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BAS: Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences

Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences: postgraduate, interdisciplinary and international at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).

Responsible for the Graduate School - Graduiertenschule / UdK Berlin. Das Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS) ist eine Einrichtung der UdK, die sich als ein Dach versteht, das die verschiedenen postgradualen Studienangebote, Promotionen, Habilitationen und Forschungsvorhaben innerhalb der UdK miteinander verbindet. Ziel ist es, nachhaltige Synergien zwischen künstlerische

n und wissenschaftlichen Praktiken zu stiften und damit ein Umfeld für dynamische Wechselwirkungen und einen kontinuierlichen Dialog zu schaffen. Durch Austausch und Kooperationen werden sowohl auf interner wie auch auf externer und internationaler Ebene neue und innovative Formate entwickelt. Mit Fokus auf eine interdisziplinäre Vernetzung unterstützt das BAS gemeinsame Vorhaben aus künstlerischen und wissenschaftlichen Praktiken.

2014 von der UdK Berlin zunächst unter dem Namen „Postgraduales Forum“ gegründet, folgte im Oktober 2016 die Umbenennung zu „Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS)“, um somit auf eine wachsende internationale Ausrichtung zu reagieren.

26/03/2026

Viele von uns engagieren sich seit Jahren für Gleichstellung, Diversität und diskriminierungssensible Lehre – oft vereinzelt in den eigenen Disziplinen, Seminarräumen und Initiativen. Dabei zeigen gemeinsame Formate wie Prof*me oder , wie viel Kraft entsteht, wenn wir vorhandene Expertisen, Erfahrungen und Ressourcen bündeln.
equalACT hat sich daher zum Ziel gesetzt, künstlerisch – forschende Projekte zu initiieren, Akteur*innen zu vernetzen und sichtbar zu machen. Gerade in Zeiten von Sparzwängen und wachsendem Druck auf Gleichstellung und Genderforschung schafft das Projekt Raum für Austausch, Zusammenarbeit und neue Allianzen.

equalACT ist ein Verbundprojekt zwischen der HfS Ernst Busch und der Universität der Künste Berlin und fördert Frauen und tin* Personen, die die Themen Gender, Diversität und Antidiskriminierung mit Künstlerischer Forschung verknüpfen.

CALL:
https://www.udk-berlin.de/universitaet/gleichstellungspolitik/veranstaltungsuebersicht/equalact-call-for-participation/

04/03/2026

BAS associate Hanae Utamura hast been performing in NY Last Weekend

https://moreart.org/projects/lumenfall/

12/02/2026

This Sunday, February 15, 2026, our BAS associate is part of the exhibition 'Erzählen mit Licht'
📍 Kulturforum (main entrance), Matthäikirchplatz
📅 February 15, 2026 | 10:30–15:30
• 10:30–11:30: Presentation of student projects
• From 12:00: Open design workshops
🎟 Admission is free and open to the public.

29/01/2026

Research Ecologies 2026

encounters. disruptions. common grounds.

Call for Participation

for artistic and scientific doctoral candidates and researchers in the third cycle

Are you in the middle of a messy middle of your research project? Are you looking for a space where your research process can breathe and your methodological approaches can be constructively questioned?

Following the inspiring and productive encounters of 2025, the Research Ecologies will continue in 2026 with the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Science (BAS) at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). We understand the colloquium series as a curated ecology of togetherness – as a shared space where scientific and artistic researchers meet to exchange ideas at the intersections and irritations of their work, investigating in the process of creation.

Research rarely proceeds in a straight line. That is why this year we would like to pay special tribute to detours and unresolved issues. We are looking for artistically and scientifically open approaches in doctoral theses and projects that are currently in the making – perhaps thinking in many directions, still undecided or in productive chaos.

We invite you not to present something ‘finished,’ but to bring open questions and experimental formats, to listen actively, to think along with us, and to learn together. Through curated peer-to-peer exchange, we want to promote collective knowledge sharing and strengthen you in your individual research practices.

Apply by 22 February 2026

Research Ecologies 2026 will take place on several dates during the summer and winter semesters of 2026/27 at BAS on Einsteinufer.

5 May 2026, 5-7pm

9 June 2026, 5-7pm

2 July 2026, 10am – 5/6pm (summer intensive)

29 September 2026, 5-7pm

Our goal is to bring the individual contributions into an overarching dialogue. We are very open to experimental formats.

Further information: https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/research/bas/news/translate-to-english-research-ecologies-call-2026/

26/01/2026

As 2025 wrapped up, we said goodbye to our wonderful colleague Catherine Rose Evans, as the baton returns to Lena Maria Loose.

Over the past 18 months, Catherine has been a key part of the Berlin Centre of Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS) and the UdK Graduate School, guiding our final cohort of Fellows through their last year.

Her curatorial work included the 2024 Symposium Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there* Rumi, the Salon für Ästhetische Experimente, Research Ecologies and Graduale: FLOW STATES, held over ten days at .bethanien.

We’ll miss her - though it’s hardly a farewell. Catherine’s work is currently on view in at the until 8.3.26, alongside an interview with the artist.

