Studio/Studio

Focus area: Painting and Sculpture/Installation

Module responsible: Eamon O'Kane

Studio Munch House

This semester, the module will focus on artistic production, reflection, and dialogue developed in connection to Edvard Munch’s winter studio and the ghost of his demolished house at Ekely, Oslo. Students will engage with themes of place, memory, and artistic process through the lens of Munch’s working environment, including his outdoor studios exploring how studio contexts shape creative practice.

The module will combine individual and collective studio work, critical discussions, screenings, readings, and short presentations connecting historical and contemporary approaches to painting and installation. You will work in teams with the concept of reconstruction of Munch's demolished house as a centre for art and creativity. Fieldwork, research, material experimentation, and reflective writing will support students in developing a personal and contextually grounded body of work, culminating in a three day trip to Oslo with final presentation, exhibition and group seminar at the end of the module.

Each student will receive a stipend to cover train travel, hostel accommodation, and meals.

This is a project-based module with a focus on artistic production as a fluid operation that can take shape in a multitude of spaces, be they physical, conceptual, social, private, or public.

PRO modules are designed to enrich your artist development (as explored in the ART modules) through activating skills, connecting communities of practice, and investigating disciplinary territories. PRO modules allow you to focus on a specific project critically connected to your own practice within a context established by the module leader(s).

Knowledge:

• Develop awareness of relevant references and practices

Skills

• Explore both traditional and unconventional sites of artistic creation
• Enhance and broaden your own skills and processes through the creation of a self-initiated project

General Competence

• Identify your own learning needs in relation to the subject area(s)
• Develop and present new work.