Chanel and Guggenheim Launch Transatlantic Curatorial Fellowship
Chanel and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation are launching a transatlantic curatorial fellowship linking New York and Venice, with an announcement timed to the start of the Venice Biennale, ARTnews reports. Beginning in 2027, the one-year Chanel Culture Fund Fellowship will support MA- and PhD-level scholars focused on collection studies and curatorial research, starting at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and continuing at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice; an open call will begin this fall, and fellows will receive a stipend and travel support. Chanel executive Yana Peel described the initiative as long-term investment in curators and researchers, while positioning Venice as a site for sustained scholarship beyond the Biennale’s peak period. The program is framed as an advanced complement to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection’s long-running International Fellowship, whose alumni include Nicholas Cullinan, Thomas Campbell, and Nathan Clements-Gillespie, and it notes that alumna Flavia Frigeri is now Chanel Curator for the Collection at London’s National Portrait Gallery.
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