Staff mobility

As a school, we want to focus on lifelong learning, not only of the students, but also of our teachers. After all, innovation and world knowledge are extremely important pillars that we want to introduce into educational practice on a daily basis. To do this, it is important that our teachers, but also our employees and other staff members, are aware of interesting and new global developments in arts education.

Brandon Wen - new creative director of the Fashion Department

Antwerp Academy's Fashion Department sets out for international, interdisciplinary and innovative profile

Beginning in September 2022, Brandon Wen will be the new creative director of our Fashion Department. Wen will also teach and mentor students. In doing so, he succeeds Walter Van Beirendonck, who has led the Fashion Department since 2007.

Brandon Wen (°Los Angeles, 1993) is both a fashion designer and a performance artist. He studied at Cornell University in New York and at the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.

HELLO THERE, DEAR ALUMNI!

The Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts is about to blow out 360 birthday candles. You can only imagine how many students have graduated here in the past couple of years - and even centuries! – and have traded the familiar ateliers and classrooms for a career in the arts sector or cultural field.

Tina Gillen at the Venice Biennale

Tina Gillen, teacher and researcher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, represents the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg at the 59th Biennale di Venezia.

New research projects 2022

We are pleased to present the new research and PhD projects starting in September 2022 at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.