Art Fund Curators Programme at Frieze Masters
Overview
Working in partnership with the SSN for European Paintings pre-1900 and The National Gallery, through the Frieze Masters programme , they’re aiming to bring together a cohort of emerging career curators from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds to explore the subject of transhistorical exhibition making (across historical time periods, both historic and contemporary).
The programme will be led by Dr Jennifer Sliwka, Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum and Professorial Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford and will include:
- online pre-programme seminar and introduction to the Art market session
- introduction and access to Radical Harmony Helene Kröller-Müller's Neo-Impressionists exhibition at the National Gallery
- keynote speaker in-conversation (Dr. Aimee Ng, John Updike Curator, The Frick Collection)
- curators’ workshop
- tours of Frieze Masters
- Invitation to alumni event
- invitation to join the "Unexpected View" event at The National Gallery
- feedback meeting with the curators
- access to Frieze London and Frieze Masters
Art Fund Curators Programme at Frieze Masters takes place at Regents Park, London, on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 October.
When considering your application, they encourage to undertake your journey in the most environmentally sustainable way possible. Please read our Green Travel Policy for applicants and awardees when planning your travel. For additional resources and support to reduce the environmental impacts of travel, please visit the Gallery Climate Coalition's Climate Conscious Travel page.
What they can fund
10 bursary places are available for UK museum and gallery professionals. Travel, 2 nights’ accommodation and refreshments will be provided.
Please note, when completing the budget information, you need only to input travel costs and a per diem of £25. Frieze will be supporting the accommodation (two nights) and refreshments (breakfast and lunch) will be provided.
Who can apply
Applications are open to all museum and gallery curatorial professionals who work with public collections.
Through the programme they’re aiming to bring together a cohort of emerging career curators from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds and who often do not have the travel budgets that allow for easy exchange with their national and international counterparts.