Fakulta umění a designu

We connect studio studies with theoretical disciplines and with exhibition, presentation and publication activities, thus creating a complex creative environment full of inventive, artistic and research activities.

At the same time, we play an active role as an academic institution in the social space not only of our home town of Ústí nad Labem, but also in the national and international context.

Within the Fine Art and Design study programmes, we provide a comprehensive artistic, theoretical and practical education for designers and graphic artists, photographers, digital media artists and contemporary art curators.

We preserve and develop traditional artistic craft practices and techniques. But we are also looking for ways to explore new technologies that use the possibilities of artistic creation not only to reflect but also to co-determine current trends based on scientific knowledge and trends shaping the contemporary, so-called creative society.

We create and support an international environment for students and teachers in the form of foreign internships, exchange visits, workshops, lectures and exhibitions of prominent foreign designers, artists and theorists. We cooperate with schools, institutions, galleries and design studios not only in Europe, but also in Asia and America.

Many of our graduates have already demonstrated through their work, which has been appreciated both at home and abroad, the unmistakable energy of the young artistic centre of Northwest Bohemia that our faculty has become during its existence. Students, applicants and also the general public have the opportunity to try out studying at the Faculty of Art and Design in the form of weekly workshops that take place during our Summer School.

We learn and work in an unmissable, newly renovated building on the university campus. The individual studios have quality facilities for their activities, including a number of specialised workplaces focused on the latest digital technologies.

But we do not forget about classical technologies either (audiovisual studio, digital printing centre or 3D printing, traditional graphic design workshops, workshops for wood, metal, glass and textile processing).

In the unique porcelain and ceramics production centre in Dubí at Teplice, we continue the regional industrial history. We cooperate with important cultural institutions abroad and throughout the Czech Republic.

We built a university cultural and social centre called Dům umění Ústí nad Labem from a former cafeteria. Here we organize artistic, educational and social events.

Our students and graduates win awards in national and international competitions and exhibition projects: Red Dot Design Award, Czech Grand Design, Cena Jindřicha Chalupeckého (Jindřich Chalupecký Award), Essl Art Award EEE, Národní cena za studentský design (Czech International Student Design Award), Master of Crystal or Designblok. Every other year we also give our own prestigious EXIT AWARD to students of art universities and academies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

We are located just a 15-minute walk from the main train station, on the university campus, 9 Pasteurova Street. If you head to us by public transport, get off at the stop Kampus and follow the crowd.

Faculty of Art and Design