The Curatorial Intensive is ICI’s short-term, low-cost training program that offers curators the chance to develop their exhibition ideas and make connections to leaders in the field, providing the opportunity to forge new international networks through peer-group education. The Curatorial Intensive takes place twice annually in New York, and in other locations in conjunction with institutional partners worldwide.
The Museum of the Future?: Curating Institutions
Program dates:August 5-11, 2012
ICI and the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing are now accepting applications from curators working around the world to participate in The Museum of the Future?: Curating Institutions, the first Curatorial Intensive to be held in China.
SAHA Scholarships and Research Award
Program dates:August 5-11, 2012
SAHA and Independent Curators International (ICI) form a new partnership to enable curators of Turkish origin to apply for The SAHA Curatorial Intensive Scholarship and The SAHA Research Award for Curatorial Intensive Alumni.
Asialink Arts Australian Curator Scholarship
Program dates:August 5-11, 2012
Asialink Arts is supporting an Australian curator to participate in the Curatorial Intensive in Beijing in August 2012.
Contemporary Curatorial Practice
Program dates:July 8-17, 2012
Application Deadline: Passed
Focusing on new models for curating and exhibition development, ICI’s annual summer Curatorial Intensive offers curators the opportunity to meet colleagues from around the world and share ideas on how to push the parameters of their practice.
International Programs
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The Museum of the Future?: Curating Institutions
Program dates:August 5-11, 2012
Find out more »ICI and the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing are now accepting applications from curators working around the world to participate in The Museum of the Future?: Curating Institutions, the first Curatorial Intensive to be held in China.
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SAHA Scholarships and Research Award
Program dates:August 5-11, 2012
Find out more »SAHA and ICI form a new partnership to enable curators of Turkish origin to apply for Curatorial Intensive Scholarships and a Research Award for Curatorial Intensive Alumni.
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Asialink Arts Australian Curator Scholarship
Program dates:August 5-11, 2012
Find out more »Asialink Arts is supporting an Australian curator to participate in the Curatorial Intensive in Beijing in August 2012.
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Instituto Inhotim
Program dates:April 22-28, 2012
Find out more »ICI and Instituto Inhotim in Minas Gerais, Brazil are now accepting applications from curators working internationally to participate in a short-course training program.
Past Intensives
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Curating Performance
Program dates:November 13-22, 2011
Find out more »Organized from November 13-22, 2011 in association with the visual art performance organization Performa, the Curatorial Intensive will use the Performa 11 biennial as a platform to explore how curating performance art is being theorized and implemented today.
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Summer 2011
Program dates:July 10-18, 2011
Find out more »In summer 2011, 10-14 curators from around the world were selected to participate in the Curatorial Intensive for a rigorous 8-day schedule of workshops, discussions, critiques, and presentations, as well as site visits to local institutions, private collections, and artists’ studios.
Recent Proposals
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Lives of Artists By Eriola PiraLives of Artists is a curatorial research project that aims to initiate a critical discourse and presentation of the fictional artist as an artistic practice and production.
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Catalyst: Artists of Southern Louisiana Respond to the Gulf Oil Crisis By Robin AtkinsonCATALYST is an exhibition exploring the ways in which artists from Southern Louisiana have critiqued and confronted the Gulf Coast Oil Crisis and its connected issues.
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Uncommonplaces: Reinventing the Everyday By Pieter VermeulenUncommonplaces (New York / Antwerp) will be presented as a dialogue between a group show within an exhibition venue and small, subtle interventions in public space, investigating art’s potential to subvert, suspend, or transform the banal or trivial dimension of everyday life.
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Cabin Fever By JJ Kegan McFaddenCabin Fever is a group exhibition featuring a mixture of emerging and established artists whose work examines boredom, malaise, as well as social and mental isolation.
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Dead Center of Gravity By Jordan SteinDead Center of Gravity examines the way certain tendencies in minimal, abstract, and experiential art practices that privilege human presence have been translated and understood via photography.
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The New World Disorder By Qinyi LimTaking its name from the work by Benedict Anderson, The New World Disorder aims to explore these gaps and silences through the practice of young contemporary artists from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
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Art Now Now By Anja de KlerkThe art now now project is an extensive research based undertaking aimed at excavating, mapping and activating South African curatorial practices and histories in order to support and encourage experimental artistic activity and research within this field.
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Coming After By Jon DaviesComing After brings together a number of artists born in 1970 or later who share a certain contemporary queer sensibility.
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