Department of Art
Department of Art
The Department of Art educates and prepares professionals in the fields of art education, visual culture, curating, and contemporary art. The department is recognized internationally for high-quality artistic and art pedagogical activities, scholarship, and research.
Photo: Railtrack Songmaps, 2018, Lucy Davis
About us
The department has three study programs that are taught by leading scholars and practioncers in their field. The programs focus on the combinaton of theory and practice—praxis— and transdisciplinary artistic and arts-based research.
Study options
The Department offers degrees in Art Education, Nordic Visual Studies, and Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art. Find out the dates and application procedure for each programme from the study option specific page.
Research and artistic activities at the Department of Art
The research and artistic activities of Department of Art takes place in the fields of contemporary art, art education, visual culture, and curating. The department has a long tradition with artistic and philosophical production and many researchers’ work emphasises contemporary, critical, political and societal entanglements of art, curating, and pedagogy.
Doctoral studies at the Department of Art
Doctoral studies through the Department of Art focus on research through contemporary art practices, visual culture phenomena and research in art education and curating.
Past conferences
Department of Art has hosted many conferences such as The European regional InSEA Congress. Read more on our conferences listing page.
News
News from the Department of Art and the School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
What are arts teachers needed for, Marja Rastas?
The world contains a void in art education, says Lecturer of Visual Arts Pedagogy.
Search for Heads of Departments at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture
The Dean of Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture requests applications or nominations for suitable candidates for positions of Heads of Departments´ at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
School of Arts, Design and Architecture is searching for Vice Deans
The Dean of Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture requests applications or nominations for suitable candidates for position of Vice Dean of Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
Kalle Keinonen was nominated the Ceremonial Garland Weaver for the School of Arts, Design and Architecture
For the first time in the school’s history the position is held by a male student. The piece of jewerly for the Ceremonial Garland Weaver was designed by Theo Weckström.
Events
Events from the Department of Art and the School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
Department of Art Research Assemblage April
The Department of Art Research Assemblage in April will be held on the 25th of April in Väre building Q202. Presentations by Pia Euro and Sasha Huber.
Defence in the field of Art Education: MFA Lisa Erdman
The dissertation, Performing false hope, examines the dialogical outcomes and ethical issues that emerged from Finnexia®, the primary artistic production of this artistic research. The Finnexia production consisted of a multimedia advertisement campaign for a (fictitious) medication that helps people learn the Finnish language. Finnexia was presented as a performance intervention in the Helsinki Railway Station over the course of three days, in 2012. The performance intended to generate a space for public dialogue about the experience of the foreigner in Finland and the process of learning the Finnish language. As a secondary goal, Finnexia aimed to present a satirical critique of overmedicalization and the proliferation of pill-based treatments for human ailments.
Network of Finnish Avant-garde and Modernism (FAM) seminar
Avantgarde, tiede ja teknologia; kolmas FAM -seminaari Väreessä 29.4.2019Defence in the field of Art Education: MA Taneli Luotoniemi
Although our everyday perception of space tells us that it is composed of three spatial dimensions of length, height and width, it is possible to imagine a space having four spatial directions that are exactly identical with respect to each other, and meet at right angles. This concept of a four-dimensional space has had a profound and lasting effect not only on philosophy, mysticism, mathematics, and theoretical physics, but also on fiction and visual arts.School of Arts, Design and Architecture
The School of Arts, Design and Architecture is one of the most prestigious universities in its fields. We educate students to create imaginative, collaborative, compassionate and unconventional approaches to the most pressing challenges of today.
