Master Classes

Welcome to the Master Fine Arts Master Classes Sign-Up page. Here you will find and overview of all Master Classes that will be held in this academic year 2024-2025. You will see a short description of the Master Class, and you can find more information about the artists teaching the Master Classes via the link on their name in the title.

Please note that there are 2 Master Classes that KASK Master Fine Arts students have access to, of which one is organised by the KASK Master in Graphic Design and the other by KASK Master in Photography. Descriptions are below.

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HOW TO SIGN UP FOR A MASTER CLASS:

1. Click on the Edit tab at the top right of this page. It will open up the editing function of this page.

2. Scroll down to the Master Class you wish to attend. Add your name to the list.

3. Important: Click on the blue button Save changes at the bottom of the page to save your entry.

Please sign up for one Master Class only. If you wish to take a second class, please add yourself to the Waiting List for now. Those students not inscribed for the 'Masterproef' can also add their names to the Waiting List, however those students inscribed for the 'Masterproef' have first priority.

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MASTER CLASS "BOTANICAL ENTANGLEMENTS" with BENNY NEMER

October 27-30, 2025

Within the vast body of sound art being produced today, artists are increasingly producing narrated audio walks, audio guides, and podcasts that accompany and mediate encounters with other artworks, objects, sites, and the sensory world. These interventions often engage critically with the histories of artefacts and places, inviting different readings, subjective positions, fiction, fabulation, and feeling to shape the mode of encounter.

In this four-day masterclass, we will review artistic approaches with which to engage, accompany, mediate, resist, or otherwise encounter the world around us using narrated audio and narration as a creative tool. Participants will research, script, and record their own site-specific audio encounters in response to Ghent’s Botanical Gardens and KASK’s Kunstenbibliotheek.

BIO Benny Nemer: Benny Nemer is a Montreal-born artist, diarist, and researcher based in Paris. His multidisciplinary practice traces the affective contours of love and longing while facilitating bonds of kinship between his audience, figures from history, and himself, taking form through audio, performance, participatory action, epistolary writing, and flower arranging. He has produced works for the audio guides of museums in Austria, Sweden, Poland, and the United States, as well as non-institutional audio pieces that mediate encounters with libraries, flowers, gay cruising sites, and the rain. Benny is currently a postdoctoral researcher at KASK & Conservatorium, where he is pursuing research into queer kinship, postcards as an artistic medium, and the archive of French author and photographer Hervé Guibert. www.nemer.be

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MASTER CLASS "..." with GARY FARRELLY

October 27-30, 2025

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MASTER CLASS "..." with ALESSANDRA FERRINI

January 26-29, 2026

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MASTER CLASS "..." with MARWA ARSANIOS

February 9-12, 2026

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MASTER CLASS "From Concept to Display: Exhibition-Making as a Collaborative Practice" with JANA HÄCKEL AND ANNE-FRANÇOISE LESUISSE

April 13 – May 3, 2026 with exhibition Opening: April 24, 2026, Zwarte Zaal KASK

NOTE: THIS MASTER CLASS IS ORGANISED BY THE MASTER IN PHOTOGRAPHY

This elective offers a hands-on introduction to exhibition making, guiding students through the process of turning a conceptual idea into a realized project within a two-week timeframe. Following an initial exploration of curatorial theories and approaches in photography, students will develop and produce their own exhibition — from concept to completion — covering all aspects of the production process.

The course also emphasizes scenography and mediation, including writing exhibition texts, creating a publication, and managing communication across social media platforms. Here, photography serves not as the final product but as the point of departure — a medium through which students can explore how two-dimensional images can be translated into spatial experiences.

The curatorial process mirrors this spirit of experimentation and play. Each participating artist will collaborate with a curator from the KASK Curatorial Studies Program, engaging in in-depth dialogue to shape their presentation. These individual projects will then come together in a collective group exhibition that embodies the idea of an exhibition as a "collective body."

The goal is to help students reframe their relationship to their own work, breaking down barriers around production and presentation through a collaborative, empowering learning environment. To further enrich this experience, external guest critics will be invited to review the final exhibition and provide individual feedback.

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