Overview

Curating Beyond Exhibition Making is a three-day online course especially tailored for Christie’s Education by Fatoş Üstek. The course aims to equip participants with an understanding of curatorial practices whilst providing a toolkit for curating that expands beyond the demarcations of exhibition making. The course is designed as a cumulative sequence of classes, and builds on the information and insights generated throughout, bringing forward a series of case studies, exhibitions and art projects curated by the course leader.

Each session focuses on a specific area of curating that is crucial in building a framework for expanded curatorial practices. The overall programme acts as a toolkit for participants who want to take on curating as a profession and who are interested in thinking beyond the acts of selecting and displaying artworks in whitecube environments.

The programme is accompanied by a reading list composed of selected articles, which will be shared prior to the start.

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Academic Profile

Fatoş Üstek

Fatoş Üstek is an independent curator and writer, working internationally. Ustek is co-founder of FRANK Fair Artist Pay with artists Anne Hardy and Lindsay Seers. Currently, she is commissioning art in the public realm in Nine Elms, London; curating 40th Akbank Gunumuz Sanatcilari in Istanbul; writing a book on 21st century art institutions. She acts as editorial advisor and contributing editor at Extra Extra Magazine, Chair of New Contemporaries, UK, board member of Urbane Kunste Ruhr, Germany; advisory panel for Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics AICA UK, ICI, IKT and founding member of the Association of Women in the Arts (AWITA). She writes internationally for art publications, exhibition catalogues; lectures at Graduate and Postgraduate Programmes. Ustek sits on selection and nomination committees for various national and international prizes including Jindrich Chalupecky Award 2022 – 2024, Scotland in Venice 2022, Dutch Pavilion 2022, Arts Foundation Futures Award 2021, Turner Prize Bursaries 2020, Celeste Art Prize 2017, and acted as an external member of the acquisitions committee for the Arts Council Collection (2018-2020). She regularly nominates for the Fourth Plinth, the Jarman Award, alongside the Arts Foundation Futures Award and international awards and residencies.

She ran Liverpool Biennial and The Roberts Institute of Art in the UK. Ustek curated Do Ho Suh’s largest UK public commission (2018-2020), miart Talks 2018; Art Night, East London, 2017 and fig-2 50 exhibitions in 50 weeks, ICA, 2015. She acted as Associate Curator for the 10th Gwangju Biennale, 2014. Ustek is the editor of Unexpected Encounters Situations of Contemporary Art and Architecture (Turkish Only, 2012) published by Zorlu Centre, Istanbul; is author of Book of Confusions, 2012, published by Rossi & Rossi, London. She co-founded and edited online Contemporary Art Magazine Nowiswere with Veronika Hauer (2008-12).

She is listed in the celebratory Apollo 40 under 40 Thinkers section in 2018; included in Evening Standard’s Progress 1000 London’s most influential people in 2018 and 2017; Artlyst Power 100 list 2021, 2019, 2018, and 2017; Artsy The Top 20 Most Influential Young Curators in Europe and nominated for ICI Gerrit Lansing Independent Curatorial Vision Award in 2016.

In 2008 Ustek received her M.A. at the Contemporary Art Theory Department at Goldsmiths College London, after completing her BA in Mathematics at Bogazici University, Istanbul. Additionally, where she also acquired a degree from Film Studies.

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Schedule

11 February 2025 | Identifying the Context

• Introduction to curating as practice
• Inside and outside the whitecube
• Commissioning in the public realm
• Reading the context
• Identifying artists and artworks 

Case Study: Frieze Sculpture, 2024, Regents Park, London

Case Study: Cascading Principles, Expansions within Geometry, Philosophy and Interference, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, Sep 2022 - June 2024

Case Study: Public commissions (Liverpool Biennial 2020, Art Night 2017, Gwangju Biennial 2014)

12 February 2025 | Working with New Commissions

• Identifying the thematic approach
• Familiarising with the artistic practice(s)
• Attuning to the potential of the collaboration
• Outline of practical aspects
• Plan and delivery with a clear outline of roles and responsibilities

Case Study: Frieze Sculpture 2024, Regents Park, London

Case Study: Art Night, 2017, London

Case Study: fig-2, 50 exhibitions in 50 weeks, ICA Studio, 2015

13 February 2025 | Ingenious Activation of Timely Sensibilities

• Ethical fundraising
• Sustainability of managing budgets and resources
• Accessibility of content
• Diversity of engagement
• Restorative economies and environmental care
• Fair practice

Case Study: Frieze Sculpture

Case Study: FRANK Fair Artist Pay

*Please note that the schedule is subject to change.

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About Livestream Courses

All virtual courses are delivered over Zoom with high quality sound & video. There will be an interactive Q & A with the academic as well as time for a group discussion through the lecture.

Recordings will be available to watch with unlimited playback for 14 days. Registrants will receive the viewing link following the class.

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