As the year as progressed at university, so I have evolved. My taste have changed as I have been introduced to more photographers and artists. This is normal for any sort of education. Therefore, my practice has changed and so have my ideas and outlook. I read this blog when I started and I was struck by how I have become more specific what I wanted to do when I leave in 2026. I now want to concentrate in working in a museum, historical society or gallery-depicting historical events. This marks a change when I started this years course where I wanted to teach.
Therefore, focusing on what links I need to create and researching the route into this avenue is important. Also. I need to focus on how to create a curation from an academic viewpoint. In researching this, I will refer to the website 4 ways to curate an art or photography exhibition like a pro! | theprintspace. This article looks at ways an art or photography exhibition can be created like a pro.
1. Themes or the concept behind your work is important and should be the guide to all the preparation you do as you are telling a narrative to the viewer. According to 4 ways to curate an art or photography exhibition like a pro! | theprintspace. "With themes, the possibilities are endless. For example, they can be social, political, philosophical, aesthetic by nature, or based around an art movement or medium. They could be more linear, such as the chronology or progression of the artist or artists, subject matter or body of work being shown. And narratives embedded in the curation can, for example, be linear, explicit, abstract, subliminal or non-existent"
2 Space is important in any work which is shown to the public. Space isn't just giving people room to view work, it allows the work to communicate to the viewer. The space available can guide the public through the works.
According to 4 ways to curate an art or photography exhibition like a pro! | theprintspace."Take two exhibitions held at the Hayward Gallery; Carsten Höller: Decision (2015/16), and Diane Arbus: In the beginning (2019). Carsten’s show was about perception and decision making which he incorporated into the space. At the start of the exhibition visitors were given a choice of two different entrances, which lead to separate routes through the gallery each with different choices and interactions along the way. Diane Arbus’ show was a collection of her early rare works presented in a more traditional layout. Each photograph was framed and hung on the wall with equal space and severity and there was one entrance and exit to the show. On both these occasions, the space was manipulated to guide the visitor through the exhibition in a way which mirrored the artist and their work. Had Carsten’s show been displayed in a ‘white cube’ setting the impact of the show would have been different. In contrast, the curation of Arbus’ exhibition was designed to put the focus purely on the content of the images" Space is also digital and has to be thought of in the same way as space in a galley. Different platforms show images differently. Take a website, this will show images often in isolation where Instagram will show them in a grid format. According to 4 ways to curate an art or photography exhibition like a pro! | theprintspace."This may mean you alter your sequence on Instagram to appeal to aesthetics. For example, photographer Benjamin Hardman who has over 600K followers told us that he uses social media as a “timeless portfolio as opposed to a day to day journal.” What’s important to Ben is how the images work visually together. “Perhaps I’ll have a summer image with a green mountain. I may have to wait until it’s surrounded by monochromatic images, snowy scenes. That green image could then slot into the grid so that it doesn’t clash with other colorful images.”
4 ways to curate an art or photography exhibition like a pro! | theprintspace
3 Presentation is everything when it comes to displaying your work. The technical understanding of presentation can lift the viewers understanding of the work and make the e4xperience enjoyable. According to 4 ways to curate an art or photography exhibition like a pro! | theprintspace "For example, Olafur Eliasson’s 2019 exhibition at the Tate Modern included interactive installations that used light, sound, shadows and reflections. One room was filled with a flavored mist to the point you could not see beyond 30cm in front of you. It was overwhelming. One of the themes of the work is sensory exploration, so the concept work itself goes hand-in-hand with the ways it is presented and the space it is presented in. There are many ways to make your work immersive or multi-sensory. For example, artist Tanya Houghton’s project ‘A Migrants tale’ is a 2017 series of photographs about the concept of home and nostalgia, told through the language of food. To coincide with the launch of this exhibition, Tanya organized a food events series of lunches or supper clubs. These were meals for up to 20 people inspired by one of Tanya’s migrant subjects and their memories of food from home. Through this sensory technique, Tanya was able to go beyond showing her project through images and instead allow people to experience it, through taste"
A way around this was created by artist Tanya Houghton’s project ‘A Migrants tale’ in 2017 where Tanya Houghton held food events to evoke memories of food from their homeland. This contributed to the success of her show.
4 Context A good example of reinforcing the context behind images is a caption which outlines the story behind the image. Better known as the who, what, where and why. With information supplied, there is no room for misunderstood. Alex Soths retrospective of work has a film on a loop to explain his works to the public.
"There are also less explicit ways of adding context, such as the common technique of guest essays found in photo-books. For example, Magnum photographer Alex Webb’s celebrated street photography book, Istanbul, leads with an essay written Orhan Pamuk. The essay is not about Webb’s work, but rather about Istanbul, the place, the smells, the culture, the history. It sets the scene for the work that follows, ultimately enhancing the curatorial experience. Other contextual things to consider may be the decision to show prices if the work is for sale, the time of the year you show the work if that has some contextual relationship with the content of the work, and whether an exhibition catalogue is required"
4 ways to curate an art or photography exhibition like a pro! | theprintspace
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