Career Insight: Exploring careers in Event Producing

Curious about how museums programme events around exhibitions and their collections? Interested in careers in event producing and management? 

Hear from Eva Viskovic, V&A Museum Events Manager and Oisín Kenny, former Apollo Fellow at the National Gallery of Ireland as they discuss managing and producing a range of events, from commercial to learning and development, in cultural spaces. 

Join us as they share case studies of their work, discuss their practice and consider the skills and experience that help them in their roles. 

This talk is a part of a series this Autumn exploring careers in museums and the broader creative industries. If you are interested in the work of the V&A Youth Collective, this talk will give a broad insight into what the Collective explore in their meetings.

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Eva Viskovic is the Museum Events Manager at the V&A. She works on up to 100 Museum hosted events per year at V&A South Kensington, Young V&A, and V&A East Sites. Alongside the Museum Events Team, she coordinates the design, logistics and delivery of events, including the opening of major museum exhibitions. Before joining the V&A, Eva worked in VIP and Events at Frieze, working at their fairs in London and Los Angeles. She has a degree in History of Art from University of Warwick.

Oisín Kenny was previously the Apollo Fellow at the National Gallery of Ireland, coordinating their dedicated youth programme for and by young people (ages 16-25 year olds). Oisín also wrote for Ireland’s leading LGBTQ+ press Gay Community News (GCN). He holds an MA in Journalism from Dublin City University and a BA in English, Media, and Cultural Studies from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology.