Visual Arts and Post-Contemporary Practice Avans University of Applied Sciences

Overview

Throughout the Visual Arts and Post-Contemporary Practice , M.A. course from Avans University of Applied Sciences this interdisciplinary learning environment, you develop independent and collaborative research projects. Through a theoretically informed critical approach, you develop your practice in a peer-to-peer context.

During Visual Arts you are invited to create strategies and develop practices that expand the social and aesthetic sense of society. You are stimulated to re-envision artistic engagement through an open and creative process.

The aim of the graduation track is to enable you to develop intellectual and practical skills as a starting artist. And to be more confident in your practice and role in relation to society.

Visual Arts offers you studio spaces, workshop and technical facilities, including a Techlab with VR/AR and interactive media. And you have access to workshops film & photography, print, wood, ceramics, metal, supported by a team of experienced staff.

The graduation track maintains strong connections to key institutions in the Netherlands and abroad, including V2_Lab for Unstable Media Rotterdam, Impakt Festival Utrecht, Stedelijk Museum Breda.

Career opportunities:

Visual Arts offers you a unique interdisciplinary programme of art and design activities, fostering key areas of research and scholarship in a much broader spectrum of art and design practices. While at the same time building a bridge with science and technology.

You will learn not only how to respond to the current challenges and opportunities in the world, but also how to shape this new reality. Visual Arts delivers artists, designers and researchers that are able to expand their career based on value-driven motivations to create a better world. You are able to step into complex societal questions. And take part in co-creation and collaboration with cross-sectoral professionals. This way, you will become part of new ways of thinking and making that shape the future.

Alumni can enter the work field of visual arts and perform different roles in the cultural sector.

• Artist

• Curator

• Researcher