Qatar Museums Authority and Fondazione Prada
global curating prize open for entry
Curate, a global competition organized by Qatar Museums Authority and Fondazione Prada to find new curating talent is accepting entries online on www.curateaward.org until 31 December 2013.
Curate opens up and challenges people’s ideas of what an exhibition can be. It will provide one winner with the unprecedented opportunity to curate the exhibition of their dreams.
A world-renowned Jury will judge ideas on their creativity and social significance, rewarding those with a contemporary and culturally relevant point of view. They will be looking for an exemplary exhibition that is both far-sighted and critical to the future. Participation in the competition is not limited to aspiring or established curators, but is open to anyone with a great concept for creative expression, with the emphasis on encouraging young people to compete, whether as individuals or as collaborative groups.
Twenty finalists will be selected by the Jury, and will be showcased on the Curate website. The winner will be announced in Spring 2014.
The Jury is: Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani, Chairperson, Qatar Museums Authority; Miuccia Prada, President, Fondazione Prada; Rem Koolhaas, architect, urban theorist, OMA/AMO founder; Nadine Labaki, Lebanese film-maker and actress; Nawal El Moutawakel, the first woman from a Muslim majority Country to win an Olympic gold medal; and Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-director, Serpentine Gallery, London.
Proposals can be uploaded to the Curate website for consideration by the Jury. The format of the proposal should be a self-made video no longer than two minutes in length, with a one page accompanying text explaining the idea.
As stated by the Curate Jury: “The notion of ‘curating’ no longer belongs just to the museum. With the development of digital and social media, it has now become possible for anyone to participate in the selection, editing and communication of ideas. We hope that people, whatever their age or background, will make the most of the opportunity offered by Curate to think about the future potential of exhibition making, where there are no imposed boundaries to media, scale, content and formats, and ideas, whether from the fields of science or the arts, can come from anywhere.”
CURATE VIDEO: www.curateaward.org
CURATE KEY DATES:
Applications close: 12.00 GMT Tuesday 31 December 2013
Finalists announced: Spring 2014 / Winner announced: April 2014
To enter, upload a video and a one page document that explains your concept to Curate website on www.curateaward.org. The video must be no longer than two minutes and no bigger than 250MB. Supported formats include .mov .mp4 .avi .wmv and .flv. The one page document should be no longer than 500 words and include: statement of intent and list of materials/works used in your exhibition. Supported formats include .doc .docx .txt .pdf.
The Jury
H.E. Sheikha Al Mayassa
Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has played a pioneering role in the fields of culture, education and outreach, spearheading and supporting a number of local and international organisations. As the Chairperson of the Qatar Museums Authority Board of Trustees, H.E. Sheikha Al Mayassa guides the vision for future museums and cultural projects, with the aim of transforming the State of Qatar into a leading centre of culture and education for its region and the world. The Museum of Islamic Art, the flagship project of the QMA, embodies Her Excellency’s vision of bridging East and West, as well as past and present. In addition to her work on cultural initiatives, H.E. Sheikha Al Mayassa is also the Chairperson of Doha Film Institute and of Reach Out To Asia (ROTA), a philanthropic non-governmental organisation that is dedicated to assisting the victims of recent natural disasters, as well as aiming to improve the quality of primary and secondary education in Asia.
Miuccia Prada
Attracted by the challenges of contemporary art and culture and animated by a profound passion for her work, fashion designer Miuccia Prada has been leading the Fondazione Prada for the past twenty years. Together with her husband Patrizo Bertelli she has shaped the foundation’s rich agenda, ranging from international art projects to cinema, philosophy and architecture. Desirous to further expand its radius of activity, Miuccia Prada is currently working on the Fondazione Prada’s new exhibition venues in Milan and Venice.
Rem Koolhaas
Rem Koolhaas is the founding partner of The Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). His work as an architect, theorist, urbanist and professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design led to him being named one of the World’s Most Influential People by Time in 2008. He also heads AMO, the research brand of OMA, operating in areas such as media, politics, renewable energy and fashion. In 2000, he won the Pritzker Prize and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Lion at the 2010 Venice Biennale.
Nadine Labaki
Nadine Labaki is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers and actresses of her generation in the Arab world, known for tearing down stereotypes, and touching on fundamental issues in humorous and poetic ways. Her first feature film, Caramel, premiered at Cannes in 2007 and put her on the 10 Directors to Watch list at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2008, she was awarded the insignia of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. Her second feature, Where Do We Go Now? was an international success, collecting awards around the world and a nomination for best foreign film at the Critics Choice Awards.
Nawal El Moutawakel
Nawal El Moutawakel was the first women from a Muslim majority country to win an Olympic gold medal and is renowned for her work championing female athletes all over the world. Hailing from Casablanca, Nawal’s win in the women’s 400m hurdles at the 1984 Olympics heralded a breakthrough for sporting women in Muslim countries. In 1933 she started Courir pour le plaisir, a 5km run that has become the biggest women’s race held in a Muslim country. Since 2007, she has been the Moroccan Minister of Youth and Sports. A Vice President of International Olympic Committee, Nawal was the Chair of the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games Evaluation Commission and holds a place in the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
A contemporary art curator, critic and art historian, Hans-Ulrich Obrist is currently Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London. He is author of The Interview Project (an extensive ongoing project of interviews) and initiator of the Marathon series (public events that have so far included interviews, experiments, manifestos and poetry). An advocate and archivist for artists, he was named 2009’s Most Powerful Person in Art by Art Review. That same year he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
The Founders
Qatar Museums Authority
Under the patronage of His Highness the Emir, Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) is securing the country’s position as a leading centre of culture and education. Led by Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, QMA seeks to engage and connect diverse audiences with a programme that welcomes the world to Doha. Since its establishment in 2005, QMA has preserved and protected historic sites, monuments and artefacts.
The 2008 opening of I.M. Pei’s landmark Museum of Islamic Art provided a space to create dialogue and education around the collections. In 2010, the opening of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern, offered a unique Arab perspective on modern and contemporary art. The construction of the new National Museum of Qatar, designed by Jean Nouvel and due to open in 2014, further demonstrates this vision and cultural commitment.
Fondazione Prada
Fondazione Prada, co-chaired by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli since 1995, is an institution dedicated to contemporary art and culture. Its cutting-edge exhibitions conceived in dialogue with major contemporary artists like Louise Bourgeois, Walter De Maria, Thomas Demand and John Baldessari, as well as other cultural activities related to cinema, philosophy, and architecture, have enjoyed a wide international consensus. Special international projects included Carsten Höller’s Double Club in London, the Prada Transformer in Seoul by OMA and Franceso Vezzoli’s 24h Museum at the Palais d’Iéna in Paris.
In 2011 the Fondazione Prada opened a new exhibition space in Venice, Ca’ Corner della Regina, an historic palazzo on the Grand Canal, which is going to be restored over the next few years with the goal of offering a stimulating cultural programme. A keynote of the architectural programme is the Fondazione Prada’s new exhibition space in Milan designed by Rem Koolhaas, to be unveiled in 2015
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