Ten principles of the programme
- The education at BEAR supports students in developing their individual toolkit of methodologies, skills and approaches for building an artistic practice.
- We create spaces where personally driven experimentation and a joint discourse interact, fostering collective learning. Students work and learn together in the Tutor Base.
- The context of our education is international contemporary artistic discourse. Students develop an awareness of this, as well as a diversity of artistic practices that escape the canon.
- Physical space and facilities for experimentation are essential for students’ development. Students have studios and access to the workshops of the academy, where they can explore all available materials, media and techniques and approaches.
- The programme introduces students to various positions in art history, cultural history, art theory, media theory and philosophy. They learn to speak and write about their work and that of others.
- We teach students to understand critical thinking and self-criticality as an act of care and as taking responsibility for the work we produce.
- BEAR is a community founded on exchange and the embracing of differences. We aim to create a learning environment in which students reflect on their work and position by sharing their artistic development and output with others.
- All tutors and teachers of the programme are practitioners in the field of contemporary art.
- We encourage students to push artistic boundaries and think beyond the self when relating their work to contemporary artistic practice.
- We give students a platform to experiment with exhibiting their work and test how it builds a relationship with a public.
