Semester Dates

Winter Semester 2020/2021

First lectures: 2 November 2020
Last Lectures: 19 February 2021

Christmas Break:
24 December 2020 – 1 January 2021

Summer Semester 2021

1 April – 14 July 2021
First lectures: 1 April 2021
Last lectures: 14 July 2021

Holiday: 2.4.21 Good Friday, 5.4.21 Easter Monday, 1.5.21 Labour day, 13.5.21 Ascension day, 24.5.21 Whit Monday

Ausstellungsansicht "Schule der Folgenlosigkeit. Übungen für ein anderes Leben" im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg; photo: Maximilian Schwarzmann

School of No Consequences

Everyone is talking about consequences: The consequences of climate change, the Corona pandemic or digitalization. Friedrich von Borries (professor of design theory), on the other hand, is dedicated to consequence-free design. In “School of No Consequences. Exercises for a New Life” at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, he links collection objects with a "self-learning room" set up especially for the exhibition in such a way that a new perspective on "sustainability" emerges and supposedly universally valid ideas of a "proper life" are questioned.

Annual Exhibition 2021 at the HFBK

Annual exhibition a bit different: From February 12- 14, 2021 students at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts, together with their professors, had developed a variety of presentations on different communication channels. The formats ranged from streamed live performances to video programs, radio broadcasts, a telephone hotline, online conferences, and a web store for editions. In addition, isolated interventions could be discovered in the outdoor space of the HFBK and in the city.

Public Information Day 2021

How do I become an art student? How does the application process work? Can I also study to become a teacher at the HFBK? These and other questions about studying art were answered by professors, students and staff at the HFBK during the Public Information Day on February 13, 2021. In addition, there will be an appointment specifically for English-speaking prospective students on February 23 at 2 pm.

Katja Pilipenko

Semestereröffnung und Hiscox-Preisverleihung 2020

On the evening of November 4, the HFBK celebrated the opening of the academic year 2020/21 as well as the awarding of the Hiscox Art Prize in a livestream - offline with enough distance and yet together online.

photo: Tim Albrecht

Art defies Corona: Graduate Show 2020

With a two-month delay, the Graduate Show took place this year on the 19 and 20 September. More than 140 students showed their artistic graduation projects, from painting to sound installation.

Exhibition Transparencies with works by Elena Crijnen, Annika Faescke, Svenja Frank, Francis Kussatz, Anne Meerpohl, Elisa Nessler, Julia Nordholz, Florentine Pahl, Cristina Rüesch, Janka Schubert, Wiebke Schwarzhans, Rosa Thiemer, Lea van Hall. Organized by Prof. Verena Issel and Fabian Hesse; photo: Screenshot

Teaching Art Online at the HFBK

How the university brings together its artistic interdisciplinary study structure with digital formats and their possibilities.

Alltagsrealität oder Klischee?; photo: Tim Albrecht

HFBK Graduate Survey

Studying art - and what comes next? The clichéd images stand their ground: Those who have studied art either become taxi drivers, work in a bar or marry rich. But only very few people could really live from art – especially in times of global crises. The HFBK Hamburg wanted to know more about this and commissioned the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg to conduct a broad-based survey of its graduates from the last 15 years.

Ausstellung Social Design, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Teilansicht; photo: MKG Hamburg

How political is Social Design?

Social Design, as its own claim is often formulated, wants to address social grievances and ideally change them. Therefore, it sees itself as critical of society – and at the same time optimizes the existing. So what is the political dimension of Social Design – is it a motor for change or does it contribute to stabilizing and normalizing existing injustices?

Semester Dates

Winter Semester 2020/2021

Summer Semester 2021

School of No Consequences

School of No Consequences. Exercises for a New Life

The new learning App

2021/03/18: Scholarship for Doing Nothing awarded

In der Schule der Folgenlosigkeit. Vorüberlegungen für eine Ethik

Annual Exhibition 2021 at the HFBK

Annual Exhibition 2021

Projects Sculpture

Projects Painting / Drawing

Projects Stage Design

Projects Time-based Media

Projects Design

Projects Graphic Art / Typography / Photography

Projects Theorie und Geschichte

Film Seminar

Sonstige Projekte

Public Information Day 2021

Application

Study information event for English-speaking prospective students

Advice Service for Study Applicants

Departments

FAQ

Interview series: Talking to...

Students interviewing fellow students

Semestereröffnung und Hiscox-Preisverleihung 2020

2020/11/04: Semesterauftakt an der HFBK / Vergabe des Hiscox Kunstpreises 2020

HFBK Online Gallery

Konstantin Grcic

Dr. Nora Sternfeld

Andrew Gilbert

Dr. Armen Avanessian

Interview with ruangrupa: "We see exhibitions as a device"

Dr. Anja Steidinger

Information for First-Years

Art defies Corona: Graduate Show 2020

19. – 20.9.2020 Graduate Show

2020/08/20: press release on the Berenberg and Karl H. Ditze Preis

Final Cut 2020

360°-Aufnahmen zur Annual Exhibition und Graduate Show im 3D-Modell

Teaching Art Online at the HFBK

Lerchenfeld #54: Unmute Yourself!

Podcast series: An artwork a day

Art in Times of Corona

Artistic Research Project "Commune"

Lerchenfeld #52: Digital Thinking

Hamburg Open Online University (HOOU)

VR in Art: Vortragsreihe zu den Themen Virtual und Augmented Reality und Immersion in der aktuellen Kunst- und Designproduktion

HFBK Online Gallery

HFBK Graduate Survey

2020/04/22: Absolvent*innenstudie der HFBK

What do you actually do? – Mirjam Thomann

What do you actually do? – Sung Tieu

What do you actually do? – Niclas Riepshoff

What do you actually do? - Hannah Rath

What do you actually do? – Katja Aufleger

What do you actually do? – Roman Schramm

Symposium: Survival Rate 4%

Lerchenfeld #53: Von Mäusen und Menschen

How political is Social Design?

Symposium: Wie politisch ist Social Design?

Lerchenfeld #51: Sind wir das Problem, oder die Lösung?

How to work

Design

How to Gestaltungsberatung?

School of No Consequences. Exercises for a New Life

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School of No Consequences

Annual Exhibition 2021 at the HFBK

Public Information Day 2021

Semestereröffnung und Hiscox-Preisverleihung 2020

Art defies Corona: Graduate Show 2020

Teaching Art Online at the HFBK

HFBK Graduate Survey

How political is Social Design?

14.4. – 31.12.2021 Hey Hamburg! Kennst Du Duala Manga Bell?

FAQ about Coronavirus for students

Lecture Timetable

19. – 20.9.2020
Graduate Show

14.4. – 31.12.2021
Hey Hamburg! Kennst Du Duala Manga Bell?