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Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts

BAU's Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts was created with a desire to contribute to the transformation of society through art. It is also inspired by the conviction that artistic practice has a unique power to propose new ways of feeling, thinking and living, from an artistic sensibility, environmental commitment and social responsibility.

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Description of the curriculum

  • Edition: 4th
  • Teaching period: from October 2025 to June 2026
  • Schedule: mornings from 9am to 2.30pm or afternoons from 3pm to 8.30pm
  • Modality: on-site
  • Language: Spanish and Catalan
  • Price: 147 € / ECTS
  • Duration: 4 academic years
  • Qualification: Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts by the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia
  • Credits: 240 ECTS
  • Academic calendar 2024-25

Presentation

BAU's Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts proposes new ways of feeling, thinking, and living. Themes, materials, and temporalities are combined to create artistic projects that raise questions, that move us, and make us feel conscious and committed.

Studying Fine Arts at BAU involves research, expression, and experimentation through photography, painting, sculpture, digital fabrication, drawing, audiovisual work, and performance, among others. During the degree, students develop their own artistic language based on the techniques that challenge them the most. The teaching staff is made up of active professionals, which allows for close mentoring to acquire the necessary tools to build an artistic career.

With a professional and multilingual vision, students develop their artistic practice, addressing the complexities of the world around us in order to transform it.

BAU graduates in Fine Arts are creative, active, and attentive to contemporary debates and challenges. They have a historical perspective and critical thinking. They are professionals in contact with the humanities, sciences, and technologies, capable of leading projects, collaborating with other sectors, and generating change in society through the arts.

Differencial characteristics

  • Accredited degree awarded by UVic-UCC, accredited by the Agency for the Quality of the University System of Catalonia.
  • Close and personalised support, tailored to each student, so that they can develop their potential to the full and find the language and techniques best-suited to their artistic vision.
  • Committed, cohesive and professionally active teaching staff in the world of art and culture.
  • A stimulating environment in a creative, dynamic community with a great diversity of profiles and open to collaboration in activities and projects.
  • A connection between art and the humanities, sciences, and technology to provide answers to the great challenges of contemporary society.
  • Preparation for the professional future, with an emphasis on everything students will need over the course of their careers.
  • External internships as part of the curriculum, so that students can start their professional career.
  • Mobility and exchanges with universities in Europe, America, and Asia.
  • Infrastructure and equipment with advanced technology located in the 22@ in Barcelona, a privileged environment linked to arts, culture, innovation, and design.

Study Plan

Programme of studies

Credits by type of subject:

  • Basic training: 60 ECTS
  • Compulsory: 102 ECTS
  • Elective: 60 ECTS
  • External internship: 6 ECTS
  • Final project: 12 ECTS

TOTAL: 240 ECTS

Objectives

  • Critically reflect and evaluate the implications of artistic practices with respect to the different contexts in which they have an impact.
  • Understand contemporary and historical art reference frameworks and use them in a conscious, critical and innovative way.
  • Carry out ideation and experimentation projects and processes in a decisive and sensitive manner according to one's specific needs.
  • Apply appropriate research methodologies in processes of experimentation and formal production.
  • Coherent and efficient use of expressive languages and representation techniques in the development of professional projects.
  • Master processes of experimentation, development and presentation of two-dimensional, three-dimensional, audiovisual, installation, performative and relational works.
  • Understanding of the properties and combined behaviour of techniques, technologies and materials in order to be able to use them with aesthetic sensitivity and social and environmental responsibility.
  • Master the use of aesthetic and symbolic communication codes, as well as specific artistic language.
  • Analyse and relate data, concepts and knowledge from different sources and apply them creatively in working processes.
  • Contribute effectively to structures of cooperation and collaboration in the development and execution of proposals, within and outside the contexts of art.
  • Structure and articulate reasoning in a critical and justified way in contexts of discussion and analysis.
  • Plan and efficiently manage individual or team work processes of artistic projects of different complexity.

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International Mobility

Mobility programs are a fundamental line of action to facilitate the exchange of content, methodologies and resources, and to enhance the generation and transmission of knowledge.

From this perspective, student mobility is considered at BAU as a means of mutual knowledge between different countries and cultures that invites intercultural dialogue and an exchange of enriching educational experiences.

BAU promotes the mobility of its students, amd his international recognition as a design institution offersthe possibility of an international education under ERASMUS program regulations within Europe and with exchange programs with foreign universities prestige.

