Curatorial Intensive

Coming Soon.

Front Matter is APRE Art House’s annual curatorial intensive. It is conceived as a focused, six-day long program that affirms the curator as a central authorial voice within contemporary art discourse.

Borrowed from the language of publishing, front matter refers to the framing elements that precede a text: the title, preface, table of contents. It is through these devices that the reader is positioned, and similarly, it is through the curator that the artwork is framed, contextualized, and made legible.

Designed for a cohort of no more than twelve emerging curators, the program is situated within the spatial and discursive fabric of APRE Art House in Mumbai.

Over the course of six days, Front Matter offers a curriculum that combines rigorous mentorship with live-streamed dialogues from international voices, exhibition-making exercises, critical readings, and guided studio visits, all while remaining cost-accessible to participants.

This initiative is not commercially motivated; APRE Art House does not seek to generate profit through the program. As part of our ongoing commitment to accessibility and academic integrity, we have allocated several seats as full or partial scholarships to support participation from a wider and more diverse curatorial community.

Front Matter signals APRE’s ongoing commitment to cultivating curatorial practices and infrastructure within the region by foregrounding curators not as supporters, but as protagonists in the creation of meaning.