The Monique Beudert Fund

Monique Beudert (1950–99) was a gifted curator who worked for eleven years at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and for five years at the Tate Gallery, London. She was widely respected as a curator who had a special sympathy for artists and an exceptional ability to present contemporary artworks in a museum context. A group of her friends have created a Fund in her memory. Since 2001, the Fund has been used each year to support special projects undertaken by students on the master’s programmes in curatorial studies at the Royal College of Art, London and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York. The Fund focuses on exchange of ideas between Europe and the Americas, encouraging students in each institution to study and present contemporary work by artists from the other side of the Atlantic. Projects may take the form of exhibitions, publications, lectures, symposia or manifestations using electronic media. Past projects curated by students at the Royal College of Art: David Lamelas: The Impossibility of Information (2001); Reverend Ethan Acres: The London Mission (2002); Britain Bombs America, America Bombs Britain, by the Centre for Land Use Interpretation (2003); Los del Este/Eastenders (a modest proposal), by Mexican artist Pablo Helguera (2004) and The C of the Willing, by 16 Beaver (2005).