PhDArts

PhDArts is an international doctorate in art and design, at Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague in collaboration with the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University. Offering artists and designers the possibility of obtaining a PhD at a university is offering them a platform which belongs to them and is just as much their domain as museums or galleries. The PhD creates new possibilities for art and its practitioners as well as a broadening of the art discourse. It anchors art in society in a new way, as an alternative to the commercial entrenchment that had gradually become exclusive.