ONTHOLOGY OF CURATING

The article is devoted to theoretical modeling of the ontology of curating of exhibition projects. At the same time, curating is considered in two complementary "projections": as a function in the conditions of exhibition activity and as an independent activity. The meaningful “frame” for expressing the desired ontology is the methodical presentation of activity. The methodological basis for theoretical modeling is the activity approach, the genetically constructive approach, the ontologization method and the constant method. In addition to the conditional norm of the curator's activity, the main possible options for going beyond it are separately considered, which in this construction is expressed through opposition to the curator of the art manager's figure. In this regard, the ontological functions of the art manager as a stable subject of the mechanism of system exhibition activity are described.