Students of the Fine Arts department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, who are in their last year of education, will take up residence at m4gastatelier in the framework of the course ‘Curatorial Practice’. During one week small groups build up an exhibition, which is critically viewed and discussed with their fellow students and mentors. Due to its experimental status, it is only accessible to a small selected audience afterwards.

Curatorial Practice is a method of collaboration and communication. A togetherness of 4 or 5 voices and approaches, creating one - resulting in one agreement on strategy, platform and display. Key words are presentation, the mental architecture in between works, curatorial thinking and conceptual surplus. If we see sharing thoughts, ideas and imagery to a small community as crucial, this can be an important part of our artistic survival. 

Presenting work is a contextual and relational matter. This is inherent in the agreement in which we build a set, a display of temporary nature in which works begin a dialogue with scale, atmosphere, meaning and the significance of both the place, the other works and the viewer within that space.

We construct new phrases.