Undergraduate
Curating Platform
The Undergraduate Curating Platform is a multifunctional arena designed to encourage exchange and joint projects that facilitate new creative connections between students from different institutions worldwide.
One aim of this collaborative and discursive space is to ask how curating contemporary art can continue to offer potential alternatives on a local and international level. The platform also functions as a virtual gallery space for students on the Art Theory and Practice programmes at Manchester School of Art to realise online projects and document physical exhibitions.
There are two undergraduate programmes in Art Theory and Practice: BA (Hons) Art History and Curating, and BA (Hons) Fine Art and Art History, which includes a named curating pathway (BA (Hons) Fine Art and Art History (Curating). Students from the two courses collaborate on projects that map-out relational models in exhibition-making, which in turn explore how diverse methods and experimental processes continue to be relevant in curatorial practice. The course offers a functional and imaginative framework for thinking about how we might use a curriculum that forges connections between different subjects, thus providing the critical perspectives and essential practical skills needed by contemporary curators in the field of arts and creative industries.
Meet Our Experts
- Dr Gulsen Bal
Gulsen recently took on a new role as Course Leader of MA/MFA Contemporary Curating Programme and joined Manchester School of Art as Senior Lecturer in Curating (Art Theory & Practice) in 2020. She is a curator and an art and visual culture theorist and the founder and inaugural Director of Open Space, the influential art forum based in Vienna.
- Dr Beccy Kennedy
Beccy is Senior Lecturer in BA (Hons) Art History and Curating and MA Contested Territories.
