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Master Performing Public Space

Master Performing Public Space

Your study programme

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What will you learn?

Performing Public Space is committed to understanding how cultural developments can produce meaningful change within our shared spaces, based on the idea that public space exists only when it is socially performed.

Project called With all due respect. Studenten coloured their hands and arms.
  • Explore your art practice through artistic reserach and its potential in public space.

  • You will get the tools to perform critically and effectively as artist and researcher...

    ... able to navigate complex modes and methods surrounding the contemporary artistic process and result.

  • During the intensive weeks you will investigate, develop and test work in the field.

What will your programme look like?

Master Performing Public Space is a hybrid programme. We combine continuous online and intensive on-site education. The online learning environment (distance learning) offers you a 24/7 platform for intensive research and creative dialogue with your peers and tutors. Intensive Weeks are hosted on-site in Tilburg, the Netherlands.

Students perform in public space in Tilburg
Students perform in public space in Tilburg
Intensive weeks
Hybrid (online and Tilburg)

Intensive weeks

The attendance of the intensive weeks is mandatory. Every Intensive Week is tailor made but consists of the following modules: Artistic Research, Participation&Audience & Relation, Public Space Discourse, Network/Entrepreneurship, Artistic Workshops, Theory Lectures

Students perform in public space in Tilburg
Online environment
Hybrid (online and Tilburg)

Online environment

The online learning environment (distance learning) offers students a 24/7 platform for intensive research and creative dialogue with their peers and mentors throughout the program.

Students perform in public space in Tilburg
Mini residencies
Hybrid (online and Tilburg)

Mini residencies

You will have the opportunity to conduct a three-day-long mini-residency with a group in Tilburg. You'll collaborate with a local artist or a cultural (or other) organization, within the frame of the artistic research conducted by the Professorship Artistic Connective Practices. During this new initiative, participants will create their own proposals about artistic connectivity, design and test their prototypes and receive productive feedback.

The aim of these mini-residencies is to connect students with professionals in the Netherlands who share similar concerns regarding the relation of arts to public space, and offer them a local frame to experiment with different ways of being together, connecting and approaching ourselves, others and our neighborhoods.

Participants will receive a certificate of completion.

Students perform in public space in Tilburg
Graduation / showcase
Hybrid (online and Tilburg)

Graduation / showcase

At the end of every academic year, PPS presents the work conducted by its students in the frame of the programme in different formats. After finishing your project, you will have the opportunity to present it to a wider audience in exhibition spaces and/or during our graduation event. A printed catalogue and online project gallery are published every year containing the individual work of students and all collective projects developed.

Student experiences

PPS did not just inform my practice—it reoriented it

Kimvi Nguyen

Student 2025, China

PPS did not just inform my practice—it reoriented it. I began to see public space as a collaborator, not just a backdrop.

Photo:Gunmetal - Balloons, Artist BreathKronstadt (Kotlin Island),St Petersburg. Russian Federation2015

PPS makes me feel public space as dynamic as an event

Carlo Sella

Student 2025, Italy

PPS makes me feel public space as dynamic as an event, as a here-and-now made out of the togetherness of humans and other-than-humans negotiating how we want to coexist. It’s where politics begins.

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

Admission timeline

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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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    Take a look at our orientation events
  • 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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