Join us for a Master’s in Fine Art in Oslo
February 3, 2025, 11:59pm
Applications to the MFA program at the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo for the 2025–27 cycle of studies are currently open. The program is designed for independent practitioners seeking time and space to deepen their practice. By coming closer to a trumpet of peers and being supported by established artists in the field, incoming students are enabled to become active contributors within the field of contemporary art, as well as active citizens in society.
The program fosters a critical reading of our times to consequently sustain the disruption of norms and expectations; it aligns with an understanding of art as a motor reflecting society and driving it forward. At the academy, we firmly believe that art is one of the last non-normative spaces for expressing cultural and knowledge diversity.
The academy has a faculty of international artists who have left a mark in the field by working across various media, materials, and approaches. It is also part of a campus with exceptional facilities and the possibility to experience a highly interdisciplinary environment across the visual and the performing arts. It sits at the northern edge of Europe in one of the fastest-growing cities in the region with some of the largest museums, ambitious kunsthalles, proliferating artist-run spaces, and a solid artistic milieu, including artists’ unions, structuring the life of an artist as a profession.
The art academy remains heavily rooted in a studio-based practice as the foundation for experimenting, producing, discussing, and exhibiting art.
Students actively participate in the academy’s life, with the possibility of directly influencing teaching and exhibiting inside and outside the institution, with the opportunity to explore the outcome of their practice in often unexpected ways. Throughout the program students are invited to develop individual projects for the white cube, as well as alternative and experimental settings, by welcoming projects for public spaces, online platforms, as well as fragile and fleeting processes, paving the way for setting the institutional framework for their own graduation.
Our staff includes artists, curators, and theoreticians whose own professional practice informs their work in the faculty: Liv Bugge, Marthe Ramm Fortun, Gard Olav Frigstad, Dora García, Melissa Gordon, Anawana Haloba, Ane Hjort Guttu, Saskia Holmkvist, Pedro Gómez-Egaña, Maryam Jafri, Dirkjan van der Linde, Lisa Rosendahl, Mike Sperlinger, and Jan Frederik Verwoert.
Current PhD fellows include Robel Temesgen Bizuayehu, José Antonio Vega Macotela, Jenny Perlin, Jessica Lauren Taylor, and Martin Robert White.
Tutorials, public talks, and other gatherings with visiting artists, writers, and thinkers complement our in-house teaching. In recent years, guests and visitors have included Lara Khaldi, Tamar Guimarães, Elena Filipovic, Rebecca Quaytam, Ane Graff, Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė and Lina Lapelytė, Pelin Tan, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Angie Keefer, and Farid Rakun (ruangrupa collective).
Dean: Antonio Cataldo.
*You do not have to pay tuition fees if you are a resident of EU, EEA, and EFTA countries, or have a residence permit in Norway. The MFA program caters to an English-speaking environment. For full details and application guidelines, visit here.
