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Master Performing Public Space

Master Performing Public Space

Your future

Contribute to the further development of art in public space and society.

Start your career

Graduates of Master PPS can undertake various roles within the context of public space and can successfully integrate them into their future professional practice.

Students perform in public space with several instruments

What graduates do

You design and develop creative concepts for artistic projects in public spaces, connecting art with social and cultural contexts.

You independently create and perform artistic interventions that engage with audiences in public and digital spaces.

You conduct artistic research, combining theoretical reflection, creative experimentation, and performance strategies to explore public space.

You curate public performances, exhibitions, or festivals, selecting and shaping projects that activate public spaces.

You advise cultural institutions, local governments, and urban planners on integrating artistic practices into public and urban development.

PhD

Programme alumni are active as art professionals (developing projects, forming artistic residencies and collaborations in collectives, festivals and organizations), researchers (working in higher education or continuing their studies or research in the form of a PhD), or educators.

I believe there is no such thing as a “public space” – it’s all territories. So let’s start negotiating borders.

Kitt Johnson

Guest artist / Denmark

I believe there is no such thing as a “public space” – it’s all territories. So let’s start negotiating borders.

Photo: Mike Ao Leong

I entered the programme with a desire to crack open my ways of thinking, making, doing, and being. The course offered this and much more.

Florinda Camilleri

Alumnus 2022

My experience of the Master Performing Public Space course has been nothing short of transformative.

I entered the programme with a desire to crack open my ways of thinking, making, doing, and being.The course offered this and much more.

Photo: Kamila Wolszczak

This intense one-year program served as an invaluable platform for the development of my artistic practice, expansion and fine-tuning of my skill sets, and acceleration of my knowledge, not just as a dance artist, academic, and artistic researcher, but also as a human being.

March 31 (non-EEA) or May 30 (EEA) 2025

Admission timeline

Wondering what's to come after applying for this programme? Go over the entire admission process.

Early Review: February 28, 2025. Final deadlines: March 31 (non-EU) and May 30 (EU).

Master Performing Public Space

Admission timeline

Wondering what's to come after applying for this programme? Check out the entire admission process.

  • Start your orientation

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  • Register

    Register for the course via Studielink

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  • Admissions assessment

    For this course, you will first complete an assessment. More information can be found under Requirements & application.

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    Please note: You can only be admitted once you have successfully completed this.
  • 1 September 2025

    Start study programme

Study choice events

You can sign up for online and live events throughout the academic year.

There are currently no activities planned for this study programme. Please contact us if you have any further questions.

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