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Architektur+Tragwerk - Ankündigung Apéro

Mar 22, 2024

Architecture and Art Apéro on 26.03.2024

Feb 13, 2024

Exhibition “Refugium” - What makes a safe(r) space and how fragile is safety? Can a space threaten itself and what does “safety” even mean?

Jan 25, 2024

Events organized by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) for Provenance Research Day 2024

Events

May 30 - 31 2024

Save the date! Conference in May 2024

May 30 2024

Exhibition opening: Freedom (or lack thereof) to travel - works by Annemirl Bauer

Divisions of the Institute

Art History

With its world-class museums and monuments, Dresden offers ideal study conditions. The degree programmes deal with the history of art from late antiquity to the present day and are closely linked to non-university art historical practice. This is achieved primarily through intensive co-operation with high-calibre cultural institutions in Dresden. In this way, students are introduced to museum work and research into the world-famous collections and monuments at the highest level.

Art Education

Everything here revolves around the training of future art teachers. The department supervises the art teaching degree programmes for primary schools, secondary schools and grammar schools. The practice-oriented degree programme is divided into three areas - art theory, art didactics and art practice - leaving plenty of room for individual specialisations and providing optimal preparation for the demands of everyday working life.

Musicology

Musicology at the TU Dresden stands for the combination of music-historical and cognitive perspectives, for the fruitful connection of music theory and empirical research and for the interdisciplinary cooperation of music, mathematics, computer science, linguistics and neuroscience.

THE INSTITUTE OF ART AND MUSIC

The Institute of Art and Music is part of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science at TU Dresden.

The Institute is divided into the professorships for Visual Culture in the Global Context, Christian Art of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Art History, Early Modern and Modern Art History, Theory of Artistic Design and Art Psychology as well as the Junior Professorship in Empirical Musicology.

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Exhibition recommendations

Adriaen van Utrecht, Großes Stillleben mit Hund und Katze, 1647, Öl auf Leinwand; 184 x 227 cm

Timeless beauty. A history of the still life

The exhibition invites you to explore the world of still life and its mysterious visual language: What exactly constitutes a still life? What meaning and function did and do such depictions have? What allegories and symbols are concealed in these motifs?

José Toirac, Hasta la victoria siempre, 1995

Revolutionary Romances? Global art histories in the GDR

The exhibition focuses on the 'Revolutionary Romances' - the friendly-revolutionary relations - between the GDR and the countries of the Global South and thus on a chapter of art in the GDR as part of a global art history that has hardly been researched to date.

Programme of events at the Dresden State Art Collections

The Dresden State Art Collections (SKD) offer a varied programme of lectures, art talks, tours of current exhibitions and much more.

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