CuratorLab 2025/2026 proposes an observation of curatorial practice through a series of gatherings, meetings, workshop situations, project production, historical writing and experimentation. Participants of CuratorLab develop their own projects in close dialogue with the rest of participants, meeting professionals and observing key examples of curatorial thinking.

Two strands of thought will be offered as a system to rethink curatorial practice: Platforms and Performativity. The idea of platform will be analysed critically to reconsider curatorial work and its form of production and presentation. In dialogue with Pontus Pettersson, CuratorLab participants will consider the idea of performativity and how to understand choreographic practices from a curatorial position.

Curatorial course in the faculty of arts at the @konstfack university of arts, crafts and design in Stockholm.

With invited talks from: Lua Vollard, Claudia Pagés, Filipa Ramos, Andrea Lissoni, Michelangelo Miccolis, Hendrik Folkerts, Johanna Furst, Anna Efraimsson @annaefraimsson and Stiftelsen filmform

Taught seminars related to platforms, performativity, the cultural economy, symbolic value, lies, queering the museum space, amongst other topics.

The strands of thought around Platforms and Performativity will be accompanied by meetings with professionals, institutions and historical observations of curatorial practice. The course is directed by Marti Manen with the collaboration of guest lecturers Carmen Lael Hines and Pontus Pettersson