MA Artistic Research

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MA Artistic Research

https://www.kabk.nl/en/programmes/master/artistic-research

The Master Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) is an intensive two-year programme for highly motivated artists who have a specific interest in research processes and are eager to carry out critical reflection in relation to their art practice. This programme will help you to become an autonomous, critically-aware artistic researcher, and will equip you with a complex un

derstanding of the ways art can intersect with the aesthetic, social, political, and historical field.

16/05/2026

*you* are warmly invited to our exhibition 'paradise, is not for me' taking place between friday and monday, 22 and 25 👉🏻👈🏻

participating artists:
Chenxin Cai
Luca Calderó
Tâm Ðỗ .do_______
Ellen Fleig Gracia
sara francola .francola
Guðrún Jónsdóttir
Jeonghyun Kang
Nadežda Kirćanski
Foteini Kytiani
Salomé Lopes
Jakob Lotta
Esther Meijer
Dakota Mokhammad .magdalena.mokhammad
io Wu

curated by Kris Dittel
graphic design by Lotte Lara Schröder

see you there :)
📌 .thehague

25/04/2026

Don’t miss the last days of our second year’s exhibition as part of European Media Arts Festival .media.art.festival more info in our bio!

‘Civil Crop’
📍Kunstraum hase29
📅 22 April: 19:30-22:00, 23–26 April: 11:00–20:00

Ada Jochimsen
Andrėja Maiburovaitė
Cemre Eraslan
Margherita Soldati .soldati
Nezhla Imanzadeh
Jonas Motiejus Meškauskas
Priyageetha Dia .dia
Roland Farkaš
Severi Aaltonen

Project supervisor and install pics: Babak Afrassiabi

24/04/2026

This week we welcomed and their post-master fellows from Luxembourg to The Hague 🌞

We had the sunniest day at

We invited alumni along for our new annual alumni catch up day! They shared some updates about what they’ve been up to in life post graduation and we had a delicious lunch.

We welcomed Inès Geoffroy to share a presentation about her curatorial practice, on invitation from

And there was a tour of the medieval book collection at the !

15/04/2026

Interested in joining our programme in September? You can still apply until 1 May!

Please note that we have already had a first round of interviews and those who applied by the original 2 March deadline are considered first.

24/03/2026

A few weeks ago, some of our first-year students were selected by to participate in...

PROLOGUE – A Symposium Reflecting on Processes, Methods, and Hospitality

Five days of encounters, presentations, performances, and discussions devoted to artistic research and the various processes of creation.

Conceived as a moment of gathering to reflect on the role of a residency and research space such as Casino Display and on possible future directions, this symposium – open to all audiences – put into practice the very concept of FORA* throughout 2026: to offer a space where research is collectively developed, where methods are made visible as much as they are experimented with, and where new ways of inhabiting, thinking, and sharing the artistic act can unfold.

We look forward to welcoming them for a visit to The Hague next month! 🏖️

*FORA is an annual programme, thought of as the plural of “forum” and is conceived as an open, moving space traversed by multiple temporalities

Participating students: Tam Do .do_______ , Guðrún Jónsdóttir , Nadežda Kirćanski , io Wu

10/03/2026

INTRO WEEKS

From kite-making to architectural tours through an online shooter game, and from human microphones to lunch at a farm, during our first weeks of term, we welcomed a fantastic array of artists for short workshops, talks, tours and studio visits both in The Hague and during our excursion to Vienna.

Nikolaus Eckhard |
Natalia Domínguez Rangel |
Claudia Lomoschitz |
Alejandra López |
Elisabeth Molin |
Helena Sanders |
Total Refusal |

25/02/2026

GIULIA DAMIANI | SET #1 (SYNERGETIC EXHIBITION TOPOLOGY)

On invitation from our core tutor Görkem Yalım .orkem Giulia worked with a group of students to make a one-day exhibition, finding synergy between works through materials and language.

Giulia Damiani is an Italian artist based in Amsterdam who works with text and performance. Her work creates provocative performative situations, often starting from a sound investigation, posing urgent questions about violence, language, and a mythical and ecological territory. Recently she was an Atlas resident at ImPulsTanz (2025) where she started developing her new piece Apology for Fire (coming 2026). Lately her first stage performance Heart Brake was presented at Frascati in Amsterdam in December 2025 (supported by AFK Mondriaan Finds, Voordekunst, Cultuur Fonds and Centrale Fies). In 2022, she completed her PhD based on her performance practice, entitled Porous Places: Eruptive Bodies: The Feminist Group Le Nmesiache in 1970s and 1980s Naples at the Department of Art at Goldsmiths University (London), writing extensively about the feminist group Le Nemesiache in Naples and reactivating their work. She edited the book Ritual and Display, published by If I Can’t Dance in 2022. She teaches at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.

www.giuliadamiani.eu
damiani

25/02/2026

MARIANA FERNÁNDEZ MORA | AI AND ETHICS OF KNOWING

As part of our inter-departmental workshop series – A Crisis of Fabulation? – we invited Mariana to lead a three-day reading group. Through collective reading, annotation, and conversation, the participants explore AI as an assemblage of social, ecological, and affective relations.

