W2 - Professorship for Artistic Practice in the Foundation Class of the Visual Arts Program

The University of Kassel is a modern and growing University with around 22,000 students. The university’s wide range of expertise covers subjects in the natural, applied, cultural, and social sciences.

The Kunsthochschule Kassel is seeking a highly qualified individual for the following position, which is to be filled by April 1st, 2026.

W2-Professorship for Artistic Practice in the Foundation Class of the Visual Arts Program, limited to six years.

Application deadline: 15.04.2025

Date of hire: 01.04.2026

Vacancy number: 38224

The position is to be filled by a person with nationally and internationally recognized art practice. As one of the two professorships in the two-semester-long Foundation Class in the Visual Arts and Art Education programs, the function is to familiarize students with the complexity of artistic questions and processes in both theory and practice.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate an extraordinary and unique artistic body of work and several years of experience with international exhibitions. In the teaching, the professor’s own areas of interest serve as a starting point to open up the broad spectrum of the visual arts in a variety of media to the heterogeneous group of students. Alongside abilities in teaching at the university level and extensive practical experience, a fundamental knowledge of contemporary discourses in the visual arts is also required. Active participation in the conceptual development of the foundational study course and the Visual Arts program is expected.

It should be noted that in the teaching formats at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, students of Art Education meet and study with students in Visual Arts – which is generally viewed as mutually beneficial.

Alongside research, artistic work, and teaching, the duties of the position include assisting and supporting the program’s artistic associates. This requires the ability to work together with a team consisting of several persons and thus strong cooperation skills.

The applicant must fulfill the following prerequisites:

• An outstanding and unique body of artistic work,
• Several years of experience with international exhibitions (with publications),
• Pedagogical aptitude, demonstrated by at least two semesters of teaching experience at art schools,
• A qualified, independent teaching concept,
• Willingness to cooperate with other professors and artistic associates with regard to practical teaching and in the conceptual development of the foundation area,
• Willingness to work together on the further development of the Kunsthochschule,
• Meaningful complement to the teaching positions at the Kunsthochschule,
• Ability to strengthen the supra-regional and international renown of the Kunsthochschule,
• Experience in academic self-management.

The teaching load of the professorship is currently 18 semester hours per week (according to LVerpflV HE, Hessische Lehrverpflichtungsverordnung), which can be fulfilled in the department of Visual Arts by supervising a class. The Kunsthochschule is marked by the close proximity and exchange between the programs in Visual Arts, Art Education, Art History and Aesthetics, Visual Communication, and Product Design, which all work in close exchange with the workshops.

Participation in academic self-management and in committees, predominantly in German, are among the duties of the position. The prerequisites for employment and performance requirements are determined by 67, 68 of the Higher Education Act of the Federal State of Hesse.

Please submit: a teaching and working concept (max. two pages) as well as a description of your own artistic practice (max. two pages). In the teaching and working concept (max. two pages), you should indicate your approaches to university teaching as well as your reflections on cooperative and interdisciplinary work in teaching and submit this with the application. The teaching should show how the spectrum of the contents of the profile and the defined contents will be conveyed in teaching. Along with the usual documentation, you should also submit a motivation statement, a CV, and a portfolio.

The Kunsthochschule of the University of Kassel stands for diversity among its employees. We welcome applications for all those interested, regardless of ethnic or social background, age, religion, gender, disability, and sexual orientation or identity. The Kunsthochschule aspires to increase the proportion of women professors and strongly encourages women artists to apply.

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The University of Kassel is very interested in the professional satisfaction of its employees. It is distinguished as a family-friendly university and, in the interests of equal opportunities, strives to offer everyone the same opportunities for development and to counteract existing disadvantages. It promotes the Family Welcome Service and also the Dual Career Service for positions that are scientifically and academically filled. One of the strategic goals of the University of Kassel is to significantly increase the proportion of women in research and teaching. Applications from women are therefore particularly welcome. Seriously handicapped and equivalent applicants are given preference if they have the same suitability, qualifications, and professional performance. #J-18808-Ljbffr