Artistic Professor

Die Hochschule für bildende
Künste Hamburg (HFBK Hamburg)

The HFBK Hamburg is looking to fill the following position from October 2024 on a six-year contract

Artistic Professor (W 2) for teaching foundation courses in the department of Design (KN 02/2023)

This is a fixed-term appointment and will not be made permanent.

We are looking to appoint an artist to teach artistic practices to students in their first two interdisciplinary semesters, with a focus on the practice of design as an art form. At the HFBK, design is understood in a broad sense. Our approach acknowledges the form's roots in industrial design and product design, but also incorporates experimental forms of environmental, spatial and process design as well as social design. The successful applicant will be able to present a body of independent artistic work as well as a pronounced experimental openness and the ability to address design as a social, technical and aesthetic practice embedded in a context of urgent political, ecological and social questions. We also require demonstrable interest in collaborative working practices and the readiness to take part in the life of the University.

Further information is available from Laura Kowalewski, tel. +4940428989-264 or

Employment requirements / information about the procedure
The legal prerequisites for appointment to a professorial position are set out in - 15 Hamburgisches Hochschulgesetz (HmbHG). Checks will be carried out as to the possibility of establishing the successful applicant as a short-term civil service employee. The scope of the teaching duties results from the specifications of the Lehrverpflichtungsverordnung für die Hamburger Hochschulen. The post can be shared by two part-time holders. In accordance with - 12 section 7 HmbHG, the nature and scope of the tasks will be checked at appropriate intervals.