File format: PDF (max 40 pages, including 2 pages of inspiration from the art world)

A portfolio is an overview of your own creations and the sources of inspiration. You can show your collection of drawings, sketches, designs, models, images, photographs, paintings, 3d, works in textile/wood/metal, movies and other works that you have created on your own initiative.

Also unfinished works, rehearsals, material experiments, examples, ideas and try-outs belong to the process of your works and are presented in your portfolio. The addition of a visual journal in which you record your sources of inspiration (artists, artworks, designers, designs, themes, stories, images etc.) and your ideas, plans, experiences and insights is also important.

We expect recent work (three years old maximum) and we will be judging your creative skills, motivation, ideas, work processes, originality, prospects of growth and learning, diversity and use of materials.

Tips for putting together a portfolio

File format: PDF (1 A4 max.)

In your motivation letter answer the following questions:

• Why do you want to follow the Preparatory Year?
• What do you expect from the Preparatory Year?
• Which artists/designers and artworks/designs inspire you and/or you admire?
• Which cultural activities did you visit/experienced recently (such as exhibitions, dance- or theater performances, movies, concerts, festivals etc.)?
• What is important for you in life? Which values are important for you in society?
• Which magazines/newspapers/blogs do you read in order to keep up?
• How did you find out about the KABK/Preparatory Year?

You will have the opportunity to give a short verbal explanation of the works you have selected to show during the admission day.

There is the possibility that after the interview the decision is made to give an individual assignment. You will be informed when necessary by the student administration about this assignment, deadline and content after the admission day.