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Teachers

Lúa Coderch, PhD in Fine Arts. Degree in fine arts. Artistic production
Rebecca G. Mutell, PhD. Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts (Image).
Caterina Almirall, Doctora. Curaduría en arte contemporáneo y docencia

Caterina Almirall

Doctora. Curaduría en arte contemporáneo y docencia

Serafín Álvarez, PhD Candidate. Master in Artistic Productions and Research

Serafín Álvarez

PhD Candidate. Master in Artistic Productions and Research

Sergi Álvarez, Curatorship and research in contemporary art

Sergi Álvarez

Curatorship and research in contemporary art

Pau Artigas, Computer engineer

Pau Artigas

Computer engineer

Luz Broto, PhD Candidate. Artist and teacher. Spatial practices.

Luz Broto

PhD Candidate. Artist and teacher. Spatial practices.

Paula Bruna, PhD. Artist and environmentalist

Paula Bruna

PhD. Artist and environmentalist

Ludovica Carbotta, Master in fine arts. Artist. Sculptural practices. Installation. Drawing

Ludovica Carbotta

Master in fine arts. Artist. Sculptural practices. Installation. Drawing

Guillem Castellví, Dirección de publicidad

Guillem Castellví

Dirección de publicidad

Anna Clemente, Architect

Anna Clemente

Architect

Lúa Coderch, PhD in Fine Arts. Degree in fine arts. Artistic production

Lúa Coderch

PhD in Fine Arts. Degree in fine arts. Artistic production

Luis Colaço, Creative Technologist

Luis Colaço

Creative Technologist

Julieta Dentone, Ceramist. Cultural mediation, teacher

Julieta Dentone

Ceramist. Cultural mediation, teacher

Jaume Ferrete, PhD Candidate. Artist, researcher and teacher. Voice, performance and technologies

Jaume Ferrete

PhD Candidate. Artist, researcher and teacher. Voice, performance and technologies

Lara Fluxà, Artist

Lara Fluxà

Artist

Alba Font, Diseñadora gráfica y directora creativa especializada en proyectos culturales

Alba Font

Diseñadora gráfica y directora creativa especializada en proyectos culturales

Juan David Galindo, Artista, educador y mediador cultural

Juan David Galindo

Artista, educador y mediador cultural

Rebecca G. Mutell, PhD. Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts (Image).

Rebecca G. Mutell

PhD. Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts (Image).

Regina Giménez, Plastic artist

Regina Giménez

Plastic artist

Núria Gómez Gabriel, PhD. Cultural researcher, writer and art curator

Núria Gómez Gabriel

PhD. Cultural researcher, writer and art curator

Blanca Gracia, Artista visual y docente

Blanca Gracia

Artista visual y docente

Ariadna Guiteras, Master in Productions and Research. Artist. Performative practices. Installation. Drawing

Ariadna Guiteras

Master in Productions and Research. Artist. Performative practices. Installation. Drawing

Núria Inés, Artist. Storytelling and graphic storytelling

Núria Inés

Artist. Storytelling and graphic storytelling

Michael Lawton, PhD on Fine Arts. Artist, writer and teacher

Michael Lawton

PhD on Fine Arts. Artist, writer and teacher

Pere Llobera, Artista visual/pintor

Pere Llobera

Artista visual/pintor

Alejandra López Gabrielidis, PhD. Degree in Philosophy. Art and digital technologies

Alejandra López Gabrielidis

PhD. Degree in Philosophy. Art and digital technologies

José Ramón Madrid, Music producer and composer for audiovisual media, performer and educator

José Ramón Madrid

Music producer and composer for audiovisual media, performer and educator

Rafa Marcos Mota, Artista, comisariado e investigación

Rafa Marcos Mota

Artista, comisariado e investigación

Federica Matelli, PhD. Graduated in Philosophy. Aesthetics and Theory of Contemporary Art

Federica Matelli

PhD. Graduated in Philosophy. Aesthetics and Theory of Contemporary Art

Jonathan Millán, Doctorando. Artista e ilustrador

Jonathan Millán

Doctorando. Artista e ilustrador

Mariona Moncunill, PhD. Artist. Researcher. Coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts Projects department

Mariona Moncunill

PhD. Artist. Researcher. Coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts Projects department

Anna Moreno, PhD Candidate. Artist

Anna Moreno

PhD Candidate. Artist

María Fernanda Moscoso, Phd. Bachelor's degree in Anthropology. Research. Art.

María Fernanda Moscoso

Phd. Bachelor's degree in Anthropology. Research. Art.

Rasmus Nilausen, Master in fine Arts. Pictorial practices

Rasmus Nilausen

Master in fine Arts. Pictorial practices

Agustín Ortiz, Visual artist. Filmmaker

Agustín Ortiz

Visual artist. Filmmaker

David Ortiz Juan, Master in Visual Arts. Artistic production.

David Ortiz Juan

Master in Visual Arts. Artistic production.

