Information days on 12 and 13 February

The most northerly art academy in Germany invites you to its Study Information Days on Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 February 2025.

On Wednesday, 12 February, from 2 p.m., all those interested can get to know the courses of study online in direct exchange with students and professors, while on Thursday, 13 February, the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design will open its doors to high school students and all those interested. The varied programme allows visitors to get to know the courses in Fine Art, Art Education at Grammar Schools, Spatial Strategies, Industrial Design and Communication Design on this day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Questions about the application and admission process as well as everyday life at the art academy will be answered, (...)

Get to know the art academy digitally

If you are interested in studying art or design, you can find out everything you need to know with just one click on Wednesday, 23 October at 1 p.m.: How does the application process work at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design? Which artistic works should be included in the application portfolio? And what does it look like at the art academy?
These and many other questions will be answered by the team of the student department in the ‘digital study info’. Via Zoom, prospective students will be able to gain insights into the art academy and clarify individual questions for the application process. Because: From November 1 to 15, (...)

Annual exhibition Einblick / Ausblick from 18 to 21 July

How do art and design students work and research? The Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel is opening its doors from Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 July for its annual exhibition “Einblick Ausblick “. During these days, studios, workshops, lecture theatres, studios and workspaces will be transformed into an exhibition covering around 10,000 square metres: guests can gain unique insights for four days with free admission: More than 600 students from the Fine Arts, Art for Teaching at Grammar Schools, Communication and Industrial Design and Spatial Strategies degree programmes will be showing the projects they have created during the academic year. Visitors to the art academy can find out about the artistic and creative work in art and design – (...)

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Anyone wishing to study at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design from the winter semester 2024/25 can apply from 1 to 15 May. (...)

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Basic class

The basic class is the common artistic orientation year, for all students of Liberal Arts as well as for students of Art for Secondary School Teachers, in which the students study in the first and second semesters of the bachelor’s program.
Through exercises and assignments, students are introduced to process-based continuity in the studio setting. Here, investigations are offered to articulate themselves with drawing, color, three-dimensional and technically generated pictorial means, as well as with performative actions and other time-based methods.
These experimental arrangements are intended to sensitize and enable students to formulate independent pictorial questions in parallel. Students are expected to constantly develop these in an independent manner. All means, media and techniques are permitted. Everything is possible, there are no limits to the joy of experimentation.
For this development, the students have their own workspace in the basic rooms as well as a project room at their disposal, which allows them to install their work in a spatial context and thus to experience it detached from “background noise”.

In addition, presentations of the work steps and reflections on them – in the plenum and in individual discussions – form a further constant in the base year. Here, the questions are pursued as to the intellectual origin and intention of the respective artistic production and what actual effects are achieved.

In addition to continuity in artistic practice, students are introduced to changing trends in contemporary art through informational sessions. Here, during field trips and via slide lectures, instructors present thematic spectrums such as: Aspects of drawing, color as a material and in painting, form and sculpture in space, photography of the present, installation, sound and video art, and performative and time-based approaches to work. In addition, students have access to an internal – constantly expanding – basic database (INFO – TAKE) with cinematic artist portraits and statements that allow them to independently explore individual artistic attitudes of the present.

The basic class sees itself as a school of seeing, which should enable students to learn to distinguish artistic qualities, to recognize them and to be able to name them on the basis of their own and other artistic productions. This ability, evidenced by the works produced in the basic year, should open the way for students to continue their studies in specialized classes.

After the basic class (starting in the third bachelor’s semester), students then study in the respective specialized classes (Sculpture/Film/Graphics/Ceramics/Painting/Media/Interdisciplinary Artistic Practice).

Questions?

Prof. Axel Loytved
T 0431 / 5198 – 454
E loytved@muthesius.de