In 2023, five ZHdK Master students in Fine Arts had the opportunity to participate in MAKE, an exhibition and discussion exchange platform between selected leading international art universities: Chung Ang University in Seoul/South Korea, Yale-NUS College in Singapore, Parsons School of Design in New York/USA, the Institute of Technology in Bandung, Indonesia, and the Zurich University of the Arts/CH. 

Since 2019, a group of lecturers and students from the five involved universities come together at one of the participating institutions to explore different forms of making for a week. Together, they delve into a range of topics including: the edges of technology in storytelling, the notion of translation and the slippages in meaning, how travel and the encounter with the new can become spiritual experiences, and the commodification of everything in late capitalism. MAKE endeavors to break hierarchical educational structures and to blur boundaries between who is teaching and who is learning.

ZHdK was the host of the 2023 edition. The final exhibition was open to the public and presented on 5 October 2023.

In 2023, several international guest lecturers complemented and enriched the faculty of the Fine Arts Department. 

In the spring semester 2023, the Master Fine Arts welcomed international artists Carissa Rodriguez and Pilvi Takalaand, as well as curator Anna Goetz, who curated the Master Fine Arts diploma exhibition 2023. Their portraits can be found here.  

For the autumn semester 2023/24, eight different guest lecturers from various nationalities and backgrounds were hosted by the Master Fine Arts: Shen He, Juan Barcia Mas, Ceylan Öztrük, Phung-Tien Phan, Carissa Rodriguez, Angharad Williams, Lorenza Longhi, and Doireann O’Malley.