MFA in Art and Public Space,
Oslo National Academy of the Arts

APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR 2023/24 WAS FEBRUARY 1, 2023

About MFA in Art and Public Space
Application guidelines

The national Academy of the Arts in Oslo and the MFA program Art and Public space is currently welcoming MFA applications for Fall 2022 admission.

The Master’s program is one of the world's leading programs on the field of art and public Space and offers two years of intensive full-time education for artists, focusing primarily on contemporary art, theory, and public space. We seek merging and socially engaged interdisciplinary artists who want to engage within different mediums in, or with the public space and diverse sites in transformative ways.

We define public space broadly and expanding in social, political, environmental, and economic contexts, and other relevant themes within today's public sphere. The program is situated in the intersection between artistic practice and art theory and is attractive both for younger ambitious art students as well as experienced artists seeking to further develop their education.

Through the development of the Master projects, students learn skills to build networks essential to pushing the boundaries of art’s engagement with the public space, for sustaining their artistic practice after graduation or for pursuing doctoral research. The study program provides practical and theoretical insights into public art as a diverse and complex area and is intended to contribute to innovative approaches to artistic research and development within the area of art and the public sphere.

We encourage experimental and interdisciplinary approaches to a broad range of art specialisations. Our students have access to advanced facilities including new media, photography, film, printmaking, ceramics, metal, and textiles, while supporting artists who engage with practices of care, entanglements, ecology, collectivity, memory, and art and science.

As a platform and meeting place for specialist practices, our school invites interdisciplinary collaborations and promote the exchange of knowledge between material-based art and strategies of art and public space. Our students produce exhibitions and projects, both at the multiple exhibition spaces on campus as well as in professional venues in and around Oslo. We offer regular guest lectures and tutorials by highly regarded international and national visiting artists, curators, scholars, art critics and other educational collaborators. The students are also offered international and/or national study trips to seminars, geographical sites and exhibitions which are relevant to the themes of the study program.

The program Art and Public Space offers two separate art prices awarded to exceptional MA2 students at MFA degree show. The prices are donated by BKH (35 000 NOK) and Art and public Space Norway (50 000 NOK).

Oslo National Academy of the Arts is Norway’s largest college of higher education in the field of visual and performing art with over 550 students and currently offers 24 study programmes in six departments: Art and Craft, Design, The Academy of Fine Art, The Academy of Dance, The Academy of Opera, and The Academy of Theatre.

The Norwegian Cultural politic and commitment to art employs unrivalled opportunities for emerging artists. The city of Oslo’s strong public commitment to the arts facilitates for young artists to immerse themselves in the city's international art scene—including public institutions, commercial galleries, and artist-run spaces—both during and after the program.

The MFA Art and Public Space Programme aim:

To create a critical space for the ambitious realization of potential via community and discourses.
To provide students with the intellectual and practical capabilities required for fulfilling their ambitions.
To support the development of students as experimental makers and innovative thinkers.
To equip the students to become responsible professionals.
To foster and grow a belief in students that the power of art can effect change on a personal and societal level.
To enable students to take work to the world and to bring the world to work.

Duration: two years, full time studies (120 credits)/Free tuition for international students

MAPS Contact list*:

Teaching staff

Ebba Moi
Associate Professor and Head of MFA Program, main tutor MA1
ebbacmoi@khio.no

Dr. Merete Røstad
Associate Professor, main tutor MA2
mererost@khio.no

Dr. Sara R. Yazdani
Associate Professor of Art and Theory sara.yazdani@khio.no

Line Ulekleiv
Assistant Professor in Writing Practice line.ulekleiv@khio.no

Former Faculty

Dr. Siri Hermansen
Professor and Head of Programme, 2021–2022

Dr. Merete Røstad
Associate Professor and Head of Programme, 2020–2021

Dr. Apolonija Šušteršič
Professor and Head of Programme, 2014–2020

Dr. Olga Schmedling
Professor, Art Theory and History 2014–2021

Unni Gjertsen
Guest Professor, Master Project 2, 2017–2018

Administration Art and Craft Department MA

Program coordinator
Mariella Yacubu
mariyacu@khio.no
‭+47 977 07 177‬

Student Advisor master programmes
Manuela Seu Stokkmo
manustok@khio.no
+47 99512182

Dean
Boel Christensen-Scheel
boelchri@khio.no

For questions please contact:

Ebba Moi
ebbacmoi@khio.no
+47 40856481

Master in Art and Public Space, Oslo.
National Academy of the Arts
Fossveien 24
0551 Oslo Norway
www.khio.no
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St. Olavs plass, Norway
0130 Oslo

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HABITAT

Master i kunst og offentlige rom,
Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo

MFA in Art and Public Space,
Oslo National Academy of the Arts

The MFA Art and Public Space Programme aim:

Teaching staff

Former Faculty

Administration Art and Craft Department MA

Collaborators 2021/2022

Guests

NEWS

Chapter 3.5

Betraktninger = Observations, Dialogues and Actions

HABITAT

Master i kunst og offentlige rom, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo

MFA in Art and Public Space, Oslo National Academy of the Arts

The MFA Art and Public Space Programme aim:

Teaching staff

Former Faculty

Administration Art and Craft Department MA

Collaborators 2021/2022

Guests

Master i kunst og offentlige rom,
Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo

MFA in Art and Public Space,
Oslo National Academy of the Arts