F + F school for art and design

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The main building of F + F at Flurstrasse 89

The F + F School for Art and Design is the largest independent art and design school in Switzerland.

The school is run by a foundation set up by the city of Zurich and the F + F association and receives subsidies from the cantons and the city of Zurich. F + F is a non-profit company. There are currently 250 pupils, apprentices and students attending the school. Around 500 young people and adults complete courses. F + F is a member of the Swiss Design Schools.

history

The school was founded in 1971 as a F + F school for experimental design (F + F for form and color ) by Doris Stauffer and Serge Stauffer and Bendicht Fivian, Peter Gygax, Peter Jenny and Hansjörg Mattmüller .

This was preceded by years of disputes about a contemporary artist education in Zurich. The F + F was supposed to be an alternative to the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich KGSZ and emerged from its F + F (color form) class . Thus, in 1971, the first art training in German-speaking Switzerland was established at F + F, because the state arts and crafts schools only focused their training on the applied arts.

At the beginning the school was organized as an association, since 2006 it has been supported by a non-profit foundation . Personalities from politics and culture belong to the board of trustees, so u. a. Giovanni Borelli, Jean-Pierre Hoby , Rudolf Schilling, Werner Kieser , Samir , Claudia Jolles, Walter Keller , Sandi Paucic, Zuzana Ponicanova , Rolf Schmid , Juri Steiner , Eva Wagner, Markus Weiss, Irene Müller and Suzann-Viola Renninger. The current President of the Board of Trustees is Rolf Staub. The city of Zurich and the canton of Zurich pay operating contributions to the school.

The first classrooms were spread across the city at various locations, including the Drahtschmidli youth center , which was the focus of the politically turbulent 1980s. Since then, F + F has also been using a studio in the Rote Fabrik. Today the school is housed in a functional warehouse and office building at Flurstrasse 89 in Zurich Albisrieden . The building was erected in 1949 as a five-story reinforced concrete frame structure by the architect Gottlieb Welti, is now part of Max Maag's real estate group and housed the UBS art collection until 2003 . The warehouse building was prepared for the purposes of the art school through a conversion carried out by the architect Stephan Rutz together with the school management of F + F and with the support of the Presidential Department of the City of Zurich. The milk bar is the school's public cafeteria. The Zitropress printing workshop has been rented in the main building since 2015. The studio rooms for the graphics class are located at Flurstrasse 95, they were also converted by the architect Stephan Rutz. The studios for the fashion design course, the photography class and the photo studio are located at Flurstrasse 93.

Primary and Further Education

The school offers state-recognized courses with an HF diploma (fine arts, photography, visual design, film and fashion design) and with a federal certificate of proficiency (specialist class graphics and specialist class photography). The Matur ( Abitur ) is not a requirement for admission, so the F + F represents an alternative to training at the Swiss art and design colleges . The HF courses end with a diploma from the higher technical school . The basic school training (subject classes) prepare for the Federal Certificate of Proficiency (EFZ) ; The design vocational diploma can be acquired at the same time during both courses . Two preliminary design courses are also offered, either as one-year full-time training or part-time. The public further education of the F + F offers evening and weekend courses in design and art, as well as courses for youngsters for 11 to 16 year olds.

Every year around 150 lecturers from the fields of art, design, photography, film, film, fashion and cultural studies teach at F + F, including Barbara Ellmerer , Beate Frommelt , Markus Weiss , Federica Gärtner , Luigi Archetti , Ruedi Bechtler , Gerhard Johann Lischka , Walter Pfeiffer , Hermann Bohmert, Peter Trachsel , Hans-Rudolf Lutz , Norbert Klassen , Frantiček Klossner , Rolf Lyssy , Ursula Nobody, Hannes Binder , Robert A. Fischer , Luigi Archetti, Birgit Kempker , Monika Dillier , Verena Voiret , Eva Hurley, Anton Bruhin , Berndt Höppner , Rudolf Barmettler, Peter K. Frey , Heinrich Lüber, Pascal Danz, Sabian Baumann , Karoline Schreiber , Eliane Rutishauser , Kurt Früh , Rainer Maria Trinkler from the Zurich film collective , Thomas Isler, Jeroen van Rooijen , RELAX chiarenza & hauser & co, Johanna Lier, Salome Hohl , Mirjam Bayerdörfer, Maricruz Peñaloza, Sarah Burger, Rafael Kouto, André Vladimir Heiz , Dafi Kühne, Katrin Murbach, Yasemin Günay. The international guests regularly invited to lectures, seminars and workshops are and were also important for the training. a. Marina Abramovic , Jean Baudrillard , James Lee Byars , Chérif and Silvie Défraoui , Valie Export , Dan Graham , Jörg Immendorff , Jürgen Klauke , Vollrad Kutscher, Urs Lüthi , Morgan O'Hara, Franz Erhard Walther , Wolfgang Weingart , Oswald Wiener , Stephen Willats and many more.

