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ABOUT
THE
PROGRAM
1 Project. 8 Weeks.
From Idea to Execution
Some ideas don't need another workshop. They need a community capable of thinking alongside them.
Creative Synergies is an eight-week intensive online residency & mentorship program for artists, curators, cultural entrepreneurs, and researchers who are carrying an idea that matters but has not yet found its form. It is a structured process for developing one project with rigor, critical dialogue, and strategic thinking.
Over eight weeks, you will work closely with the mentor and an international cohort with diverse backgrounds to clarify your project's conceptual foundations, strengthen its methodology, identify its audiences and contexts, and develop a concrete strategy for its realization.
The aim is not simply to improve an idea. It is to transform uncertainty into direction. By the end of the program, your project will have a clear conceptual framework, a strategic direction, and the confidence to move from intention to realization.
Who is this program for?
Creative Synergies is for artworkers who already have a project idea, research inquiry, or curatorial idea they want to develop and/or produce with depth and intention.
It is for those who are looking for critical exchange rather than validation; for people who value thoughtful dialogue over quick answers; and for those who understand that meaningful projects emerge through sustained reflection, careful questioning, and collective intelligence.
This program may not be for you if...
*You are looking for a one-directional lecture series.
*Technical skills training.
*Short-cut formulas for success.
Creative Synergies asks participants to bring curiosity, commitment, and a willingness to rethink their own assumptions.
The work is demanding, not because of its pace, but because of the depth of attention it invites.
What is currently missing in executing your idea?
What makes this program
unique?
A methodology, not a curriculum
Creative Synergies offers a structured methodology for developing a project through critical reflection, strategic thinking, and sustained dialogue. Every participant follows the same framework, but no two projects evolve in the same way.
Thinking as a collective practice
Creative work rarely develops in isolation. Throughout the program, participants think alongside mentors and an international cohort of practitioners whose diverse experiences become part of the project's development. Feedback is not about evaluation; it is about expanding perspectives, challenging assumptions, and opening new possibilities.
From intuition to articulation
Many projects begin with a strong intuition but lack the language, structure, or strategy needed to move forward. Creative Synergies helps participants transform emerging ideas into projects that are conceptually grounded, strategically coherent, and ready to enter the world.
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
Fully Online
Work from Anywhere.
The program has no geography. Participants join from across continents, time zones, and institutional contexts, bringing the richness of their specific local conditions into a shared space of exchange.
The online format is not a limitation. It is the condition that makes a genuinely global creative conversation possible.
Personalized One-on-One Mentorship
Someone Who Actually
Works Alongside You
At the center of the program is a relationship. Each participant works directly with Internationally experienced mentor who engages closely with their specific project, not a generalized idea of it.
Sessions are dedicated to the questions that actually stall you: what this project is really about, what it is trying to do, and what it needs next.
Expect honesty. Expect rigor. Expect to leave each session knowing exactly where to go.
Collaborative Group Sessions
Peer-to-Peer Learning &
Unlearning
There is something that happens when you are asked to articulate your project to a group of peers who are also mid-process, who understand the difficulty of the work because they are inside it too.
You will learn to speak about your work with precision, to receive critique without defensiveness, and to give feedback from your peers. This is where the project stops being private and starts becoming communicable.
Bi-Weekly Seminar - AAC Talks
Conversations That Expands Your Thoughts
Every two weeks, the cohort meets with a guest - an artist, curator, scholar, institution, or researcher whose work resonates with community-oriented approach.
These are not lectures. They are structured conversations designed to expand the frameworks you bring to your own work: how you research, how you argue, how you position what you make within a wider discourse. The questions you carry in will rarely be the same ones you leave with.
Online Public Symposium
Present Your Work To
The World
The program closes with a public symposium - an online event open to the extended AAC community and international field including the public.
Each participant presents their developed project: not a work-in-progress, but a proposition with a position. The symposium is a threshold. What you bring to it is the proof of your eight weeks.
Online Program Catalog
Your Work in Archive
Every participant's work is documented and published in the CS Program Online Catalog - a curated record distributed across our global network.
It is a deliberate act of institutional recognition: your project, named and framed, placed in conversation with the broader field.
Professional Promotion Through AAC Channels
Visibility That Works Beyond the Program
Your project is promoted through AAC's social media, newsletter, and website, reaching an active, international community of artworkers, curators, and cultural practitioners.
This is not automated content. It is intentional placement, within a context that makes your work legible to the right people.
Post-Program Alumni Access
Beyond the program
Projects come and go. Relationships stay.
Throughout Creative Synergies, you are not only developing your project, you are becoming part of a global community of practitioners whose work, contexts, and questions differ from yours in ways that matter. That difference is the point.
Past alumni have gone on to collaborate long after the program closed, not because we arranged it, but because the conditions for genuine connection were built into the experience from the start.
As organizers, we take peer-to-peer learning and unlearning seriously. However, that doesn't happen by accident. We actively cultivate it. The program is just the beginning of a future long-term kinship.
HOW YOUR IDEA TRANSFORMS WITHIN
8 WEEKS?
LET'S HEAR FROM OUR ALUMNI
PROGRAM REVIEW
Oumu Aidara (Senegal, Germany)
Artist, Researcher, Photographer & Writer
The mentorship supported me in translating a very fluid practice into something structured and legible. At first I had just random ideas and wanted to make one exhibition. But throughout the program I was able to understand why did I want to make an exhibition and what would happen afterwards; how to develop my idea in depth and make sure a solid core to bring it to life. So I'm really grateful for the process and for this program.
