Master of Fine Art Courses
Netherlands
DO & THINK! MFA master fine art St. Joost
The Academy of Art and Design St. Joost (AKV/ St. Joost) offers a full-time master of fine art course in Den Bosch, in the South of the Netherlands. A select group of only 10 artists are given the opportunity to enrich and professionalize their work under the guidance of a stimulating team of teachers and guests.
The master of fine art AKV/ St. Joost is practice orientated, with a strong, stimulating theoretical component. Students are constantly challenged to deepen their own work while operating in different environments and situations, and while using different concepts and themes. St. Joost operates in an international network and offers students the chance to present their work in a professional and international context.
Current students come from Brasil, Belorussia, France, Taiwan, Belgium, USA, Greece, Poland and the Netherlands. Students set up exhibitions and presentations this year at: Kunstvlaai - Co-Prosperity Sphere Chicago - Lokaal 01 Antwerp -
MFA students St. Joost worked the last 3 years during working visits with colleagues at:
- Nordic Art School, Kokkola, Finland
- La-Pinta, Barcelona, Spain
- PRO ARTE institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Version Art Festival Chicago, Chicago, United States
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PhDArts, Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
PhDArts offers an international, high-level doctorate in visual arts and design. Each doctoral course of study comprises individual research as well as a doctoral study programme. An appropriate team of supervisors and a suitable research environment is ...
De Ateliers
De Ateliers is an independent artists' institute which is run by visual artists. It focuses on the artistic development of young, talented artists from within the Netherlands and abroad. The monumental building in the center of Amsterdam offers ...
Berlage Instituut
The Berlage Institute is an international postgraduate laboratory for education, research and development in the fields of architecture, urban planning and landscape design. The institute aims to provide a critical environment where spatial planning ...
Binger Film Institute
The Maurits Binger Film Institute is a unique post academic development and training programme for film. Its aim is to increase and perfect the skills of new professional filmmakers through the development of a number of film projects. Its focus is ...
DasArts
DasArts is an international school laboratory, situated in Amsterdam. The dynamic educational model aims to shape a vision of a theatre of the future. The programme concentrates on four disciplines: directing, choreography, modern mime and scenography. ...
AKI / ARTez Enschede
The DAI (Dutch Art Institute) is one of the master courses of the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts. As of September 2003 the DAI targets young artists with two convergent educational programs: DAI private and DAI public. These programs help them to access ...
Jan van Eyck Academie
The Jan van Eyck Akademie is an international post graduate institute for practical experiment and research in the field of visual culture. The academy combines three departments - fine art, design, and theory - as equal partners within a common ...
Frank Mohr Institute
The Frank Mohr Instituut is the Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in the Arts and Emerging Media of the Hanzehogeschool Groningen. In cooperation with the University of Groningen, the FMI accommodates three MFA (Master of Fine Arts) courses:
- MFA Interactive Media and Environments (IME)
- MFA Painting
- MFA Scenography
The institute also provides an international programme of courses in the field of new media for university graduates, artists, designers and participants from the business world.
www.mohr-i.nlPiet Zwart Institute
The Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam offers the following programmes:
- Master Fine Art
- Master Interior Architecture & Retail Design
- Master Media Design and Communication: Networked Media
- Master Media Design and Communication: Lens-Based Digital Media
- Master Education in Arts
- Research programme: Communication in a digital age
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
The Rijksakademie is an international meeting place, production and research platform for young emerging artists from all over the world. They can work for one or two years on research, projects and production. Every year approximately 25 new artists are ...
Sandberg Institute
The Sandberg Institute has offered since 1995 master programmes in Fine Arts, Applied Arts and Design. Before 1995, the Sandberg Institute was primarily concerned with the organization of post-academic activities such as seminars and exhibitions. This outward orientation is still a cornerstone of the Institute's philosophy.
www.sandberg.nl
Master Course for Research in the Arts
As of September 2009, a new Master Course is starting. This Master Course for Research in the Arts is a collaboration between the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) and the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague in The Netherlands. The research question of each ...
Belgium
Transmedia Program, Brussels
The Transmedia program focuses on research and its integrated mix of art practice and critical thought. This enables you to emphasize not only technical knowledge, but also the conceptual understanding and insights you will need to produce thoughtful, engaging, and professional artwork. You learn from internationally recognized teachers and visiting artists who are actively shaping the direction of thinking and practice in the rapidly evolving transmedia field through their own work. Deadline 1st of October
www.transmedia.beHISK, Ghent
The HISK (Higher Institute of Fine Arts) organises the postgraduate education in Flanders in the field of the visual arts. It provides some thirty young artists from Belgium and abroad with a studio of their own, for a duration of two years. www.hisk.beFrance
Le Fresnoy
A post-graduate art school and audio-visual research and production centre, Le Fresnoy takes advanced students for a two-year course run by guest artist-professors who themselves produce new work. In a widely acclaimed building designed by Bernard ...
Research program la Seine
The research program la Seine is intended for young artists who have completed a diploma of master level, or equivalent. Eligible applicants must have been actively involved in pursuing their artistic practice outside of an academic institution for a minimum of one year.Research program la SeineGermany
MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies
The Faculty of Art and Design (Gestaltung) at the Bauhaus-University Weimar has a international Master of Fine Arts (mfa) course. This two year master program focuses on art projects that go beyond the protective space of the museum and gallery. The points of departure are the different strategies and interventions of artists working in public space today.The program is tuition free and especially designed for artists.
www.uni-weimar.de/mfaSwitzerland
Zurich University of the Arts
The internationally positioned MA in Fine Arts at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) brings together artists, media authors, theorists and curators. The course centres on furthering students' artistic development, on imparting the knowledge, capabilities and skills required to this end. The goal is to train individuals able to implement their authorship at a high aesthetic and technical level while gaining increasing awareness of other artistic practices as well as of prevailing social conditions. The MA in Fine Arts as system of concentrated spaces of experimentation furnishes a setting for learning and teaching that combines artistic and theoretical work with discursive, critical practice.
www.zhdk.ch/?dkmUnited Kingdom
Goldsmiths
Glodsmiths offers various post-graduate programmes. The Department of Art is specialised in making, curating and writing about contemporary art in a dynamic, critical and interdisciplinary environment.
www.gold.ac.ukUSA
ISCP
The International Studio Program is an international community of professional visual artists. ISP provides working space in which each artist can develop a body of work, and a support program to give artists access to New York City's resources and ...

Whitney Museum of American Art
ISP consists of three interrelated parts: the Studio Program, Curatorial Program, and Critical Studies Program. The ISP provides a setting within which students pursuing art practice, curatorial work, art historical scholarship, and critical writing ...









