Exhibition Curator: Requirements

Exhibition Curator (Expert in Planning, Installation and Management of Artistic Exhibition Events): Reference scheme

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Scheme C) Unregulated profession built without regulatory references.

The reference scheme is based on the 'modelSkills Cycle' and is in line with the 'Tourism, Arts, Heritage Competence Framework (TAH-CF)'. the TAH-CF is defined in accordance with the European Qualifications Framework (EQF), the Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council 2009/C 155/02 (ECVET) and the APNR (Non-Regulated Professional Activities) scheme adopted by UNI for the technical standardization of unregulated professions.”

Description

PAS60: Exhibition Curator (Expert in Design, Setup and Management of Exhibition Events) (VI Level EQF)

The Exhibition Curator, also known as an Expert in Design, Setup and Management of Artistic Exhibition Events, is a professional figure, with a high intellectual content, specialized in the creation and organization of artistic and cultural exhibitions. Collaborating closely with artists, collectors, cultural institutions, museums and galleries, the Exhibition Curator is committed to transforming each exhibition into a meaningful and culturally enriching experience for visitors. This role implies a deep knowledge of the artistic and cultural sector, as well as specific skills in the design of exhibition spaces, in the selection and interpretation of works, in the logistical management of the event and in communication with the public and stakeholders.

This figure can practice his profession both within public and private bodies, museums and galleries as an employee, as an independent consultant or simply as curator of his own exhibitions.

Standards of Reference

European Qualification Framework (EQF)
Recommendation 2009 / C 155/02 (European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training - ECVET)
Law 4/2013 relating to non-regulated professions

Specific tasks and activities

Description of tasks

Fundamental tasks and specific activities

T1: Identify the purpose, theme and objectives of the event
T2: Analyze the Reference Context
- T2.1 Identify and Analyze the relevant Artistic Heritage
- T2.2 Identify and Analyze sector legislation
- T2.3 Identify and analyze stakeholders (who are the interested parties)
- T2.4: Evaluate visitor expectations
- T2.5 Carry out the Feasibility Analysis of the Event
T3: Design the event
T4: Communicate the event
T5: Realize the event
- T5.1: Plan activities
- T5.2: Define internal procedures and regulations
- T5.3: Managing economic resources (budget)
- T5.4: Coordinate human resources (staff)
- T5.5: Open the event and ensure its correct execution
- T5.6: Verify and check compliance with applicable current legislation
- T.5.7: Event closure
- T5.8: Monitor the quality of the event
T6: Improve events (continuous improvement)

Optional tasks

T7: Organize educational exhibition events
T8: Interface in a foreign language based on the territorial reference target of visitors

Skills, Knowledge and Autonomy and Responsibility (Skills)

Note: The competences necessary for a profession, which include skills and knowledge, constitute a dynamic whole. These may vary depending on specific territorial contexts and are subject to changes over time due to factors such as technological evolution or other sectoral developments. Therefore, the examples of skills and knowledge presented here are to be considered purely indicative and not exhaustive, and will be subjected to constant revisions and updates.

Task T1: Identify the purpose, theme and objectives of the event

Ability

SP70: Identify goals and objectives of the event
SP127: Identify and apply the principles of the thematic approach to events

Additional required knowledge:

KS109: Events: Classification and basic concepts
KS183: Characteristics of Exhibition Events
KS369: Principles of thematic approach applied to events

Task T2: Analyze the Reference Context

Business: T2.1 Identify and Analyze the relevant Artistic Heritage

Ability

SP129: Artistic Heritage relevant to the exhibition event (Identify, analyse, document, relate, contextualise, develop artistic-comparative relationships)
SP130: Identify and analyze contemporary artistic practices and current trends in the art world.
SP131: Analyze and Interpret the Works covered by the exhibition event

Based on the type of exhibition event, the general skills indicated must be particularly in-depth in the specific sector to which they belong which can be, for example: Identifying, analysing, documenting, relating, contextualising, developing artistic-comparative relationships, identifying the relevance and l the artistic field of origin of the works involved in the exhibition event.

Additional required knowledge:

KS371: History of art: Art eras, movements and styles.
KS372: Art Theory and Interpretations: Major art theorists, their Interpretations
KS373: Theory and Interpretations of Art: Interpretation of Artistic Movements.
KS236: Museology and New Museology
KS237: Ecomuseology

The knowledge in Art History required for an Exhibition Curator should be particularly detailed and in-depth in relation to the periods, movements and works that are at the center of the exhibition event. This specialized knowledge is essential to ensure accurate interpretation and contextually relevant presentation of the exhibited works. In the event of gaps in specific thematic areas, it is advisable for the curator to undertake a period of intensive study to fill these gaps and enrich his or her expertise in the field. Below is an illustrative and non-exhaustive list of knowledge.

