Course Info
Subject
Contemporary Art
Languages
English
Duration
2 years
Degrees
Master
Course General Description
RCA have a commitment to collaborative group project-based work that integrates theory and practice. RCA approach the field critically and theoretically, ensuring that the knowledge and understanding of these practices is grounded in the context of public audiences, urbanisation and the digital. Our research-led and practice-led teaching by staff and visiting tutors ensures the curatorial and artistic significance, intellectual value and critical vitality of the programme.Disciplines
In addition to regular core unit lectures and seminars by tutors, your first year will include a wide range of talks by visiting curators, critics, artists, gallerists and academics. These will provide you with knowledge of specific case studies, exhibition histories, curatorial positions and artist perspectives from a wide range of national and international visiting practitioners.You’ll also be part of off-site visits to practitioner studios, museums, galleries and areas of urban development to ensure situated, grounded and spatial knowledge acquisition. Your second year is comparatively more self-directed and will have a greater focus on peer-led learning, building on the skills and knowledge that have been developed throughout the first two terms of the first year.
Curating Contemporary Art Unit 4 (Graduate Project) will be taught through occasional lectures based on core production skills, while elective project groups will develop projects through bi-weekly meetings with project tutor and partners, and alternate week self-directed group workshops.
Curating Contemporary Art Unit 5 (Dissertation) will be taught through group and one-to-one tutorials.
Your second year will also include the school-wide unit taught over one week in Term 1.
Requirements
Academic TranscriptsLetters of statement
Portfolio
CV
Grants and Scholarships
Fast Retailing Foundation ScholarshipSchool Info
Region
Europe
Country
UK
City
London
Year of Establishment
1837
Number of students
2154
QS Rank
1
THE Rank
NA
Webometrics
2324
School General Description
The Royal College of Art is the world’s most influential postgraduate university of art and design. Specialising in teaching and research, the RCA offers the degrees of MA, MPhil and PhD across the disciplines of fine art, applied art, design, communications and humanities. There are over 1,500 Master's and doctoral students from 63 countries, and more than 1,000 professionals interacting with them – including scholars, leading art and design practitioners, along with specialists, advisors and distinguished visitors. It is the most concentrated community of distinguished artists, designers and communicators to be found anywhere.School Contacts
https://www.rca.ac.uk/
info@rca.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7590 4444
Connections with Businesses
BurberryIIS Tokyo Design Lab
British Land
Wallpaper
Brioni
Connections with other Schools and Educational Institutions
Barcelona en ComúNational University of Singapore
Architectural Foundation Partner
School Notable Alumni
Barbara HepworthHenry Moore
Frank Auerbach
David Hockney
Bridget Riley
Sir Peter Blake
Charles Tunnicliffe
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Tracey Emin
School Notable Academia
Jocelyn SheppyDr Nadia Danhash
Dr Chang Hee Lee
Professor Teal Triggs
Exchange Programmes
Kyoto ExchangeErasmus+
Extracurricular Life and Facts of Interest
Alumni Volunteers'A' Alumni Magazine
Lectures
Workshops