CPR 2024: Who is Being Heard?

The Curatorial Program for Research (CPR) is pleased to announce its open call for curators to participate in CPR 2024: Who is Being Heard? In this program curators will travel to the Nordic region, visiting Finland, Norway and Sweden including Sápmi. CPR’s ninth fully-funded research program will take place from September 19–October 9, 2024.

Hosted by local institutions, artists, and independent curators, the program gathers a cohort of up to eight international curators. The robust programming offers daily visits to artist studios and local arts institutions as well as workshops where we collectively listen and connect with places and their pasts along the way. The activities are complemented by readings about local socio-political history, arts, and culture. 

The theme of the program will address the ability we have to hear each other’s voices. CPR’s program will delve into the perspectives that are put forward by curators and institutions, searching for those that are left out of conversations. In this time of crisis and conflict it is more important than ever to make sure everyone is heard; underrepresented groups, people from the periphery, the non-human and perhaps also echoes from the past. With this in mind we will visit cities and countryside; meet established and emerging artists and actors in adjacent fields. We will discuss if we can bear listening more, listening wider, listening within and even listening to those we don’t agree with. This will open a network of discussion that carries the potential to engage the visiting curators with all the experiences they have from their respective places of residence where these issues may have other specific meanings.

The selection committee is comprised of CPR Founding Director Carmen Ferreyra and CPR Europe Director Susanne Ewerlöf with key specialists: Ruben Steinum (Director, Office for Contemporary Art, Norway), Lena Malm (Head of IASPIS Visual Arts Program), Mariangela Méndez Prencke (Director, Havremagasinet Länskonsthall Boden, Sweden) and Kati Laakso (Director, Finnish Cultural Institute in New York.)

Selected curators will participate free of charge, and will receive round trip airfare, local transportation, and accommodation throughout the length of the program.

Application deadline: June 15, 2024. Visit here for application requirements and further details.

This project is realized with generous support from The Nordic Culture Fund, Frame Finland, The Finnish Cultural Institute of New York, The Office for Contemporary Art, Norway, IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts, the Visual Artist Support Center, Norrbotten, The Swedish Art Council, and The Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York.

About the Curatorial Program for Research
The Curatorial Program for Research (CPR) is the core facilitator of an international network of curators, artists and institutions. Through open calls and research scholarships, CPR has three goals: first, to enable a direct, in situ communication between international curators and local artists. Secondly, to promote equal access to knowledge. And third, to act as a platform for promotion and practice for the participating artists, curators and hosts.

With a nomadic and intensive format, CPR promotes dialogue between international curators and local artistic scenes. The program was created by curators, for curators, and is a US-based non-profit international organization.

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*Image above: CPR 2023 Residents, studio visit with Hans Ragnar Mathisen, Tromsø, Norway.