Summer semester, June 28 - July 30
Berlin, Germany
Launched in 2008, the Berlin summer program explores this international art center and engages with the city’s contemporary architecture as well as sites that are witness to its traumatic past.
The curriculum for the five-week course includes studio work and a seminar component. The studio focuses on a collaborative project that engages with the multilayered historical site of Klosterstrasse, where the studios are located. After learning about the history of the area, you use that knowledge as a point of departure for a collaborative and site-specific installation.
Visits to studios of well-established and emerging artists, galleries specializing in contemporary art, and significant museums and architectural sites in Berlin supplement course work.
Patricia Olynyk, Director of the Graduate School of Art, will lead the studio program, and Sabine Eckmann, Director of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, will lead the seminar component. All course work is held in studio spaces at Kulturprojekte Berlin, an interdisciplinary arts center in Berlin.
