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OnCurating Academy Berlin applications open
The OnCurating Academy Berlin invites applications for a one-year, part-time Postgraduate Programme in Curatorial Theory and Practice. It provides opportunities to engage with international institutions, collaborate across disciplines, and explore contemporary curating through a flexible, hybrid format—either remotely or on-site in Berlin at Radialsystem and ZK/U—Center for Art and Urbanistics. Apply to be part of the cohort 2026/2027 until July 31, 2026 11:59 pm CET here.
Info-events will be held via Zoom
Saturday March 21, 2026 (12–1pm CET) Register here. Sunday April 19, 2026 (3–4pm CET) Register here. Sunday May 17, 2026 (6–7pm CET) Register here.
The International English-speaking Postgraduate Programme on curatorial practice and theory offers hybrid learning opportunities—online or in Berlin.
The OnCurating Academy Berlin provides postgraduate and continuing education in an environment for critical curatorial thinking and new perspectives and formats of curatorial practices. Based on our activities as the OnCurating Journal, we offer an opportunity to deepen and share knowledge and to grow together into a lively community of aspiring curators, artists and art administrators. The programme focuses on cooperative, interdisciplinary working methods, as employed, for example, in film productions or non-government organisations. Exhibition-making/curating means the creation of innovative structures for the presentation of cultural artefacts through interdisciplinary collaboration. In this field, art, digital media, design and architecture intermesh in new ways.
OnCurating Academy has offered workshops and symposia with the HEK House of Electronic Arts Basel, documenta fifteen, Taipei Biennale, Bucharest Biennale, ARKO Seoul, Fridericianum Kassel, Kunstmuseum Basel, TBA21, Tai Kwun Museum Hong Kong, KW Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin, Zurich University of the Arts, University of Reading, ICA London, and many more.
Head of the programme: Prof. Dr. Dorothee Richter.
More information about educational programmes: curating.org. For enquiries, please contact info@curating.org. Subscribe to the newsletter for regular updates.
Upcoming talks on curatorial practice and theory in Berlin and beyond
On Curating Academy Berlin invites you to our public series of talks on curatorial practice in the summer semester 2026, starting again on March 20, 2026 on Fridays from 5–7pm CET in Berlin and on Zoom.
The series brings together key figures from Berlin’s art and discourse infrastructure, including Florian Wüst (artist, film curator, and publisher across major institutions, March 20, 2026, Register here), Mira Anneli Naß (University Bremen, March 27, 2026, Register here ), Leon Kahane (artist-researcher on politics, institutions, and border regimes, April 10, 2026, Register here), Hannah Kruse (Head, Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, April 17, 2026, Register here), Jonas Tinius (Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin, April 24, 2026, Register here), Nabi Nara (Founder/curator, SOMA Art Berlin, May 9, 2026, Register here), Solvej Helweg Ovesen (curator and cultural theorist working across exhibition-making and research, May 15, 2026, Register here) and , Kathleen Reinhardt (Director, Georg Kolbe Museum Berlin; curator of the German Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2026, May 29, 2026, Register here).
Join our workshops on curatorial practice
Curating and Money with Martin Fritz
April 25 and May 9, 2–6pm CET workshop. Enroll here.
This course provides comprehensive insight into the financial aspects of working as a curator. The curatorial profession encompasses a wide range of positions, each with its own economic implications. Some curators find stability working for public institutions, while others navigate the gig economy or establish their own galleries or art businesses.
Curating Performance/Performing Curation: Tendencies and Tactics
with Dr. Sarah Spiess
May 16 and May 30, 2–6pm CET Workshop. Enroll here.
The rise of performative formats across curated museum, gallery and research programmes demands a more nuanced understanding of the current interchange between performance, performance/live art and contemporary choreographic practice under the “new performance turn”. Drawing from the tendencies of curatorial frameworks that have excavated performance and choreographic practice since the early 21st Century—alongside seminal examples from the 1950’s onwards—this online course will focus on the expansive potential of performance as a mode of tactical production and performativity as a method of curatorial exchange.
Course content will highlight critical questions around the potential for performative curatorial activities to critique the systems that govern intimacy, embodiment, mediation, and spectatorship. The course will also provide a range of pertinent examples (both practical and conceptual) to advance more refined subject knowledge. Assignments are designed to support individual insights and future projects.
