MaHKU offers a two-year, English language Master of Arts (MA) program in Fine Art. The program consists of seminars, workshops, studios, and tutorials where artists, architects, curators, designers, and various theorists share their knowledge, creativity, and professional insights with MaHKU students.

STUDY PROGRAM
The MaHKU MA Fine Art program departs from the studentÂ’s individual project proposal that is part of the application procedure. Through various components of the program such as critical studies, research studies, studio practice, spatial practice, media theory, and curatorial studies, students are incited further to realize and contextualize their own projects. The program is concluded by a curated exhibition and a research report. 

As a MaHKU student, you will reflect on your specific discipline, participate in interdisciplinary debates, and embark on the development of innovative insights for your own discipline and its professionals. In other words, you will be invited to participate in a topical theoretical discourse.  

MaHKU MA Fine Art has a history of including various collaborations with well-known international platforms in its curriculum. Recent examples are: Venice Biennale 2011 - project Any-Medium-Whatever; dOCUMENTA, 13, 2012 - Innovative Art Academies Network; the 1st Tbilisi Triennial for Art, Education and Research, 2012; Former West, 2012/13 Utrecht/Berlin; Istanbul Biennale 2013; Taipei Biennial, 2014; and Venice Biennale (Research Pavilion) 2015.

MaHKU RESEARCH
In the last decade MaHKU MA Fine Art has been at the forefront of the debate on artistic research worldwide. In 2006, MaHKU Fine Art was one of the initiators of the European Artistic Research Network (EARN), a joint venture of ten European Graduate Schools. In that same year, MaHKU Fine Art set up two platforms: the yearly Dutch Artistic Research Event (DARE) with speakers such as Nicolas Bourriaud, Hubertus von Amelunxen, Maria Lind and Nikolaus Hirsch; and the publication series MaHKUzine, Journal of Artistic Research. 

The MaHKU MA Fine Art program takes a clear and distinct stance in the current debate on PhD research in visual art and sees PhD research as the institutional consciousness of the art academy. In 2011, MaHKU researcher Irene Kopelman obtained the first degree of Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA) in the Netherlands. Currently, two PhD researchers at MaHKU, Jeremiah Day and Lonnie van Brummelen, are supported by a NWO/Mondriaan Foundation grant. 

COURSE DURATION
The Master of Arts (MA) program in Fine Art is a two-year, full-time program. Since its start in 2004, students from 38 different countries have studied in the program. 

ON GRADUATION
After graduation you will be able to situate your artistic practice in the international field of contemporary art. MA Fine Art graduates go on to destinations such as artistic, curatorial and spatial practice, PhD-research, teaching or a combination of these activities. 

APPLICATION AND ADMISSION
The program is open to candidates who have a bachelor degree in a relevant discipline. Application and admission during the year. Ultimate deadline April 30.