KS310 History of Art in relation to Historic Artistic Heritage
KS311: History of Art in relation to the Archaeological Heritage
KS315: History of Religious Art
KS374: History of Modern and Contemporary Art
KS375: History of Renaissance Art
KS376: History of Baroque and Rococo Art
KS377: History of Asian Art
KS378: History of African Art
KS379: History of Pre-Columbian Art
KS380: History of Byzantine and Medieval Art
KS381: History of Avant-garde Art
KS382: History of Landscape Art
KS383: History of Feminist Art
KS384: History of Art and Architecture
KS385: History of Art and Photography
KS386: History of Ancient Egyptian Art
KS387: History of Greek and Roman Art
KS388: History of the Art of India
KS389: History of Islamic Art
KS390: History of Far Eastern Art
KS391: History of Native American Art
KS392: History of Oceanic Art
KS393: History of Northern Renaissance Art
KS394: History of Surrealist Art
KS395: Art History of Art Nouveau and Art Deco
KS396: History of Art and Industrial Design
KS397: History of Environmental Art
KS397: History of the Art of Performance
KS399: History of Art and Technology:
KS400: History of Art and Film
KS401: History of Art and Fashion

Business: T2.2 Identify and Analyze sector legislation

Ability

SQ1: Analysis skills
SP1: Identify and evaluate the applicability of the rules for the protection and use of the Cultural and Landscape Heritage
SP2: Identify and evaluate the applicability of the legislation on safety in the workplace with relevance to its reference sector
SP3: Evaluate the applicability of funding for the sector supply chain
SP22: Identify and evaluate the applicability of Sector Policies
SP25: Evaluating the applicability of Programs, Conventions and Institutional Acknowledgments
SP42: Verify the correct application of the legislation on privacy
SP132: Identify and analyze legislation on permits and authorization for events
SP133: Identify and analyze legislation regarding sustainable events

Additional required knowledge:

KS39: The legislation for the protection and use of Cultural Heritage
KS47: The legislation on privacy and the tourism sector
KS49: The legislation on safety in the workplace in the tourism sector
KS50: Funding for the Tourism and Cultural Sector
KS52: Consumer protection legislation
KS188: The legislation relating to Authorizations and Permits regarding events
KS111: Sustainability of Events

Activity: T2.3 Identify and analyze stakeholders (who are the interested parties)

Ability

SQ1: Analysis skills
SP24: Identify the Strategic Stakeholders

Additional required knowledge:

KS27: Local tourism systems
KS28: Institutions and tourism promotion
KS24: Destination Management Organization (DMO)
KS92: Supervisory and protection bodies
KS121: Relations with institutions

Activity: T2.4 Evaluate visitor expectations

Ability

SQ1: Analysis skills
SQ2: Ability to synthesize
SQ10: Analyzing the explicit, implicit and binding requirements of users
SP15: Analyze event demand

Additional required knowledge:

KQ2: Quality Management - Factors, indicators and standards of quality in services
KS29: Tourism Marketing
KQ33: Quality Management - Stakeholder Requirements Analysis
KS183: Characteristics of Events
KS91: Theories and Models of Experiences
KS93: Characteristics of Experiences

T2.5 Carry out the Feasibility Analysis of the Event

Ability

SQ1: Analysis skills
SP13: Analyzing and evaluating the territorial context to identify strengths and weaknesses
SP16: Perform SWOT Analysis
ST13: Identify and apply the contractual instruments and models

Additional required knowledge:

KS96: Management costs
KS99 Risk Management
KT4: Risk management techniques and methodologies
KT13: Contracts

Task T3: Plan the event

Ability

SQ1: Analysis skills
SQ5: Planning skills
SQ6: Programming skills
SQ11 Design processes and services
SQ12: Implement, document and classify core processes
SQ14: Propose process changes to facilitate and rationalize improvements
SQ18: Identify, understand and evaluate quality factors, indicators and standards
SP17: Contribute to the development of the cultural offer (event)
ST16: Identify and apply the Corporate Organizational Models

Additional required knowledge:

