Application deadline: January 20–March 1, 2023, 11:59pm
Master in Fine Arts
Malmö Art Academy invites you to apply for the Master of Fine Arts programme, a two-year graduate programme in fine arts at Lund University. The Master’s programme includes in-depth research in art through individual studio practice and courses in art and various related disciplines. Malmö Art Academy has no separate departments. In the first year the students begin their advanced artistic work, with continuous discussions in seminars led by teachers and during this first year a study tour to an artistically interesting place, is included. Students organise their own curriculum, choosing from a wide range of technical and theoretical courses, many of which are taught by internationally renowned artists. Guest lectures from visiting artists and critics as well as various forms of collaborative projects are continuously offered at the Academy. In the second year, students focus on their graduation work, which includes writing an essay and presenting a solo exhibition at the Academy’s gallery, KHM.
Professors at Malmö Art Academy are Joachim Koester, Alejandro Cesarco, Gertrud Sandqvist, Fredrik Vaerslev and Verina Gfader, in consultation with an external participant, the examiners for a master’s degree. Approved graduation work meets the requirements for a degree of Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts.
Full-time, 120 ECTS credits. Teaching language: English. Apply here.
Master of Fine Arts in Artistic Research (MFAAR)
The Master of Fine Arts in Artistic Research (MFAAR) is a two-year full-time programme. The aim of the cross-disciplinary programme is to prepare artists in defining and formulating a research project in fine arts, aiming for admission to a doctoral programme in fine arts in the near future. The programme has a distinct international profile and equips the students for an international artistic–intellectual career.
The focus is on the individual research project that the applicant brings to the programme, and its expansion over the two-year studies. Based on this project, students are encouraged to develop research questions emerging from individual research processes and singular artistic methods. These are contemplated upon and discussed in relation to methods that have emerged from other relevant research fields in close collaboration with and proximity to existing academic disciplines. Through this training, students are stimulated to progress and push their own methods, to becoming/ being different to those applied in other research fields.
The educational format comprises of seminars and courses. The seminars include those within the programme as well as participating in 50 percent, 75 percent and end seminars taking place within the doctoral programme at the Academy. The explicit MFAAR courses cover methodology courses specialising in artistic research projects but equally more general methodology courses with guest researchers and artistic researchers from Lund University and other higher education institutions. A course in research ethics is given too.
Full-time, 120 ECTS credits. Teaching language: English. Apply here.
About Malmö Art Academy
Malmö Art Academy is situated in central Malmö and offers very good facilities. Each student has access to his or her own studio from the first year of study. The school has workshops for all relevant artistic techniques.
The international profile is an important feature of Malmö Art Academy. It is accentuated by the close proximity to Denmark and mainland Europe, as well as by student exchanges with art academies in other countries. The academy also benefits from the rich and internationally orientated art life in the region, which has many art galleries, museums and other institutions. Guest lectures from visiting artists and critics as well as various forms of collaborative projects are continuously offered at the academy.
