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Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)

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Pfingstweidstrasse 96
8005 Zürich
Switzerland


www.zhdk.ch
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Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) is a vibrant center for teaching, research, and production excellence. While firmly anchored in Greater Zurich, our influence extends well beyond Switzerland to the wider international stage. We offer a broad range of degree programs and further education courses in education, design, film, art and media, dance, theatre, and music. Closely interrelating teaching and research, we provide an ideal setting for transdisciplinary projects. Committed to bridging higher education, professional practice, and the interests of the wider public, we showcase the work and achievements of our staff and students in our own exhibition spaces, theatres, and various dance and concert halls.

The Department of Art & Media offers various taught degrees in fine arts, with focuses on painting/drawing, photography, installation/sculpture, video/moving images, sound, performance, language and digitality in its BFA program and focuses in Fine Arts, Language, Curating and Aesthetic Theory in its MFA program The department includes the Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR) and the Public City Centre of Excellence as well as a PhD program (in collaboration with Kunstuniversität Linz/Austria).

Features
Survey: Anselm Franke
Anselm Franke
Why do you teach? I transitioned from a full-time curatorial position to the MA Art Education, Curatorial Studies only a few months ago, but I had always taught on the side, if only for a few days a month, out of a passion for the kind of conversations that are unique to the academy and a curiosity about changing frames of …
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Survey: Dorothee Richter
Dorothee Richter
1. Why did you decide to go into teaching? I needed the money. After a few years of working as a curator and teaching courses at universities at the same time, I was asked to join a research project at the Zurich University of the Arts called “Exhibition Displays.” I was already engaged in discussions and critiques about curating early on, …
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Inside the Creative Factory: The MFA at the Zurich School of the Arts (ZHdK)
Aoife Rosenmeyer
The Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK, Zurich School of the Arts) is to be found within a monolith on an arterial road heading northwest from Zurich city. This imposing structure is called the Toni-Areal, and when the ZHdK moved in last year it became what is known as the “biggest creative factory in Switzerland.” The school’s various departments date back …
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