Be Welcome
How to introduce an institute of art? This is probably the most difficult task for a place that is many things: an institution, with norms and rules, and a community with idiosyncrasies and moods. It still seems like a luxury today to be able to encompass these two elements, as well as the courses, the teaching, the learning, the discovery of one’s self, one’s practice through the encounter of others, artists, friends, individuals, and practitioners who try things out in ways that are not «innovative» or «experimental», but just investigative, insistent, curious, empathic, humble, and yet stubborn, personal, and full of hope for a work, a process, a performance, a gesture that will help to connect.
The Institute Art Gender Nature is constituted by all the individuals who are part of it, the regular teachers, the staff, the technical team, the many guests who come, and—crucially—the one hundred young artists who study with us. The bachelor and master programs are well differentiated; the schedules and activities are not the same. But the social space of the Institute is one. The studios are shared, students decide at the beginning of the year where they want to be, and the many and great workshops offer as an opportunity to share space and skills independently of the program you are in; the weekly artists talks, the biannual symposiums, and many other informal opportunities that bring us all together.
Susi Hinz at the artist studios, photo: Pati Grabowicz
Workshop photography / multimedia, Alona Hrekova, 2022, photo: Christian Knörr
Workshop photography / multimedia, Alona Hrekova, 2022, photo: Christian Knörr
Milena Mihajlović, 2022, photo: Christian Knörr
Art Taaalkssss with Phoenix Atala and Elise Lammer, 2022, photo: Christian Knörr
Sebastian Crispin Altermatt, Campus.Workshops, 2022, photo: Christian Knörr
Artists’ studio, photo: Pati Grabowicz
Wren Cellier, 2022, photo: Christian Knörr
Ana Jikia, 2022, photo: Christian Knörr
Dimitra Charamandas, Campus.Workshops, 2022, photo: Christian Knörr
Pat Homse, Campus.Workshops, 2022, photo: Pati Grabowicz
Our programs
Bachelor
One of the most important elements of our bachelor’s program is the environment. We are small in scale, and therefore we can put all our effort into our students, into motivating them and creating the quality of experience in studying art, from access to great workshops to conversations with teachers and guests to the many seminars. Care, nearness, and continuous guidance are keys to our method of introducing you to the world of art.
→ Additional information on our bachelor's program
and application on the HGK Basel FHNW website
→ Brochure bachelors’s program (pdf)
Next application deadline: 15 February 2025
Master
The master’s program is oriented towards curiosity […], a force that encourages you not only to like what others do, but to commit to forms of making that mark a difference, that offer resistance to conventions. Since the world is turning more and more into a very normative space, where freedom is not a given, art may provide us with eccentric spaces of quality where a different sensing of matter and the relations between forms of life can be preserved.
→ Additional information on our master's program
and application on the HGK Basel FHNW website
→ Brochure master's program (pdf)
Next application deadline: 15 March 2025
Team
Head of the Institute Art Gender Nature
Head of Production
Lecturers
Phoenix Atala
Christoph Bühler
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Onome Ekeh
Esther Hunziker
Astrit Ismaili
Christian Knörr
Roman Kurzmeyer
Quinn Latimer
Mayte Gómez Molina
Claudia Müller
Alexandra Navratil
Ingo Niermann
Filipa Ramos
Mathilde Rosier
Nadja Solari
Lena Maria Thüring
Yvonne Volkart
Jeronimo Voss
Hannah Weinberger
PhD
Research Staff
Felipe Castelblanco
Anna Francke
Marion Ritzmann
Rasa Smite
Research Assistance
Technical Staff
Colin Barth
Gerome Gadient
Martina Jung
Tobias Koch
Daniel Kurth
Kathrin Siegrist
Konrad Sigl
Technical Assistance
Administration
Rosanna Monteleone
Lisa Schlosser
External Mentors
Guests
Karen Barad
Mónica Bello
Margaux Bonopera
Johanna Bruckner
Sonia Fernández Pan
Adam Haar Horowitz
Nicole L’Huillier
Ana Jikia
Pauline Julier
Rada Leu
Noria Lilt
Amanda E. Metzger
Manaswi Mishra
Leila Moon
Edit Oderbolz
Jacob Ott
Alexandra Pirici
Aicha Revellat
Jenna Sutela
Spencer Topel and James Wootton
Suzanne Treister Sandar Tun Tun
Saadet Türköz
Jiajia Zhang
Campus Dreispitz, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, photo: Hans-Peter Huser
Campus.Workshops, photo: Pati Grabowicz
Painting studio, 2022, photo: Institute Art Gender Nature
Campus Dreispitz
The Institute Art Gender Nature is part of the Campus Dreispitz, situated just ten minutes away from Basel’s main station. Articulated around its main building, a silvery tower, the campus is a hub for creativity and artistic practices. In addition to the Academy of Art and Design, the campus is also home to the House of Electronic Arts, as well as other institutions and companies active in the areas of art and design.
Students are provided with a personal studio space that they can freely use and access anytime. Several workshops with professional support are also at your disposal at the Institute:
→ Analog studio
→ Digital studio
→ Painting studio
→ Campus.Workshops
→ Campus facilities