LUCA School of Arts

LUCA School of Arts is the only university college in Flanders exclusively dedicated to art and design, making it unique. The art school combines the strengths and expertise of five renowned Flemish higher education institutions for art and design, spread across Brussels, Genk, Ghent, and Leuven. LUCA is a member of the KU Leuven Association.
More than 4,000 students can choose from more than thirty programs in Audiovisual Arts & Techniques, Interior & Product Design, Construction Technology, Music & Drama, and Visual Arts & Design. LUCA School of Arts offers both professional and academic bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and advanced bachelor's and master's degrees.
LUCA has an extensive international network of art and architecture schools spread across five continents. Among others, the school belongs to the Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision (CILECT), European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA), European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE), Association Européenne des Conservatoires (AEC) and CUMULUS for design education.
Consequently, LUCA students and staff can go on exchanges in more than two hundred higher education institutions inside and outside Europe.
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Students at LUCA School of Arts are taught by a dedicated team of renowned practicing artists, designers, and architects. Many of our tutors continue to develop their artistic practice through research projects. Rather than imposing a particular style or way of working, our tutors guide students to find and formulate their artistic solutions.
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The courses offered by LUCA - Faculty of the Arts have a vital artistic, critical, and investigative profile. To safeguard this, there is permanent interaction between these courses and artistic and design-based research. Organizing and encouraging research is one of the Faculty of the Arts' core tasks.
The research, organized into four themed research units, is coordinated by the Central Board of Research. The research units support artists and research groups, develop interdisciplinary research projects, and supervise PhDs.
The extremely varied expertise in the different courses offered by LUCA - Faculty of the Arts (music and the performing arts, audiovisual and visual arts, and product design) challenges researchers to perform groundbreaking, interdisciplinary research. Furthermore, embedding LUCA's research policy in the research environment at KU Leuven also creates innovative projects between art and science.
Research projects with a more themed or social focus often involve partners from the art world such as museums and music venues, art cinemas, and multimedia companies. Furthermore, other social sectors are increasingly calling on artists' and designers' knowledge and skills.
LUCA believes in the added value of artistic and design-based research for the development and practice of the arts themselves and the strong imaginative and experimental potential that is inherent to this research, for the sciences and society in the broadest sense.
LUCA - Faculty of the Arts strives to be a European and global center of excellence in artistic research. To this end, the research units focus on all areas of the arts practiced by students and teachers to develop into international artists and designers. By encouraging and developing PhDs in the arts, LUCA - Faculty of the Arts wants to attract young artistic researchers who help reinforce and further develop its research and education.
Given the need to build and bundle disciplinary expertise in all its study areas (music and drama, audiovisual arts, visual arts, and design), LUCA - Faculty of the Arts fulfills a vital role in attracting researchers, teachers, and students with considerable talent and ambition.
In 1939, an elevated broadcasting point was sought for the new National Radio and Film Technical Institute, and the castle in Dudenpark proved to be the ideal location. In keeping with history, the Narafi campus continues to advance the tradition and evolution of both Film and Photography in Brussels' unique location.
Courses on the Narafi campus are practically oriented bachelor degrees that link theory to practical lessons and train students to become creative professionals whose clients highly value artistic and technical skills.
The campus boasts well-equipped photo and film studios, a modern high-definition multi-cam TV studio, and nonlinear FCP/Avid editing and audio post-production suites. The Photography training course focuses on the profession of 'photographer,' a term that has narrowed considerably due to the rapid digital evolution and new digital imaging technologies. Narai prefers to use the term 'image-makers.'
The teaching of art and architecture on the Sint-Lukas campus in Brussels stretches back more than a hundred years. On this recently renovated campus, young artists and designers can choose from two academic bachelor's degrees and three master's degrees in Fine Art, Photography, Graphic Design, Film, Animation Film, and Documentary film (DocNomads).
Besides, as a former architecture school, Sint-Lukas offers professional degree courses in Construction Technology and Interior Design.
Our alumni include, amongst others, filmmakers Michael R. Roskam and Patrice Toye, artists Luc Tuymans and Hans Op de Beeck, designers Danny Venlet and Sarah De Bondt, illustrators GAL and Tom Schamp, and photographers Charif Benhelima and Stephan Vanfleteren.