INTERNATIONAL CURATORIAL COMPETITION
In partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery

Application deadline: Friday 4 September 2009, 1400 (GMT)

The Fifth Curator Competition is a unique new opportunity for an aspiring curator to select an exhibition of works from the British Council Collection. We are looking for someone who is based permanently outside the UK, who believes they have the passion and knowledge to be a leading curator.

The winning curator will be given unlimited access to the Collection, which includes over 8,500 key works of British art, and the resulting exhibition will be shown at the Whitechapel Gallery in the vibrant east end of London in April 2010.

The Fifth Curator exhibition will be the fifth and final exhibition in a series of five exhibitions showcasing the British Council Collection in the Whitechapel Gallery. Artist Michael Craig-Martin selected the first exhibition Passports: Great Early Buys from the British Council Collection, focusing on some of the most prescient acquisitions in the Collection’s long history.

For The Fifth Curator exhibition, aspiring curators from outside the United Kingdom are invited to submit an exhibition proposal which features works drawn exclusively from the British Council Collection. We particularly encourage new views and fresh perspectives on the Collection, as these are vital to ongoing debates about British art within an international context. The deadline for applications is 4 September 2009.

The Fifth Curator Competition coincides with the re-launch of the new British Council Collection website, which features details of each of the works in the Collection.

Full details of the competition, including how to apply, can be found on our web page: The Fifth Curator: International Curatorial Competition.

For further information, please contact:
Emma.Williams@britishcouncil.org

Good luck!