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MA Fine Art students participate in "Estimated Time of Arrival"
An exhibition of dialogues on how, where and why we travel June 9-30, 2013 Opening (with performances) Sunday 9 june, 15:00 with Jonas Brunvoll (NOR), Sheena Colquhoun (AUS), Rafaël Elders (NED), Eduarda Estrella (BRA), Sebastian Gonzalez (M... Read more

MaHKU, MA Fine Art, Utrecht, Call for Applications deadline May 15

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MaHKU (Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design) offers a one-year Master of Arts (MA) progra... Read more
MaHKU Fine Art workshop Any-Medium-Whatever, Venice Biennale, 2011


Ralph Wu does visual identity for the Taiwan Pavilion
Alumnus Ralph Kuo Chiang Wu (Editorial Design) is currently working on the visual identity for the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.   Read more

Current situtation Spatial Design
As of the 2013 - 2014 course year the MA programme in Spatial Design will be integrated as Spatial Practices in the MA Fine Art programme. Fill in the online application form Read more

Current situation Editorial Design
As of the 2013 - 2014 course year the MA programme in Editorial Design is part of the Master programme Creative Design for Digital Cultures. Fill in the online application form available Read more

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  • Project-based artistic production and design work

  • Research-based process of contextualized creation

  • Critical Studies and topical research discourse

  • Interdisciplinary debates and international seminars

  • maHKU Platform: exhibitions and conferences

MaHKU is the one-year Master programme of the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design (HKU). MaHKU comprises five disciplines, i.e. Editorial Design, Fashion Design, Fine Art, Interior Design, and Public Space Design. The programme offers an MA curriculum both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary entailing a mixture of provocative seminars and workshops.

As a MaHKU student, you will reflect on your specific discipline, participate in interdisciplinary debates, and embark on the development of innovative insights for your own discipline and its professionals. In other words, you will be invited to participate in a topical theoretical discourse.

Artistic research

Kathrin Hero
Books and digitization

The book’s place – a very old debate
Where is the book’s place in today’s hybrid information production? In a time when the book as a medium has repeatedly been declared dead my position as a book lover used to be a defensive one. I sought valuable and preferably measurable arguments that could explain the so called ‘charm’, ‘magic’ and ‘comfort’ of the traditional codex book, as mentioned by many bibliophiles and book collectors.
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Pedro Kok
The Room of Architectural Representation

It may be redundant to say that a certain field of production is at crossroads in contemporary life, particularly those related to artistic output. All fields are subject to ongoing transformations, their relevance and pertinence questioned constantly. I went into the 2010 Venice Biennale with a certain question: with widespread access to architectural imagery, is architect ural photography still relevant today within the exhibition space?
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