Studies

The Kunstakademie Karlsruhe is a classical Art Academy with a history spanning over 170 years. It offers two primary Fields of Study within its Degree Programmes: Painting/Graphics and Sculpture. While rooted in tradition, the academy embraces a contemporary, open approach to art. This allows for the boundaries between traditional genres to blur, incorporating modern artistic expressions such as film, photography, digital art, object art, and performance art.

The academy's Fine Arts programme is divided into two main areas: the Diploma Programme in Fine Arts and the Educator Programme for Fine Arts at the Secondary Level (Gymnasium). Additionally, it offers continuing education courses. A key focus at Kunstakademie Karlsruhe is fostering artistic practice, encouraging students to develop a personal visual language. This is achieved through close mentorship with artistic professors in the artistic classes, who conduct regular visits to their mentoring classes and provide individual critiques. Students also engage in theoretical discussions on the fundamentals of art, participating in courses on Art History, Art Philosophy and, for Educator training students in Educational Sciences and Subject Didactics in Fine Arts.. Technical and manual art skills are honed through practical work in the academy's artistic workshops.

One unique aspect of the Academy is its integrated learning environment: students from all programmes, including prospective teachers, train together as artists. Each student is assigned their own workspace in the class studio, encouraging collaboration and dialogue with peers both within and beyond the studio community. This shared environment supports students in discovering and refining their artistic identities.

Undergraduate studies at the Academy begin exclusively in the winter semester. For Master's degree Educator programme and continuing education programmes, applications are also accepted for the summer semester.