Another four positions in Konstfack's doctoral education in Artistic Practice in Visual, Applied and Spatial Arts have been filled. Welcome Evelina Dovsten, Juliane Foronda, Jenna Gillinger, and Kristian Vistrup Madsen whose projects span over tacit knowledge, spatial design preventing violence, craft-care-control and mood over content in curatorial practice.
Workshop
1-6 September, Oulu University, Finland
The network "Mná le chéile: Women together" gathers and Miriam von Schantz, Senior Lecturer at Konstfack, participates with a workshop on 3 September focusing on birch root craft and "minor epistemologies".
Exhibition
8-10 September, Trapphusgalleriet, Konstfack
As a preparation for Martin Gustavsson's 50% PhD seminar "Faggoty Brushstrokes in Motion", he is showing a group of paintings. They are part of a longer series titled The Long Kiss.
Exhibition
22 August - 12 September, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
Undying revolves around how art can attempt to give form to that which is difficult to define, verify, or explain through rational means.
Exhibition
12 September - 1 November, Steneby Konsthall, Dals Långed
The exhibition explores the entanglements of toxicity, disrupted environments, and bodies within a more-than-human world. The title – a portmanteau of toxic and invisibilities-abilities invites reflection on how harmful substances and systems can simultaneously destroy and transform, often operating unnoticed while actively shaping new realities, relationships, and futures.
Panel discussion
17 September, at 6-7 pm, Svarta havet, Konstfack
Two guests from different fields of knowledge meet in a dialogue exploring how we can address the challenges of the future; Pia Sandvik, CEO of Technology Industries of Sweden and chair of The Swedish government’s STEM delegation, and Bettina Schwalm, PhD Scholar at Konstfack, and designer and Centre Director for the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship.
Dissertation
28 September, at 1-5 pm, Hägerstens medborgarhus, Stockholm
"Internal Singing, Sounding Through Vocalbody Disorientation" is an articulation, through multimodal forms, of a voice-body method that Cara Tolmie developed called "Internal Singing".
Symposium
2-4 December, Konstfack, Stockholm
Futures Present examines how artistic research speculates, envisions, and imagines our current and future societies. Foregrounding interdisciplinarity and engaging with cultural heritages and futures, it seeks to articulate frameworks for shaping desirable societal trajectories amidst conditions of complex and accelerated change.
Before the Right to Repair Directive (Directive (EU) 2024/1799) took full effect on 31 July 2026, the conference Care and Repair Day was organized with a focus on circular business models. Ernesto Garcia was one of many panelists talking about how care and repair is moving from a sustainability initiative to a cultural and commercial transformation.
Konstfack doctoral student in Visual Communication, Bitte Andersson, has been awarded RFSL Stockholm’s Community Hero 2026 distinction. The award recognises her longstanding work to create space for queer stories, forms of expression and communities through art and culture.
Exhibition
30 March - 31 December, Tekniska museet, Stockholm
Through the lens of contemporary jewellery, these works explore where the physical body begins and ends in a digitally driven society, and how the future might renegotiate the boundaries and power dynamics between human and machine.
Konstfack AlumniKonstfack Alumni is a network including approximately 1800 artists, designers, pedagogues and curators, all of them with a degree from Konstfack.
Updated: 4 September 2026
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