Work.Master

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Alexandra Sheherazade Salem - photo HEAD-Laura Spozio

The Work.Master programme is part of the HEAD – Genève department of Visual Arts. It is a bilingual (French/English) two-year Master’s programme, dedicated to contemporary pluridisciplinary studio art practice.

Changing every year, the Work.Master programme offers different formats that encourage experimentation, exchange, and sharing, to nourish students’ practices over the course of the two years. The programme exists within a reflection on the place of artistic practices in the world today, in a changing environment, focusing on questions of diversity, the post- and decolonial, climate crisis and the rapid evolution of technologies.

The work.Master accompanies the development of personal pluridisciplinary art practices through studio work, experimentation, and collaborative projects. These practices are questioned through pedagogical projects in a wide variety of formats: self-run projects run by students, one-on-one meetings with teachers, and group discussions with peers. Juried evaluations are organized each year during which graduating students present their work to external invitees, followed by the Visual Arts graduation show.

Over the years the faculty has included, amongst others: Marie Angeletti, Emma Bigé, Marie-Laure Allain Bonilla, Mabe Bethonico, Giulia Bini, Pauline Boudry, Mathieu Copeland, Vaginal Davis, Emilie Ding, Bastien Gachet, Jill Gasparina, Jeanne Graff, Fabrice Gygi, Anthea Hamilton, Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, Suzanne Husky, Sonia Kacem, Morag Keil, Christophe Kihm, Donna Kukama, Emmanuelle Lainé, Clovis Maillet, Reba Maybury, Laure Marville, Marlie Mul, Ileana Parvu, Aurélie Pétrel, Mai-Thu Perret, Emmanuelle Pireyre, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Olga Rozenblum, Laurent Schmid, Mårten Spångberg, Niels Trannois.

Maria Fernanda Ordoñez Pinzon - photo HEAD-Laura Spozio

Students select their courses from an offer of practice-oriented and theory-oriented courses: Lab.Zones and Think.Zones.

Through laboratory-like workshops the participants work with artists—and frequently in collaboration with local and international institutions, independent spaces, and artists—in a range of formats that include critical sessions, publications and print editions, three-dimensional works, performances, and community events.