Welcome! Exchange students in the winter semester 2022/23

20.10.2022
Incomings in WS 22/23 (left to right) Top row: Krishi Sonthalia, Margot Beekelaar, Shreya Patil, Yu-Tung Chen, Sangwoon Jung, Eliana Pereira, Haeeun Shin. Seated: Young Choi (missing: Nicoleta Domenti).

Welcome to the Merz Akademie! We are pleased to welcome students from our partner universities: Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, India, Willem de Kooning Academy, Netherlands, University Beira Interior, Portugal, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan, and Hongik University, South Korea.

The Merz Akademie is constantly expanding its partnerships with universities in (non)European countries. So far, Merz Akademie students can spend a semester abroad at more than 20 partner universities. Likewise, students from the partner universities can spend their semester abroad at the Merz Akademie.

Merz Akademie students abroad
In the winter semester of 2022/23, three Merz Akademie students are taking advantage of the opportunity to gain experience abroad: Master’s student Furkan Dönmezer is on an Erasmus+ scholarship for an exchange semester in Denmark at the Royal Danish Art Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Bachelor student Veit Engelbrecht also receives an Erasmus+ scholarship. He is in Seville, Spain for his internship semester. And Bachelor student Pascal Hecker is spending a semester abroad at the University of Portsmouth in the UK. Pascal is supported by PROMOS.

07.11.2025

Merz Akademie auf der ComicCon Stuttgart

Die Merz Akademie wurde zur ComicCon 2025 in Stuttgart eingeladen. Auf der Bühne werden Rektorin Dr. Barbara M. Eggert und Prof. Florian Bayer erwartet. Programmpunkte der Merz Akademie – auf...

06.11.2025

”Leg Day” von Paul Kley auf dem 1. Internationalen U30 shortmood Filmfestival

Der Film “Leg Day” von Merz Akademie-Absolvent Paul Kley läuft auf dem 1. International shortmood Filmfestival 2025 am 14./15.11.2025 in Stuttgart. Über 1911 Filmeinreichungen hat die Jury erhalten, “Leg Day”...

28.10.2025

Viele Filme und Nominierungen der Merz Akademie bei der Filmschau 2025

In den Innenstadtkinos Stuttgart laufen bei der 31. Filmschau Baden-Württemberg vom 3. bis 7. Dezember 2025 sechs Filme von Merz Akademie-Studierenden und Absolvent*innen – und drei davon sind im Rennen...

21.10.2025

Danja Vasiliev Appointed Professor of Emerging Media in Art and Design

Merz Akademie has appointed artist Danja Vasiliev to the newly established Professorship of Emerging Media in Art and Design, starting in the winter semester 2025/26. With this appointment, the institution...