Curator BC476
Closing date: 7 November 2014, 4pm
Barbican Centre is a world renowned multi-disciplinary art centre. The visual arts are crucially important to its success. The Art Gallery is a leading venue for the presentation of modern and contemporary art, photography, and architecture/design exhibitions, whereas The Curve is devoted to the commissioning of large-scale site-specific installations by contemporary artists.
An exciting opportunity has now arisen for a dynamic curator to join the Visual Arts team in a key role, helping realise our highly regarded exhibition and Curve commissions, occasional off-site projects and public talks and events programme.
You will be expected to develop innovative exhibition ideas and have a flair for realising authoritative exhibitions which also reach a broad audience.
We are looking for someone with an exceptional knowledge of 20th- and 21st-century art, an international network, considerable experience of curating loan-based exhibitions and working with artists, as well as having impressive communication skills.
You can find further information about the Barbican at www.barbican.org.uk.
To apply online, please visit www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/jobs.
Alternatively, please contact the Corporate Recruitment Unit on T +020 7332 3978 (24hr answerphone) or email cru [at] cityoflondon.gov.uk quoting reference BC476.
Minicom service for the hearing impaired available on T +020 7332 3732.
Closing date: 4pm on 7 November. Late applications will not be accepted.
Interviews will be held second half of November.
The Barbican is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
