Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava

Mission Statement

As an educational and cultural institution, AFAD´s mission is to prepare the young people to their professional career within the field of art, design and architecture. The presence of AFAD in life and at the public events intends to influence the society, forms and contents of culture in the region and wider. With regard to the spirit of multicultural coexistence in EU and universal principles of human rights, cooperation and equality, the AFAD is open to every student who proves the requested level of his/her artistic talent and knowledge, regardless national, ethnic, gender, religious and other diversities. AFAD is strongly dedicated to the freedom of artistic expression and quality assurance of the study for the both Slovak and foreign students.

International Role

AFAD Bratislava is a member of ELIA, CUMULUS Association, European Textile Network. Programs Socrates/Erasmus, CEEPUS and the bilateral cooperation with individual art schools and universities in Europe and worldwide. It facilitates the student and faculty mobility with more than 43 partner institutions. The Academy organizes manifold international workshops, symposiums, conferences, and exhibitions, on regular and irregular basis. We are fostering the contacts of the 12 AFAD’s departments with enterprises in Slovakia and abroad, in order to put the student placements on a regular basis. Good cooperation in this field with car industry, conservation and restoration studios and the advertisement enterprises has proved the efficiency of such approach.

National Role

Through its faculty and students the AFAD is in cooperation with almost all the relevant art institutions in Slovakia. We cooperate with other higher education partners, such as Comenius University and Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Academy of Art in Banska Bystrica and faculty of Fine Arts in Kosice in common activities and educational projects. Numerous subjects of the industrial, architectural and cultural sector are constant partners to our departments, e.g. Dept. of Design, Architecture, Conservation and Restoration, Applied Arts, etc.

Main Focus

The Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava is a modern, fully accredited higher education art school, which provides complex education in the field of fine arts, design, architecture, and conservation on all three levels – Undergraduate, Graduate, Postgraduate. The study is practiced based with wide instruction in theory and history of art and architecture. Exclusively postgraduate (doctoral) program is offered in the field of Humanities and Arts.