Master of Arts (MA) in Cultural Production & Cultural Policy | CPP

This interdisciplinary English-language Master's degree program in Cultural Production & Cultural Policy qualifies students for programmatic, research-based, artistic, and curatorial work in the cultural sector. In times of violent geopolitical upheavals and crises of planetary proportions, cultural work in highly heterogeneous societies means creating spaces and infrastructures for cross-cultural dialog. A particular focus of the Master's program is therefore on the analysis and design of transformation processes and international cooperation.

Anyone who plans transdisciplinary cultural events curates exhibitions, directs festivals, and develops concert programs or cultural policy program lines for regions and institutions today not only needs artistic sensorium and management skills but also a sense of social and political responsibility as well as the communicative ability to coordinate participation processes.

Profile of the CPP Master's Degree Program

The CPP Master's program trains its students in artistically sophisticated, integrative, and theoretically sound cultural work that is committed to a democratic civil society and a decolonial perspective. It prepares students to deal competently with digital and heterogeneous public spheres and is based on a post-heroic understanding of management, for which communication and relational leadership are central.

The Master's program qualifies students to work as responsible experts, program developers, researchers, and potential change agents in the cultural sector.

Focus of the CPP Master's Degree Program

The Master's program allows students to set interdisciplinary priorities and carry out their own projects - depending on their individual research and work interests. The program focuses on

• Curatorial programming in the arts
• International cultural work in the context of festivals, theaters, museums, galleries, concerts, socio-cultural institutions, and in the independent scene
• National and international cultural policy Strategy and management processes
• As well as the organizational development of cultural institutions.

What Makes the CPP Master's Program So Special?

In the program, renowned lecturers and students jointly explore, develop, and examine innovative cultural formats. The Master's combines project-based courses, in which students conduct field research and curate their own events, with sophisticated theoretical work and empirical research.

In teaching and in the university arts program students meet internationally renowned artists, curators, festival directors, and experts from the cultural sector. The program cooperates with innovative partner institutions around Lake Constance and abroad in teaching research projects.

At the Centre for Cultural Production, outstanding research on the subject of cultural production and cultural policy is brought together.

Together with the head of the arts program, students curate events and their own internationally oriented festivals (e.g. SEEKULT) as part of their studies. The award-winning campus architecture has its own exhibition space, the White Box, and a range of attractive event rooms, workshops, and media labs.

In this environment, students are enabled to develop innovative forms of planning, organization, and curatorial programming and to help shape cultural policy strategies and funding structures. The Master's offers comprehensive theoretical and analytical thinking tools for this so that graduates are able to think and act in terms of art, cultural management, and cultural policy in equal measure.