Aldrich Museum Calling For An International Curator

RIDGEFIELD — The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum has issued a call for entries for the Hall Curatorial Fellowship, an 18-month fellowship for an international curator.

The Hall Fellow is responsible for curating an original exhibition in keeping with the Aldrich’s mission of leadership in the exhibition of significant and challenging contemporary art with an emphasis on emerging and mid-career artists. The museum is in Ridgefield, 50 miles outside New York City.

The Hall Fellow will be chosen by an independent jury of distinguished art world professionals, including Carlos Basualdo of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Bonnie Clearwater of the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; and Sir Norman Rosenthal of the Royal Academy, London.

The Fellow will work with The Aldrich’s curatorial team to develop his or her exhibition, oversee its installation, and collaborate with museum staff to develop programming and an exhibition catalog. To be eligible for the Hall Curatorial Fellowship, an applicant must be an art professional with a focus on contemporary art, and a citizen of a country other than the United States. The applicant must currently live and work in a country other than the United States, be proficient in English, have prior experience as a curator or co-curator of at least three professional exhibitions of contemporary art, and be able to travel to the United States.

The Hall Fellowship, it is important to note, is not a residency fellowship.

The Hall Fellow will receive a stipend of $25,000 over the 18-month period of the Fellowship, from June 1, 2008, to December 31, 2009. The exhibition will be on view at The Aldrich from September 2009 through February 2010.

Applications for the Hall Curatorial Fellowship are due at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum no later than February 1, 2008. Selected applicants will be invited for interviews at The Aldrich during March and April 2008. For full information and complete application materials, visit AldrichArt.org/about/HallFellowship.php. Questions regarding the Hall Fellowship should be addressed to fellowship@aldrichart.org.

The fellowship was made possible by The Andrew J. and Christine C. Hall Foundation.

“Voice & Void: 2006 Hall Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition,” curated by Thomas Trummer, the first recipient of the Hall Curatorial Fellowship, is on view at The Aldrich through February 24. “Voice & Void” has received reviews in The New York Times and ARTnews.

As a result of the exposure Mr Trummer received through the Hall Curatorial Fellowship, he has been sought after for curatorial projects in Beijing, China; Kiev, Ukraine; Belgrade, Serbia; and New York City. In October he became project manager of the Siemens Art Program in Munich, in charged of worldwide activities in the realm of visual arts.