Major

MA Fine Arts

In the Master's Major in Fine Arts, you deepen your artistic practice. Here you can find your audience and have an opportunity to develop your practical and theoretical knowledge, consolidate your artistic research, while exploring different contexts of contemporary art at the same time.


  • Course commencement

    Autumn semester

  • Application deadline

    17 February 2025

  • Standard period of study

    4 semesters

  • Coursework Major / MA

    90 / 120 ECTS credits

  • Teaching language

    English

  • Tuition fee per semester CH / non CH

    CHF 720 / CHF 1220



Studium


Major-Minor Programme Model

With the major, students choose their core subject area. In addition, you can choose either one or two minors to further develop the competencies from your chosen major or to expand them across disciplines. The minors in Fine Arts available to you at Master’s level are “Art, Work and Labour”, “Art in Context”, “Curatorial Practice”,“Social Art Practices” and “Art Production and Handling”. Below, you will find a list of all minors that can be taken jointly.


Possible minors for this major


Degree programmes beginning before the autumn semester of 2023 (BA) or before the autumn semester of 2024 (MA)

Before the autumn semester of 2023, there were eight bachelor's degree programmes and before the autumn semester of 2024, there were eleven master's degree programmes with numerous specializations to choose from. Interdisciplinary options were available in Z-modules and open courses from other subject areas.

→ Degree programmes beginning before the autumn semester of 2023 (BA) or before the autumn semester of 2024 (MA)


Faculty

Director


Faculty


Guest lecturers

Among others, the following guests were active in the MA Fine Arts from 2018 to 2024: 
Mitchell Anderson, Gianmaria Andreetta, Eric Baudelaire, Maximiliane Baumgartner, Sabian Baumann, Mathieu Copeland, Maria Eichhorn, Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff, Philipp Ekardt, Gabriele Garavaglia, Sören Grammel, Beatrice Gibson, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Jörg Heiser, Shen He, Stefanie Hessler, Adelita Husni-Bey, Gianni Jetzer, Morag Keil, Kapwani Kiwanga, Elise Lammer, Elisa R. Linn, Lorenza Longhi, Jonas Lund, Juan Barcia Mas, Christian Philipp Müller, Ima-Abasi Okon, Paulina Olowska, Doireann O’Malley, Ceylan Öztrük, Phung-Tien Phan, PRICE, Charlie Prodger, Tabita Rezaire, Carissa Rodriguez, Rory Rowan, Julia Scher, Shirana Shahbazi, Richard Sides, Anne Speier, Annika Ström, Ilaria Vinci, Angharad Williams. 


Assistants and research associates


News


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Events


Exhibition space


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