Art Encounters Foundation and Cluj Cultural Centre announce the open call for the 8th edition of the Unschool of Curating

Led by curator Antonia Alampi, this year’s edition explores Repair as Method as a working approach in curatorial practice. The programme offers emerging curators an international platform for dialogue, knowledge exchange, and learning, grounded in the artistic contexts of both cities.

Structured across Timișoara (19–23 June) and Cluj (23–26 June), the programme includes lectures, working sessions, visits, and meetings with artists and curators, as well as two public events.

This edition proposes “repair” not as a moral slogan but as a working method for curatorial practice. In a cultural landscape shaped by acceleration, fragmentation, precarity, and asymmetrical access to resources, curating often risks reproducing the very dynamics it seeks to critique. Extraction of context. Instrumentalization of communities. Reinvention for the sake of visibility. Exhaustion disguised as productivity.

More information here.