In the winter semester 2022/23 and summer semester 2023, as part of the Horizon2020-funded project EU4ART_differences, a one-year pilot phase for a postgraduate additional qualification with an emphasis on the interfaces between art and research was developed. The project aimed to give up to ten students the possibility to expand their skills, professional fields of action, and international networks. Professors, workshop leaders, Meisterschüler:innen, and alumni have beforehand expressed a strong desire for more in-depth training in artistic research skills and a third-cycle offer in both faculties. The postgraduate supplementary qualification should, on the one hand, improve our postgraduates' chances of success in the artistic and/or scientific fields, while also increasing the attractiveness of the HfBK in the third cycle, making the university internationally recognizable and competitive. The "AG Dritter Zyklus" developed an idea with professors from both faculties.

The concept of higher qualification is not meant to compete with the existing Meisterschüler:innen program, but rather to complement and grow it. It strengthens linkages between postgraduates from both faculties and allows for personal and professional exchanges with postgraduates and professors from EU4ART universities and associated partners. It increases the HfBK's academic appeal as well as its exterior impact on the regional educational and cultural landscape. Possible structures can be devised and tested during the pilot phase, and then incorporated into a future PhD program.

The call for applications was published in May and the decision was announced to the scholarship holders in June 2022. 

Participating Meisterschüler*innen

Teilnehmende Meisterschüler*innen

Robert Czolkoß: Archiv für private Farbfotografie (vom analogen Fotoalbum zum öffentlichen Social Media-Account)
Lotte Dohmen: HOW TO (NOT) PRODUCE  - Fragmente zu sorgender Kunst als Gegenkultur
Mona Freudenreich: Sehen ohne zu sehen: Erweiterte Wahrnehmungen durch Technik
Nele Hartmann: Das Waschbecken und das Kind - eine künstlerische Exploration
Taemen Jung: Fit Into The Space
Viktoria Ovsepian: Gemeinschaftliche Nutzungsflächen
Ana Pireva: Hands of Perception
Veronika Pfaffinger: Gar:ten - Pairi:daeza - Herum:Mauer
Claus Schöning: Metamaterial oder zirkuläre Materialstudien an Kunst

Block events

The block events started in October 2022 and consisted of colloquia with project presentations by the fellows, introductions to the topic of artistic research, lectures by guest speakers, and an introduction to academic writing and research. Selected lectures and videos of all participating partners can be found on YouTube, links below: 

Block event 1 • 17-20 October 2022.
>>> Agenda first block event
>>> Lecture by Till Ansgar Baumhauer - Basics of Artistic Research (German)
>>> Lecture by Stefan Römer
>>> Lecture by Angelica Speroni

Block event 2 • 5 - 9 December 2023 
>>> Agenda second block event
>>> Lecture Prof. Stefanie Wenner (watch on YouTube)
>>> Peers'n'Differences #1
>>> Lecture Prof. Dominique Lämmli (watch on YouTube)

Block event 3 • 23 - 27 January 2023
>>> Agenda third block event
>>> Lecture José Segebre und François Pisapia
>>> Peers'n'Differences #2
>>> Lecture Manuel Maciá (LMA)

Block event 4 • 24 - 28 April 2023
>>> Interview workshop with Prof. Nicole Vögele

Block event 5 • 23 - 26 May 2023.
>>> Lecture by Emma Cocker
>>> Workshop Performing Embodies Knowledge with Barbara Lubich

Block event 6 • 10 - 14 July 2023.
>>> Lecture Eduardo Molinari
>>> Lecture Vu Huy Thong
Final exhibition "challenging (un)familiar terrain" • 29. September  - 08. October 2023 
>>> Catalogue

To enable exchange between the participating partners, the project shares its common project content on various platforms. 
The project is represented on the international database for artistic research, the Research Catalogue, with its own EU4ART project portal. Here, master students and doctoral candidates discuss and publish their research results in subgroups: Dresden University of Fine Arts on the Research Catalogue