Research

The Laboratory for Art Research offers teaching across the Academy of Fine Arts' MFA and BFA programs. The teaching focuses on writing practice, artistic research methods, and how students can use art history and theory as material for their own practice. Teaching takes place in shorter, focused workshops or through a semester-long specialization in research and written practice.

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts also hosts a number of PhD and postdoc projects, all of which are affiliated with the Laboratory for Art Research.

Research projects at the Laboratory for Research in the Arts

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts hosts both PhD and postdoc projects carried out by visual artists. The affiliated researchers create an active research environment where different fields of interest meet. Common to all projects is that research is conducted through artistic practice. We place great emphasis on developing the research environment and organize joint workshops in art pedagogy, research methods, and writing. 

From 2024, it is possible to apply to use the Academy's other laboratories actively in research projects.

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts do not award PhD degrees and do not provide funding for PhD projects or other forms of research. You can read more about this here.

Teaching at the Laboratory for Research in the Arts

Teaching at the Laboratory for Artistic Research focuses on two main pillars: written practice and artistic research. We work with written expression and with methods by which each student can integrate writing into their artistic practice. In this way, the teaching nurtures, promotes, and encourages each student's ability to reflect in writing on their own artistic practice and to develop a written practice that can become an important part of artistic expression.

We also emphasize that the students know and can acquire artistic research methods and can use art history and theory as material for artistic practice.