Location
Den Bosch
Visual Arts and Post-Contemporary Practice graduation track master full-time
In the graduation track Visual Arts you develop practice- and process-based research with students from other disciplines. In a setting that connects cultural studies, visual and digital cultures.
Master Visual Arts and Post-Contemporary Practice graduation track
This is a graduation track of the master of Arts in Fine Art & Design.
In an interdisciplinary learning environment, you develop independent and collaborative research projects. Through a theoretically informed critical approach, you develop your practice in a peer-to-peer context.
During Visual Arts you are invited to create strategies and develop practices that expand the social and aesthetic sense of society. You are stimulated to re-envision artistic engagement through an open and creative process.
The aim of the graduation track is to enable you to develop intellectual and practical skills as a starting artist. And to be more confident in your practice and role in relation to society.
Visual Arts offers you studio spaces, workshop and technical facilities, including a Techlab with VR/AR and interactive media. And you have access to workshops film & photography, print, wood, ceramics, metal, supported by a team of experienced staff.
The graduation track maintains strong connections to key institutions in the Netherlands and abroad, including V2_Lab for Unstable Media Rotterdam, Impakt Festival Utrecht, Stedelijk Museum Breda.
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Visual Arts and Post-Contemporary Practice
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What student Yanxian learns during Visual Arts
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Alicia wanted to develop her work as an artist
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Iliana explores the female gaze in photography
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Why student Tănasă chose Visual Arts
Programme structure Visual Arts and Post-Contemporary Practice graduation track master
The graduation track Visual Arts and Post-Contemporary Practice is delivered across 24 months, comprised of 4 semesters and 6 units of study. Each unit ends with an assessment correlated to adhering learning outcomes.
During this graduation track, students from various disciplines learn how to provide meaning to the world, supported by a motivated tutor team.
In the first year you focus on training new skills, methods of research and setting up your research practice for your artistic practice. Visual Arts offers you modules, courses and tutorials to explore how to contextualize, expand and integrate your work in the right professional work field. At the end of each semester there is a assessment on your individual studio practice. All education takes place at the Avans location.
Semester 1 Context & Skills Learning
Semester 2 Co-research and External Enquiry in the Field
Important courses:
- Elective modules (cross-pathway)
- Research Seminar
- Reading group
- Rethinking the artist economy
- Tutorials
In the second year you focus more on writing your thesis and materializing outcomes of your research. You present your final research at the Graduation Research HUB and you get the opportunity to exhibit your work at the graduation show. At the end of each semester there is a assessment on your individual studio practice. Education takes place in a hybrid programme. It's possible to study remotely on a temporary basis, or to combine it with residencies and research activities abroad.
Semester 3 Consolidation of Practice-led Research
Semester 4 Graduation Phase
Important courses:
- Professional Practice
- Thesis Supervision
- Tutorials
- Research Seminar
- Materialisation Graduation Work
Location of your programme
Den Bosch
Parallelweg 23
5223 AL Den Bosch
Tel: +3188 - 525 75 00