The Instituto de Arte Contemporânea e Jardim Botânico (Inhotim) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and the Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York City, announced the opening of a call for international curators. Winners will participate in an intensive seven-day long curatorship competition in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, from April 22 through the 29 of this year. The deadline to submit applications is February 15. The jury will select 10 to 14 candidates from around the world who presently work as curators. Candidates must submit a description of the curatorship project each wishes to develop through the program, along with a résumé, a description of a recent exhibition that has made an impact on the applicant, and a cover letter. Applicants must also demonstrate a minimum of five-years of curatorial experience in order to be considered for the program. The program fee is 2,000.00 USD and the candidates selected will be responsible for covering flight and accommodation costs. Scholarships awarded on the base of merit will cover or subsidize flight costs and the program fees. For more information, and to request the application forms, visit the ICI homepage at
www.curatorsintl.org, or contact Chelsea Haines at
Chelsea@curatorsintl.org or call 1-212-254-8200, ext. 126. Organizers will first consider artists who have produced works at Inhotim, and will offer public panel discussions and close-door seminars on the important role of context in the essence of the work. Participating members of the faculty include Kate Fowle (Director, ICI); James Lingwood (Co-Director, Artangel), Rodrigo Moura (Curator, Inhotim); independent curators Victoria Noorthoorn and Adriano Pedrosa, Allan Schwartzman (Chief Curator, Inhotim), and Jochen Volz (Artistic Director, Inhotim). The curatorial intensive curse is a short-term program offered by ICI. It is aimed at offering curators, artists, and organizations, a space in which to develop ideas and to establish international networks among professionals working in various fields. The program is offered twice a year in New York and in other places through institutional partnerships, in this instance, with the Instituto Inhotim in Belo Horizonte. This institution is a unique space that offers a wide-ranging selection of artworks exhibited indoors and outdoors and in both temporal and permanent galleries located inside a botanical garden. The art collection is comprised of over 500 works by renowned national and international artists such as Adriana Varejão, Helio Oiticica, Cildo Meireles, Chris Burden, Matthew Barney, Doug Aitken, and Janet Cardiff, among others. Inhotim distinguishes itself from other museums by offering artists the opportunity to create their work inside the unique environment offered by the park. Additionally, this institution participates in research projects centered on the environment, organizes important academic programs, offers social inclusion, and welcomes public participation at the local level. More information about Inhotim is available at
www.inhotim.org.br . The program will use the Instituto Inhotim as a vehicle to explore the manner in which curatorial practices address issues associated with the adaptation of site-specific works and/or commissioning; the interpretation and recreation of lost or unrealized projects; the concepts of the expanded museum and the exhibition, manifested in the curatorship through the building of a collection; the spatial expansion of institutions; as well as new forms of establishing and developing conversations with the public.