Mariana Fernández Mora (1991, MX/NL) is a researcher, artist and writer based in Amsterdam. Her work bridges artistic practice and theoretical inquiry, drawing on critical theory, philosophy and feminist thought to examine the entanglements between algorithmic systems, knowledge production, and extractivism. She approaches artificial intelligence as planetary infrastructure sustained by material resources, attention, affect, labour, and inherited epistemologies, rather than as an immaterial system.

Through writing, sculpture, and installation, she investigates how algorithmic systems shape bodies, environments, and perception. Her work develops concepts such as Slow AI, Planetary Somatics, and the Lullament as speculative and affective frameworks that address extractive legacies while proposing situated, care-based encounters with technology.

Fernández Mora is affiliated with the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), where she conducts her Professional Doctorate project, Entangled Machines: Decolonial Modes of Encounter with Artificial Intelligence.

www.mfmstudio.com

24/02/2026

LUA VOLLAARD & RACHEL BACON | PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE WORKSHOPS

We invited Lua Vollaard to lead a professional practice workshop for our second year students, preparing them for grant and exhibition applications after they graduate. Rachel Bacon lead a series of workshops for our first years covering various topics of professionalisation like artist statements.

👤 Lua Vollaard is a curator and writer with a background in visual culture, human rights research and photography. Interested in the broad intersection of technology and ideology, she has conducted projects for Frontier Imaginaries, steirichser herbst, Veem House for Performance, Project Arts Centre Dublin, and others. She worked as a researcher on the Forensic Architecture projects A Killing in Umm-al Hiran and Ground Truths, and has written for publications and organisations including Metropolis M and Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Lua is a curator at Stroom Den Haag, where she has facilitated Nøtel (The Hague) by Lawrence Lek, group exhibition De Dingen with the Embassy of the North Sea, Hybrid Peace by the Visual Culture Research Center, rite of access by left gallery, Towards a Black Testimony by Languid Hands, and has recently curated an edition of Uncertainty Seminars on communication in multispecies environments.

www.luavollard.com

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👤 Rachel Bacon is originally from New York and now lives in Brussels. She studied at the Pratt Institute and University of the Arts London. She was recently an artist in residence at MASS MoCA (2018), and Banff Centre for the Arts (2017) and recent exhibitions include What Do Landscapes Say? at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL (2020); How the Land Lies at Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Ireland (2020); Drawing Research Forum, Drawing Room, London, UK (2019); Unfolding Landscape, De Cacaofabriek, Helmond (2018). Rachel has supported the work of other artists through committee membership of artist run spaces and at Stroom, Den Haag.

www.rachelbacon.com

24/02/2026

KRIS DITTEL | CURATORIAL ADVISOR

For this year’s public exhibition programme, we are happy to invite Kris Dittel as our curatorial advisor. Our next exhibition guided by Kris will be at Paradise .thehague in May – see you there!

👤 Kris Dittel is a curator, editor and writer. Her practice is driven by long-term research projects that materialize in various forms, including exhibitions, publications, public events, performances, texts, talks, and more.
Her most recent project, Unruly Kinships, included an exhibition, a study group series, and an event program, co-curated with Aneta Rostkowska (Temporary Gallery CCA, Cologne 2022-24). This project explored possibilities of kinship beyond the nuclear family and examined ways we may form relations with/in the world. Her earlier work dealt with the notion of code switching (To Be Like Water, TENT Rotterdam, 2021); the voice as material (Post-Opera, TENT, V2_, Opera festival Rotterdam, 2019).    Her recent co-edited volumes include Unruly Kinships (J*p Sam Books, Temporary Gallery CCA, 2025) with Aneta Rotskowska, and a children’s book Life with Fifi (_BÖKS, 2025), with Angelica Falkeling. Her previously edited publications include Spatial Folders: Extraction and Extractivism, co-edited with Golnar Abbassi (MIARD, Piet Zwart Institute, 2023); The Material Kinship Reader, co-edited with Clem Edwards (Onomatopee, 2022), among others. She has recently founded a small press, _BÖKS, which publishes ageless children’s books, poetry, and weird erotica.

www.krisdittel.com

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