• work with two or more of their own artworks (all materials, concepts, sizes and subjects are allowed);
• read selected texts and artists’ statements before the workshop starts.

The course is intended for 2nd and 3rd year BA students from all disciplines of the Royal Academy of Art. The course also welcomes students from Leiden University, for whom this is an opportunity to be matched with art students to collaborate with during the workshop. The emphasis is on theory (writing) and practice (curating) of exhibition making.
Full attendance is obligatory in order to receive study points towards the Individual Study Trajectory (2 EC). KABK students can receive an extra point (+1 EC) with writing a reflection paper.

Up to 12 KABK students and 4 LU students will be selected to participate in the programme.
The course will be in English.

• Theoretical background and student presentations:
  12 & 26 April 10.00-15.00h in BB.105
  
  
• Research in gallery space, developing exhibition concept and building up exhibition:
  3 & 10 May 10.00-16.00h in gallery
  
  
• Opening exhibition:
  Date and time to be determined
  
  
• Final session, evaluation and breaking down exhibition:
  17 May 10.00-16.00h in gallery

Participants will be selected on the basis of their motivated application. Apply before Wednesday 8 February 2017 23:59h (CET) by sending a brief letter of motivation (max. 400 words) to: lectoraatktp@kabk.nl. The result of the selection will be announced on Monday 13 February. No late submissions will be accepted.

The workshop entails two parts. The first part focusses on the history and theory of exhibition making and the role of the (artist as) curator. Influential exhibitions will be analysed and discussed, including Op Losse Schroeven, Magiciens de la Terre, Xerox Book, Documenta, the Venice Biennial, the exhibitions of some avant-garde movements and emerging forms such as exhibitions in virtual space. What are the artistic, social, political and economic issues addressed in these exhibitions?

In the second part the focus lies on the students’ individual research, which will take place in several exhibition spaces in the academy. Students will develop their intuition and ‘spatial thinking’ while experimenting with their works in a variety of display modes, space typologies and presentation forms. Particular exhibition strategies and attitudes, as well as the role of the spectator in relation to specific works, will be discussed. In what ways may this process of analysis and reflection affect one’s work and practice?

Special attention will be given to the possibilities of artistic innovation based on Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of rhizome. The rhizomatic approach to exhibition making can provide an inspiration for further individual research.

Students’ research will result in an exhibition that will be on show in the Gallery and in other exhibition spaces of the Royal Academy. Students will also write a short text to accompany their work in the exhibition.

Tatjana Macic is a visual artist, writer and theoretician. She studied art at the Academy of Art and Design AKI, and got her Master’s degree from the University of Amsterdam, where she wrote a thesis about curating, politics and innovation. She is founder of Urgent Matters / Srettam Tnegru, an initiative for art, research, dialogue and exchange; and is currently a teacher of Artistic Research at the Royal Academy in The Hague.