Portfolio Course

Check-in | Each block, the BAI starts with an introduction for the new participants, during which current thematic and organizational topics are discussed.

Individual and group meetings | The portfolio course includes weekly individual and group meetings dedicated to your artistic work.

Discourse | Thematic reflection on and discussion of the participants’ artistic works and additional positions.

Workshop (Guest Lecturer) | The Workshop conveys basics in experimental drawing, explorations in painting, sculptural processes, creative strategies, and exploring materials. This is a basic course for participants who have not yet started artistic training, but also for professionals.

Block seminar (Guest Lecturer) | A multi-day (online) seminar by a course instructor is held each block: he/she presents his/her artistic position or a specific topic and engages in a collaboration and an intensive exchange with our participants.

Visits | Twice a block we organize visits to studios, galleries, project spaces, exhibitions, museums, institutions, collections, or foundations that include discussions with the artists, gallerists, projects space operators, curators, collectors, if possible.

Lecture (Guest Lecturer) | Once a block, we invite a currently interesting speaker to deliver a lecture and to review works of our participants.

Coaching | Feedback, training and consulting for portfolio preparation and documentation, presentation and visualization of your own artistic work. The forum includes issues of mediation and self-organization.

Seminar Area and Reading Lounge | In addition to the personal workplaces the BAI provides an extra seminar space for lectures and talks and a small library.

Artistic practice | The structure of the portfolio course considers the need for sufficient time to work on one’s own art. This includes not only studio work but also research, idea generation, acquisition of material, experimentation, and also the scrapping of ideas and not least leisure time.

Work conditions | One major advantage of the BAI is its spatial structure that allows working in several rooms in small groups. This enables exchanging ideas at the workplace as well as concentration and calm.

Workplace | The studios of the BAI are available day and night for all participants of the portfolio course. The bright rooms are between 45 and 55 square meters large and around 3.5 meters high. They are equipped with working tables and chairs, overhead lighting, and light protection for the windows. Your personal workplace consists of a working table, chair and storage rack.

Kitchenette | for shared use

Certificate | The BERLIN ART INSTITUTE acknowledges your study stay with a certificate. For legal reasons, state-approved degrees may not be given.