The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp is an international meeting and working place and is world renowned. Its historic campus in Antwerp's city centre houses some 650 students from over 54 different nationalities annually. Founded in 1663 by David Teniers the Younger, the Academy offers a wide range of graduation programmes: Costume Design, Fashion, Graphic Design, In Situ, Jewellery Design, Pai
nting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture as well as an Educational Master, in which our masters can immediately move on to the visual arts teacher training programme. With high-level artistic research and a packed cultural calendar, the Academy is a crossroads of thinking and doing, of action and reflection, of criticism and creation. HIGHLIGHTS:
STUDIO AS EPICENTER
The studio is the heart of the Academy, where students, teachers and peers meet and inspire, where feedback, research and experimentation are at the epicenter. DRAWING AS A UNIFYING THREAD
For 360 years, drawing has been a thread running throughout the programme. INTERNATIONAL BIOTOPE
The world on one campus: a stimulating environment where students from more than 50 different countries meet each other. ENGLISH-LANGUAGE BACHELOR AND MASTER
The Academy is the only Flemish school of arts that offers an English-language Master’s degree as well as a complete English-language Bachelor’s degree. It offers all students an excellent opportunity for international networking and career. ACTIVE PLAYER IN THE LOCAL CULTURAL FIELD
The Academy is embedded in the cultural field through collaborations with, among others, the recently reopened Royal Museum of Fine Arts (KMSKA), the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA), the Middelheim Museum, the Fashion Museum (MoMu), and the Fotomuseum (FOMU). FASHION SHOW
For many years, our fashion show has been considered the fashion highlight of the year, bringing together more than 5,000 fashion lovers from Belgium and abroad each time while showing the designs of all fashion students. ARTISTIC RESEARCH
Besides teaching, the Academy also provides a platform for high-level artistic research with numerous research projects and doctoral research carried out by an international line-up of artists and designers. BEAUTIFUL ARCHITECTURE IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
One of the Academy's assets is also its central location and beautiful architecture by Pierre Bourla and others. The historic garden has been protected as a landscape since 1974 and was reactivated as an exhibition space in 2021 under the title Academy Open Air. INFRASTRUCTURE
The Academy has interesting infrastructure, including several exhibition rooms – De Lange Zaal, the Venushal, the Wintertuin and the Tempel – where students, teachers, researchers and external partners can organize exhibitions. In the MixLab, one can experiment with new techniques while customisation is possible in the wood studio, ceramics studio and print studio. The library houses an impressive catalogue of art books and the restaurant is situated in the former sculpture gallery. LECTURER AS ARTIST
Our lecturers are active as artists, designers or curator and share their personal experiences with the students. ALUMNI AS AMBASSADORS
Renowned alumni such as Henry Van De Velde, Panamarenko, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, the Antwerp Six and Demna Gvasalia spent their student days at the Academy. Legendary is the short passage of Vincent Van Gogh.