KQ11: Quality Management – Design and development
KS91: Theories and Models of Experiences
KS93: Characteristics of Experiences
KS95: Designing Experiences
KS110: Events: The Location
KS111: Sustainability of Events
KS185: Event Planning
KS188: The legislation relating to Authorizations and Permits regarding events
KS216: Principles of Sustainable Development
KS236: Museology, Museography and New Museology
KS237: Ecomuseology
KS252: Design and implementation of exhibition events
KS266: Event design techniques and methodologies
KS370: Principles of the aesthetic approach applied to events
KS402: Cultural Exhibition Experience
KS403: Immersive Art Experience
KS404: Museum/Ecomuseum Experience
KT5: Basic IT and telematic tools
KT16: Corporate Organizational Models

Task T4: Communicate the event

Ability

SP8: Develop a Communication Plan for the reference sector
SP11: Identify the web technologies to be used for tourism marketing
ST1: Ability to communicate
ST6: Identify and apply IT tools for communication
SP12: Identify web technologies to be used for event marketing

Additional required knowledge:

KQ34: Quality Management - Internal and external communication
KS30: Tourism and Communication
KS31: The Communication Plan
KS32: Online Marketing and Promotion
KS33: Web Marketing Techniques
KS34: Social Marketing
KS100: Information technology for communication
KS105: Communication styles and effective communication
KS121: Relations with institutions
KT27: IT tools for communication
KT28: Videoconferences and Webinairs

Task T5: Carry out the event

Activities: T5.1: Plan activities

Ability

SQ3: Organizational skills
SQ5: Planning skills
SQ7: Ability to produce improvement plans
SP38: Apply set-up techniques for relevant exhibition events
SP40: Knowing how to organize the spaces where the services and their offers are made
SP42: Knowing how to organize the location and the "staging" of the event

Additional required knowledge:

KQ7: Quality Management - Planning and monitoring of the service
KQ8: Quality Management - The procurement system
KS110: Events: The Location
KS186: Event Planning
KS102: Theater as a model for staging experiential events
KQ26: Quality Management – Event quality standards

Activity: T5.2: Define internal procedures and regulations

Ability

SQ3: Organizational skills
SQ13: Implementing Procedures and Operating Instructions for Quality

Additional required knowledge:

KQ4: Quality Management - System Documentation; the Manual; Procedures and Operating Instructions;
KS101: Basic IT and Telematics

Activity: T5.3: Managing economic resources

Ability

ST9: Use corporate accounting and administration tools
ST20: Identify and apply reporting tools

Additional required knowledge:

KQ8: Quality Management - The procurement system
KS96: Management costs
KT21: Reporting tools and procedures

Activity: T5.4: Coordinate human resources

Ability

SQ3: Organizational skills
SQ4: Ability to control
SQ9: Identify skills gaps
ST1: Ability to communicate
ST2: Group management skills
ST3: Conflict management skills
ST12: Assign roles and tasks in management processes

Additional required knowledge:

KQ5: Quality Management - The management of human resources
KS104: Communication and Conflict Management
KS105: Communication styles and effective communication
KT2: Group management techniques
KT3: Conflict Management Techniques
KT12: Techniques and methodologies for human resource management
KT24: Leadership and Group Psychology

Activity: T5.5: Open the event and ensure its correct execution

Ability

SQ3: Organizational skills
SQ4: Ability to control
SP14: Contribute to the correct management of exhibition events
SP40: Knowing how to organize the spaces where the services and their offers are made
SP41: Knowing how to organize the location and staging of one's own experiential offer
SP131: Apply experiential techniques and methodologies in the events sector

Additional required knowledge:

KQ9: Quality Management – Service provision;
KQ10: Quality Management - Identification and traceability;
KS187: Locations and Places used for events (Protection)
KS189: Exhibition Methodologies and Techniques
KS402: Experiential techniques and methodologies in the events sector

Activity: T5.6: Verify and control compliance with applicable current legislation

Ability

SQ4: Ability to control
SP1: Identify and evaluate the applicability of the rules for the protection and use of cultural heritage
SP2: Check the correct application of the safety regulations in the workplace
SP4: Verify the correct application of the Tourism Legislation
SP42: Verify the correct application of the legislation on privacy
SP95: Knowing how to apply the legislation in the museum and eco-museum sector

Additional required knowledge:

KS39: The legislation for the protection and use of Cultural Heritage
KS47: The legislation on privacy and the tourism sector
KS49: The legislation on safety in the workplace
KS52: Consumer protection legislation
KS106: Tourism Legislation

