Creative & Performing Arts Translation
Exhibition catalogues, gallery press releases, concert and theatre programmes, festival documentation, grant applications, artist statements, collection descriptions, performance scripts and arts institution communications.
About this service
Arts translation is a discipline where accuracy and voice must coexist. An exhibition catalogue that is technically accurate but sounds stiff and institutional does not serve the artist or the gallery. A grant application that loses the passion and specificity of the original in translation is less compelling to evaluators who read dozens of applications. Performance subtitles need to land with the rhythm of the spoken word, not the structure of a written sentence. We translate exhibition catalogues and collection guides, gallery and museum press releases, artist statements and portfolios, concert and theatre programmes, festival documentation, arts council grant applications, performance scripts and subtitles, commissioned writing about visual art, music, film and performance, and institutional communications for arts organisations seeking international partnerships. We work between French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese. Our arts translators have backgrounds in art history, musicology, theatre studies, cultural journalism or arts administration.