Exhibition Thinking
Undergraduate course
- ECTS credits
- 10
- Teaching semesters Autumn
- Course code
- PRO227
- Number of semesters
- 1
- Teaching language
- English and Norwegian
- Resources
- Schedule
Course description
Supplementary semester information
Objectives and Content
This is a project-based module with a focus on the exhibition as form, exploring topics such as exhibition histories and contexts, presentation tools and processes, production and mediation, and the relationship between individual artworks and exhibition frameworks.
PRO modules are designed to enrich your artist development (as explored in the ART modules) through activating skills, connecting communities of practice, and investigating disciplinary territories. PRO modules allow you to focus on a specific project critically connected to your own practice within a context established by the module leader(s).
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
- Develop awareness of the history and political contexts of art exhibitions
Skills
- Explore and analyze approaches to the creation and mediation of exhibitions
- Enhance and broaden your own skills and methods through project development
General Competence
- Identify your own learning needs in relation to the subject area(s)
- Develop and present a proposal or model for a speculative exhibition.
Level of Study
Semester of Instruction
Place of Instruction
Required Previous Knowledge
Recommended Previous Knowledge
Access to the Course
Teaching and learning methods
Methods may include:
- Project development
- Individual research
- Group work
- Lectures
- Presentations
- Group discussions
- Tutorials
- Assigned readings
- Writing exercises
- Workshop-based instruction
See info text above for semester-specific details.
Compulsory Assignments and Attendance
Forms of Assessment
Submission of artwork(s), either physical or digital, as assigned by the module leader.
Assessment criteria:
Research
Subject knowledge
Experimentation
Realization
Collaborative and independent work