Final call for the CAS in Curating

CAS in Curating is a one year, part-time, international programme on curatorial practice and theory offered by OnCurating Academy Berlin, conducted in English. See info and apply here.

Head of the Programme: Prof. Dr. Dorothee Richter / Start: October 9, 2026 / Application Deadline: July 31, 2026

CAS in Curating
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 platform, we offer an opportunity to deepen and share knowledge and to grow together into a lively community.

Modules
M1 Project Work / M2 Historical Perspectives on Curatorial and Artistic Practices / M3 Contemporary Discourse in Exhibition making / M4 Academic Writing, Curatorial Writing / M5 Mentoring / M6 Curating and Publishing / M7 Curatorial Theory and Cultural Theory / M8 Digital Media / M9 Excursions and Study Groups

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.

In terms of content, our topics and projects are closely related to the knowledge that is discussed on the OnCurating platform: the ever-evolving topics revolve around collective forms of curating, based on situated knowledges, on decolonising art institutions and on digital media and curating diversity, queer curating and curating through a feminist perspective, as well as urban and environmental developments reflected by curatorial practice and theory.

Next events 
September 17, HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2pm: Curatorial Research Presented by Doctoral Students of the PhD in Curating at the University of Reading. 7pm: Launch of OnCurating 65 “if walls could tell—East-Central European Perspectives on Participation”, eds. Zoran Erić, Mischa Kuball, Dorothee Richter and Simone Voigt

OnCurating Cooperations
OnCurating has offered workshops and symposia with the documenta fifteen, the Taipei Biennale, the 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, House of Electronic Art Basel and many more. ZK/U took part as lumbung members in the documenta fifteen and at the Berlin Biennale, and they are continuously engaged with urbanism and art. ZK/U and Radialsystem are part of the vibrant art scene of Berlin, with residencies, studios and exhibition and event spaces.

Note
English-language skills are required for classes. Papers can be written in German or English. You can find additional information on the study programme and conditions of admission here: curating.org. For enquiries, please contact info@curating.org.

OnCurating Academy Berlin at ZK/U and at Radialsystem Berlin: 
ZK/U, Siemensstraße 27, Berlin 10551 
Radialsystem Berlin, Holzmarktstrasse 33, 10243 Berlin.

Contact: info@curating.org / website.