Art and Design
With around 1,000 students and staff, the Basel Academy of Art and Design (HGK Basel) is a multifaceted learning, teaching and research community. It is located in historic buildings that were formerly a customs warehouse, as well as in a new high-rise building on Basel's Dreispitz site.
The studio building, high-rise building, Campus.workshops, FoodCultureLab and “der TANK” exhibition space are all within walking distance of each other around Freilager-Platz. This square forms the centre of a neighbourhood with players from art and culture, design and the creative industries. The high-rise building and studio building house the institutes with their degree programmes, the media library, the exhibition and discourse space CIVIC, the general infrastructure, and a cafeteria and bistro.
Immediate neighbours of the HGK Basel include the exhibition space and library of the Basel School of Design (SfG), the HEK House of Electronic Arts, the archive building of the Herzog & de Meuron architectural firm, the Kunsthaus Baselland, the studios of the international scholarship programme for artists Atelier Mondial, and RadioX.
