Postgraduate
Curating Platform
The Postgraduate Curating Platform is designed to encourage exchange and joint projects that facilitate an engagement in creative and critical dialogue and collaborative mind-mapping processes between students from different institutions worldwide.
Throughout the MA/MFA Contemporary Curating programme, students are encouraged to explore the shifting relationship between artist-institution-curator-critic/writer which forms a central element to the course. How diverse methods and experimental processes continue to be relevant in curatorial practice is a key emerging aspect of the programme.
One aim of this collaborative and discursive space is to provide a distinctive, vibrant environment within a laboratory context for inter- and trans-disciplinary activities.
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.
Curating News
For each open call, an international panel jurors participate in a crowd-sourced voting process...
13 Dec 2023
Curating students participated in interactive student-led event: A Pop Up Think/Do Tank by CrAFt
19 Oct 2023
25 Sep 2023
We are delighted to announce that the "Curators of Tomorrow" fellowship program in cooperation with MQ Artist-in-Residence Program in Vienna launched its third edition in August 2023
13 Sep 2023
Join us for students-led exhibition projects that will be hosted in various locations
21 May 2023
MA Contemporary Curating student Jenna Eady has been awarded MA/PhD Collaboration Award part of "Reimagining postgraduate research at the centre of knowledge creation" symposium
19 May 2023
Our visit to Vienna was rather a stimulating experience for both staff and students!
25 Apr 2023
13 Apr 2023
IN/Tangible exhibition is curated by current MA Contemporary Curating students: Birce Cennetoglu, Cassandra Alvaro, Jenna Eady, Kieran Youd, Megan Jones
09 Apr 2023
The students reviewed proposals from curators and artists from around the world part of apexart' international student jury programme and had the opportunity to get involved in the contemporary art world
13 Dec 2022
The exhibition project 'Poezja Kobieca/Poetic Womxn' is curated by one of the current MA Contemporary Curating students Mila Januszova
21 Oct 2022
MA Contemporary Curating student has been awarded Venice Fellowship by the British Council...
13 Sep 2022
We are delighted to announce that the "Curators of Tomorrow" fellowship program launched its second edition in July 2022
01 Sep 2022
Responding to the key themes of ‘loneliness", This Lonely World and Into The Blue showcasing focus on various quasi-representational constructs
03 Jul 2022
Our visit to the launch of the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art was an outstanding experience for both staff and students!
13 Jun 2022
Pavement Gallery runs on an associate model to provide MA Contemporary Curating students with the opportunity to develop their practical skills.
07 Jun 2022
Articulated Space exhibition is curated by current MA Contemporary Curating students: Sophie Edmondson, Georgie Parker, Lillie Tew, Melis Yilmaz
05 May 2022
Two students from MA/MFA Contemporary Curating have been selected and awarded Venice Fellowships by the British Council: Elysia Lukoszevieze and Lucy Macpherson
29 Apr 2022
A new collaboration between Videocity and Manchester School of Art
03 Mar 2022
Dr Gulsen Bal and Dr Michael Pinchbeck in conversation with Santiago Sierra about his artistic practice and the role of critical practice today
11 Feb 2022
The series of graduate showcasing have been curated by current MA Contemporary Curating students Elysia Lukoszevieze and Julia Makojnik
27 Jan 2022
The students voted online to determine apexart' upcoming exhibition content part of their international student jury programme.
05 Dec 2021
Manchester School of Art is a partner institution in the British Council's Venice Fellowships programme.
25 Oct 2021
We are delighted to announce that the "Curators of Tomorrow" fellowship program between the Q21/MuseumsQuartier Wien and the Manchester School of Art launched its first edition in July 2021.
31 Aug 2021
A new collaboration between the Q21/MuseumsQuartier Wien and the Manchester School of Art
23 Jun 2021
Dr Gulsen Bal and Dr Michael Pinchbeck in conversation with Professor Charles Esche about curatorial alternatives.
08 Jan 2021
Dr Gulsen Bal and Dr Michael Pinchbeck in conversation with Dr Elena Cologni about dialogic and situated artistic strategies.
04 Dec 2020
The Holden Gallery’s Curatorial Collective is a group of Manchester School of Art students who contribute to shaping and developing the gallery’s exhibitions and events programme. This is a voluntary role.
17 Nov 2020
Dr Gulsen Bal and Dr Michael Pinchbeck in conversation with Dr Gregory Sholette about his artistic practice in relation to collective activism.
26 Oct 2020
The exhibition "Borrowed Time" curated by Gulsen Bal and Walter Seidl at Fluc in Vienna
08 Jul 2020