📸 .pietrus

21/01/2026

At the end of 2025 we hosted Q&A Session: Artistic Research and Academic Careers for Artists.

In conversation with Prof. Dr. Anke Haarmann (HAW Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Edith Kollath (Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences) and Prof. Nik Haffner (UdK Berlin), we explored what it means to be an artistic researcher and the possible academic career paths for artists, including hybrid doctorates and artistic PhDs.

For those who couldn't join us in person, a protocol of the event is now available online. Just scroll to the bottom of this page 👇
https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/research/bas/news/qa-session-artistic-research/

This Q&A session was a collaboration between the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS), the Mentoring-Programm Prof*me (UdK Berlin) and the DiGiTal Graduate Program (coordinated at the TU Berlin).

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04/01/2026

To kick off the year we'd like to extend a thank you to everyone who joined us for our final interdisciplinary colloquium of 2025, Territorial Trajectories - we had a full house!

And a big thank you to our presenters:

Nika Grigorian (HfK Bremen) : Women's Cultivation Practices in Post-Socialist Rural Contexts

Aniella Sophie Goldinger (TU Berlin): ENVIRONING TERRITORIES: Data-extractive practices and the mediation of space in the Southern and Arctic Ocean

Cory Tamler & Alex Viteri : Gruß vom Helenesee

Stay tuned for the announcement of our new Research Ecologies series in 2026 ✨

📸 Michael Fowler

11/11/2025

Q&A Session: Artistic Research and Academic Careers for Artists
Wed 19th Nov 2025, 1-2:30pm
Room 202, Einsteinufer 43

Increasingly artists are faced with the decision of whether a doctorate is necessary for a professorship, and if so, which path and institution make the most sense. Terms such as artistic research, hybrid doctorate or artistic PhD repeatedly raise many questions, including new ones.

Join us for a conversation with Prof. Dr. Anke Haarmann (HAW Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Edith Kollath (Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences) and Prof. Nik Haffner (UdK Berlin), where we explore key questions relating to artistic research and possible academic career paths for artists. The event offers a space for active participation and exchange on your questions.

This Q&A session is a collaboration between the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS), the Mentoring-Programm Prof*me (UdK Berlin) and the DiGiTal Graduate Program (coordinated at the TU Berlin).

Free and open to everyone with no prior registration necessary. If you have any special access needs, please contact us in advance so that we can provide you with the best possible support. For more information visit: https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/research/bas/news/

We look forward to seeing you soon!

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24/09/2025

Graduale 25: FLOW STATES

Tekla Aslanishvili, João Enxuto & Erica Love, Joud Al-Tamimi,
Julia Lazarus, Sybille Neumeyer, Anani Dodji Sanouvi

26.09. – 05.10.2025

Exhibition Opening:
25.09.2025, 7 – 11 p.m.

Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Kottbusser Straße 10
10999 Berlin

Flow States brings together the works of the final cohort of UdK Graduate School in an exhibition, performance and event programme that explores how infrastructures shape our daily lives and how they might open ways of imagining different futures. The exhibition marks the final chapter of the fellowship programme, closing a 15-year journey of interdisciplinary artistic research at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

Land, water, archives, and institutions appear here not just as neutral systems, but as sites where memory and imagination intersect. Across different geographies, the artists in Flow States trace how infrastructures are entangled with state power, political agendas, and the histories and present-day realities of colonial control, including the logistics of war and genocide. Yet they also show how these same infrastructures carry the potential for resistance, renewal, and alternative ways of living.

Rather than telling one single story, Flow States shifts between historical and speculative perspectives. A gesture, an image, a historical reference, or a moving body become ways of testing larger systems: how climate is lived, how scarcity is managed, how ancestral knowledge may resurface as a living practice.

At its core, the programme asks what happens when art treats infrastructures not merely as a backdrop but as contested ground where struggles over resources and memory meet the search for new ways of living. In a moment shaped by ecological catastrophe, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the intensifying repression of students and artists protesting it in Germany and beyond, Flow States insists that other futures must be imagined.

https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/research/graduate-school/graduate-school-events/graduale-25/

A cooperation between Künstlerhaus Bethanien and The Graduate School, Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin), supported by the Kommission für künstlerische und wissenschaftliche Vorhaben (KKWV) and Medienhaus, UdK.

Design: Camilo Baquero Burgos

17/07/2025

Some more insights into our Summer Intensive last week! 🌿 ✨

As part of our Research Ecologies series, the day-long program brought together different researchers from across the arts and sciences with a focus on peer-to-peer exchange.

Thank you to our contributors:
Alisa Tretau
Marina Resende Santos .s + Inci Sağırbaş
Vincent Hulme , Anna Ivchenko , Augusto Gerardi Rousset .udk
Veljko Marković
Esteban Pérez

Our next and final evening colloquium in the Research Ecologies series will take place on 18 November, 5–7 pm.
📝 Mark your diaries — we’d love to see you there! ✨

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Adresse

Einsteinufer 43, Raum 205 – 208
Berlin

Telefon

+493031852105

Webseite

https://www.udk-berlin.de/forschung/bas/

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