EU4ART

In November 2019, the EU4ART team at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts has started its work.

Over the next years, the team will be working on integrating the Academy into a European Alliance of Art Schools. Within this pilot project initiated by the EU, the alliance aims to facilitate an intensive exchange of teaching staff and artistic assistants, a more efficient use of common resources and eventually structuring an International Fine Arts Degree.

Even before the International Degree Course will be launched, new cooperations between the partners will take place; in form of joint courses, exhibitions, symposiums and workshops.

The EU4ART alliance under the leadership of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (MKE) in Budapest is formed by the MKE itself, the Dresden Fine Art Academy, the „Academia di Belli Arti di Roma“ in Rome and the “Art Academy of Latvia“ in Riga.

The priority is to include both students and staff of all four partners of the alliance as early as possible, as well as strenghtening the teaching of fine arts through a “European Network of Workshops for Teaching and Art Practice”. The harmonization of the Curriculum is meant to enhance cooperation and sustainably remove obstacles for the mobility of students and staff.

Individual qualities of teaching at the four institutions will be encouraged, the relation between analogue techniques and new technologies analyzed and coordinated, in order to make new experimental forms of teaching possible on an international level. Besides that, the EU4ART alliance works on broadening the audience for all four Academies in the countries involved.

Further cooperation partners are the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, the Grafikwerkstatt Dresden and the Manchester School of Art at the Manchester Metropolitan University.