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call for exhibition proposals

Deadline:
Dec. 20, 2024
Rewards:
Fees:
No
Artistic fields:
Overview

Two Temple Place is seeking proposals for our next two major spring exhibitions - January – April 2026 and 2027.

The Brief

For our 2026 and 2027 exhibitions, we are looking for new, creative and ambitious proposals to be the centrepiece for year-long charitable projects that make up our Cultural and Community Programme. We are looking for brilliant ideas, that focus on stories and histories that maybe missing from other exhibitions. We are looking for proposals which support a lens through which we can shape wide-ranging community and educational partnerships and events for a whole year and fulfil the Programme’s objectives.

The objectives of our exhibitions and our Culture and Community Programme are:

ENGAGING AUDIENCES. We encourage broader public, educational and community group participation and cultural engagement through free access to exhibitions and a wide-ranging programme of public events, educational workshops, free family trails and outreach.

OFFERING OPPORTUNITIES. The Bulldog Trust exists to offer opportunities to those who may lack them. This can be partnerships with community groups and schools or volunteer programmes. The Trust uses the exhibitions and Two Temple Place to develop a year-round charitable calendar. We host other charities and frequently partner with them in developing new projects, both social and cultural.

NURTURING TALENT. We provide work experience, volunteer and internship opportunities and have a broad network of talented facilitators. We work with emerging or mid-career curators and artists, offering them high-profile opportunities to showcase their work. We frequently give over part or all our building to skills development, music, theatre and other inspiring endeavours.

ADVOCATING FOR REGIONAL COLLECTIONS. We mount high quality exhibitions, with a focus on important themes, that raise national awareness of the many wonderful collections held in museums and galleries around the UK. We provide opportunities for advocacy and stakeholder engagement for these irreplaceable civil society resources.

Eligibility
Location:
No
Other:

Proposals must display imaginative engagement with our audiences and can involve any media. The exhibition will need to respond creatively to our vibrant building. We’re looking to be inspired by work that will surprise and challenge visitors. We are happy to take calculated risks.

Exhibition proposals must set out the lens or theme (some potential lenses/themes are set out below) which both inspires the exhibition, and which is intended to provide sufficient energy and interest to support a year-long Cultural and Community Programme. We believe that creativity is a vital source of skills-development and confidence-building and that it can have therapeutic value, erode social isolation and grow of stronger communities. In that belief, we see great synergistic potential between our annual exhibition and our wider Programme.

Curation

We welcome approaches from all corners of the sector: professional cultural organisations, individual researchers, freelance curators, and regional museums and galleries. The curator(s) will be required to have knowledge of appropriate collections across the UK (or the curator may already be a part of one of these collections or institutions) in order to research and select objects for inclusion, write an article for the catalogue and the exhibition interpretation text, and plan the exhibition space at Two Temple Place. This will all be done with the support and guidance of the experienced exhibition team at Two Temple Place.

Rewards
Exhibition
Funding
Other
Production
Reward description:

Costs for the exhibition are paid for by Two Temple Place. Production, materials, transport, publicity and management costs will be covered and managed by us, and a fee is paid to the curator. As a charity, we do fundraise for each project.

Timeframe for 2026 Exhibition:

  • Exhibition Dates: January–April 2026
  • Programme and exhibition narrative: Before end 2024
  • Object list developed: Early 2025
  • Catalogue articles completed: September 2025
  • Interpretation completed: November 2025
Cost
Application fee:
No
Participation fee:
No
Additional fees:
No
Required Documents
Artist Statement
Letter of Intent
Project Description
Motivation Letter
Other:

Please send proposal ideas (a maximum of three pages excluding images) by email to Rebecca Hone, Head of Culture and Community, Two Temple Place.

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