Quim Packard, Cultural producer

Quim Packard

Cultural producer

Mercedes Pimiento, PhD Candidate. Artist and researcher

Mercedes Pimiento

PhD Candidate. Artist and researcher

Daniel Pitarch, PhD. Researcher and artist

Daniel Pitarch

PhD. Researcher and artist

Mónica Rikić, PhD Candidate in Information Technology and Networks. Bachelor of Fine Arts. Electronic artist and creative programmer.

Mónica Rikić

PhD Candidate in Information Technology and Networks. Bachelor of Fine Arts. Electronic artist and creative programmer.

Eulàlia Rovira, Artist

Eulàlia Rovira

Artist

Jaron Rowan, PhD. Head of Research

Jaron Rowan

PhD. Head of Research

Irina Rusell, Artista visual y docente

Irina Rusell

Artista visual y docente

Pep Vidal, PhD in Physical Sciences. Artist, researcher and teacher

Pep Vidal

PhD in Physical Sciences. Artist, researcher and teacher

Oriol Vilapuig, Degree in fine Arts. Artist. Pictorial practices and drawing

Oriol Vilapuig

Degree in fine Arts. Artist. Pictorial practices and drawing

Irena Visa, Visual artist and teacher

Irena Visa

Visual artist and teacher

Silvia Zayas, Doctora. Artista e investigadora

Silvia Zayas

Doctora. Artista e investigadora

Career Opportunities

  • Artist in all its modalities (creation and research in the field of art).
  • Cultural management (technical and management tasks in art production centres, art galleries, museums, exhibition halls and art fairs, cultural promotion and event organisation).
  • Specialist in production processes (pictorial and sculptural techniques, photography, video production, exhibition production and assembly, etc.).
  • Art direction and creation (creative staff in technological, design and advertising companies, press and television, audiovisual production companies, art galleries, art production centres, fairs and contests, etc.).
  • Advisory or consultancy
  • Mediation (in the educational departments of museums and cultural institutions or on a freelance basis).
  • Exhibition curatorship (curating, conceptualisation and organisation of exhibitions and art events).
  • Teaching and artistic education (secondary school teachers, specialised artistic education, university, creative workshops, technical training in specialised schools, etc.).

Pre-registration and access

Access to the Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts is done through the university pre-registration system. The University pre-registration is a coordinated system of student distribution that guarantees equal conditions in the admission process and admission to the first year of university degree studies. The pre-registration process is done online through the university access portal.

To find out the pre-registration deadlines, consult the website of the University Pre-registration Office of Catalonia.

Access

The registration period for the Bachelor's Degree in Design for new students takes place according to the calendar established by the University Preregistration office of Catalonia (Oficina de Preinscripción Universitaria de Cataluña).

Students educated in Spain

  • COU with the PAAU
  • Higher School level LOGSE with the PAAU
  • 2nd degree from FP
  • Training cycles from the Superior Degree
  • Admissions exams for prospective university students over the age of 25, 40 and 45
  • Graduate students

For any questions or doubts regarding these or other access systems, do not hesitate to contact the Admissions Department by email ([email protected]) or by phone (+34 93 415 34 74).

Students from a foreign education system

Students members from European Union countries or from countries outside the European Union will find more information about the access requirements here.

Access through university transfer

If you have begun university-level studies at another institution and want to transfer to BAU, you can access the Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts through recognition of previously completed subjects.

To apply for access through university transfer, a minimum of 30 ECTS credits must be recognized.

Contact the Academic Management Department for more information about the access through university transfer ([email protected]).

Enrolment

Once you have pre-registered and your place has been confirmed, the next and final step is to complete your enrolment.

The total fee of the course depends on the number of ECTS inscribed plus the student insurance, management fees and university fees.

  • The price of the ECTS credit for the 2025-26 course is 147 €.
  • The fixed price of university fees, management fees and insurance for the 2025-26 academic year is 250 €.
  • The total amount of the course for 60 ECTS is 9.070 €.

Payment options

  • Option 1. Full (single payment)
    If you pay the full course upon enrollment a 3% discount is applied to the total amount of the ECTS .
  • Option 2. In instalments (3 payments)
    First payment: 3.628 € (at the time of enrolment)
    Second payment: 2.721 € (before 5/11/25)
    Third payment: 2.721 € (before 5/1/26)
  • Option 3. In instalments (10 payments)
    Consists of an initial payment of 3.535€ upon enrollment (includes university taxes) + 9 monthly installments of 615€ (from October to June).

Scholarships and grants

As a BAU Bachelor student, you can take advantage of different scholarships and grants throughout your academic life at the center, as well as special discounts and preferential internal and external financing conditions.

Quality

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