Lithuania | Emerging Curators Platform 2026
The Emerging Curators Platform (ECP) invites applications for its 2026 programme ‘Materials and Materiality’, dedicated to research, experimentation, and hands-on learning in contemporary curatorial practice.
The Emerging Curators Platform programme (April–September 2026), organised by SODAS 2123 coordinator-curator Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė and artist-curator Ona Juciūtė, invites participants to explore the relationships between the materiality of artworks and exhibition content. This year’s theme proposes approaching material as a carrier of meaning—examining its political, poetic, and historical charge, and considering how materiality shapes exhibition narratives, spatial experience, and curatorial language.
Throughout the programme, participants will be encouraged to experiment with exhibition formats and to develop an authentic, personally articulated curatorial position.
The Emerging Curators Platform (ECP) is an educational and community-oriented space open to experimentation, the exploration of new exhibition formats, and the development of contemporary curatorial practices. Responding to the needs of the Lithuanian contemporary art field, the platform provides opportunities for those interested in curating to realise their curatorial ideas and gain practical experience in exhibition-making.
Selected participants will receive:
- a 500 EUR honorarium;
- individual consultations with the programme organisers, artists, and curators;
- access to an exhibition space within the SODAS 2123 centre;
- a production budget for exhibitions;
- technical support and communication/visibility for the exhibitions.
Emerging Curators Platform 2026 application guidelines
Deadline: 16 February 2026