Malmö Art Academy
The Malmö Art Academy is an internationally renowned fine arts programme at Lund University, Scandinavia’s largest comprehensive university.
Lund University hereby invites applications for
THREE PROFESSORSHIPS OF VISUAL ART, HALF-TIME, AT THE MALMÖ ART ACADEMY
The Malmö Art Academy is a state-financed school of fine arts with 74 students. The Academy offers a three-year Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) programme and a two-year Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programme. In addition, it offers a two-year MFA programme in Critical Studies and a Doctorate Programme in Fine Arts.
The Academy is internationally orientated and endeavours to combine theory and practice into artistic thinking. It prides itself on close integration with the contemporary art scene in Sweden and internationally. Scheduled activities at the Academy are flexible, emphasising students’ individual development. Students follow individual study programmes based on the courses and tutoring offered by the Academy. Students at the Academy work with many different expressions, techniques and practices ranging from the conceptual to the process-orientated.
Activities at the Academy is usually organised in concentrated blocks, so that faculty members can keep up their own artistic practice in parallel to teaching. The Academy has a highly developed system of visiting teachers, notably a group of external tutors.
Form of Employment: Half-time employment for a period of two years that may be extended. This may be extended to a full-time position after a review of the incumbent’s pedagogical performance carried out by the Academy’s Institutional Board one year after the beginning of the employment.
Beginning of Employment: 1 August 2009.
Responsibilities: Teaching, in the form of courses on the BFA and MFA levels and individual tutoring. Development of own artistic practice (50% of the working time).
Qualifications: Candidates should have an established record of excellent artistic accomplishment and pedagogical proficiency, and hold the equivalent of an MFA exam. Artistic accomplishment is of foremost importance. Candidates shall also have proven international experience and practice and be closely integrated with the contemporary art world and current debates. In addition, candidates shall present a pedagogical vision for teaching art.
Lund University applies a policy of individual salary negotiations. Salary expectations may be stated in the application.
Lund University aspires to an equal representation of both genders in its faculty, and therefore welcomes female applicants to these positions.
Application: Your application, accompanied by your resumé, transcripts of graduation documents and other documents you wish to submit, shall be sent to [email protected] or to Lund University, Registrar, P.O. Box 117, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden, and must have arrived no later than 7 January 2009. Please use reference no 2008/3952. All submitted documents must be officially certified. If you so wish, the application documents will be returned to you at the earliest two years after the beginning of the employment, according to the regulations of the Swedish National Archives (RA-FS).
Enclosures to the Application: Curriculum vitæ, a short survey of your pedagogical experience, official graduate and other transcripts, representative documentation of your artistic practice (please make a limited selection of enclosures such as catalogues, reviews etc) and a brief statement about your intentions for the professorship, with outlined ideas and suggested activities. All enclosures shall be submitted in three copies.
Further Information: Please contact the Director of the Malmö Art Academy Anders Kreuger ([email protected], +46 40 325714, +46 768582905) or the Rector of the Malmö Academies of Performing Art Dr Håkan Lundström ([email protected], +46 40 325451).
For more information go to: http://www.khm.lu.se/english/default.asp