Art studies-Lawsuit against Academy Again: Free Art for everyone?

“Everyone is an artist,” said Joseph Beuys, Alumnus and professor of the Düsseldorf Art Academy. You can see that differently.

Foto: picture alliance/Horst Ossinger

The evaluation of art is always in the eye of the viewer. However, if a commission of an art college does not determine the applicant’s artistic suitability, this can become a problem for prospective artists. A student wanted to register for the subject of free art at the renowned art academy in Düsseldorf.

However, it failed due to the evaluation standards of the art commission of the academy. Then she complained to the Düsseldorf administrative court – in vain. Very rarely complained rejected applicants against the rejection, the court said.

Ina Q’s dream was to study free art. When she submitted 23 paintings to explain her suitability of the jury in 2023, she was certified that “many role models”, as the “Rheinische Post” from Düsseldorf reports, was not available, but there is no level of its own. It needs just as well as the artistic design skills, the realization in the chosen artistic media as well as the artistic conception and intensity of the work, you read on the website of the university, where Joseph Beuys and Gerhard Richter already studied and taught.

The applicant did not give up, stayed persistent, wanted to know what her work would still need so that she was admitted. She achieved partial success by looking at the eight -member jury again. However, seven out of eight examiners remained in their assessments, according to the report of the “Rheinische Post”. As with the first evaluation, there was no reason for the non -registration. As a spokeswoman for the administrative court, this was then submitted to the court in the meantime.

In three categories, points from 1 (excellently suitable) to 3 (not suitable) would be awarded from the examiners. QS cut is said to have been at 2.88. Not sufficient. The minimum size is 2.3.

She also did not want to accept this rejection notice. Understandable, you might think. Because if a state art academy decides after more or less subjective criteria who gets the privilege to develop artistically at a university, questions can be raised.

Especially since an artistic talent is difficult to measure. And since there is no applicant talks in Düsseldorf, there are no questions for admission. Instead of personal impression, the portfolio and the score count. In the worst case, the final rejection follows. In view of his questions, critics and again and again how free our understanding of art can be when it is regulated so strongly.

Q. ultimately complained about the second rejection notice.
Because she has doubts about the independence of the Commission, and there should also be no understandable parameters of the evaluation. In order to keep against the accusation of bias, the court told “ND”, the Commission consists of eight people. “This enables a wide range of assessments and a resilient picture.”

The court also dismissed the other concerns and explained that, unlike with exact sciences, art and its evaluation could never be classified as correct or wrong. The scope for assessment is particularly immense in free art and referred to the study regulation of the Düsseldorf Art Academy.

“The assessment of admission is not about art science understanding or technical skills, but only about the potential to develop and express independent ideas as an artist,” says the court.

It also says: »In such cases, the case examination is severely restricted; The art academy has a considerable scope for design when assessing the artistic suitability. «There was also no procedural errors from the art academy. Means: there are hardly any judicial intervention options.

Because the judge hardly gave her hope for the success of the lawsuit at the hearing last Wednesday, Q. decided to refrain from the lawsuit. The procedure was discontinued, the procedural costs bears Q. The Düsseldorf Art Academy did not want to comment on the procedure.

What remains of the process: Of course, an academy does not decide who is an artist. She only decides who she gives space. Whether someone is actually artistically active remains a personal decision, none that can be denied by point values. It also sees Q. compared to the “Rheinische Post,” she says that she continued to paint and have already pulled smaller orders ashore.

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