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Art Fund Curators Programme at Frieze Masters

Together with Frieze and the National Gallery Subject Specialist Network: European Paintings pre-1900, Art Fund is delighted to offer 10 fully funded places for UK regional curators to attend a two-day programme exploring the subject of transhistorical exhibition making.

Application deadline: Friday 11 July, 5pm

Together with Frieze and the National Gallery Subject Specialist Network: European Paintings pre-1900, Art Fund is delighted to offer 10 fully funded places for UK regional curators, alongside 5 international counterparts, to attend a two-day programme exploring the subject of transhistorical exhibition making.

Working in partnership with the SSN for European Paintings pre-1900 and The National Gallery, through the Frieze Masters programme we’re aiming to bring together a cohort of emerging career curators from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds to explore the subject of transhistorical exhibition making (across historical time periods, both historic and contemporary).

The programme will be led by Dr Jennifer Sliwka, Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum and Professorial Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford and will include:

  • online pre-programme seminar and introduction to the Art market session 

  • introduction and access to Radical Harmony Helene Kröller-Müller's Neo-Impressionists exhibition at the National Gallery

  • keynote speaker in-conversation (Dr. Aimee Ng, John Updike Curator, The Frick Collection) 

  • curators’ workshop 

  • tours of Frieze Masters 

  • Invitation to alumni event 

  • invitation to join the "Unexpected View" event at The National Gallery 

  • feedback meeting with the curators 

  • access to Frieze London and Frieze Masters 

Art Fund Curators Programme at Frieze Masters takes place at Regents Park, London, on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 October.

When considering your application, we encourage to undertake your journey in the most environmentally sustainable way possible. Please read our Green Travel Policy for applicants and awardees when planning your travel. For additional resources and support to reduce the environmental impacts of travel, please visit the Gallery Climate Coalition's Climate Conscious Travel page.

What we can fund

10 bursary places are available for UK museum and gallery professionals. Travel, 2 nights’ accommodation and refreshments will be provided. 

Please note, when completing the budget information, you need only to input travel costs and a per diem of £25. Frieze will be supporting the accommodation (two nights) and refreshments (breakfast and lunch) will be provided. 

Who can apply

Applications are open to all museum and gallery curatorial professionals who work with public collections. 

Through the programme we’re aiming to bring together a cohort of emerging career curators from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds and who often do not have the travel budgets that allow for easy exchange with their national and international counterparts. 

Key dates

The deadline to apply is Friday 11 July, 5pm.

This programme at Frieze Masters takes place on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 October.

How to apply

Your application

Get in touch

If you haven’t found what you need in the information on this page, get in touch with Robert Dingle, Senior Programme Manager, rdingle@artfund.org

Submit your application

Please ensure that you meet the eligibility criteria and review the full terms before submitting your application. To submit your application, please complete the application form (Word) and email to Robert Dingle (rdingle@artfund.org).

Submit your EDI form

We are committed to representation from diverse backgrounds and experiences across the UK, valuing difference and diversity within the museum sector. We encourage applications from all races, ages, religions and sexual orientations, as well as parents, veterans, people living with any kind of disabilities and any other minority groups.  

Please fill out our equality, diversity and inclusion form as part of your application. This monitoring form is voluntary but the information we collect here helps us ensure that we are inclusive. Please be assured that this information is confidential and will only ever be processed or analysed on an anonymous basis. 

After you've applied

Claim your grant

If your application is successful, Frieze will be in touch to confirm your accommodation details and to reimburse you your travel expenses.