THE EXHIBITIONIST:
JOURNAL ON EXHIBITION MAKING
The Exhibitionist is a new journal focusing solely on the practice of exhibition
making. The objective is to create a wider platform for the discussion of
curatorial concerns, encourage a diversification of curatorial models, and
actively contribute to the formation of a theory of curating.
The journal is a publication made by curators for curators and understands
itself as a site for critical debate in regards to the practice of exhibition
making. The Exhibitionist will be published twice a year and will follow a strict editorial structure
that revolves around the analysis and examination of past, present, and future
exhibitions and other curatorial ideas. Under the title Curators' Favorites each issue will present three texts for which three curators will write a
personal essay about an exhibition, contemporary or historic, that has impacted
them.This will be followed by an in-depth look at a historically important
exhibition in the section Back in the Day. Assessments will comprise the core of the journal. Here four curators will focus on
reviewing one significant contemporary exhibition from different points of
view. Typologies opens up the debate around specific exhibition formats. The section Attitude will feature a text by a member of the editorial board reflecting on the
current state of exhibition making while Rear Mirror invites a curator to reflect upon an exhibition s/he has recently curated. Every
fourth issue a conversation about past contributions, the content and the form
of the journal between some of the past contributors will offer a forum for
self-reflexivity.
