Master's Programme in Curatorial Practice
Note: The MA in Curatorial Practice is under revision. There will be changes to the programme structure. Next intake: Spring 2025
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Proposed tuition
The Norwegian government has proposed a requirement of tuition fees from applicants from outside the EU/EEA.
Important dates
You can register your application (date is not ready) through Søknadsweb.
- Application deadline:
- Application assessment:
- Invitation to interview:
- Interview:
- Offer of admission published in Søknadsweb:
- Deadline for responding to an offer of admission:
See bottom of page under "Application status" for more details about the admission process.
Admission requirements
Before you start the application process, please check that you have the required academic/professional background. Only applicants who meet the admission requirements can be qualified. Your application will be rejected if you do not meet the requirements.
The Master's Programme in Curatorial Practice requires a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art or other relevant field of study, or other relevant degree equivalent to a minimum of 180 ECTS credits, but normally of 4 years duration.
In addition, the applicant must document at least two years of professional practice as a curator.
In the first round of application, the applicants' qualifications will be assessed on the basis of their application, which must include documentation of relevant curatorial practice (portfolio), project proposal, a letter of motivation and CV.
Applicants who advance to the second round will be interviewed.
Admission to The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design and the University of Bergen is highly competitive.
Academic requirements
- You must have obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art, normally of minimum 4 years' duration.
Your degree must be issued by a recognized university or university college.
You can find the specific requirements for your home country in the country list. - You must document your English language proficiency, see below for details.
Language requirements
Applicants who are not native English speakers must document their proficiency in English by taking an internationally recognised English test. Please see the country list to review if this applies to you.
Schedule your test early enough for the results to reach us within the application deadline (date is not ready).
How to document English language proficiency
Some applicants are exempt from documenting English language proficiency.
Application requirements
Deadline for registering your application for entry to the programme Autumn 2025 is not set. The application form will be open from (date not ready).
Application form
In the application form you fill in all the necessary information, as well as upload all the required documentation, your portfolio, project proposal, letter of motivation and CV.
Portfolio, Letter of Motivation and Project Proposal
Portfolio and Letter of Motivation requirements are outlined below.
Required documentation
- Letter of Motivation
- Project Proposal
- Portfolio
- CV showing your educational background and relevant work experience
- Secondary School certificate (applies to international applicants)
- University degree certificate(s)/diploma(s) with a grading scale documenting your Bachelor's Degree
- Transcript of records (an official statement listing courses/subjects you have completed at your university)
- Documentation of at least two years of professional practice as a curator
- Documentation of English language proficiency (applies to international applicants)
- Copy of your passport, or other official ID-card with photo (applies to international applicants)
Document requirements
- We require all documents to be scanned from original documentation.
- If the original language of your documents is not English or a Scandinavian language, officially certified copies of a translation to one of these languages must accompany certified copies of your documents in the original language.
- The documents must be uploaded as PDF's of good quality.
Letter of Motivation
Your Letter of Motivation should not exceed 2 pages (PDF). The letter must state:
- Why you are applying for admission to the Master's Programme in Curatorial Practice.
- What expectations you have for your studies on the Master's Programme in Curatorial Practice.
- A brief description of your curatorial practice to date.
- Your critical reflections and thoughts around your curatorial practice to date.
- Which professional and curatorial themes or questions you propose to investigate during your studies on the Master's Programme in Curatorial Practice.
- What context you relate your curatorial practice to.
Project Proposal
Your Project Outline should not exceed one page (PDF).
The outline should show that you have given some thoughts to what kind of project you would like to persue as part of your studies on the programme.
Your project is something you will develop further, perhaps change, and complete as part of your studies.
Should you be called for an interview as part of the admission process you must be prepared to discuss your Project Outline in greater detail.
Portfolio
Your portfolio must follow your application to the programme, and include documentation of relevant curatorial production that demonstrates your academic/professional qualifications for carrying out an independent MA project.
Should you wish to present a video, web page or app as part of your portfolio, these must be represented as screenshots in your portfolio along with text and link to the specific webpages where they can be seen.
Your portfolio must appear as one document with multiple pages.
Videos should not exceed 10 minutes in length.
Technical specifications for your portfolio:
- File format: PDF
- Maximum size: 250 MB
- Name your file as follows: last name_first name_portfolio.pdf
The application portal has a 20 MB limit per document. If your portfolio exceeds this limit, you may send us your portfolio via your choice of file sharing service.
Links for file sharing are sent to admission.kmd@uib.no.
Interview
The interviews will take place (date not ready).
All applicants who move on to the interview round of the application process are encouraged to have their interview in person at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design in Bergen.
Applicants residing in Europe will be expected to be present in Bergen for the interview.
Applicants residing outside of Europe can ask to have their interview online.
An invitation to the interview will be sent to the applicants registered e-mail address.You are required to respond to the invitation.
Application status
Your application status on Søknadsweb will be Under consideration until we have finished the processing.
Application procedures
| Application period: You can change your application as well as upload relevant documentation up until the application deadline XX. |
| Registration period: All applications are checked for documentation. |
| Application assessment: All complete applications will be assessed by the jury. |
| Invitation to interview: All applicants whose application was approved by the jury will be called for the interview as part of the admission process. |
| Interview: All interviews are conducted during the same week. All approved applications including the jury’s recommendations will be presented to the Department Head. |
| Offer of admission: Applicants who are offered admission to the Master’s Programme in Fine Art will have the result published in Søknadsweb. You will also be notified by e-mail. |