Start of the new academic year at the University of the Arts Bremen
The University of the Arts (HfK) Bremen starts the winter semester 2023/2024 with 219 first-year students.
On Monday, 16 October 2023, the University of the Arts Bremen officially opened the winter semester 2023/2024. 182 first-year students were welcomed at the opening event in Speicher XI A in Bremen's Überseestadt, with 37 more to follow in the coming weeks. This means that 118 freshmen are studying in the Faculty of Art and Design and 101 in the Faculty of Music. More than 2,190 prospective students applied. Around 1000 young artists and musicians are enrolled at the University of the Arts Bremen.
45.7 percent of all students moved to Germany for their education and enrich the university’s community. Among the foreign freshmen, most students come from China (16 percent), South Korea (eight percent) and Taiwan (three percent). They are closely followed by Japan, Poland, Portugal, Russia and Ukraine, each with two per cent.
"Experience and shape our university as a place of encounter," Prof. Dr. Mirjam Boggasch urged the students during the semester opening event. "The University of the Arts Bremen is an art and music university at the same time, regionally rooted and internationally oriented. The University of the Arts Bremen is spread over several, very different, locations in the city. These extraordinary framework conditions can be challenging, but at the same time open up great possibilities for your personal and artistic development - and above all for a diversity of personal encounters," said the president.
The start of the winter semester is also a festive occasion to present awards. Among others, the scholarship holders of the Scholarship and Support Programme (STIBET) of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) were honoured. These are: Jiye Lee (Fine Arts), Dorsa Eidizadeh (Fine Arts), Eghbal Joudi (Fine Arts), Minjeong Park (Fine Arts), Youngjae Cho (Electroacoustic Composition), Gretel Jazeron (Piano), Grigorii Titov (Recorder), Chien-Wei Yan (Orchestral Instruments / Violin), Zwe Oak Seo (Digital Media) and Martina Körbes Bracht (Violin).
In addition, the DAAD Prize for Outstanding Achievement by International Students was awarded to Andrii Smirnov, who is in his third semester studying for a Master's degree in Integrated Design. Andrii Smirnov was born in Ukraine and successfully completed his Bachelor's degree at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Art. "The most important things that drive me in my studies are professional teachers and a good, mixed team of students," said Smirnov and added "we have the complete freedom to decide what we want to do. I want to help open up borders and media, because that's what the future of designers is all about."
About the University of the Arts Bremen / Hochschule für Künste Bremen (HfK)
Around 1.000 students from more than 50 countries, 76 professors, 86 staff members in administration and over 150 teaching associates make the University of the Arts Bremen (HfK) a vibrant place.
The HfK is a university of seeming opposites. While deeply rooted in the region, the institution is extremely international in its basic orientation. The HfK is spread out over a number of locations throughout the city with significant differences among them, ranging from classicist to floating to contemporary. The HfK is an art university and a university of music at the same time. These parameters form the foundations of the university and create a framework that allows to strengthen artistic development among its students on a collective, as well as on the individual level.
The range of studies offered include Fine Arts, Integrated Design, Digital Media, as well as Musical Education for Artists and Teachers. Since 2020, the HfK also offers a post-graduate programme of study, an art- and science-based PhD programme with a special focus on Integrated Design and Digital Media.
Open courses, shared conduct of exams, as well as work shops, studios and projects on specific themes all are focussed on fostering dialogue and collaborations. With some 400 events annually the HfK is a pillar of cultural and communal life in the City of Bremen
The relationships among members of the university community, their multi-facetted collaborations, the close knit support provided to students by faculty and staff, as well as the plethora of regional and international cooperations help students grow into strong and distinct personalities. All of this produces works with high impacts on society at large.
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