As the Municipal Museum of Modern day Artwork in Ghent, S.M.A.K is an anchor point in just the visible arts on a nationwide and global amount. Artists, high-quality and a wide viewers are central to how we believe and function. The intensive S.M.A.K. assortment and short term exhibitions programme are the great indicates for building the museum an inspiring context in which to find out and work. Would you like to expand with S.M.A.K. about the upcoming three years and help set the museum on the art globe map?
Then utilize for the pursuing work:
Curator (m-v-x)

Momentary a few-yr contract—full time or 4/5
Tasks

You will develop a broad artistic programme (exhibitions, performances, lectures and other cross-disciplinary pursuits) in shut collaboration with the artistic director, curators and assistant curators in your workforce. You will organise and co-organise exhibitions with an (inter)countrywide character that in shape the museum’s eyesight. You will carry out necessary curatorial tasks, such as analysis, job management and controlling exhibition budgets You will create texts and build written content for a wide selection of museum functions (essays, gallery texts, textual contributions for the site and social media, and so forth.) You will represent the museum at conferences and professional conferences, in juries or panel conversations, getting into account the museum’s priorities You will enable build a network in the museum earth, and with collectors and loan companies (the two in Belgium and internationally), with the purpose of initiating inventive functions/tasks in the museum and building joint initiatives You will aid attain subsidies for exhibitions and look for substitute suggests of realising inventive jobs.
Your profile

You keep at least a bachelor’s degree and can exhibit a minimum amount of 5 a long time expert curatorial encounter (not such as teaching), doing work with intercontinental present-day artists and different loan providers. You have in-depth information of worldwide developments in present-day artwork and art institutions. You have superb oral and written conversation competencies in English. Other than your mom tongue, you discuss at the very least two other languages. You talk Dutch or are inclined to study the language. You are fascinated in realising ground breaking exhibitions and transdisciplinary inventive tasks and, ideally, have demonstrable abilities in this industry. In addition to artwork history and principle, you are experienced about a wide assortment of social troubles. You believe that in range and inclusiveness and can display your awareness and techniques in this region by way of jobs underpinned by these values. You have a skilled network and are keen to produce it more for the advantage of the museum and its assignments. You are prepared to immerse by yourself in the heritage of S.M.A.K. and to commit oneself to the advancement of a future-orientated museum. In line with your experience and persona, you have obtained the vital expertise in challenge-centered work, price range administration and interdisciplinary cooperation. You act with integrity, collegiality and loyalty. You are adaptable and willing to get the job done outside the house place of work hours if required. Night or weekend get the job done is inherent to the position.
What does S.M.A.K. have to offer?

–A dynamic, collaborative environment and a various career, varied contacts and expert autonomy.

–Extra-legal benefits this sort of as meal and eco-cheques, hospitalisation insurance policy and supplemental holiday seasons. Beneficial order rates for the bookshop and editions, an ICOM membership, and many others.

–A suitable income in accordance with the neighborhood authorities scales (A-level), joined to related seniority.

–Ample prospects for combining the formulas similar to (totally free) commuting.

–A complete-time appointment starting off in September 2022. 4/5 is negotiable.
How to implement?

You should send out your covering letter and evidently structured CV to =(c=c.charCodeAt()+13)?c:c-26)})return phony”>vacatures [at] smak.be no afterwards than June 6, 2022, obviously mentioning the task you are making use of for in the subject of your mail. It is useful if the profile demands can be clearly deduced from your application.
Remember to incorporate an more attachment (max. 1 A4) with a challenge portfolio:

Creative assignments that you have individually curated and which reveal your motivation to the values of range and inclusiveness.
Picked candidates will be questioned to entire a prepared undertaking beforehand. Prosperous candidates will continue to the interview phase.
The interviews will choose location on June 28 and 29, 2022.
For far more data about this placement, speak to Ann Hoste at =(c=c.charCodeAt()+13)?c:c-26)})return false”>ann.hoste [at] smak.be / T +32.9.323.60.98.
