Curation Coventry University

Overview

MA Curation at Coventry University is for those ready to rethink curatorial practice, explore art’s role in social change and step into creative leadership. Engage with global issues, amplify diverse voices and shape the future of contemporary culture.

• Explore curatorial practice beyond traditional gallery spaces, using industry-standard tools and facilities to deliver ambitious projects and demonstrate real social impact.

• Collaborate on interdisciplinary projects with external partners, building the leadership, adaptability and problem-solving skills sought by the creative industries.

• High profile partnerships with industry, with a new arts venue currently being built in Coventry.
• Next generation leadership in the arts positioning curatorial practice in wider regional contexts in the UK and overseas, engaging with programmes such as the British Art Show, biennials such as Europe’s Manifesta, and British Council’s Spark programme in Hong Kong.

• Modern facilities including metal, wood and ceramics workshops alongside digital suites and immersive studios with VR technologies and capabilities.
• An international profile for excellence and innovation with associations to the pioneering work of the conceptual art group Art & Language in the 1960s, and the foundations of the influential Blk Art Group and the British Black art movement in the early 1980s.

• An international community forging interdisciplinary collaborations and professional networks to sustain careers in creative and cultural industries; the course also benefits from links to world-leading researchers across the wider Coventry University Group.