Graphic Design and Illustration (BA programme) and Visual Communication (MA programme) at Konstfack are announcing two workshop scholarships for professionals in the field. The deadline for application is 10 May 2024.
The research project "A full loop of performance" arranges a conference on the topic "Learnings/Unlearnings: Environmental Pedagogies, Play, Policies, and Spatial Design" in September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May 2024.
11-17 April, Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus, Hägersten
"After Life" explores the fluid intersections between the spiritual realm, reality and existence. The artists embark on a journey of exploration, creating narratives that blur the lines between reality and deception.
15-21 April, Villa Bagatti Valsecchi, Varedo, Italy
The exhibition will investigate the deeper meaning of objects, through the lens of Animism. We talk about pieces as if they’re alive as if they’re people – the sofa goes well with the rug, the lamp has a lot of character, and so on – yet rarely do we entertain the notion that they might truly possess life.
17 April, 4:30-6.00 pm, Svarta havet, Konstfack
Welcome to a presentation with Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, a Swedish-Korean comic book artist, illustrator and adoptee rights activist.
19 April, 1-3 pm, Mandelgren, Konstfack
How can private and public spaces be designed, used, defined, reprogrammed and rebuilt? How can connections between private and public spaces be affected through interior architecture and design? Can more sustainable conditions and contexts be created?
19 April, 6-7 pm, Serieteket, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern
Lecturer in graphic design and illustration Catherine Anyango Grünewald interviews well-known Italian illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti about his creative trajectory and his vast output that includes comics, fashion drawings, posters and illustrations for children's books and Italian literary classics.
19-26 April, Vita havet, Konstfack
‘falling’ is to suddenly be set into motion without intending to or by accident. Disorientation, motion and velocity - we are setting course to somewhere uncharted, we are falling upwards.
24-26 April, Galleri Konstfack
More than 63 local artists, publishers and designers distribute their work on a platform outside of the traditional publishing scene.
15-24 May, Konstfack and Färgfabriken
The Degree Exhibition 2024 is arranged as one gigantic group exhibition where works by bachelor's, master's and teacher education students are exhibited together in Konstfack's spaces 15-24 May. One exception is the Fine Art master's students exhibit at Färgfabriken from 16 to 24 May.
30 May, Haxthäuser Hof, Germany
This talk centers around the question of: What shifts when we decenter the object and consider it as material. How does this position animate histories, create narratives and shift the ways we think of mastery, craft, materiality and capitalistic consumption.
Watch Nina Lykke's lecture from 15 February 2024.
Congratulations to Konstfack Visual Communication alumni Taurai Valerie Mtake whose typeface Madimi One has been published by Google Fonts.
26 March - 8 May, Hagströmer Medico-Historical Library, Solna
Alumni from the Bachelor's programme Jewellery and Corpus: Ädellab participate in this group exhibition at Hagströmerbiblioteket, co-curated by senior lecturer Beatrice Brovia together with Nicolas Cheng.
9 March - 8 September, Norrköpings Konstmuseum
The artists, Magnus Bärtås, Cecilia Germain, Ida Idaida and Isak Sundström relate to The Archives for the Unexplained material and share the Archives's basic premise of not automatically dismissing unexplained phenomena without examining them.
After four doctoral positions in Konstfack’s doctoral education on the subject of “Artistic Practice in Visual, Applied and Spatial Arts” were announced in the autumn, our first PhD admissions have taken place.
2 March - 5 May, Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Norway
The exhibition explores how craft materialises possible realities. Agnieszka Knap, senior lecturer in craft at Konstfack, participates in the exhibition.
For the first time since the pandemic, nearly all programmes will be together at Konstfack during the same time, 15-24 May.
Konstfack AlumniKonstfack Alumni is a network including approximately 1800 artists, designers, pedagogues and curators, all of them with a degree from Konstfack.
Updated: 25 March 2024
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