Cohort program

Walk with the cohort, not alone.

The walks are open to everyone. Most visitors take them on their own. A smaller group walks them together — twelve at a time, four months at a time, with the curators present.

This is the application page for that smaller group.

What walking with the cohort means

01 You walk every walk the institution publishes that season. Five at a time, sometimes a sixth. A new walk arrives roughly every three weeks during the cohort.
02 You read other walkers' marks. Every walk ends with a mark. In the cohort, the marks are not anonymous. You see who said what, and the curators read aloud from the marks at office hours.
03 You meet the curators twice a month, online. One session per walk. The curators bring source material that did not make it into the walk and a question they have not yet answered.
04 You leave with one commission of your own — a short piece of writing, a recording, a drawing. The institution publishes it, with your name, on the walk it most belongs to.
05 You stay walkers after the cohort ends. The cohort is four months. The friendships, in our experience, are longer.

The commitments, plainly

Twelve walkers. Four months. Two video sessions a month with a curator. One commission. No required reading list, no degree, no prerequisite.

Cost

€480 for the four months. €240 for students under 26 and residents of lower- and lower-middle-income countries. Two scholarship places per cohort, reserved on request.

Time

Roughly three hours a week — about ninety minutes of walking, ninety minutes of reading or making, plus the office hour twice a month.

When

Cohorts run twice a year. The next opens 1 September 2026 and runs through 31 December. Applications close 1 August.

Where

Online for the office hours. The walks themselves are read wherever you are. Most cohorts have walkers in five or six time zones at once.

— if any of these does not work for you, write to us before applying. Most things are negotiable.

Apply to the cohort

Four short answers. There is no application fee. Decisions arrive within three weeks of applying — earlier if a place opens earlier. Twelve places per cohort.

Your name

Where you are walking from

We use this only to balance the cohort across regions and time zones.

Which walk has moved you so far

What question are you walking

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Tuition track

Thank you, walker. Your application is in.

A curator reads every application personally. You will hear from us within three weeks. If a place opens earlier, you will hear sooner. If we cannot place you in this cohort, we will tell you the reason and offer the next one.

In the meantime, the walks are open. Take whichever you have not taken yet.

Democracy → Lyric Attention → Sustainability → Decoloniality → Power and Ideology →

If the cohort isn't the right shape

There are two other ways to be inside the institution without applying to the cohort. The first is the open walks — anyone can read them, leave a mark, and come back. That is most visitors. The second is the institution's general membership, which supports the publishing program, opens the archive, and gives access to single events. Membership lives at institution.art/memberships.

If you are mostly here for the school, the Decolonized History of Art course is a separate program with its own dates and tuition. See the school surface.