Welcome to the Master of Fine Art
Are you a visual artist or cultural worker? Perhaps you’ve completed a Bachelor’s degree in another discipline? Are you interested in cultural work and its sociocultural context? In the Master of Fine Art, you delve more deeply into the making and perception of different artistic expressions. These cultural expressions are never neutral. Both cultural and everyday practices always arise from their own perspective, including a social perspective. And artistic expressions play a major role in how these cultural practices are experienced.
As a Master’s student of Fine Art, you’ll experiment with artistic approaches that are anchored in sociopolitical contexts. You’ll take a critical look at issues relating to how artistic expressions are perceived. Through our long-standing collaboration and partnerships with other art institutions, we offer opportunities for contact between the art academy and the art world. This close collaboration with institutional practices will give you an understanding of the professional field internationally, allowing you to position your own artistic practice in other work contexts, or further develop your own practice.In brief
- A two-year full-time English-taught Master's programme
- A deeper exploration of contemporary visual art in the sociocultural domain and how it is perceived
- Developing, recognising and communicating your own position
- A focus on making, thinking and sharing
- Four interrelated practices: studio, transdisciplinary, curatorial and exhibition
- Graduating with your own work and collective work, plus a research report
- International environment: students from 42 different countries have taken part in the programme
- High-quality: the course was awarded with a golden medal by 'EW best studies 2022’
How do you know the Master of Fine Art is right for you?
- The Master of Fine Art is the programme for you if:
- You have completed a Bachelor of Fine Art or related discipline
- You have experience in the cultural domain and you dare to look critically at the sociopolitical field of the arts
- You like to experiment with different approaches to art and to look for relationships between things, expressions and practices through learning by doing
- You want to develop your own artistic practice and research, in which you respond to and work with the input, collaborative methodologies and support structures from the Master’s programme
- You want to reflect on your own practice and on society: you seek your own position, wishing to see your own complicity in terms of capitalist, colonial, heteronormative and patriarchal structures, and to translate this into your own practice
- You’re interested in and challenged by the institutional context in which you’ll study
- You like to share your knowledge and ideas with others: you enjoy collaborating, for example, by developing student-teacher led seminars and joint work sessions