University of Essex

Art History at Essex

Student Activity

As part of your coursework, whilst studying with the Centre for Curatorial Studies you will have the opportunity to produce exhibitions, catalogues, symposia, conferences and other curatorial output.

In the pages here you will find details of exhibitions and other events organised and run by our CCS students.


Annual CCS Exhibitions

Each year Centre for Curatorial Studies students who are enrolled on the MA Gallery Studies and Critical Curating degree produce an exhibition for the public programme of the University's gallery, Art Exchange.  These exhibitions contribute to Art Exchange's programme of contemporary art exhibitions.

In past years students have worked with a range of internationally renowned contemporary artists including figures such as Richard Wentworth, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Pierre Bismuth, Fischli & Weiss, Cao Fei, Rafael Lozanno Hemmer, Idris Kahn and many others.


The Contingency of Curation

In the past few years Centre for Curatorial Studies students have collaborated with the MA curating courses at Chelsea College of Art & Design and Sheffield Hallam University on extra curricula curatorial activity producing public events and publications.

In 2010 the MA curating students from the three colleges worked together to produce a conference at Tate Britain, London, and a publication that explored key topical issues in the theory and practice of contemporary curating.


Project Biennale

In 2009, the MA curating students of the three colleges worked together to produce an exhibition in book form, Project BIENNALE, which was launched at The Venice Biennale's opening week.

Project BIENNALE is a critical investigation into the peripheral activities that extend and support the experience of the phenomenon that is Biennale culture. 

The book is a staging of a series of encounters that explore and develop the experiential nature of the supplementary events surrounding the contemporary art Biennale.

The contributors included a range of professional curators and artists:

Lana Mullen, Regina Shin, Bryan Eccleshall, Rachael Bau, The Hut Project, Kirsten Cooke, Dale Holmes, Martyn Cashmore, Goesta Diercks, James Stevens, Harriet Davies, Becky Shaw, Ann Harezlak, Sayoko Nakahara, Ingrid Swenson, Teresa Gleadowe, Yan Geat Cheng, Mafalda Susin, Jeni Walwin, Marion Coutts, Helena Copsey, Fiona Shipwright, Bruce Haines, Alex Rich, Luiza Holub, Sue-Na Gay, Sarah Smizz, Taylor Le Fin, Paul O'Neill, Natalie Mortimer, Hamja Ahsan, Jeffrey Charles, Henry Peacock, Maxa Zoller and Pippa Lennox. 

 

 

 

   
   

Last updated: 11 January 2012.