Curriculum
Core courses | (20 CFU) |
History of Visual Art | 5 CFU |
Performing Arts History | 5 CFU |
Visual Arts System | 5 CFU |
Performing Arts System | 5 CFU |
Advanced Courses | (40 CFU) |
Cultural Policy | 5 CFU |
Marketing for the Arts | 5 CFU |
Fundraising in the Arts | 5 CFU |
HR and Leadership in the Creative Industries | 5 CFU |
Law and the Arts | 5 CFU |
Media in the Arts | 5 CFU |
Art Market | 5 CFU |
Strategy in the Arts | 5 CFU |
PROJECT WORK and INTERNSHIP | 10 CFU |
TOTAL | 70 CFU |
Core courses
The courses provide training for skills in art history and arts management, and they will give participants the opportunity to balance their skills.
Students will have the possibility to enhance their knowledge on the topics of Visual and Performing Arts, starting from an historical point of view, moving to the study of the whole contemporary system of both forms of art and of their evolution in time.
Advanced courses
Here is a list of advanced courses:
- Marketing of the Arts
- HR and Leadership in the Creative Industries
- Cultural Policy
- Fundraising in the Arts
- Law and the Arts
- Media in the Arts
- Strategy in the Arts
- Art Market
During the HR and Leadership course, students will explore people management practices, organization and project management competences for creative and arts-based organizations; thanks to the course in Marketing in the Arts, they will study the principles and techniques of arts and culture marketing, focusing on the specific characteristics of marketing applied to arts and cultural products. Legal and cultural policy aspects will be included in the program of advanced courses, in order to give the students a comprehensive view of the stakeholders of artistic institutions and of the rules of the game. The students will be able to understand and appreciate the commercial side of the arts, by studying the structure and various segments of today’s international art market. To conclude, advanced courses will account for the use of the media, with a focus on the importance of digital technologies.
Internship and final project
Participants will receive support from the Master staff in each step of the internship project, in particular:
- Participants will receive support in writing up their Curriculum Vitae according to an appropriate standard
- During the programme, individual interviews will be carried out by the master staff to become familiar with the aspirations and motivational drivers of each candidate towards the professional world
- Students will be actively supported by the Master staff in searching for their internship
Along with the internship, students, working in small team, will carry out a thesis project on the field.
A Arte Invernizzi S.R.L.
Apice Milano
Archivio Consagra
Arichivio Nanda Vigo
Art Defender SRL
Artemest
Artland
Artshell
Artvisor LTD
Associazione Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro alla Scala
Base
Bonhams 1793 LTD
BPER Banca
Building Gallery
Cambi Casa d'Asta
Castello Sforzesco
Centre Pomoidou
Cesare Zavattini Archive
Christie's
Cooperativa Sociale MUBA
Cracking Art
Dellupi Arte
Deptart Gallery
FAI - Fondo Ambiente Italiano
Finarte
Flash Art - Giancarlo Politi Editore
Fondazione Cariplo
Fondazione Feltrinelli
Fondazione Piccolo Teatro di Milano Teatro d'Europa
Fondazione Prada
Galleria B4
Galleria Campari
Galleria Continua
Galleria Lia Rumma S.R.L.
Galleria Renata Fabbri
Gallerie d'Italia
Green Holding
Gruppo Milanocard
Hangar Bicocca
Hedayat Music
Il Ponte Casa d'Asta
Kartell Museum
Kerkis, Teatro Antico in scena
Koones.com
Lara Facco
Leftloft
London Trade Art LTD
Maria Chiara Salvanelli
Matching Gems
Mondadori Electa
Mousse Magazine
Museo del Nocecento - Milano
Music Innovation Hub - Base
Negri - Clementi Studio legale associato
Nord Est Fair
Oxa SRL Impresa Sociale
Palazzo Morando
Palazzo Reale
ParideVitale
Peggy Guggeneim Collection (Venezia)
Publicis Media
Seguilabocca Food Project
Seletti North America
Sense - Immaterial Reality
Showbeez - Teatro Arcimboldi
Sky
Somos Art House - Berlin
Sugar Music
TBA Academy
Teatro Elfo
The Hecker Standard TM
The Museum of Modern Art - New York
Triennale Milano
T.T.C. di Anna D'Ambrosio
U-Art
ViaAudio
Vinhood
Wannanes Ast Auctions
Zenit Arti Audiovisive
Network
- Artshell
- Base
- Christie's
- Electa
- Flash Art
- Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi
- Fondazione Piccolo Teatro di Milano Teatro d'Europa
- Fondazione Prada
- Galleria Continua
- Galleria Lia Rumma
- Gallerie d'Italia
- Il Ponte Casa D’Aste
- La Galleria BPER Banca - Modena
- Lara Facco
- miart
- Mousse Magazine
- Museo Bagatti Valsecchi
- Museo del Novecento - Milano
- Museum of Modern Art - MoMA - New York
- Oblyon
- Ocean Space by TBA21–Academy
- Open Care
- Palazzo Monti
- Palazzo Reale
- Peggy Guggeneim Collection - Venezia
- Pinacoteca di Brera
- Pirelli HangarBicocca
- Seletti North America
- Teatro alla Scala
- Teatro Elfo Puccini
- Triennale Milano
Faculty
Director of the programme
Prof. Francesco Tedeschi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Francesco Tedeschi is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History in the Art and Philosophy Department at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore since 2000. He teaches Contemporary Art History in the Master of Archeology and Art History in Milan, as well as in the Master of Modern Philology in Brescia. He teaches Contemporary Art in the master course Contemporary Forms of Visual and Literary Expression within the degree in Media Languages. He is co-director of the Master “Organizing Culture”, designed and developed by ALMED center (Università Cattolica) in partnership with the Department of Design (Politecnico-Bovisa in Milan). He is an historian and art critic who is involved in the design and production of art exhibitions, as well as in editorial projects for specialized journals. He curated the exhibition “Cantiere del ‘900” for the Intesa Sanpaolo Collection.
His recent publications include:
- Piero Dorazio, "ambasciatore dell'arte astratta" tra Italia e Stati Uniti (Mimesis, Milano, 2024)
- Qui è altrove. Del sacro e dello spirituale nell'arte contemporanea (Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2024)
- Arte sacra (Quodlibet, Isola del Liri (FR), 2023)
Programme Coordinator
Chiara Paolino
Faculty of Economics and Management
@: chiara.paolino@unicatt.it
Project Manager
Monica Nebbia
@: moniaannamaria.nebbia@unicatt.it
Career prospects
- Strategy and CSR in arts organizations and in traditional businesses investing in arts projects
- Organization and people management in creative and cultural businesses
- Marketing and Communications for arts and creative products and services
- Accounting and fundraising for arts and creative projects
- Legal Affairs in the arts field
- Projects and Events Management in cultural institutions and companies
- Art Market
- Consulting and service companies in the field of promotion, communication and management of cultural events, products and services.
Other professional opportunities are in consulting and service companies in the field of promotion, communication and management of cultural events, products and services. Students with entrepreneurial ideas and projects are supported as well.
Participant's profile
Programme dates
Classes are scheduled from Monday to Friday (10.00 AM – 1.00 PM and 2.00 PM-5.00 PM) from January 2026 to July 2026.
Classes include lectures, company and institution visits, site visits, team-working activities and guest speakers.
Project Works take place from July to December. Internships are activated in the time frame between July and December (with a minimum duration of three months, and an average one of six months).
The graduation ceremony will be in December 2026.