Be Welcome
How to introduce a community like the one formed around an institute of art? This is probably the most difficult task for a place that is many things: an organization 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.
Team
Head of the Institute Art Gender Nature
Head of Production
Lecturers
Phoenix Atala
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Onome Ekeh
Mayte Gómez Molina
Esther Hunziker
Astrit Ismaili
Christian Knörr
Roman Kurzmeyer
Quinn Latimer
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
Martina Jung
Tobias Koch
Daniel Kurth
Kathrin Siegrist
Konrad Sigl
Technical Assistance
Administration
Cornelia Kern
Rosanna Monteleone
External Mentors
Current Guests
Kateryna Botanova
Daniel Bozhkov
Staci Bu Shea
Özgür Demirci
Edwige Dro
Tobias Ertl
Ruth Estévez
Wafa Gabsi
Irene Kopelman
Selom Koffi Kudjie
Zahra Malkani
Mariana Murcia
nightingale
Paul Pfeiffer
Sadie Plant
Lea Porsager
Belén Rodriguez
Julia Schicker
Afrah Shafiq
Carmen Winant
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 of the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, situated just ten minutes away from Basel’s main station. Articulated around its main building, a silvery tower, the campus is part of a rich cultural environment. In addition to the HGK Basel FHNW's , the Dreispitz Basel is also home to the HEK (House of Electronic Arts), the Kunsthaus Baselland, the international grant program Atelier Mondial, the library of the SfG Basel School of Design, 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: