ARTISTIC RESEARCH NETWORK

The Expanded Artistic Research Network EARN is a collaboration among artists, curators and researchers working in inter-institutional groups on a range of different topics to develop and exchange research. EARN operates through regular international working-group meetings, workshops, seminars, symposia, conferences, winter/summer-school programmes, exhibitions, and publications.

UPCOMING EVENTS

9 May 2026

International Curatorial Students’ Assembly during the 2026 Venice Biennial, organized by the EARN Curatorial Studies Workshop. More information and schedule posted late February.

Open Call 15 June 2026 “Harvesting Otherwise”

EXTENDED: Open call welcoming proposals for the 2026 EARN Annual Gathering at Akademie of Fine Art Vienna, (4-6 November). Read More

South Africa and Zambia September 2026

EARN Curatorial Studies Workshop will join with other colleagues in Johannesburg, for the Visual Culture and Curatorial Symposium in WITS, Johannesburg and in Livingston, Zambia for the Mosi oa Tunya Perennial: Sonic Solidarities: Legacies, Histories and Other Gossips

22 April 2026

Handbook of Artistic Research Methods: Resonating Practices, open editorial meeting…

15 April 2026

This online workshop explores Slager’s trajectory of artistic research publishing in anticipation of the release of his new monograph: Collateral Concepts…

23 and 24 February 2026

Two online conversations on recent curatorial publishing projects with Carolina Rito, Cătălin Gheorghe, Khashayar Naderehvandi and Mick Wilson.

17 February 2026

Two-hour online workshop on applying for postdoctoral positions and grants for artistic researchers

4-20 December 2025

EARN researchers from the newly established Imaginaries group exhibit and present in UniARts Helsinki as part of the Sixth Research Pavilion.

22–24 October 2025

An artistic research symposium hosted by Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) and the new transdisciplinary research group BODIES.

25-26 September 2025

EARN Curatorial Studies will present and discuss issues raised by The Lexicon project at the conference Eastern European Curatorial Practices: Historical Development and Challenges, Riga.

26 October 2023

Keynote presentation: The Question of Funding is a growing collective of cultural producers and community organizers from Palestine, formed in 2019, that seeks to question, debate, and find solutions to the prevalent constrictive international funding models on which Palestinian cultural institutions continue to depend.

25-26 October 2023

Two-day gathering of researchers and research groups, both formal and informal, institutional and para-institutional within EARN and its affiliated networks of colleagues.

23 October 2023

This workshop is developed by, and for, colleagues working in doctoral education in any capacity. It is based on a peer learning model, designed by, and for, supervisors, teachers and those working on the development of doctoral programmes.

22 April 2026

The Methods group will discuss the editorial approach to the Handbook of Artistic Research Methods: Resonating Practices in development for 2027.

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METHODS

This working group considers different aspects of the question of method and research design across different approaches to artistic inquiries, research creation, and practice-based/ practice-led research.

BODIES

BODIES is an international group of researchers, educators and practitioners coming together from across artistic, academic, and activist contexts. Unfolding via three discrete yet interrelated working parties – corporeal bodies, institutional bodies, and environmental bodies…

IMAGINARIES

This is a new working group, established in Autumn 2025, to consider the different constructions of “the imaginary” within artistic practice, artistic research and adjacent inquiries across social theory, philosophy, anthropology, and literary studies.

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POLITICS OF AESTHETICS

This group challenges meaning production and emphasizes aesthetic form. They explore political-aesthetic approaches, including refusal, opacity, and abjection.

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CURATORIAL STUDIES

Researchers, educators, and practitioners collaborate in this group to study curating and the curatorial. Shared events and outputs provide a collaborative international research environment.

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COMMUNICATION

Serving as the network’s communication hub, this group connects working groups and manages both internal and external communications.

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SPACE + PRACTICES

Beyond seminar rooms, this group investigates the impact of diverse spatial practices on artistic research. They explore various dimensions of space, physical and conceptual.

ON DRAWING

On Drawing is an open invitation to artistic researchers from different disciplines to share knowledge on the state of drawing today, to explore how drawing relates to the world around us and…

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