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Art History summer courses in Europe
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Courses 2023
History of European Art: Travelling Artists and Artworks
Please note: Registration, prices and all information on FUBiS summer courses 2023 will be online in December 2022 on our website. Don’t miss out: students who register early can...
History of European Art: Local Traditions and Transnational Networks
Please note: Registration, prices and all information on FUBiS summer courses 2023 will be online in December 2022 on our website. Don’t miss out: students who register early can...
Critical Approaches to Typography
An intensive 5-day programme on the value of research for a better understanding of type and typography. In this programme theory and demonstrations are interspersed with stud...
Liberal Arts Focus
The European Summer Program is a four-week intercultural and interactive academic course for international students who want to discover France and Europe. It has taken place in Ju...
Past courses
Courses 2022
International Heritage Summer School 2022
International Heritage Summer School 2022 (IHSS 2022) is a laboratory learning experience, merging theoretical contributions to observation, interpretation and methodological recor...
Digital Archives
The ongoing process of digitalization presents film archives with the necessity of changing their workflows, strategies, and policies and of providing their staff with additional t...
History of Art: A Thousand Years of European Highlights
The Utrecht Summer School offers an opportunity to travel back in time and experience the art from both traditions first hand, staying in two cities that played a pivotal part in t...
Dutch Art of the Golden Age
Are you curious to learn more about Rembrandt's 'Nightwatch', Vermeer's 'Girl with the pearl earring', Hals's 'laughing figures' or other Dutch masterpieces from the 17th century?...
A Journey through Dutch Art
Experience the highlights of Dutch art from the last 400 years at first hand! This track covers many of the country's most renowned artists, museums and cities. Discover the famous...
Art in Germany from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century
Please note: Registration, prices and all information on FUBiS summer courses 2023 will be online in December 2022 on our website. Don’t miss out: students who register early can...
Contemporary Art - Framework to Develop and Refine your Ideas
It is probably the most unusual art education you will ever have. It makes you revise your place in the contemporary art paradigm, analyze your beliefs, and get involved in project...
Dutch Art from Mesdag to Van Gogh and Mondrian (1700-1920s)
This course takes you through Dutch art from the 18th and 19th century, up to the early decades of modernism. After the grand 'Golden Age', innovations in the art world stagnated,...
History of Art: Relations between Italy and the Netherlands - Track
The Utrecht Summer School offers an opportunity to travel back in time and experience the art from both traditions first hand, staying in two cities that played a pivotal part in t...
Porto Illustration Summer School
From analogue to digital illustration, students will participate in a creative and productive atmosphere for two weeks under the guidance of our international awarded team of tutor...
Venice Biennale Revealed - Behind the scene experience
Join us in Venice at the very special time - opening week of the world famous Venice Biennale! The Venice Biennale is the oldest and most prestigious art and architecture show i...
History of Art: Highlights in Germany and the Netherlands - Track
This four-week course if offered in collaboration with the Freie Universität in Berlin. By combining studies from Utrecht and Berlin, you will be able to get a glimpse of several c...
Between Past and Future
Established in 2018, Kuma International Summer School is the first program solely dedicated to contemporary art practices produced in the context of conflict and trauma. The school...
Exhibiting Architecture - Media, Methods, Agents
The AA Visiting School Zurich invites students and practitioners, from the fields of architecture, design, art, curating, and theory to re-imagine architecture exhibitions, its med...
Dutch Art History
The course is about Dutch art – with an emphasis on painting. Ever since the Middle Ages the Netherlands has played a pivotal role in the history of European art and culture. Dutch...
Venice Biennale - Everything You Need to Know on Curating and Organizing
online courseEverything you need to know about curating and organizing an exhibition or a pavilion at the (Venice) Biennale. What is necessary to know about permissions, promotion, funding and...
Art in Germany from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century
Throughout the course in Berlin, we will focus on the circumstances that shaped the production and reception of German art during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During thi...
Venice Biennale Revealed - Behind the Scene Experience
Join us in Venice at the very special time - the closing week of the world-famous Venice Biennale! The Venice Biennale is the oldest and most prestigious art and architecture sh...
The Art of the Renaissance in Florence and Rome
Florence, originally founded by the Romans, was governed by the Medici family for centuries. Most of them had a passionate interest in painting, sculpture, architecture and literat...
Contemporary Art and Curatorship: from documenta to the Biennale
The Summer School will offer two distinct but interconnected 2-week modules that together will investigate the history, management principles and strategies of the two art institut...
Courses 2021
Key Exhibitions and History of the Venice Biennale
online courseWhy is the Venice Biennale still the leading international art shows? The Venice Biennale has been for over 120 years one of the most prestigious cultural institutions. The arts ex...
The Artist Speaks: Art and Art Writing in the Long Twentieth Century
online courseDeveloped in association with Barbican, this six-week online evening course at Guildhall School of Music & Drama will explore art writing within modern art. The relationship betwee...
Museum, critical review
blended courseThe purpose of this seminar is to revisit and revise the main analyses of the Museum produced since the 1950s: the critical interventions of artists, the proposals of architects, t...
Remembering as Future
blended courseThe course will deal with the artistic legacy of the avant-garde left. By focusing on recent projects of actualising avant-garde art, the course will discuss the theoretical and hi...
Brutal Beauty: The Art and Life of Jean Dubuffet
online courseThis six-week online evening course at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, developed in collaboration with Barbican, will look at the life and work of one of the most acclaimed post...
Perceptions of Truth in Photography
online courseDeveloped in association with Barbican, this six-week online evening course at Guildhall School of Music & Drama will provide you with an introduction to the history of photography...
Understanding Contemporary Art: Performance Art
online courseDeveloped in collaboration with Barbican, this six-week online evening course at Guildhall School of Music & Drama will offer a thorough guide to performance art, from its experime...
Courses 2020
The Venice Biennale
online courseOnline Course, 22 October – 15 November 2020 The lecture will take place from Thursday to Sunday 5 pm – 7.30 pm (CET) Why is the Venice Biennale still the leading international ar...
Courses 2019
Dutch Art History
The course is about Dutch art – with an emphasis on painting. Ever since the Middle Ages the Netherlands has played a pivotal role in the history of European art and culture. Dutch...
Courses 2018
Visualizing Venice Summer Institute: Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D and (Geo)Spatial Networks
Digital Technologies for Historical and Cultural visualization are transforming the ways that scholars can study and represent works of art, as well as growth and change in urban s...
Courses 2017
Nothing Is What It Seems: Dutch Art of the Golden Age
In this course you will embark on a fascinating journey where nothing is what it seems: an innocent bouquet of flowers hides a forbidden religious message, a happy family, where ev...
History of Art: European Highlights
Stay in three of Europe's most wonderful cities, cover some 2000 years of Western art, visit all the relevant museums and sites and yet feel like you’ve done more than just skim th...