STUDY PROGRAMME         
The HKU MA programme Fine Art departs from the student's individual project proposal that is part of the application procedure for the program. Through various components of the programme 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 programme is concluded by a curated exhibition and a research report. 
As a MA Fine Art 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.  

 
HKU MA programme 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 and 2017.

HKU MA Fine Art RESEARCH
In the last decade the MA programme Fine Art (as MaHKU) 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 MA programme Fine Art 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. In 2017 PhD researcher Jeremiah Day also obtained his degree. Currently Lonnie van Brummelen is supported by a NWO/Mondriaan Foundation grant. 

COURSE DURATION
The Master of Arts (MA) programme in Fine Art is a two-year, full-time program. Since the start of its predecessor in 2004, students from 43 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.