Course detail
Installation as a Medium of Creative Practice
FaVU-4IMCPAcad. year: 2025/2026
The topic of installation is viewed from various angles during the semester course. Teaching is aimed at developing students' independent artistic work. Through teaching and field trips, students will become familiar with the technical aspects, possibilities, and limitations of exhibiting. Significant time will be dedicated to discussions on related topics, such as working with space, working with light, handling existing artifacts in an installation, site-specific installations, the use of technology in installations, and other specific possibilities for exhibiting installation art in a gallery space. Attention will also be paid to artistic installations of an immersive, multisensory, and interactive nature, using various media and techniques. We will also focus on the issue of exhibiting moving images and the transformation of installation strategies in the context of online platforms. The course will include at least two field trips to relevant exhibitions and site visits to selected institutions.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Credit will be awarded on the basis of at least 80% attendance in classes and field trips and participation in the final colloquium, the aim of which will be to reflect on a selected topic from the course in the form of a short presentation.
Aims
The aim of the course is to provide students with theoretical training and practical creative experience in working with the medium of installation and to integrate this into their own work. Thanks to the experience gained in this course, students will be able to clearly communicate their plans and requirements to galleries and be aware of the technical possibilities and limitations of gallery operations.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
Claire BISHOP, Installation Art, TATE PUBLISHING, 2018. (EN)
David JOSELIT, Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form since 1968, MIT Press, 2017. (EN) (EN)
Erika BALSOM, Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art, Amsterdam University Press, 2013. (EN) (EN)
Erika SUDERBURG ed., Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art, University Of Minnesota Press, 2003. (EN)
Fakewhale XYZ, "Visual Capital: Designing for the Feed", Fakewhale, 2026, https://fakewhale.xyz/visual-capital-designing-for-the-feed (EN) (EN)
Gaston BACHELARD, The Poetics of Space, Penguin Classics, 2014. (EN)
Ilya KABAKOV, On The “Total” Installation - Uber Die “Totale” Installation [Multi-lingual: English, German, and Russian], Cantz Verlag, 1995. (EN)
John DEWEY, Art as Experience, Perigee Books, U.S., 2021. (EN)
Martha ROSENTHAL, Understanding Installation Art: From Duchamp to Holzer, Prestel Publishing, 2021. (EN)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme FAAD Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
2 year of study, summer semester, elective - Programme ZST-BX Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme ZST-NX Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme ZST-NBIP Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
Type of course unit
Creative seminar
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- working with space
- working with atmosphere
- site specificity
- professional practice in a gallery
- field trips