Curating Contemporary Art Seminar Program

Curating Contemporary Art Seminar Program

Application Deadline for the "Contemporary Art and Curating" Seminar Program has been Extended.

Seminer Program: November 2025 – June 2026

Program Director: Billur Tansel

Application Deadline: 19 October 2025 Sunday, 24:00

Application Adress: apply@curatingcontemporaryart.org

“Curating Contemporary Art” is a 11 month-long seminar program organized in cooperation by Open Dialogue Istanbul and Akbank Sanat. The purpose of this program 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 be directed by Billur Tansel, will be carried out with an educational, practice-based and research-oriented approach. The seminars will be presented in Turkish and English, there will also be eight workshops for the participants to develop their finishing project which will be a curatorial project proposal to be evaluated by the jury at the end of the program. Speakers will be renowned actors from the international art platform. The seminars will also feature case studies on biennials, galleries, museums and art fairs. The participants will be offered internship, curatorial assistance opportunities in different institutions. At the end of the seminars, the participants will present their individual curatorial project proposals and if approved by the Jury, the participants will be presented with a certificate of completion. The seminar part of the program will take place between November 2025 and June 2026. Every Monday and Thursday between 18:00-20:30 on the digital platform.

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* Seminars will be held on the digital platform.

Curating Contemporary Art Seminar Program

November 2025 - June 2026

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