Exhibition


Task summary

The exhibition is an internally examined assessment task worth 40%.

To complete the task, you are required to present an exhibition of your resolved artworks together with accompanying exhibition text (which states the title, medium, size and a brief outline of the original intentions of each selected artwork) and a curatorial rationale. You will need to document your exhibition electronically.

Formal requirements

SL
  • SL students submit a curatorial rationale that does not exceed 400 words.
  • SL students submit 4–7 artworks. (You are permitted to submit up to two additional photographs in support of each submitted artwork. These additional supporting photographs or screenshots are intended to enable you to provide an enhanced sense of scale or specific detail to the submitted artwork. These additional photographs are optional.)
  • SL students submit exhibition text stating the title, medium and size of the artwork and short (maximum 500 characters) explanation of intent for each selected artwork.
  • SL students may submit two photographs of their overall exhibition. They will not be assessed or used to assess the individual artworks.
HL
  • HL students submit a curatorial rationale that does not exceed 700 words.
  • HL students submit 8–11 artworks. (You are permitted to submit up to two additional photographs in support of each submitted artwork. These additional supporting photographs or screenshots are intended to enable you to provide an enhanced sense of scale or specific detail to the submitted artwork. These additional photographs are optional).
  • HL students submit exhibition text stating the title, medium and size of the artwork and short (maximum 500 characters) explanation of intent for each selected artwork.
  • HL students may submit two photographs of their overall exhibition. They will not be assessed or used to assess the individual artworks.

Here is an explanation of the Exhibition (provided by IB)

Exhibition

 

 

Here is a summary of what we will be doing to prepare for the Exhibition throughout the course:

Exhibition and Curatorial Rationale Explanation

Exhibition Text Diagram:

 

NPHS Student Sample Exhibition/Curatorial Rationale

John Lazo (2018)

Exhibition score: 6

John Lazo – Exhibition_ I.B. Photography HL

 

Ryan Barry (2018)

Exhibition score: 6

Ryan Barry – IB Visual Arts Exhibition SL

 

Tam Le (2018) (SL)

Exhibition score: 6

Tam Le – Exhibition

 

Daria Azizad (2018) (SL)

Exhibition score: 6

Daria Azizad – Exhibition

 

Katelyn Mehner (2018) (SL)

Exhibition score: 6

Mehner_Katelyn_VisualArts_Exhibition_Lindroth

 

Jack Smith (2017)

Overall score: 5 (SL)

Jack Smith Exhibition SL 2017 Score 5

 

Kylie Kelleher (2016)

Overall score: 5 (HL)

Kelleher_Kylie_VA_Lindroth_Curatorial Rationale

 

Albert Qian (2016)

Overall score: 6 (SL)

Qian_Albert_VA_Lindroth_Exhibition

 

Here are samples of the Exhibition submission with the Curatorial Rationale (provided by IB)

Standard Level:

Example07_en     Assessment of this Exhibition

Example08_en    Assessment of this Exhibition

Higher Level:

Example09_en HL    Assessment of this Exhibition

Example10_en HL    Assessment of this Exhibition

 

Other Exhibition Examples provided by IB

Exhibition Student A (HL) not graded vision

Exhibition Student A (SL)

Exhibition Student B (SL) not graded animals orphans

Exhibition Student B (SL)2

Exhibition Student C (HL)

Exhibition Student D (HL) only rationale