A Visual Identity For An Exhibition
Online Platform – Zoom
28 April 2025|18:00
From New Media to Digital Art
Online Platform – Zoom
12 May 2025|18:00
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Nature's Intelligence
Online Platform – Zoom
15 May 2025|18:00
The Atlas Project: Excerpts from a Curatorial Research
Online Platform – Zoom
16 May 2025|18:00
The Aesthetics of Crime: Reflectionf of Violence And Forgery In Art
Online Platform – Zoom
10 June 2025|18:00
How to Organize an International Festival, The amberFestival Experience
Online Platform – Zoom
12 June 2025|18:00
Curating Live Art: Human and Process
Online Platform – Zoom
16 June 2025|18:00
Acoustic Comfort in Exhibition Spaces
Online Platform – Zoom
17 June 2025|18:00
To Silence
Online Platform – Zoom
24 June 2025|18:00
Curating Contemporary Art Seminar Program
November 2024 - June 2025