Costume and Make-up Design, Bachelor of Arts

Admission requirements

• Qualification for study according to § 10 BerlHG (general university entrance qualification, subject-specific university entrance qualification, advanced technical college entrance qualification, or comparable qualification) or
• Possibility of further study according to § 11 BerlHG
• University access for professionally qualified persons according to § 11 BerlHG

Details

OVERVIEW

Diversity and Interdisciplinary Working Methods
Costume and make-up designers are in demand wherever scenes are created, fashion images are formed, or events are organised. The Bachelor's degree programme Costume and Make-up Design takes up the individual interest of students in working in the field of costume and make-up for fashion, theatre or film and offers an internationally oriented qualification in a programme that meets creative, scientific and practical requirements.

Developing Skills and Visualising Ideas
The course opens up extensive opportunities to develop one’s own skills artistically, craft-wise and scientifically and qualifies students to realise ideas in scenes, characters and forms of fashion, theatre or film. Students learn to work in an application-oriented way during their studies and to generate design ideas experimentally and critically question them in study projects.

Concepts and Processes
The field of activity is broad and is continuously expanded and newly explored through digital, intermedial and interdisciplinary modes of staging. Accordingly, costume and make-up designers are expected not only to carry out the artistic realisation of mask or costume design concepts, but also to understand the complex interlocking processes and to act professionally in cooperation with all protagonists.

Professional Practice
In the fifth semester, the project-based course offers the chance to implement the skills acquired during the course into professional practice. Berlin, with its vibrant cultural scene and the countless different forms of fashion, theatre, film and crossover, proves to be an ideal place of study, enabling an early implementation of knowledge into professional practice, for example in film and television productions, fashion events, advertising and styling or theatre/opera/ballet.

PERSPECTIVES

The Bachelor's degree programme Costume and Make-up Design enables students to pursue their own interest in phenomena of fashion, style and design in combination with enthusiasm for stage, theatre, film and costumes and to start a successful professional career in the relevant fields.

Costume and make-up designers work in permanent full-time positions, for example at a theatre or a film company, or freelance for television, film, theatre or individual productions. Berlin offers a wide range of job opportunities for costume and make-up designers with its fashion, film and theatre scene. Due to the Berlin Fashion Week, the Berlin Biennale, the numerous music festivals, events and theatre occasions held throughout the year, countless fashion companies, film companies or theatre enterprises have settled in Berlin, offering a variety of different job opportunities for talented and well-trained costume and make-up artists. Accordingly, the Bachelor's degree programme Costume and Make-up Design offers ideal study and working conditions for students not only because of the lively development of the industry but also because of the location Berlin.