Independent Curators International (ICI) supports the work of curators to help create stronger art communities through experimentation, collaboration, and international engagement. Curators are arts community leaders and organizers who champion artistic practice; build essential infrastructures and institutions; and generate public engagement with art. Our collaborative programs connect curators across generations, and across social, political and cultural borders. They form an international framework for sharing knowledge and resources — promoting cultural exchange, access to art, and public awareness for the curator’s role.
Frances Loeffler

Frances Loeffler is Curator at Oakville Galleries, Toronto. Prior to this, she has held positions at White Cube, London, and the Liverpool Biennial. In 2009, she was Visiting Curator at the research and commissioning agency Situations in Bristol and in 2011 she was Guest Researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. She writes frequently for a number of art journals internationally.
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Alumni Seminar
This week, 13 alumni from one of the first Curatorial Intensive’s held in 2010 participated in a seminar via Zoom. Dialing in from 13 cities in 9 countries, the discussion allowed the group to reconnect and collectively think through some of the urgent questions that have arisen in the past month, and their responses to the needs of artists and audience.
read more »Nothing is Revealed
Nothing is Revealed is characterised by a mode of uncertainty, secrecy, incongruence and chance, qualities that are in keeping with the haphazard disarray of everyday public life.
read more »Curating in the Public Realm
In October 2010 in New York ICI is organizing The Curatorial Intensive for emerging curators internationally who want to learn about curating in the public realm.
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