Exhibition Work Assessment

A. Coherent body of works

Evidence: curatorial rationale, the submitted artworks, exhibition text and exhibition photographs/video

To what extent does the submitted work communicate:

• a coherent collection of works which fulfill stated artistic intentions and communicate clear thematic or stylistic relationships across individual pieces?

Candidates who fail to submit the minimum number of artworks cannot achieve a mark higher than 6. 

B. Technical competence

Evidence: curatorial rationale, the submitted artworks, exhibition text and exhibition photographs/video

To what extent does the submitted work demonstrate:

• effective application and manipulation of media and materials;

• effective application and manipulation of the formal qualities?

Candidates who fail to submit the minimum number of artworks cannot achieve a mark higher than 6.

The work demonstrates effective application and manipulation of media and materials to reach an assured level of technical competence in a chosen forms and the effective application and manipulation of the formal qualities. 

C. Conceptual qualities

Evidence: curatorial rationale, the submitted artworks, exhibition text and exhibition photographs/video

To what extent does the submitted work demonstrate:

• effective resolution of imagery, signs and symbols to realize the function, meaning and purpose of the
  art works, as appropriate to stated intentions?

Candidates who fail to submit the minimum number of artworks cannot achieve a mark higher than 6.

The work visually elaborates ideas, themes or concepts to a point of effective realization and demonstrates the subtle use of complex imagery, signs or symbols that result in effective communication of stated artistic intentions.  

D. Curatorial practice (SL only)

Evidence: curatorial rationale, the submitted artworks, exhibition text and exhibition photographs/video

To what extent does the curatorial rationale justify:

• the selection, arrangement and exhibition of a group of artworks within a designated space?

D. Curatorial practice (HL only)

Evidence: curatorial rationale, the submitted artworks, exhibition text and exhibition photographs/video

To what extent does the curatorial rationale demonstrate:

• the justification of the selection, arrangement and exhibition of a group of artworks within a
  designated space?

• reflection on how the exhibition conveys an understanding of the relationship between the artworks
  and the viewer?