International Master of Fine Art

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We believe that new forms of artistic agency emerge when artistic practice interferes with engineering, data infrastructures and computational materiality, critical theory, forms of assembly, ecosystems, and practices of care. As we navigate a world defined by widening inequalities, climate disruption, and accelerating digital change, we ask:

How can artistic research generate new ways of thinking, making, subsisting and becoming?  How can artistic entrepreneurship imagine and organise other ways of working, producing, innovating and sustaining? How can spatial, visual and legal intervention disrupt extractive relations underlying the environmental crisis? How can counter-aesthetics strategies be developed against monoculture and authoritarian cultural tendencies?

We are looking for students with the courage to push the boundaries of art—students ready to take risks and to respond to contemporary urgencies through experimental, reflective, and situated artistic practice. We welcome applicants from around the world and from any bachelor discipline—including arts, humanities, natural and social sciences, design, or engineering—provided they can demonstrate a documented artistic practice through a strong portfolio, which forms the core basis for admission (bachelor’s degree of 180 ECTS or equivalent required). The program is tuition‑free for students from the EU/EEA/EFTA.

The MFA is a two‑year, studio‑based program in which students develop an independent artistic project supported by supervision, workshops, group critiques, and elective courses. Students have access to a range of shared facilities, including studios, photographic labs, editing suites, fabrication workshops, print studios, and project spaces. All teaching is conducted in English. The studio‑based work extends into broader international networks spanning research, artistic practice, and related cultural and civic fields. Drawing on NTNU’s technological and research infrastructures, the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art creates opportunities to place students in contexts shaped by externally funded projects, where they collaborate with researchers, communities, and institutions across Europe on questions of climate, justice, collective Entrepreneurship and aesthetics. These collaborations situate artistic practice in real‑world settings, including project‑based partnerships and placements, while encouraging critical engagement with emerging questions such as artificial intelligence, environmental crisis, data justice, and post‑industrial futures. Participation in the KUNO network and Erasmus+ further supports mobility, intensive courses, and cross‑academy exchange.

Current teaching faculty comprises of artists, activists, performance artists and educators working across the fields of material and spatial practices, painting and beyond, art and common space, digital performance and telematic improvisation, visual intervention, art theory and documentary practices. This currently includes Nabil Achmed (INTERPRT), Annett Busch (Women on Aeroplanes), Anne-Karin Furunes, Felix Gmelin, Jacob Jessen, Samrridhi Kukreja, Diana Lindbjerg, Bruce Sampson, Joe Lockwood, Alex Murray-Leslie (Chicks on Speed), Mari Sanden, Florian Schneider and Martinus Sujkerbuijk. In addition, the environment is shaped by a number of PhD students: Ayodele Arigbabu, Mohammad Bayesteh, Prerna Bishnoi, Katherine Butcher, Mohamed A. Gawad, Oskar Johanson, Olga Lucko, Kristian Byskov Rasmussen, Jacquie Soohen Rowley, Hilde Stiegler Rubecksen, Caterina Selva and Margarita Torrijos.

Apply by March 1, 2026.

Submit portfolio, project proposal, documentation of bachelor-level education (180 ECTS) and required materials via NTNU’s online portal. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to an online interview.

Contact: adm@kit.ntnu.no / website here.