The previous rectors of F + F are Hansjörg Mattmüller (1971–2000), Sandi Paucic (2000–2011), Andreas Vogel (2011–2015), currently Christoph Lang (since 2015). F + F is a member of the Directors' Conference of the Swiss Design Schools, the Swiss Conference of Higher Technical Schools, the Swiss Picture Schools Conference and participates in the Swiss-European Mobility Program (formerly Erasmus). The school has the eduQua certificate.

Alumni

The alumni include a. the musician and artist Klaudia Schifferle , the artists Barbara Ellmerer , Christine Hunold , Victorine Müller , Bessie Nager , Liliane Csuka , Tonjaschja Adler , Silvia Popp , the performers Muda Mathis , Maricruz Peñaloza , Lilian Frei , Yvonne Good , the vegan cook Lauren Wildbolz , the musician Stephan Eicher , the artists Peter Trachsel , Christian Rothacher , Christian Philipp Müller , HR Fricker , Frantiček Klossner , Costa Vece , Peter Spillmann, Matthias Rüegg, René Fahrni, Dijan Kahrimanovic, Gregory Hari, the graphic designer and photographer Walter Pfeiffer , the graphic designer Michael Hinderling, Michael Volkart and Valentin Baumann from HinderlingVolkart, the comic artist Andrea Caprez, the club curator and former co-director of Cabaret Voltaire , Philipp Meier, the artist groups Biefer / Zgraggen and Mickry3 , the snowboard world champion Elena Könz .

literature

  • Hansjörg Mattmüller (Ed.): F + F Zurich / The Open Art Study , Benteli, 1991, ISBN 3-7165-0809-8 .
  • Hansjörg Mattmüller: There is genius: the seventies at the F & F School for Experimental Design , Betzel, 1981, ISBN 3-921818-90-7 .
  • Hans-Rudolf Lutz , Hansjörg Mattmüller, Serge Stauffer : Experiment F + F, 1965–1970: with the creation of the F + F class (color form), the Zurich School of Applied Arts had laid a cuckoo's egg in the otherwise well-regulated nest. Lutz, 1970.
  • Serge Stauffer: Art as Research. Essays, conversations, translations, studies. Edited by Helmhaus Zürich, concept and editing: Michael Hiltbrunner. Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2013. ISBN 978-3-85881-377-0 . info
  • Simone Koller, Mara Züst (eds.): Doris Stauffer . A monograph. Photographer, musician, mannequin, baby sister, educator, saleswoman, housewife, housewife, housewife, housewife, housewife - demonstrator! Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-85881-445-6 .
  • Michael Hiltbrunner, F + F School for Experimental Design Zurich , in: Radical Pedagogies, 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.swissdesignschools.ch/
  2. ↑ Cf. [Serge Stauffer]: Autobiography. In: Marcel Duchamp: Interviews and Statements. Collected, translated and annotated by Serge Stauffer, ed. by Ulrike Gauss . Stuttgart: Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1992. p. 243f, here p. 244.
  3. ↑ [1] cf. F + F homepage
  4. ↑ Roderick Hönig, Lots of space, few details on the nextroom architecture database
  5. ↑ http://www.milchbar-ff.ch
  6. ↑ http://www.zitropress.ch/
  7. ^ F + F School for Art and Design: Design preliminary course / preparatory course of F + F. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
  8. ^ F + F School for Art and Design: F + F extra-occupational preparatory course. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
  9. ↑ http://www.swissdesignschools.ch/
  10. ↑ http://www.k-hf.ch/
  11. ↑ https://bildschulen.ch/
  12. ↑ https://www.movetia.ch
  13. ^ Radical Pedagogies. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .