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Opportunities: Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen International Fellowship Program for Art and Theory 2013/2014


Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen
International Fellowship Program for Art and Theory 2013/14
Innsbruck, Austria
buchsenhausen.at

Closing date for submissions: 1 February 2013

Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen invites visual and media artists, art critics, theorists, and curators to apply for a fellowship in 2013–2014. Candidates can apply for one semester (September 30, 2013 – February 14, 2014 or February 17, 2014 – June 27, 2014). The fellowship can be split across two semesters.
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Opportunities: Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellowship at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago


Installation view from First 50, May–Aug 2012 curated by Joanna Szupinska, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow 2011–2012. Image courtesy the curator and MCA Chicago. Via grupa.o.k.

Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellowship
Deadline: 31 January 2013

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) is one of Chicago’s major museum institutions and one of the nation’s largest facilities devoted to the art of our time, offering exhibitions, performances, and programs of the most thought-provoking art created since 1945.

Considered one of the premiere curatorial training opportunities in the nation, the MCA’s Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellowship is intended to offer an exceptional graduate-level candidate the opportunity to gain professional curatorial experience in a major museum setting. The Fellow is primarily responsible for exhibition- and/or collection-related research, with additional duties as appropriate to specific projects. As a 12-month commitment, the Fellow is exposed to all aspects of curatorial operations and participates in internal and external communications on a daily basis. With a start date of July 1, 2013, the full-time fellowship carries a stipend of $25,000 plus selected benefits.

The MCA considers exceptional candidates in art history, museum studies, and related fields with a strong emphasis on art historical research and methodology. Qualified applicants must possess an M.A. degree or be in their final year of graduate work. The MCA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The application deadline is 31 January 2013.
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Opportunities: Open Call – Arte Útil


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Open call: Arte Útil
Deadline: 15 February 2013

The Museum of Arte Útil is a collaboration between the artist Tania Bruguera, the Queens Museum of Art, New York and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The Museum of Arte Útil is the result of Tania Bruguera’s decade of research into a concept that emphasizes effectiveness and implementation over representation, looking at historical and contemporary examples of alternative strands in socially informed art practice.
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Opportunities: de Appel Curatorial Programme 2013–2014


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Call for applications: de Appel Curatorial Programme 2013–2014
Deadline: 14 January 2013

“There is an abc-ignorance that precedes knowledge, and there is another learned ignorance that comes after and that is created through ‘knowing’ and that will equally like the first be annihilated and annulled by knowledge.” –Michel de Montaigne [1]

Initiated in 1994 as an in-house international training trajectory for young curators, the Curatorial Programme of de Appel arts centre offers its participants a condensed package of professional encounters, hands-on experiences and skills that can be seen as instruments for the further development of a professional career. Encompassing a wide array of sometimes contrasting voices, the programme pays attention to the various approaches that exist and arise in contemporary curating, thus mapping the dynamic professional field in all its complexity and confusion, its fragmentation and fluidity.
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Opportunities: Emdash Award 2013, Frieze Foundation


Image courtesy of Frieze Foundation and Polly Braden

Applications for the Emdash Award 2013 are now open.

The Emdash Award will return to Frieze London for the third consecutive year in 2013. The award is open to artists living outside of the UK, up to five years from graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree or under 35 years of age. The Emdash Award is part of the Frieze Projects programme, produced by Frieze Foundation, supported by the Emdash Foundation and presented in collaboration with Gasworks.
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