Art history and theory

The Art History and Theory study program aims at acquiring a fundamental theoretical knowledge in the field of visual arts. It also helps students develop high-level skills in conducting historical research, developing critical analysis and exercising cultural mediation, editing and publishing in the field of art, curating, and acting as cultural managers.
Graduates may work in historiography, artistic education, artistic research, cultural management, museology, independent and institutionalized curatorship, art collecting and trade, editorial practice and cultural journalism.
During BA studies, students benefit from an encyclopedic, analytical, and applied perspective on understanding, communicating and criticizing visual arts. By studying art history methods, various types of artistic practices and theories, and different types of artistic mediation, this specialization opens the horizon for a competent and professionalized approach of visual arts. The historical knowledge analytically assimilated can be applied in a series of editorial and curatorial workshops, where students can exercise their acquired theoretical abilities.

We encourage both individual and collective research, as well as innovative and experimental approaches to cultural practices. Our students may access one of the best art libraries in the country (including both printed information and electronic resources), and may be involved in organizing artistic events (exhibitions, critical and creative research workshops, conferences) in the Art Gallery of the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design (apARTe Gallery).

BA studies in Art History and Theory (a 3-year program) may be continued with MA studies in Theories and Practices of Visual Arts (a 2-year program), which develop text comprehension, image analysis, creative theoretical and critical writing abilities. This MA program is also interested in supporting artistic production based on a solid theoretical knowledge in the field of critical and creative visual arts.