Professorships in Art and Ecologies & Art in Action

The Institute of Performative Practice, Art and Education at the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK) is currently seeking to fill the following professorships with the starting date October 1, 2024:

University Professor in Art and Ecologies salary scale W3 NBesG
The successful applicant will be appointed as a civil servant in accordance with German civil service regulations, if applicable, or otherwise as an employee. This is a permanent appointment.

We are looking for an artistic personality with broad visibility and who has positioned themselves clearly in relation to contemporary art and questions of ecologies. Topics and questions intersect with the areas of biology, environmental science and environmental design, the human-animal relationship, economics, politics and landscape, including issues of political borders, migrations, and network theories. Teaching may explore the relationships of these areas to each other, in the form of simultaneities, contingencies, circulations or milieus and networks.

Ecological questions increasingly include relevant developmental themes that affect aspects of individual lives, society and the global sphere. In this context, art has a significant role to play, in that it can increase awareness of ecological issues, and sensibilise people to interdisciplinary and research perspectives. Ecological issues will take on increasing importance in school-level education in the future.

This professorship represents an understanding of art that is closely aligned with the connection between contemporary art and art education. Teaching will focus on artistic practice for students enrolled on the bachelor’s degree in Art for the Teaching Profession and on the master’s degree in Art Teaching at “Gymnasium” level. The successful candidate will empower students to use the entire spectrum of medial and material processes and to engage in collaborative forms of working.

Research at the Institute of Performative Practice, Art and Education is closely aligned with artistic practice. Accordingly, professors in artistic practice are required to work closely with professors in art education.

For information on application requirements please visit: Announcement Art and Ecologies.

University Professor: Art in Action salary scale W2 NBesG
The successful applicant will be appointed as a civil servant in accordance with German civil service regulations, if applicable, or otherwise as an employee. This is a permanent appointment.

We are looking for an artistic personality with broad visibility and who has positioned themselves clearly in relation to contemporary art and art in action. In this sense, artistic practice is understood as a performative act of intervention within, or arising out of, art contexts. The artistic material in this context comprises the body, the language, the temporary disruption, and experimental ways of documenting the intervention.

Important foci of the artistic practice are addressee analyses and the reflection on and experimentation with collaborative forms of work. Biographies, subjectivication processes, institutional and social orders and questions of participation and belonging can all be thematised. The eventfulness of fluxus, happening and performance art as well as feminist activism are regarded as an important historical background for artistic practice. The professorship represents an understanding of art that is closely aligned with the connection between contemporary art and art education. Teaching will focus on artistic practice for students enrolled on the bachelor’s degree in Art for the Teaching Profession and on the master’s degree in Art Teaching at Gymnasium level. The successful candidate will empower students to use the entire spectrum of medial and material processes and to engage in collaborative forms of working.

Research at the Institute for Performative Practice, Art and Education is closely aligned with artistic practice. Accordingly, professors in artistic practice are required to work closely with professors in art education.

For information on application requirements please visit: Announcement Art in Action.