/ecm 2024–26

//call for applications

Submission deadline: 2^nd April 2024

Admission seminars: 26^th April or 13^th May 2024

Engaged Curatorial Practice

How can museums change society? What consequences can curatorial actions have? Curators and educators, organizers and designers, artists and scholars today are looking for ways not only to critically analyze existing notions and narratives of exhibition-making but also to intervene in them and reformulate them through curatorial practices. The /ecm Study Program in Exhibition Theory and Practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna is a two-year, postgraduate program that provides comprehensive knowledge and skills in the expanded field of museums and exhibitions. In collaborative processes, we experiment with different methods of curatorial research, theory and practice. Thus, discourses, ruptures, and horizons emerge that challenge the canon, occupy exhibition spaces and the public sphere, and seek not only to digitize museums and collections but above all to democratize them.

Structure

We offer our program to a diverse group of max. 25 students. They may be anchored in institutions or freelancers in the art and culture sector; they deal with questions of display and presentation, education and communication, and have varied educational and professional backgrounds.

Designed to be pursued alongside professional commitments, it takes place over 4 semesters and includes a total of 22 modules, running from October 2024 to June 2026. The program offers two different paths:

a/ an associate Master’s degree program with a Master’s thesis, graduating with the academic title “Master of Arts (Continuing Education)” – abbreviated “MA (CE)”;
b/ a university course with a practice-based research project, graduating with the academic title “Academic Curator”.
Both options (a/ and b/) are offered concurrently as a joint educational program. The distinctions lie in the admission requirements and the associated format of the graduation assignment.

/ecm Directors team

Martina Griesser-Stermscheg, Christine Haupt-Stummer, Renate Höllwart, Beatrice Jaschke, Monika Sommer, Nora Sternfeld and Luisa Ziaja

Further information at www.ecm.ac.at

ecm@uni-ak.ac.at