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  MA/MFA - Contemporary Curating


Manchester Metropolitan University    Manchester School of Art

Full time & Part time September MA, Other 1 year full time, 2 years part time (MA) 2 years full time, 4 years part time (MFA)
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The MA/MFA Contemporary Curating programme offers an exciting opportunity to explore the world of curatorial practice in contemporary culture. Delving into various creative fields and theoretical approaches, this course provides a historical and critical context for understanding curating. From exhibition-forms to exhibition-making processes, you will examine the shifting relationship between artists, institutions, curators, and critics. With a focus on the culture of curating, you will also explore how curating can be applied to different forms of knowledge. The programme is open to students with a relevant undergraduate degree or equivalent, and offers unique features such as access to a dedicated Curating Base Room and the opportunity to participate in the British Council's Venice Fellowships programme.

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MA/MFA Contemporary Curating explores the notion of curatorial practice in contemporary culture in addressing a number of inter-related fields of creative practice and theoretical approaches and situate them in a historical and critical context. The course explores different kinds of curatorial issues in addressing exhibition-forms and exhibition-making processes and how we conceive of spaces of production and curating as subjects with our integrated research and practice-led approach. 

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Entry Requirements

You will normally have an undergraduate UK honours degree or international equivalent or a degree-equivalent postgraduate diploma or a professional qualification. Alternatively, you may be admitted if you can demonstrate appropriate knowledge and skills at honours degree standard.

Overseas applicants will require IELTS with an overall score of 6.5 with no less than 5.5 in any category, or an equivalent accepted English qualification.


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