Posted by Rosie Jennings on May 14th, 2025.
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Frieze Masters, London
Thursday 16–Friday 17 October 2025
Deadline to apply: Friday 11 July, 17:00 BST
Together with Frieze and the National Gallery Subject Specialist Network: European Paintings pre-1900, Art Fund is delighted to offer 10 fully funded places for UK regional curators, alongside 5 international counterparts, to attend a two-day programme exploring the subject of transhistorical exhibition making.
Working in partnership with the SSN for European Paintings pre-1900 and The National Gallery, through the Frieze Masters programme we’re aiming to bring together a cohort of emerging career curators from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds to explore the subject of transhistorical exhibition making (across historical time periods, both historic and contemporary).
The programme will be led by Dr Jennifer Sliwka, Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum and Professorial Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford and will include:
- online pre-programme seminar and introduction to the Art market session
- introduction and access to Radical Harmony Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists exhibition at the National Gallery
- keynote speaker in-conversation (Dr. Aimee Ng, John Updike Curator, The Frick Collection)
- curators’ workshop
- tours of Frieze Masters
- Invitation to alumni event
- invitation to join the “Unexpected View” event at The National Gallery
- feedback meeting with the curators
- access to Frieze London and Frieze Masters
Deadline for applications
The deadline to apply is Friday 11 July, 17:00 BST.
What we can fund
10 bursary places are available for UK museum and gallery professionals. Travel, 2 nights’ accommodation and refreshments will be provided.
Please note, when completing the budget information, you need only to input travel costs and a per diem of £25. Frieze will be supporting the accommodation (two nights) and refreshments (breakfast and lunch) will be provided.
Who can apply
Applications are open to all museum and gallery curatorial professionals who work with public collections. Through the programme we’re aiming to bring together a cohort of emerging career curators from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds and who often do not have the travel budgets that allow for easy exchange with their national and international counterparts.
We do not offer funding under this programme in the following instances:
- Organisations that exist to make a profit, including Private Limited Companies, Public Limited Companies, Unlimited Companies, or Sole Traders
- General Partnerships, Limited Partnerships, or Limited Liability Partnerships
How to apply
Please ensure that you meet the eligibility criteria and review the full terms before submitting your application.
