Labs + Workshops

In the wood workshop, material takes shape through sawing, drilling, milling, turning, sanding, and chopping. Technical and safety instructions provide a solid foundation to work independently. Where needed, the instructor thinks along about technique, construction, and the translation of an idea into a workable process.

In the metal workshop, space emerges to investigate the properties of the material: hardness, weight, resistance, and malleability. Sawing, welding, grinding, bending, and constructing demand precision and patience, but also open up possibilities for experiment and unexpected forms.

In the ceramics workshop, clay is investigated as a material that reacts to touch, time, moisture, and temperature. Forms arise through turning, sculpting, casting, and building, and transform again during drying and firing. In this way, the process of making becomes an enquiry into form, material, and transformation.

In the printmaking workshop, material, image, and print come together. Paper, ink, plate, press, and chance influence one another in a process where reproduction never has to be completely the same. Different printing techniques provide room for research into line, structure, colour, layering, and repetition.

In the screen printing workshop, colour, image, layering, and repetition are investigated with ink and screens. The Risoprinter adds an immediate and experimental process to this, in which colour registration, halftone screen, and coincidence become part of the image. Both techniques provide room to develop your own visual language.

The BioLab brings art, science, and ecology together around living matter. Algae, micro-organisms, and other organisms are investigated as material, subject, and active participants in an artistic process. Observation, experiment, and making come together in research into growth, change, and interdependence. The lab opens a domain in which biological processes evoke new questions, and in which artistic imagination and scientific knowledge challenge each other.

The studio offers space for research into image, light, and composition, from analogue and digital photography to film and spatial image. With a green screen and white screen, room is created for staged and digital image production, while the fully equipped studio offers possibilities for diverse photographic and cinematic experiments. Portrait, still life, movement, lighting, and composition can be investigated there as part of your own visual practice.

Next to the studio lie the analogue black-and-white and colour darkrooms: places where photography becomes tangible and time becomes visible. Light, chemistry, paper, and physical action together determine the final image. Developing, printing, and manipulating photos makes the photographic process itself part of the artistic research.

The Maker Space is a place to turn ideas into models, prototypes, and physical experiments. With 3D printers and a laser cutter among other tools, forms can be rapidly investigated and adapted. Experimenting, testing, and making yourself are central: the process is at least as important as the final result.

The computer workshop is equipped for digital production, research, and experiment, and features Apple computers and specialized software. From image editing, design, and animation to video, sound, and other digital applications: the workshop supports diverse forms of artistic and design practice.

The media library is a place for deepening, inspiration, and research. Books, magazines, films, and other sources bring together different perspectives and knowledge around art, design, film, and the world in which these practices move. A place to look, read, establish connections, and develop ideas further.