Part 3: The Exhibition

Collective Pieces 

Students are required to submit individual artworks for assessment. Where students wish to submit portions of work in the form of one collective piece (such as diptych, triptych, polyptych or series), this must be clearly stated as part of the title of the submitted piece in the exhibition text, presented in parentheses. 

Example: Title of the piece (diptych). 

The requirements for capturing and submitting collective pieces is the same as with other standard submissions, however students deciding to submit collective pieces need to be aware that there is a compromise in the size an image can be viewed when submitted as part of a collective piece which may prevent examiners from taking details that cannot be seen into account. Collective pieces that are presented without the appropriate exhibition text will be considered as distinct artworks and could lead to a student exceeding the maximum number of pieces. 

Academic Honesty

Artworks presented for assessment will have been made or constructed by the student. For instance, a piece of fashion design cannot be presented for assessment in realized form if the student did not create it themselves. Where the student has not created the realized piece themselves, they would still be able to submit the design of the piece as an artwork for assessment in the exhibition, but the final piece itself cannot be included. 

Where a student has taken found objects and created art with them this is considered as constructed by the student. 

Students should identify if objects are self-made, found or purchased under the “medium” section when compiling the exhibition text for each of their submitted pieces. When the student is aware that another person’s work, ideas or images have influenced their selected pieces for exhibition the source must be included as a bibliography reference within the exhibition text, following the protocol of the referencing style chosen by the school.

Structuring the Curatorial Rationale 

The curatorial rationale requires SL and HL students to explain why specific artworks have been chosen and presented in a particular format. Students explain their choices of artworks and the decision-making around how they are presented. Students reflect on how they found solutions to issues in the selection, arrangement and presentation of the works. 

• It provides students with an opportunity to explain any challenges, triumphs, innovations or issues that have impacted upon the selection and presentation of the artworks. 

• Students should use the curatorial rationale to explain the context in which particular artworks were made and presented in order to connect the work with the viewer. 

• HL students should also explain how the arrangement and presentation of artworks contributes to the audience’s ability to interpret and understand the intentions and meanings within the artworks exhibited. 

SL students (400 words) may find the following questions helpful when approaching this task: 

1. What are you hoping to achieve by presenting this body of work? 

2. What impact will this body of work have on your audience?

3. What are the concepts and understandings you initially intend to convey? 

4.  How have particular issues, motifs or ideas been explored, or particular materials or techniques used? 

5. What themes can be identified in the work, or what experiences have influenced it? 

6. How does the way you have exhibited your artwork contribute to the meanings you are trying to convey to an audience?  

HL students (700 words) may find the following questions helpful when approaching this task: 

1. What is the vision for presenting this body of work? 

2. How have particular issues, motifs or ideas been explored, or particular materials or techniques used? 

3. What themes can be identified in the work, or what experiences have influenced it? 

4. How does the way you have exhibited your artwork contribute to the meanings you are trying to convey to an audience? 

5. What strategies did you use to develop a relationship between the artwork and the viewer, for example, visual impact? 

6. How does the way you have arranged and presented your artworks support the relationship and connection between the artworks presented? 

7. What do you intend your audience to feel, think, experience, understand, see, learn, consider from the work you have selected for exhibition? 

   1. Which artists influenced your concepts, style or technique?

Very good example of a Curatorial Rationale

File Formats for Submitting Artworks

Students may choose to capture and submit individual artworks for assessment in a variety of ways, depending on the nature of the artwork and the resources available. The work should ideally be captured in whatever electronic means is most appropriate for the selected art-making form.

• A two-dimensional artwork is best captured through a still photograph. Photographs of 2D artworks should be taken before the work is mounted or framed (the glass reflects and it's hard to take a good photo).

• A three-dimensional artwork might be best captured through a short video recording so it can be shown from all angles.

• Lens-based, electronic or screen-based artwork such as animation might call for more unusual file types.  Please note that time-based submissions such as these are limited to a maximum duration of five minutes and examiners will watch them with the sound turned off.  

Two Additional Photos Allowed for Each Artwork

Whatever the chosen means of capturing each individual artwork, students are permitted to submit up to two additional photographs in support of each submitted artwork. These additional supporting photographs or screenshots are intended to enable students to provide an enhanced sense of scale or specific detail to the submitted artwork. These extra photographs are optional.

Two Exhibition Photos

• These exhibition photographs provide an understanding of the context of the exhibition and the size and scope of the works. 

• While the photographs will not be used to assess individual artworks, they give the moderator insight into how a student has considered the overall experience of the viewer in their exhibition. 

• Only the selected artworks submitted for assessment should appear in the exhibition photographs. 

Uploading onto IBIS (students chosen for moderation ONLY)

When you upload the exhibition work onto IBIS, you have to upload everything separately - not as a Powerpoint. The screen will look like this:

Uploading Your Work - Mar 29, 2017 6:55:19 PM