Open Call: Organised Care – Workshop
Parahosted by PUBLICS

Rikke Bank invites artists, curators, cultural workers, and others engaged in organising art to participate in Organised Care, a participatory workshop on caring infrastructures and collective grieving within the cultural field.

The session explores care not only as an ethical stance, but as an organisational and infrastructural condition. Together, we will reflect on responsibility, exhaustion, maintenance, and what may need to be laid to rest in order to imagine more sustainable ways of working.

The workshop will include guided conversation and simple material exercises. No preparation is required, only a willingness to participate in collective reflection.

Participation is voluntary, and contributions will remain anonymous.

Participation is free, but registration is required. Sign up for the event closes on Monday 9th March.

To sign up, please register here

FURTHER INFORMATION

Please join us at PUBLICS on 12 March for a participatory workshop exploring caring infrastructures and collective grieving as forms of organised care within the contemporary art field. The workshop is led by curator and consultant Rikke Bank.

The word curator originates from the Latin curare, meaning “to take care.” Yet cura also carries other meanings: concern, worry, even grief. Care is not only protective attention; it is also a burden, responsibility, and the carrying of trouble.

Historically, the curator was responsible for looking after collections. In contemporary practice, curatorial work extends beyond objects to encompass care for people, publics, and organisational processes.

But what supports those who organise care?  What structures sustain those who hold others?  And what happens when care itself becomes exhausting, invisible, or unevenly distributed?

This workshop invites artists, curators, cultural workers, and others engaged in organising art and cultural work to reflect collectively on what we carry – and what may need to be laid to rest.

Through guided conversation and simple material exercises, we will approach care not only as an ethical stance, but as an infrastructural condition shaped by responsibility, maintenance, change, and shared vulnerability. Participation is voluntary, and contributions will remain anonymous.

Participants will leave with shared language and concrete reflections on how care might be organised more sustainably within their own contexts.

The workshop forms part of Rikke Bank’s ongoing research project Organised Care, which investigates regenerative work cultures in the cultural and creative fields and builds on earlier research into curatorial practice and sustainability. In fall 2025, she published the zine Curating Regeneration in collaboration with Frame Contemporary Art Finland and the Sustainable Visual Arts Network.

Capacity is limited. Registration required.

Rikke Bank

Rikke Bank (she/her) is a curator and consultant working between Helsinki and Copenhagen. Her practice explores curating in an expanded field, with a focus on participatory methodologies, regenerative thinking, and cultural ecologies. She collaborates with organisations, artists, and communities to develop projects that foster dialogue, shared inquiry, and socially engaged forms of learning.

Bank holds a BA in Art History from the University of Copenhagen and an MA in Leadership for Sustainability from Malmö University, and is currently completing the Nordic Master in Visual Studies and Art Education at Aalborg University and Aalto University. Recent collaborations include Frame Contemporary Art Finland (FI), Naturkraft (DK), Villa Kultur (DK), and TaM (BG). In 2021, she co-founded the collaborative platform Along Projects.