Casa São Roque Curating Classes (CSR Curating Classes) is a new initiative of Casa São Roque and is aimed at students from Porto interested in curating. CSR Curating Classes will take place on two afternoons on May 16th and 17th, 2025 at Casa São Roque and are free of charge.
The first part, on Friday afternoon, will provide an insight into curating contemporary art exhibitions. Important exhibitions will be discussed, as well as practical considerations and experiences.
In the second part, on Saturday afternoon, participants will give a 5-minute presentation on an exhibition they would like to curate. Topics: art, design, music, film, performance; please use images.
CSR Curating Classes will be held by Daniel Baumann*, Swiss art historian, director of Kunsthalle Zürich (2015-2025) and curator at Casa São Roque.
Are eligible for the course: Master’s, Postgraduate or PHD students, or final-year undergraduates from FBAUP, FLUP, ESAP and ESAD (Porto).
Admission is by application. Please send us a max. 2-page PDF to info@casasaoroque.art by 31st March 2025, including: Short CV with foto, Motivation for attending CSR Curating Classes, Brief info on your proposed exhibition
Results announced by 30th April 2025.
*Daniel Baumann is an art historian and curator based in Basel. He served as curator from 1996 to 2014 of the Adolf Wölfli Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland. In 1997, he curated Martin Kippenberger. Respektive at Mamco in Geneva. He was the curator of Kunsttangente, a public art project in Basel, Switzerland (2003-2010), and curated, in 2003, Junge Szene at Secession in Vienna. In 2004 he started an ongoing exhibition series in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 2008 to 2013 he run the Basel exhibition space New Jerseyy together with Tobias Madison, Emanuel Rossetti, and Dan Solbach. He was the curator of the 2013 Carnegie International at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, along with Dan Byers and Tina Kukielski. Together with Koyo Kouoh, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philip Ursprung, he is the curator of the annual Engadin Art Talks. He writes for magazines such as Artforum, Spike, Reading Rämistrasse and others. Daniel Baumann was the director of Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland, from 2015 to 2025.
Regarding the surrounding Gardens of Parque São Roque, we find more than 6 hectares of beautiful landscapes, thanks to the intervention of the historical gardener Jacinto de Matos who introduced around 200 camellias, the pavilion, the pergola and the cave that are organically combined with the lake and remain today as important signs of what was common in the gardens during the beginning of the twentieth century.
