The School of Arts and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation launch a Course in Curating of Exhibitions

The School of Arts will organize a Course of Curating of Exhibitions, in collaboration with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, aimed at 20 professionals of the  Curso de Curadoria de Exposições, em parceria com a Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, dirigido a 20 profissionais dos Portuguese-speaking African countries.

Nuno Crespo (director da EA) and Paula Nascimento (Angolan curator who won the Golden Lion in the Venice Biennale in 2013) will coordinate this course, organized around ten modules about fundamental themes for the education of a contemporary curator, online round-tables with guests and a weekly meeting to discuss readings and projects.

Applications are open until the 22nd of July. More infromation here.

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Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

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