Art Fund Curators Programme at Frieze Masters

  • Contract
  • UK-wide

Art Fund


Job Summary

Together with Frieze and the National Gallery Subject Specialist Network: European Paintings pre-1900, Art Fund is offering 10 fully funded places for UK regional curators, alongside 5 international counterparts, to attend a 2 day programme exploring the subject of transhistorical exhibition making.

Job Description

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 Kroller-Muller’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

Deadline for applications

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

Job Requirements

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.

Job Overview

  • Job Title: Art Fund Curators Programme at Frieze Masters
  • Salary: Unpaid
  • Hours:
    Full time
  • Artform: Museums
  • Role: Curation
  • Contract: Temporary
  • Closing date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025

  • Location:

    UK-wide

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