Frame is seeking candidates for two fellowships in 2023–2024: the Curating with Pasts fellowship hosted by the Queens Museum in New York City, and Soils, organised with Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. Both fellowships involve 4 months of work time, between autumn 2023 and spring 2024.
The Frame Curatorial Research Fellowships offer support for developing new curatorial research practices and cultivating active practices embedded in an organisational context. It explores what kind of curatorial research is needed in order to imagine new ways of presenting and mediating contemporary art and cultural production in forms inseparable from daily life, politics and the policies of artists and institutions.
The Curating with Pasts fellowship hosted by Frame Contemporary Art Finland and the Queens Museum in New York City, looks into different cultural and geopolitical pasts as well as material realities as a point of departure for curatorial research and artistic imaginaries. The fellowship rethinks how historical shifts between the New York World Fairs’ cultural exchange (1939–40 and 1964–65), Cold War dichotomies, and 90s globalisation can resonate with and inform artistic, curatorial and institutional practices today.
The Soils Fellowship is hosted by Frame Contemporary Art Finland and Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The Soils Fellowship involves a focus on a long-term research and exhibition project that will have its Dutch public presentation starting in June 2024. The project is a collaboration with TarraWarra Museum of Art in Healesville (exhibition opening in August 2023), Australia and Struggles for Sovereignty based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (festival opening in 2025).
The Fellowships include:
- Support for the research and introduction to the partners’ contexts.
- 12,000 EUR working grant for 4 months for each fellow between Autumn 2023 and Spring 2024.
- Two to three research visits hosted by Frame and the collaborating partner.
- Small production budget to present the research, in the form of e.g. seminar, talk or text.
