Career prospects

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After completing your Bachelor's degree in Art Studies, you will have the opportunity to deepen your knowledge of the subject in an advanced Master's degree course. However, you can also opt for a direct career start. A wealth of interesting and attractive jobs in the fields of art and culture are open to you. For example, institutions such as museums, galleries and cultural educational institutions offer many opportunities, such as working as a curator or in event management, education and outreach, archive management and press and public relations. The course also qualifies you for careers in cultural journalism, publishing and the art trade. Internships often offer a suitable entry point. The course also qualifies you for employment in various institutions such as radio, television, libraries or the media industry. Restoration and monument preservation as well as event management and tourism are also areas in which art historians can find employment. Furthermore, you can specialize through appropriate further training courses. Only after several years of professional practice can you develop your own, often very individual profile.

Overview of typical fields of activity:

  • Exhibitions: Museums, galleries, art associations, especially as a curator, event management, education and mediation, press and public relations work
  • Archives, libraries, documentation departments, monument protection,
  • Educational institutions for adults and extracurricular youth work, restoration
  • Art market: auction houses, art insurance, etc.
  • Radio, film, television, media industry
  • tourism
  • Publishing, cultural journalism, art criticism
  • Coordinating functions at associations, foundations and scientific organizations

Here you will find insights into professional practice based on interviews with experts from different areas of Kassel's cultural landscape.

The Bachelor's degree course in Art Studies offers sufficient time for professional orientation. You can already make contacts during the integrated internship and gain initial experience in various professional fields. The Career Service of the University of Kassel also supports you when it comes to applications, job searches or company profiles.

You can also obtain information from the "Association of German Art Historians". This professional association provides a lot of information for young professionals and represents their interests. You can become a member with a Bachelor's degree in art history and have access to a job portal.