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MFA - Master of Fine Art
Goldsmiths Campus
Full Time
SEP-26
2 Years
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MFA - Master of Fine Art
Goldsmiths Campus
Full Time
SEP-26
2 Years
MFA - Master of Fine Art
Goldsmiths Campus
Part Time
SEP-26
4 Years
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The MFA Curating at Goldsmiths is designed for students who wish to take up the challenge of artistic, social and critical curating with a contemporary approach to the subject. It also helps students to develop their professional practice.You’ll get to explore curating from a contemporary perspective. We cover the subject from many different angles, including aesthetic, social, political and philosophical enquiries, practices and discourses relevant to present-day culture.You’ll learn about the history of curation through the study of the genealogies of curating as a discipline, but this degree is firmly focused on contemporary practices and the future of curation.The Masters provides a practice-led research context for aspiring curators, cultural organisers and producers. It’s also open to creative practitioners at an early stage of their professional development, and professionals looking to take a different route in their career in the arts sector.The programme is interdisciplinary and promotes the principles of critical thinking, listening and collaboration. This will help you develop the style and area of curatorial practice that you want to pursue. Whether exhibition-making, public programming, commissioning social or public projects, or working with artists and practitioners from other disciplines, the degree will give you the skills and confidence to take your next steps into the professional world of curating.This is a leading programme in its field. It’s recognised worldwide for producing highly qualified curators and arts professionals, as well as those pursuing further academic study at PhD level.
You must have or expect to be awarded an undergraduate degree of at least second class standard (or international equivalent), plus an element of professional experience (interning in a gallery or equivalent institution, curating your own shows or degree shows etc). This experience is absolutely essential to demonstrate that you have a clear sense of current trends and activities in contemporary art. This experience should be expanded upon in your personal statement. Applicants for entry directly onto Year Two
You must have already completed and passed the coursework of one year for an equivalent Masters programme in Curating. You must also show through interview and (where appropriate) portfolio that you have established a professional practice. This experience should be expanded upon in your personal statement.
Students living in
Domestic
£11,250 per year
Students from Domestic
Accommodation - Budget - GBP 158 - GBP 337 per week.
£27,200 per year
Students from EU
Accommodation - Budget - GBP 158 - GBP 337 per week.
£27,200 per year
Students from International
Accommodation - Budget - GBP 158 - GBP 337 per week.
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