At FHNW Academy of Art and Design you have seven BA and four MA programmes to choose from. We pave the way to independent authorship in art and design and provide the foundations for a successful professional career.
Bachelor of Arts
Fine Arts
In the studio, in project work and in the context of exhibitions students gradually develop their own artistic language and handwriting. The study course ...
The transformation towards a fossil-free, carbon-neutral world and the cultivation of responsibility stand as major design challenges: they include making our ...
Digital media and the resulting ease with which images can be communicated has made the need for a critical reflection on pictorial communication ever more ...
The degree programme Masterstudio Design stands for a space of experimentation, discourse, and production in which students get to develop their professional ...
The MA programme focuses on an in-depth examination of the students’ artistic practice. By means of reflection they advance their practice and relate it to the ...
Arts and Design Education (MA), Teaching Diploma for Secondary Schools
The MA in Art and Design Education / Teaching Diploma Secondary II is offered in collaboration with the FHNW School of Education. At the Institute of Arts and ...
The FHNW Academy of Art and Design is linked with other universities and academies, in Switzerland and abroad. Ties with renowned schools and universities in Europe, the United States, and Asia provide an opportunity to study your subject from a different viewpoint and against a new cultural background. At the same time, the Academy welcomes candidates from other Swiss universities and from abroad to study here in Basel. You will find more information here.
Your place of study: Campus of the Arts in Basel
The Campus of the Arts in Basel is the place where all the courses and subject fields come together. Here you have access to your personal workplace and shared ateliers, 365 days a year. Our labs and studios provide an ideal environment for advancing your interests and skills and dealing with the important issues of our times. Here you will find more information.
Cultural events
From conferences on Big Data, to exhibitions featuring emerging artists, to workshops on food culture: the calendar of cultural events at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design on the Campus of the Arts offers a rich selection of topical themes and discourses. You are cordially invited to visit one of our many cultural happenings as well as our regular information events.
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Reception (Building D, Tower Block)
Monday to Friday
07.30 - 12.00
13.00 - 17.00
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.
