Teaching Art at the Gymnasium, Hauptschule, Realschule, Grundschule, and at schools for special needs with a focus on inclusion

“Every artist is a human being.” (Martin Kippenberger)

General
When you pass the entrance exam, it is not your portfolio that has been accepted, but you as a person, with your particular way of seeing, thinking, and working. Studying Art Education in Kassel requires curiosity, personal interest, openness, and a joy in project-oriented work.

What is special about the Art Education program in Kassel is that you are studying the subject at an art school. This means that you are in close contact and exchange with the other students in Visual Arts as well as Visual Communication. This allows you to get to know a broad spectrum of aesthetic practice and to decide on the areas you want to emphasize, both in the independent as well as applied areas. The program is set up in a modular format and is finished with the First State Examination.

The program is divided into three main areas:

• aesthetic practice
• art history and aesthetics
• art education

The central focus of aesthetic practice is to try out and reflect on your own artistic processes and approaches. In the art history and aesthetics program you will practice how to work with art and other phenomena of everyday visual culture. The art education program is meant as an introduction into the theories and methods of teaching art and to the history of the subject, as well as working toward developing your own professional stance toward art education.

The special features of the Kunsthochschule Kassel include its many study workshops where you can work (for instance ceramics, textile, printing, book+paper, photography, woodworking), the familial atmosphere, the group annual exhibition in summer (Rundgang), as well as the unique location in beautiful Karlsaue.

The prerequisite for the program is to pass the entrance exam in your chosen area. The application deadline for the entrance exam is: April 30

Information on the application process can be found here.