phd projects with grant opportunities

AHC assigns hosting pledges to research projects considered original and artistically relevant, and to applicants considered suitable for admission to an academic context and to AHC’s research and mediation activities.

Each year AHC selects a maximum of four applicants for practice-based PhD grants in visual art and two for practice-based PhD grants in curating. All candidates are selected by a jury consisting of two external members who change each year, as well as one member from AHC’s team.

THE NOVO NORDISK FOUNDATION GRANT The selected candidates are offered placements at AHC and against this background can apply for funding from NNF. NNF has a deadline for applications at the beginning of January each year. If one wishes to apply for a PhD position hosted by AHC one must first apply for hosting at AHC and then for advance approval from a Danish university before applying for funding from NNF.

A practice-based PhD financed by the NNF requires the candidate to be associated with an artistic host institution. This may be AHC, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts or another art institution that houses practice-based researchers. However, only the Danish universities can award the PhD degree. This means that a PhD candidate who is granted funding from NNF is employed at AHC but is registered at a university. In practice this means that the researcher engages in everyday activities and has a workplace at AHC, but at the same time is engaged in a close professional interaction with a university. Part of the collaboration with the university also involves a teaching requirement, and that the principal supervisor on the project is from the university. AHC cooperates primarily with the Department for Art and Cultural Studies at Copenhagen University and the Department for Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. Apart from this we are interested in all cooperations that are relevant to the individual research projects – not least the interdisciplinary ones that go beyond the art field and those with institutions abroad.