Date Tuesday 25 February 2025
Overview
Node Center for Curatorial Studies are delivering a short course in 'Launching an Independent Art Space: Conceptual and Practical Skills' with Nora Mayr.
You may be approaching your graduation and wondering what your next career steps are. You may have always dreamed about opening your own independant art space. Or this may be something you have never considered before, but now it has piqued your interest and want to find out more! Whatever the reason, here at the Arts SU believe that so many UAL students are looking for proactive ways to shape their creative careers. We believe this course would benefit many students looking to expand their creative network and take the leap into hosting their own art space.
About the course:
Project spaces (also known as independent art spaces, artist-run initiatives, off spaces, etc.) are an important part of the art ecosystem: nurturing experimentation, promoting new artists, sparking dialogue and working closely with local art communities. While project spaces take many different forms, what they have in common is that they are usually not institutional, not commercial, nor a white cube.
Whether you’re an artist, a curator or a collective group of people, having your own art space - no matter how small it is - brings a lot of opportunities to realize your ideas, experiment with concepts and build your career. Nevertheless, for a fruitful outcome it is important to consider certain structural, financial and conceptual aspects before getting started. This course is for people who want to set up their own independent art space. The course will include discussing the essentials of setting up your own space, including how to get started, potential organisational structures, developing a curatorial line, handling finances as well as PR strategies.
Participants will learn the practical aspects of establishing a project space and discover case studies of structural organisations and conceptual approaches. In addition, this course will also provide an overview of the history of prominent project spaces as well as current developments and existing networks.
Come with an already existing idea or start from a blank page! Throughout the course you will develop a concrete outline of the steps you need to realise your independent art space.
This is a five week interactive course with online sessions each week.
The course runs from 16th June - 14th July 2025.
For more information on the course follow this link: Launching an Independent Art Space: Conceptual and Practical Skills - Node Center
The Arts SU aims to support UAL students with developing their professional practice. Therefore, we are working with Node Center to offer FREE places on this course for two UAL students.
If you want to apply to attend this course, please send in your application to us using this LINK.
If you have any queries about this course or the application process, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the Arts Programme team at the Arts SU - artsprogramme@su.arts.ac.uk