Sculptural design

Anita Kuratle studied Arts Education at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) from 1988 to 1992 and Fine Arts at the HGK Basel from 1993 to 1996. In her work as an artist, she deals with different issues related to space, investigating the relationship of actual to perceived space by reinterpreting situations and objects that are intimately connected with our everyday perceptions. Her main artistic medium is the installation. Since 1996, her work has been shown in different exhibitions and she is involved in various percent-for-art projects. Since 2001, she has been a lecturer in the Institute of Arts and Design Education at the HGK Basel, where she teaches artistic practices and mentors BA and MA students in their art and education projects.

Franziska Wüsten, born in 1965 in Schüpfheim, currently lives and works in Basel. From 1987 to 1989, she learned the stone sculpture trade in Lübeck and Hanover. From 1996 to 1999, she studied fine arts at the HGK Basel. She is a guest lecturer at the FHNW. Since then, she has worked as an artist in the Basel region and elsewhere in Switzerland. She is involved, with her subjective vocabulary of images and objects, in many different projects. She has collaborated on performances with Gruppe G.A.B.I and flinc, among others. From 2000 to 2014, she was represented by the STAMPA gallery. Her work has been exhibited at the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art in Zurich (2001) and the Kunstmuseum Luzern (2002), and she gave presentations at the Gisèle Linder gallery and the Art in 2006, 2005, 2002 and 2000. Her work has been in group exhibitions at the STAMPA and Gisèle Linder galleries. In 2017 and 2021, she participated in the International Performance Art Giswil festival. She is the co-founder of an innovative collective of female artists and has collaborated on several performance projects since 2017. In 2018 she presented at the LISTE Art Fair and PANCH Performance Photography. More percent-for-art projects were realised and entered.

The continuing education programme of the Institute of Arts and Design Education aims to broaden participants’ perspective of their own artistic work and shared creative endeavours with others. Participants will be introduced to creative educational strategies, and acquire the ability to make creative debates effective for social processes. Both the weeklong continuing education courses and the optional one-on-one coaching sessions integrate methods from the fields of education, the fine arts, arts education, performance and other participatory practices. The improvement of artistic, creative and communication skills can help pave the way for more equal opportunities. Social inclusion, as one of the main conditions of equal opportunities, requires good communication and cultural competences – and it is these competences that artistic and creative educational strategies can do an excellent job at cultivating. By strengthening artistic and creative competences, we not only increase the realms of possibility for design, but also for communication, social interactions, the strengthening of social structures, personal expression and the experience of self-efficacy.

Participants will
- gain experiences navigating their own forms of artistic expression,
- acquire the ability to structure artistic and creative processes,
- acquire skills that prepare them to deal adeptly with various methods, digital and otherwise, for teaching art and design and their application in social practice,
- learn to kick-start debates on creative processes in various social structures by way of artistic and educational strategies,
- deepen their knowledge of various communication and digital skills,
- acquire know-how about networking art and education with a variety of target groups,
- gain experiences that help integrate artistic and cultural processes as open and experimental processes into their work.

No prior artistic or technical experience is required. The workshops are open to all people who work in social contexts: people who teach, mediators, social work professionals from the healthcare sector, healthcare assistants, coaches, team builders, and people interested in art, design and culture.

When participants complete five workshop weeks, each worth 2 ECTS credits, paired with subsequent one-on-one mentoring on their own project worth 5 ECTS credits, as well as five one-on-one 90-minute coaching sessions, they qualify for the “Kunst kann” Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) from the HGK FHNW.

Registration fee per workshop season: CHF 40.–

Booking during a workshop season:
1 week: CHF 900.–
2 weeks: CHF 1,700.–
3 weeks: CHF 2,400.–
4 weeks: CHF 3,000.–
5 weeks: CHF 3,500.–

Mentoring project programme to obtain the “Kunst kann” CAS: CHF 3,500.–
Reduced tuition fees for students upon request.