Artistic Professor of Environmental Practices (W3) (KN 01/2025)

Die Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK Hamburg) is an academic university of art offering an internationally-focussed Fine Arts BA/MA degree course. The interdisciplinary programme of study offered at the HFBK Hamburg is composed of a wide range of academic artistic subjects and workshops. Students work independently and in a self-directed fashion through artistic and academic encounters, project work and experimental working practices.

The HFBK Hamburg is looking to fill the following position from October 2025, initially for six years:

Artistic Professor of Environmental Practices (W3) (KN 01/2025)

in the Department of Design. The options for establishing the appointment as a permanent post, extending the temporary contract or renewing the appointment result from 16 section 2 Hamburgische Hochschulgesetz (HmbHG).

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a proven international track record in the field of art and/or design and should work between the poles of practical and utopian responses to current ecological challenges to produce and exemplify an artistic and/or creative vision of possible futures.

The successful candidate will be expected to display a high level of commitment to the Department of Design and its teaching in such a way as to ensure socially effective artistic practice.

Further information is available from Laura Kowalewski, tel. +4940428989-264 or laura.kowalewski@hfbk.hamburg.de.

Please submit applications with the usual documents (CV with specification of teaching experience, copies of university qualification(s), list of exhibitions) and examples of your artistic work together with your contact details (e-mail and telephone number in the letterhead of your application) via our applications portal by 16.03.2025.

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. The university promotes diversity and a diversity of outlooks. Applications are welcomed from all genders (male / female / non-binary). The Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg seeks to increase the number of women on its academic artistic staff and actively encourages applications from women. Applications are also desired from suitably-qualified severely disabled people and those with this status as defined by the Neunten Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB IX).

For more information, visit www.hfbk-hamburg.de.