KASK & Conservatorium

Ghent, Belgium

KASK and Conservatorium have been departments of the University College of Applied Sciences and Arts Ghent (HOGENT) since 1995. With more than 18,000 students, HOGENT is the largest university college in Flanders. That offers advantages of scale when developing an efficient administration, managing the infrastructure, developing research and offering social facilities. Placing the art programmes in a structure like the school of arts actively guarantees the specific quality of the art programmes in practice. The School of Arts does this within HOGENT and in close collaboration with Ghent University. A strong expansion of artistic and theoretic research within the school of arts, and the establishment of ateliers that graft onto new technological media and new artistic forms, bears witness to the unwavering intention to improve the quality of the programmes and to reflect the dynamics in the artistic field of action in the programmes. The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent (Dutch: Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Gent, KASK) is an art school that is one of the oldest art schools in Belgium. It is now part of the Hogeschool Gent.