What Does a Curator Do?

The word comes from the English "curator", the full name is "exhibition planner", which refers to professionals who are conceiving, organizing and managing art exhibition activities. In the Western context, "curator" usually refers to museums, galleries, etc A non-profit art institution is a professional who is responsible for research, storage and display of collections, or planning and organizing art exhibitions, which is also a permanent curator. The counterpart is "independent curator", which is usually translated as "independent curator" Or "independent curator." The Chinese word for "independent curator" means that an independent curator is different from a permanent curator in an art institution such as an art museum or museum, and certainly different from organizing a commercial art exhibition. Profitable gallerist or dealer.

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The emergence of curators is closely related to the establishment of western museums and art galleries. The English word "curator" was usually translated into "museum curator", "manager", or "guardian" in English-Chinese dictionaries. The most closely related to art is probably "museum curator". In fact, in the Western context, "curator" as the earliest and mainly refers to the professional staff responsible for research, storage and display of collections in the museum since the rise of private museums since the 16th century. In some cases, the curator may also be the director, and it is also responsible for the museum's administration, fundraising, and social relations. Later, as the number and importance of artworks in the collection increased, personnel dedicated to the research, storage, and display of the collection's art appeared. After the 17th century, private museums opened to the public. Museums often organize some special art exhibitions or exhibitions according to the times or themes, so early "curators" appeared. After the 18th century, many national museums appeared in Europe, America and other places, especially professional art museums or art galleries, such as the United Kingdom.

The word curator has flooded China. Who is the curator? It s the director, the producer, the nanny, the GPS, and the super-nanny or dad. Very versatile, however, there are thresholds for curators, and curators will also be adherents to the final standards and bottom line of art. No one can be a curator,

With the development of the domestic cultural industry in recent decades, the rise of the national curator industry can be traced back to the "eighth five-year art trend" in a strict sense. From 1985 to 1989, a number of concerns

As the development of foreign cultural industries has a history of hundreds of years, many well-known curators have emerged. The following is a list of curators who have a relatively global influence.

Achill Bonito Oliva

He is an Italian critic who became famous for launching the Italian Avant-garde Triple C in 1979. He was the chairman of the 45th Venice Biennale in 1993. With the help of Li Xianting, he selected Chinese artists, but he was only interested in political pop and cynical realism.

Vincenzo Sanford

He is the Chairman of the Italian Cultural Center. Since 1988, he has participated in the planning of the Venice Biennale and the Venice Film Festival. He has curated solo exhibitions of Rembrandt, Renoir, and Picasso. He said "curators are doing exhibitions to solve problems."

Shijo Nanjo

He is an independent Japanese curator and art critic and has curated Carnegie International Exhibition, Taipei Biennale, Sydney Biennale, and Yokohama Triennial. In 1995, he curated the "Extra-National Culture" exhibition at the Venice Biennale, and introduced two artists: except for Iranian-born Nashat, Cai Guoqiang.

Okuy Nwezzo

He is an American critic and a well-known curator active around the world. He is currently the dean and senior vice president of the San Francisco Art Institute. He is the artistic director of the 11th Kassel Documenta in Germany. In 2008, he curated the seventh Gwangju Biennale.

Daniel Birnbaum

He is the Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt and also the Director of the Academy's Portikus Gallery. Over the past ten years, from Turin, Italy to Yokohama, Japan, he has organized several large-scale exhibitions around the world. In 2009, at the age of 45, he became the youngest chief curator in the history of the Venice Biennale.

Robert Stowe: He is the Dean of the School of Art at Yale University and the curator of the 52nd Venice Biennale. He said that "the exhibition no longer inculcates any knowledge or truth to the audience as a mentor, but rather reveals itself to the audience without saying a word and obeys the judgment of aesthetic intuition.