A curatorial platform is: * as an organization: an entity comprising

curator A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the parti ...

s and related people with a collective curatorial goal. * as a management system: a system (software or physical) that facilitates the realization of curatorial tasks and the administration of this realization.

As an organization

A curatorial platform is an

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or an organized

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whose principal activity is focused on the development and presentation of cultural artifacts according to clearly defined and coherent themes or organizational principles. In contrast to a

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, whose focus is the exhibition and—in the case of a private gallery—sale of finalized artwork, a

ial platform is concerned with the conjunction of artistic practice and curatorial practice. Following the development of the independent or freelance

following 1969’s watershed exhibition '' Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form'' and

Harald Szeemann '' Harald Szeemann (11 June 1933 – 18 February 2005) was a Swiss curator, artist, and art historian. Having curated more than 200 exhibitions, many of which have been characterized as groundbreaking, Szeemann is said to have helped redefine the ro ...

's subsequent defiance of then-established career trajectories,{{Cite web, url=http://theartnewspaper.com/preview/curator-who-took-a-wrecking-ball-to-traditional-ways-of-looking-at-art, title=Pioneering curator Harald Szeemann celebrated in two Los Angeles shows, website=theartnewspaper.com, access-date=2019-01-25 the role of the curator in the development of modern art has become ever more important. This is evidenced by the growth—particularly in the

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and the

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—of curatorial studies and workshops. The notion of a curatorial platform extending and reinforcing these studies and attitudes is relatively new. The group Kuratorisk Aktio

(Curatorial Action) was established in 2005, and while Rhizom

was founded in 1996 it did not define itself explicitly as a curatorial platform. Rhizome's activity—‘the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art’—is nonetheless recognizably curatorial. Meanwhile, there are also digital curatorial platforms that either collect curators with specific interests, or focus more on artist interaction, such as in the case of Curatron There is general agreement about the aims of such platforms as that last—in the Peregrine Art

manifesto, the organization clearly states that their curatorial platform does not replace ‘traditional ensemble-based or exhibiting institutions, such as orchestras, museums, and theater companies, utprovides a foundation and structure for organizing and amplifying current artistic resources in the pursuit of true innovation and artistic impact.’

As a management system

The term ''curatorial platform'' can also refer to a

ial management system (usually an

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) that helps

s and

ial groups (see "as organization") in their focus, social organization, and administration tasks.

As an organization

As a management system

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