Master and postgraduate programmes

Upcoming application deadlines for 2023–24 (April session) 
English master programs in Visual Arts, Audiovisual Arts, Drama, Music: March 17 
Postgraduate Digital Storytelling: March 17 
Postgraduate Curatorial Studies: April 28 

Master programs 
KASK & Conservatorium’s master’s programs are laboratories of work and ideas where instructors and promoters stimulate rather than direct their students. As a student, your own process is at the center. The varied range of artistic disciplines at KASK & Conservatorium makes for mutually inspiring and relatively open training programs. 

As transdisciplinarity in the arts becomes ever more important, there is room for cross-fertilization in your training program. In addition, you will be introduced to some of the numerous theoretical and artistic research projects our lecturers are engaged in. 

The dissertation stimulates you to deliberately examine and formulate themes important to your work as an artist or a designer. We offer English master programs in the visual arts, audiovisual arts, drama and music. There are no differences in curricula, competences, learning outcomes or organization between the English programs and their Dutch counterparts. 

Postgraduate programs 
We offer a varied range of postgraduate programs: curatorial studies, digital storytelling, musical performance practice and soloist classical music. 

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About KASK & Conservatorium 
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) and the Royal Conservatory constitute the school of arts of the HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts and Howest. The school brings together talented and motivated students together with outstanding educators, active artists, designers and theorists in art and design from all over the world. The mission statement of the school defines its main tasks: development of the arts, education and research in an international perspective. 

Our main campuses are at the epicenter of Ghent, the cultural capital of Flanders. Ghent is very receptive to the international art scene and is especially welcoming to students. In addition to being embedded in this artistically rich environment, the school itself is a cultural actor organizing exhibitions, concerts, festivals, weekly lectures and daily film screenings. 

Our English programs include: 
–Master of Visual Arts (one year): Fine Arts (Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Installation Art, Media Art, Performance) / Textiles Design / Fashion / Photography / Graphic Design (Graphic Design, Printmaking, Illustration) / Autonomous Design 
–Master of Audiovisual Arts (one year): Animation Film / Film 
–Master of Drama (one year) 
–Master of Music (two years): Performing Music: Classical Music / Performing Music: Jazz and Pop Music / Composing Music: Music Production / Composing Music: Composition / Composing Music: Composition for Screen / Musical Instrument Making 
–Bachelor in Digital Design and Development (three years) 

Our advanced programs include: 
–Postgraduate in Curatorial Studies (one year) 
–Postgraduate in Digital Storytelling (one year) 
–Advanced Master in Contemporary Music (two years) 
–Postgraduate Soloist Classical Music (one year) 
–Postgraduate Musical Performance Practice (one year) 

Full list of programs / More info about the orientation tests.

Contact 
If you have any questions about your application for the master, advanced master or postgraduate program or if you are interested in joining a student exchange programme with KASK & Conservatorium, feel free to contact us: schoolofarts@hogent.be (master, advanced master and postgraduate programs) T 003292433610