Performance Art

The MUK continuously strengthens and expands its institutional research profile in the field of Performance Art. Our focus lies on both the historical and contemporary aesthetics and politics of the performative in its diverse forms, manifestations, and contexts.

At the MUK, the key principle of teaching Performance Art and Theory is to integrate practice-based and theory-driven research and learning. This approach equips students with a solid foundation in artistic research practices while fostering a broad understanding of Performance Studies.
Since its emergence as a “hybrid genre” in the 1950s, Performance Art has maintained an exploratory nature, engaging with questions of presence, action, and representation, as well as concepts and categories. It also examines the dynamic relationships between the artist, the audience, and the broader social reality.