Laura Arena (USA, Germany)
Artist, Writer & Creative Project Manager
When I started the program, I had a project with clear ideas, but conceptually they weren't connected. By the end, I had completely transformed it. I rewrote my description, created an abstract, and nailed a clear elevator pitch for my website and applications. Plus, I built a full list of organizations, open calls, and funding opportunities, and I learned to strategize my time so I could move forward. In the end, I wasn't just clear, I had a concrete plan and tools to take action.
Andrea Galarza (Ecuador)
Creative Project Manager & Cultural Manager
The mentorship helped me to look at my project from the outside. It started as a small event, it slowly revealed as something much bigger. And because the mentorship happens every weekend, it gave me enough space throughout the week to really focus, reflect, and reorganize. Instead of giving me quick answers, the mentorship gave me perspective. And through that perspective, the structure naturally emerged.
Pamela Calero (Colombia, Spain)
Visual Artist & Creative director
The mentorship sessions helped me translate intuition into structure. The program truly gave me a lot of clarity. It helped me to articulate the conceptual core of my project and reconnect to my artistic practice with the themes that have been central to my work. When I entered the program, I had an early idea of exploring how emotions are socially performed. Throughout the mentorship, the concept gradually became more defined.
Iva Buzhashka (Bulgaria, Spain)
Art Curator, Researcher, Writer & Gallerist
It was very enriching to share the space with professionals from various professional paths and cultural backgrounds and to receive feedback and inspiration from them. I really liked the group dynamic and I do feel it was very helpful and inspiring. It was very enriching, nurturing and helpful for the development of the project.
Ricardo Castagnola (Italy, Germany)
Artist, Sound & Multimedia performer
We worked on our ideas from very different point of views. For example, one-to-one session, group session and talks with inspiring artists and curators who share their own path with us and discussing about challenges of art professionals around the world. Everything was structured. The focused exercises for writing helped developing solid context, conceptual framework and also financial aspect.
Nuria González Alcaide (Spain)
Visual Artist
The group meetings have been very helpful. We've been having meetings every week and it's been very good for new inspirations and for new feedback. And as we all come from different backgrounds and different nationalities, it's also good to gather and to find the common paths that we have. And it's also been very motivating to hear the other projects and what the other participants had to tell about my project.
Key Information
PARTICIPATION FEE
450 Euros / Per person
ELIGIBILITY
Global
Age Restriction
None
Mode
Fully Remote
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PARTICIPANTS & THEIR PROJECTS
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ONLINE CATALOG
AAC TALKS
ARCHIVE
FAQs
Creative Synergies is an 8-week (fully online) intensive mentorship programme for early and mid-career artists, curators, and creative entrepreneurs. It provides structured one-on-one mentorship, peer exchange, and critical feedback to develop an idea into a fully developed, coherent, and articulated proposition.
The programme is designed for early to mid-career artists, curators, and creative entrepreneurs who have a project idea and are looking for structured guidance to refine, expand, and position it. It is ideal for those working between an initial concept and a fully realised project.
The Creative Synergies Mentorship Program is led by Mahzabin Haque, Founder and Managing Director of All About Curatin. Mahzabin is a Berlin-based art curator, educator, and researcher whose academic background spans across engineering, photography, and media arts.
With more than 14+ years of international experience, she has worked across institutional, independent, and educational contexts, mentoring artists, curators, and creative entrepreneurs to develop conceptually and strategically coherent projects through structured frameworks. Her practice is grounded in transdisciplinary thinking shaped by living, studying, and working across seven countries, which informs her approach to building practices that operate across cultural and disciplinary boundaries.
Her institutional collaborations include MoMA New York, ZKM Karlsruhe, Sprengel Museum Hannover, British Council, Goethe-Institut, Bengal Foundation, and ABC Incuba (Berlin State-funded Art Incubator), among many others.
Within Creative Synergies, she applies her expanded experience directly in supporting participants to develop projects that are structurally rigorous, context-aware, and positioned for real-world articulation.
The program runs over 8 weeks and combines individual mentorship sessions, group discussions, peer feedback, and lectures by invited guests from across the world. The structure is designed to support continuous development of each participant’s project within a focused and iterative process.
Each cohort is intentionally limited to between 5 and 7 participants. This small group size is a deliberate structural choice, ensuring that every participant receives sustained, in-depth attention, precise critical feedback, and adequate intellectual and creative space within the programme.
Each participant receives 4 individual mentorship sessions over the duration of the programme. Each session lasts between 60 and 90 minutes and is fully dedicated to your project.
In addition to the bi-weekly individual mentorships, there are 8 weekly group sessions and 3 bi-weekly lectures by international artworkers and institutions.No. You do not need a fully developed project.
However, you must join the program with an idea that you are actively committed to developing throughout the program.
Yes. Collectives and organisations are welcome to apply.
Please contact info@allaboutcurating.com with a short description of your project and the number of participants.
A tailored format and fee will be provided.
The fee for the programme is €450 / per person. Payment is required to be paid in full.
However, as an organization keen on supporting the global community and making our programs accessible to the participants, we can arrange two-installment payments if you get selected. If you are a student or facing any financial challenges, please mention that in the application form as a special note.