Assistant Curator

Working closely with the Head of Exhibitions and the Director, Gilane Tawadros, the Assistant Curator, will help to deliver our mission to put artists and audiences at the heart of everything we do. The successful candidate will be a dynamic, engaged and knowledgeable curator with extensive experience of exhibition-making. They will relish the opportunity of working collaboratively with artists, external curators and partners, nationally and internationally as well as with colleagues across the Whitechapel Gallery.

They will help shape and deliver the future artistic programme, devise specific exhibitions, projects and publications, and articulate the ideas and issues that inform contemporary practice through public talks and writings. They will work with other members of the WG team to ensure that our programme (both physical and digital) engages meaningfully with diverse audiences, locally and globally. They will also be engaged with modern and contemporary art history from a global perspective and have an understanding of wider visual culture.

The Assistant Curator will work alongside all members of the Exhibition team, other colleagues in the Gallery, and the professional art world to ensure an efficient running of the exhibitions programme.

Conditions of work

• Contract: permanent
• Hours of work: full-time
  Monday to Friday, 9:30am – 5:45pm, with one hour for lunch
• Salary: from £29,000 per annum, contingent on experience
• The period of notice is 2 months in writing on either side
• Probationary period: 6 months
• Due to the nature of the job, some evening and weekend work will be required, as well as occasional travel. This will be compensated by time off in lieu.

To apply:

Please complete the application form and equal opportunities monitoring form, and return to recruitment@whitechapelgallery.org by 10:00am on Wednesday 10th May 2023.

Interviews will take place: Wednesday 17th May 2023.

We want our workforce to represent all sections of the community and expect all our workers to firmly commit to working with the Gallery to create an equal, diverse and inclusive workplace. Our ambition is to reflect society and to create a diverse, inclusive and welcoming environment for all to experience art.

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