Curating the status: a report on the CURATORIAL FUTURE TALKS 2017 – sharing curatorial practices in France and Belgium

Report
Kunstenpunt

Mélanie Berger, Work in progress, 2017

The Curatorial Future Talks 2017 are an initiative by C-E-A, organized in partnership with Flanders Arts Institute, ISELP, the Direction des Arts plastiques contemporains of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and 50° nord réseau transfrontalier d’art contemporain, during the Brussels Gallery Weekend in September 2017.

How do people become curators? How to define what curators are, or do? How does one transmit the discipline to future generations? How do curators engage with other collaborators, and what are the formal terms of engagement?