Activity: T5.6: Event Closing

Ability

SP1: Identify and evaluate the applicability of the rules for the protection and use of cultural heritage (where applicable)
SP2: Check the correct application of the safety regulations in the workplace
ST20: Identify and apply reporting tools

Additional required knowledge:

KS49: The legislation on safety in the workplace
KS39: The legislation for the protection and use of Cultural Heritage
KT20: Waste disposal regulation
KT21: Reporting tools and procedures

Activity: T5.8: Monitor the quality of the event

Ability

SQ18: Identify, understand and evaluate quality factors, indicators and standards
SQ19: Apply auditing tools
SQ20: Apply monitoring methodologies and techniques
SQ21: Apply Customer Satisfaction methodologies and techniques
SQ22: Monitor and Evaluate the provision of services

Additional required knowledge:

KQ13: Quality Management - Monitoring and measurement of processes and services
KQ14: Quality Management - The Management of Non-Conformities and Corrective Actions
KQ15: Quality Management - Evaluation of the quality of services
KQ16: Quality Management - Internal inspections (Audit)
KQ17: Quality Management - The ISO19011 standard
KQ19: Quality Management - Conducting audits
KQ31: Quality Management - Monitoring and audit
KQ33: Quality Management - Monitoring and evaluation of the quality of events

Task T6: Improve events (continuous improvement)

Ability

SQ14: Propose process changes to facilitate and rationalize improvements
SQ16: Evaluate and analyze individual processes to identify corrective and improvement actions
SP21: Identify and provide support for the choice and application of innovative technologies for the reference sector
SQ8: Manage the change request process
SP10: Apply tools for measuring and evaluating events
SP20: Understanding the impacts of new technologies in the processes of your sector
SP35: Analyzing and interpreting market trends

Additional required knowledge:

KQ35: Quality Management - Continuous Improvement
KS38: The new emerging technologies
KS184: Evaluation of Events
KQ26: Event quality standard

Task T7: Organize educational exhibition events

Ability

SP36: To carry out training and information with reference to the subjects related to one's profession
SP45: Develop training / information projects in the reference sector
SP46: Curate and manage training / information events in the reference sector
ST22: Knowing how to apply tools, including IT tools, for drafting educational reports and documents

Additional required knowledge:

KS112: Teaching techniques and methodologies
KS127: Methodologies and techniques for the evaluation of training events
KS128: Elements of Pedagogy
KS129: Research and teaching methodologies relating to the exhibition sector

Task T8: Interface in a foreign language according to the territorial reference target of visitors

Ability

ST8 Use foreign languages in the workplace according to the territorial reference target of visitors

Additional required knowledge:

KS113: At least one foreign language in relation to the territorial reference target of visitors

Authority and Responsibility: VI level of the European Qualifications Framework

Profile Evaluation Criteria

To certify the possession of skills, it is proposed to take into consideration methodologies that take into account the following aspects in a non-mutually exclusive manner, i.e. possibly in combination with each other:

Qualifications awarded in the academic field (Formal Learning)
Specific Training (Non-Formal Learning)
Work or Professional Experience (Informal Learning)

Work or professional experience can be demonstrated through various tools including:

Curriculum Vitae
Professional portfolio
Objective placement on the market (awards, regional, national or international recognition)
Publications (scientific or editorial)

Requirements for access to the professional figure

Since the professional figure is not organized in an order or college, the requirements may vary based on the relevant Professional Association or other criteria established by the individual interested parties. Below are the requirements adopted by AITOC - Italian Association of Tourism Professionals and Cultural Operators

Reference diagram: Exhibition Curator

Having attended specific training courses for the professional figure in question organized/recognised by Universities, Institutes of Higher Artistic, Musical and Dance Education (AFAM), Regions or professional associations established pursuant to law 4/2013 and recognized by the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy (formerly MISE) and at least three exhibition events followed in the capacity of exhibition curator.

Having attended a specific training course whose contents and methods of evaluation comply with this sheet and at least six exhibition events attended as a curator.

At least two years of proven work or professional experience as an exhibition curator and having attended additional training courses to update one's preparation as required by the professional figure in question.

At least five years of proven work or professional experience as an exhibition curator.

Be included in the Registers of Professional Associations established in accordance with recognized national legislation, provided that they refer to the professional figure. In Italy the requirement is met if the professional is included in a register held by professional associations established pursuant to law 4/2013 and recognized by the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy (ex MISE) and has obtained a Quality and Qualification Attestation Professional under the law 4/2013

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