Shaping the future – a thousand students, teachers and staff working and studying at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design make the institution a multi-faceted learning, teaching, and research community. It addresses and drives today’s socially relevant discourses in theory and practice, thus contributing significantly to the shape of tomorrow’s cultures.
Our range of studies
Seven BA and four MA courses in Art, Design, and Art and Design Education open up a wide scope of career prospects.
Deepen your knowledge and skills in the field of art, design and education by signing into professional continuing education programmes. We offer an ...
The FHNW Academy of Art and Design offers its students, teachers, and staff members excellently equipped workshops for working metal, wood, plastics, and ...
The HGK is located at Dreispitz in Basel. The studio building, the high-rise building, the Campus.workshops, the FoodCultureLab and the exhibition space ' the TANK ' are all within walking distance of each other around Freilager-Platz. The high-rise building and the studio building house the various institutes and study programmes, the general infrastructure as well as the refectory and cafeteria.
HGK is located close next to a number o other leading cultural institutions and creative enterprises such as the library of the SfG Basel School of Design, the HeK - House of Electronic Arts Basel, the studios of the international scholarship programme Atelier Mondial, the ImpactHub Basel or the archives of the architectural practice Herzog & De Meuron, Kunsthaus Baselland and Schaulager.
Public transport The Campus is easy to reach by public transport. The stop Freilager on BLT line 11 is immediately in front of the Campus (from Bahnhof SBB in direction Aesch)
By car Leave the motorway A2 at the junction Basel-St. Jakob and follow the sign Dreispitz. Approaching from Münchensteinerstrasse enter the Dreispitz complex through Gate 13 and park your car in one of the public car parks (Ruchfeld or Leimgrube). When setting your satnav, please note that the Freilager complex is part of the municipality of Münchenstein, Canton Basel-Landschaft.
Note: Access by car for people with disabilities Choose the access via Florenz-Strasse in the direction of the tower block (Building D). To lower the bollard at the gates of the Campus of the Arts, please ring the bell. You will be connected to our reception in Building D.
