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Join us to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Goldsmiths MFA CuratingThe event will take place on:Saturday 17 October 202...
07/10/2026

Join us to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Goldsmiths MFA Curating

The event will take place on:

Saturday 17 October 2026
4:00–6:00pm
The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ

Programme:

4:00–5:30pm – Welcome remarks and roundtable discussion
5:30–6:00pm – Drinks reception and informal gathering

The afternoon will feature a roundtable conversation bringing together former Programme Directors and Tutors Anna Harding Anna Harding , Andrew Renton Andrew Renton and Andrea Phillips .andreap , Paul Clinton Paul Clinton and Anna Colin Anna Colin , alongside MFA Curating alumni Vassilios Doupas Vassilios Doupas , Reem Fadda Reem Fadda , Sung Woo Kim KIM, Sung Woo and Rosy Leake . The roundtable will be chaired by Helena Reckitt Helena Reckitt .

Together, we will reflect on the histories, trajectories, and futures of curatorial education and practice, sharing experiences from the programme’s past while considering the challenges and possibilities that lie ahead.

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Introducing Rosy Leake , one of our alumni speakers for the Goldsmiths MFA Curating 30th Anniversary. Join us to celebr...
06/10/2026

Introducing Rosy Leake , one of our alumni speakers for the Goldsmiths MFA Curating 30th Anniversary.

Join us to celebrate three decades of the programme.

📅 Saturday 17 October 2026, 4 PM
📍 The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ

Rose of Sharon Leake is an Australian-born curator and writer based in London whose practice engages with exhibition-making, programming and publishing as intertwined forms of research. With particular attention to how knowledge is produced, translated and made public, Rosy develops critically engaged, research-led exhibitions and public programmes that open spaces for collective questioning and exchanges. Her key research areas include material and object histories, colonial legacies, collaborative methodologies and ecologically informed practices. Rosy served as Managing Editor of Art Collector magazine in Australia from 2020-24, and has worked across gallery and programme contexts in the UK and Australia, including Minor Attractions, Cedric Bardawil, and N.Smith Gallery. She is currently Engagement Curator at The Showroom, London. She holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London, and bachelor’s degrees in Fine Arts and Arts from UNSW Sydney, Gadigal Country.

Introducing Mei Chen, our MFA Curating MFA Curating Goldsmiths Junior Fellow. Mei Chen Mei Chen is a London-based Chines...
06/10/2026

Introducing Mei Chen, our MFA Curating MFA Curating Goldsmiths Junior Fellow.

Mei Chen Mei Chen is a London-based Chinese curator and researcher with a background in architecture and curatorial practice. She holds a BArch in Architectural Design from China Academy of Art and is graduating with an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her practice explores the intersections of contemporary art and urban space, with a particular interest in identity, mobility, East Asian diasporic communities, and artist-led self-organised practices. Chen has previously worked with M WOODS, A4 Art Museum and Sichuan University Museum. Her recent projects include Across the Threshold (2025), a duo exhibition with artists Matilda Yueyang Peng and Jiaqi Lyu, and ThRead, an ongoing self-organised curatorial initiative centred on East and Southeast Asian diasporic women artists.

00 Portrait of MFA Curating Junior Fellow Mei Chen.

01 Installation view, Across the Threshold, SQFT Gallery, London, 2025.

02 ThRead internal workshop with artists Ziyi Wang and Charlotte Yao, 2026.

03 Installation view, Caravaggio: Eternal Ecstasy, M WOODS Chengdu, 2024.

Introducing Reaia Parker, our CCA Goldsmiths CCA Junior Fellow. Reaia Parkes ( ) is a curator and community organiser f...
03/10/2026

Introducing Reaia Parker, our CCA Goldsmiths CCA Junior Fellow.

Reaia Parkes ( ) is a curator and community organiser from South East London. She holds a BA in Art History and Film from the University of Kent (2023) and is graduating with an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her curatorial practice centres on bringing familiar cultural spaces into gallery contexts, with particular attention to Black British memory and cultural mythology. Her research explores how inclusive programming, diverse artistic perspectives, and audience engagement can expand arts’ accessibility and foster stronger relationships between galleries and their surrounding communities.

Parkes’ recent curatorial projects include Silhouettes of a Memoir (2026) a solo exhibition by artist Ethan Byrne; If LOVE had Senses…, a participatory, movement-based screening at Mimosa House (2026), and So, So, So: A Poetry Night at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (2025). In 2023, she curated Where Are You From, From?: Black British Culture in Print 1800s–Now at Studio 3 Gallery, Canterbury, working with the local student community to acquire three new prints by contemporary Black British artists for the Kent Print Collection. Her research and writing have also been published through the Women’s Art Library and University of Kent.

Images

00 Photograph of CCA Junior Fellow

01 Installation view, Where Are You From, From?: Black British Culture in Print 1800s–Now, 2023, Studio 3 Gallery, Canterbury, with Tam Joseph, Spirit of the Carnival (1988).

02 So, So, So: A Poetry Night, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, 2025.

03 If LOVE had Senses…, Mimosa House, London, 2026.

Introducing Sung Woo Kim KIM, Sung Woo , one of our alumni speakers for the Goldsmiths MFA Curating 30th Anniversary. Jo...
02/10/2026

Introducing Sung Woo Kim KIM, Sung Woo , one of our alumni speakers for the Goldsmiths MFA Curating 30th Anniversary.

Join us to celebrate three decades of the programme.

