Visual artist for professorship in painting

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts, seeks a high-profile visual artist with solid practice-based experience and knowledge of painting and other artistic image-making for a professorship in painting and pictorial practices for the Schools’ master’s programme.

We expect you to have a distinctive artistic practice, visions for art education in the future, and a passion for teaching and further developing an inspiring and international study programme at the highest level.

The School of Painting and Pictorial Practices focuses on painting and image-making practices pivoting on the development of painting in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Painting is part of contemporary art’s diverse approaches to artistic practice, and it is a prerequisite, therefore, that you have insight into the multifarious modes of expression in contemporary art and like to teach and guide students with differing practices and standpoints, also those outside your sphere of expertise.

As professor, you will provide a first-rate study environment, develop and strengthen the subject field through your artistic practice, teaching skills, and artistic research, thereby helping our students to acquire a solid artistic practice, which may lead to art production at the highest level.

As part of your work at the School of Painting and Pictorial Practices, we also expect you to play an active role in developing students’ opportunities to acquire a sustainable working life in art through your teaching and course planning

The Schools of Visual Arts’ study programmes are structured around the pedagogical principle of Student-Centered Learning.

Student-Centered Learning sees students participating actively in their own learning, evolving expertise in relation to problem-solving, artistic self-reliance, and critical and reflective thinking. The study programme attaches importance to providing a diversity of courses and wishes to ensure sufficient opportunities for individual choices and collaboration between students and staff. Students take an active part in own learning through their individual practices and the choices offered by artistic practices, as well as via workshops, via course work, and via shared critical reflection. 

As professor at the School of Painting and Pictorial Practices, you will be responsible for teaching, guidance, and planning the School’s semester plans and, moreover, you will ensure that the semester plans meet the goals of the study regulations. Further, you will plan and take part in study trips.

We expect you to sit on the various councils and boards of the Schools of Visual Arts, thereby contributing to the development and work culture of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Finally, we expect you to play a role in the admission of new students for both bachelor and master’s programmes.

Artistic research is also considered an integral part of the job and the position. This will be based on your own artistic practice.

The Schools of Visual Arts provide higher education under the auspices of the Danish Ministry for Culture. The institution offers bachelor and master’s programmes on an artistic and, where relevant, scientific basis.

The education programmes offered by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts aim to give students expert knowledge, methodical skills, and professional competence in the field of visual art. The Schools of Visual Arts develop students’ artistic practices, methods, and expertise, ensuring through practice- and theory-based learning that students will be qualified to work as professional visual artists, capable of sustaining an independent practice and solving tasks of both an artistic and educational nature.

The Schools of Visual Arts’ master’s programme is divided into four schools, each of them headed by a professor. Around ninety-five students attend the master’s programme split into three years, and the teaching is done in both Danish/Scandinavian and English.

Processing applications is done in accordance with executive order on employing artistic/scientific staff at specific educational institutions under the Danish Ministry for Culture.

Application deadline: October 7, 2024. Please read the full job call here.