Exhibition
40%
Current Unit: Comparative Study
40%
It is a culmination of your IB experience. You will present a selection of your best work that is curated in a final show, and articulate their purpose and intention in a written rationale.
You would choose the strongest, most resolved artworks - HL 8-11 pieces, SL 4-7 - which show these qualities:
Technical skill
Appropriate use of materials, techniques and processes (do not need to be 2d/3d/lens based unlike process portfolio)
Coherent body of works (ones with a common theme or idea)
Work that connects to the stated intentions.
Consideration of the curation of exhibitions
Exhibition Texts:
up to 500 characters to accompany each piece to explain the intentions and connections to other artists.
(PLUS title, medium, size)
Exhibition Overview Photos
2 overall photos of the exhibition to better understand what it would feel like to be there.
Additional Supporting Photos (optional)
you can choose to add extra photos of each submitted piece.
Curatorial Rationale
SL- 400 words, HL - 700 words
It is a written statement that goes along with your exhibition. It addresses the work that you have chosen, the intentions, presentation and curatorial methods.
Higher level will address the relationship that there is with the viewer too.
"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 realized piece 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 selfmade, 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 acknowledged within the exhibition text or in the curatorial rationale, following the protocol of the referencing style chosen by the school. In-text referencing is required for sources used to write the curatorial rationale."
Visual Arts Guide 2017 Page 56