MaHKU, MA Fine Art, Utrecht, Call for Applications deadline May 15
April 10 2013
 Go to the applications page. MaHKU (Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design) offers a one-year Master of Arts (MA) program. 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. The MaHKU MA Fine Art program departs from the student's individual research trajectory: a project proposal that is part of the application procedure for the master program. Through various components of the program, such as critical studies, studio practice, spatial practice, and curatorial studies, students are incited further to realize and contextualize their own research projects. The master year is concluded by a curated exhibition and a research report. Since its start in 2004, the MaHKU MA Fine Art program has always attracted a body of students from various parts of the world. In fact, students from 38 different countries have studied in the program. The diversity in both geographic background and artistic interest has contributed profoundly to MaHKU's dynamic research environment. MaHKU's vigorous research environment is enhanced even more by an experimental curriculum focused on artistic thought processes, critical spatial practices, and context-responsiveness. Moreover, the MaHKU MA Fine Art program has a history of implying various collaborations with well-known international platforms in its curriculum. Recent examples are the Venice Biennale 2011, with the project Any-Medium-Whatever; dOCUMENTA 13, 2012, where MaHKU was one of the ten invited art schools for the Innovative Art Academies Network; and the 1st Tbilisi Triennial for Art, Education and Research, 2012. In the context of its experimental research environment, MaHKU MA Fine Art has been at the forefront of the debate on artistic research worldwide taking place over the recent decade. In 2006, MaHKU was one of the initiators of the European Artistic Research Netwerk (EARN), a joint venture of ten European Graduate Schools. In that same year, MaHKU set up two dissemination platforms: the yearly Dutch Artistic Research Event (DARE) with speakers such as Claire Doherty, Nicolaus Bourriaud, Hubertus von Amelunxen, Maria Lind and Nikolaus Hirsch; and the publication series MaHKUzine, Journal of Artistic Research with themes such as: A Certain Ma-Ness, Nameless Science, Urban Knowledge, Spatial Practices, Epistemic Encounters, and As the Academy Turns. All of the components mentioned above have brought about a further intensification of dynamic research trajectories in the MaHKU Fine Art program. Furthermore, the MaHKU Fine Art program takes a clear and distinct stance in the current debate on PhD research in visual art. PhD research is in fact the institutional consciousness of the art academy, MaHKU claims while involving related concepts such as autonomous space as a place for demonstration and reflection, as a location for novel experiments in visual processes, and as a laboratory for developing novel artistic processes of thinking and production. Not surprisingly, various PhD research trajectories in the MaHKU Fine Art curriculum affect a concretization and catalyzation of the debate on doctoral research in the arts. 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 Fund grant. In conclusion, MaHKU MA Fine Art considers itself a test site, where the program continuously produces debates and publications dealing with facilitating, situating and composing topical, relevant forms of graduate art education. MaHKU lecturers include a.o.
Tiong Ang, Annette W. Balkema, Lonnie van Brummelen, Jeremiah Day, Rene Francisco, Joost Grootens, Bart Guldemond, Mika Hannula, Klaas Hoek, Jan Kaila, Frank Koolen, Irene Kopelman, Annette Krauss, Arjen Mulder, Liza May Post, Domeniek Ruyters, Henk Slager (Dean), Ilse van Rijn, Edwin Zwakman. External Examiners: Ute Meta Bauer, Edwin Janssen, Aglaia Konrad. MaHKU Master of Arts degrees are internationally acknowledged and accredited by the Open University Validation Services in London (OU). Information and Application
MA Fine Art. Application and admission during the year. Students with a BA in Fine Art, Spatial Design and other relevant studies are welcome to apply. Ultimate deadline for 2013 is May 15.
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An exhibition of dialogues on how, where and why we travel 
".wav/12 paintings for Radio" is a painting exhibition that will be broadcasted live from Resonance 104.4 FM in London on October 5th. The project by MA Fine Art alumnus Leonardo Vargas is part of a series 
On Tuesday September 4th we welcomed all graduated MA Design and MA Fine Art students to the graduation ceremony at the Faculty Building of MaHKU. On this occasion the students received their diploma. 
"On the walls" Presents the work Artist Leonardo Vargas developed during his residence period at NDSM Treehouse Amsterdam. Leonardo is a 2009-2010 alumnus of the MA Fine Art programme. The presented Artwork makes use of visual elements surrounding the working/exhibition space in NDSM and aims to reflect on them as images. The exhibition will be open until July the 17th 2011. 
Share the Square is a collective effort that has three inter-linked dimensions. It takes places out there, at the Mariaplaats square, as a temporary act of intervention, both in front of the conservatory and in the back of the garden; it gains another kind and type of articulation at the Academiegalerie, a work of art that translates and transforms the intervention at the square; and finally, it is present at the exhibition site as the roots and routes of the development of the project addressed as the research part. 
Ribba 16’’(a 5 -minute painting. Live!) is a Project by Leonardo Vargas and part of a series of projects proposing a reflection on the flux of visual information within contemporary visual culture in relation with artistic visual practices, in order to explore and inquire into the status of artistic image itself. 
The project Share the Square is a collaboration between MaHKU MA students in Fine Art and Expodium, Platform for Young Art. It is conducted as a series of research based workshop activities organized by Mika Hannula, the curator of the exhibition. These workshops and lectures took place within the framework of the Expodium program with the aim of critically yet constructively re-examining the content and role of interventions in the public space. 
How to make sense of the art world outside the academic sphere? This show presents a group of artists that find themselves in a time and a space where the 'strong expectations of research trajectories' that once were encouraged while pursuing their studies seem to take a different direction shaped by their current reality. All of the exhibitors received their master's degree in Fine Art after studying at the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design last year. The works presented in the show aim to reveal how they venture to make sense of this reality, of their everyday life. They are dealing with quotidian issues that anyone can relate to. Artists or not, people cope daily with hope, joy, worries and dreams, but artists offer an alternative way of addressing the everyday through their work. 