📅 Saturday 17 October 2026, 4 PM
📍 The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ

KIM Sung Woo is a curator and writer based in Seoul. He is interested in how the macro-level structures and systems represent, establish, and distort individual and collective identities. He also defines exhibitions as events inscribed upon space, where temporality and performativity are condensed, and expect that through the sharing of the exhibition as the event, alternative, micro, and imaginative communities might be formed.

KIM, as a chief curator, has directed the curatorial project/ exhibition and management of Amado Art Space, not-for-profit alternative space in Seoul (2015-2019). He was also appointed as a curatorial advisor for the Busan Biennale 2020, and has curated the 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018) in the form of curatorial collective. He is currently working as an independent curator, but at a same time, in 2022, he launched an independent art space ‘Primary Practice’ focusing on contemporary art with curatorial praxis, in Seoul.

Introducing Reem Fadda Reem Fadda , one of our alumni speakers for the Goldsmiths MFA Curating 30th Anniversary. Join us...
30/09/2026

Introducing Reem Fadda Reem Fadda , one of our alumni speakers for the Goldsmiths MFA Curating 30th Anniversary.

Join us to celebrate three decades of the programme.

📅 Saturday 17 October 2026, 4 PM
📍 The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ

Reem Fadda (b. Kuwait, 1979; lives and works in Abu Dhabi) is a curator and art historian. From 2010 to 2016, Fadda worked at the Guggenheim Museum as Associate Curator, Middle Eastern Art, Abu Dhabi Project. From 2005 to 2007, Fadda was Director of the Palestinian Association for Contemporary Art (PACA), Ramallah and served as Academic Director for the International Academy of Art Palestine, Ramallah. She has curated many international exhibitions and biennials, including Jerusalem Lives (Tahya Al Quds), The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit (2017); Not New Now, 6th Marrakech Biennale, (2016) and the United Arab Emirates National Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale (2013), Desert X Al Ula (2022), Saudi Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022). Fadda was awarded the eighth Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement in 2017 and is an Alumni of the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. In addition to her role as Director of the Cultural Foundation in Abu Dhabi she is currently also Director of Culture Programming at the Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi overseeing Public Art Abu Dhabi, Culture Summit Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Art, and the Music Programme. She is appointed as the Curator of the first edition of the Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial 2024.

As part of Welcome Week, with our incoming MFA Curating students we spent an afternoon exploring art spaces across South...
28/09/2026

As part of Welcome Week, with our incoming MFA Curating students we spent an afternoon exploring art spaces across South London.

We started at APT Gallery APT Studios & Gallery for the group exhibition ‘Hamburger,’ then made our way to Camberwell for Monika Sosnowska’s impressive exhibition at South London Gallery South London Gallery .

At Studio Voltaire Studio Voltaire we were happy to meet one of our programme alums, Dot Zhihan Jia 点点 , Curator of Studios and Residencies, who took us on a tour of the space, including the garden designed by artist Anthea Hamilton, the exhibition of drawings by Christine Hazell, and the artist studios.

Finally, we returned to Goldsmiths for the opening of Evelyn Taocheng Wang’s solo show Being Poetic Ruins Life, where we ran into recent MFA Curating graduates Nishi Chodimella nishi , who is working at Goldsmiths CCA, and 2025 graduate, researcher, musician and curator Allen Lee Alen Lee , visiting from Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Photo credit: Helena Reckitt

Join us to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Goldsmiths MFA CuratingThe event will take place on:Saturday 17 October 202...
25/09/2026

Join us to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Goldsmiths MFA Curating

The event will take place on:

Saturday 17 October 2026
4:00–6:00pm
The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ

Programme:

4:00–5:30pm – Welcome remarks and roundtable discussion
5:30–6:00pm – Drinks reception and informal gathering

The afternoon will feature a roundtable conversation bringing together former Programme Directors Anna Harding Anna Harding , Andrew Renton Andrew Renton and Andrea Phillips .andreap , Simon Sheikh and Anna Colin Anna Colin , alongside MFA Curating alumni Vassilios Doupas Vassilios Doupas , Reem Fadda Reem Fadda , Sung Woo Kim KIM, Sung Woo and Rosy Leake . The roundtable will be chaired by Helena Reckitt Helena Reckitt .

Together, we will reflect on the histories, trajectories, and futures of curatorial education and practice, sharing experiences from the programme’s past while considering the challenges and possibilities that lie ahead.

On Tuesday we welcomed the new MFA Curating cohort. Among other activities, we spent some time in the Women’s Art Librar...
24/09/2026

On Tuesday we welcomed the new MFA Curating cohort. Among other activities, we spent some time in the Women’s Art Library, one of several wonderful special collections at Goldsmiths, under the expert and caring guidance of

A warm welcome to all and looking forward to working with you for the next two years!

Womens Art Library, Special Collections, Goldsmiths
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Last week we wished farewell to the amazing MFA Curating Goldsmiths Junior Fellows Elisha Fall and júlia polo Elisha Fa...
09/08/2026

Last week we wished farewell to the amazing MFA Curating Goldsmiths Junior Fellows Elisha Fall and júlia polo

Elisha Fall and Júlia Polo made meaningful contributions to the MFA Curating programme in countless ways. We are grateful to have worked with them and to be able to employ recent graduates to work with us for a year, sometimes longer.

We wish you the best in their future curatorial endeavours. You will be missed!

Thank you to their friends - alumni, former Junior Fellows and current students - who came together to share this moment and made lovely offerings! 6 ‘generations’ of curating students + the programme’s centre of attention.🦙

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