Symposium
26-29 January, Konstfack, Stockholm
Throughout Konstfack Research Week 2026, we will have the opportunity to reflect on and encounter a range of perspectives connected to Sensory Knowledge: Tactile Practices & Embodied Learning. The week will offer examples of how artistic research can influence and interact with society at large, engage with diverse contexts and contribute to the circulation of new insights.
Exhibition
23 January - 1 February, Vita havet, Konstfack
A large-scale sculptural installation exploring inheritance and duty.
Exhibition
23 January - 1 February, Vita havet, Konstfack
A series of paintings exploring identity through imaginary figures and symbolic narratives within a fluid sense of time.
Exhibition
23-30 January, Galleri Konstfack
Arvid Staaf, last year student at the master's programme in Fine Arts, is exhibiting his works and will get a tattoo.
Ludvig Hyrefelt's degree project from the bachelor's programme Ceramics and Glass in 2025 is purchased by the Nationalmuseum. The work consists of 400 cast and glazed cubes in stoneware on a surface measuring almost 3 square meters.
Lecture
27 January, at 4:10-5:00 pm, Svarta havet, Konstfack
Questions of more material, visual forms of knowledge and publishing as a long-term artistic practice in her lecture "Investigative Practices & Material-specific Knowledges".
Seminar
28 January,at 5:00-7:30 pm, Svarta havet, Konstfack
The project investigates the measurable and immeasurable qualities of light and seeks to bridge technical, perceptual, and artistic knowledge traditions through lighting design understood as a craft grounded in visual perception.
Exhibition
3-7 February, Stockholm
Find out at four different locations across the city; future food chains, vegetation in the public realm, design focused on empathy and exploring clay.
Exhibition
3-7 February, Moderna Dansteatern, Stockholm
Stockholm's three leading design institutions—Konstfack, Beckmans and Malmstens—are taking over Moderna Dansteatern at Skeppsholmen. Join us for a three-part exhibition focusing on process, material and craft – studies in furniture, interior and objects.
Seminar
11 February, at 5:30-7:00 pm, Kungl. Konstakademien, Stockholm
Magnus Bärtås and Sam Hultin in a conversation on archives and microhistory in the context of artistic research.
Exhibition
17 December - 31 March, The Library, Konstfack
The library has accumulated 220 books published in 2025. hey have been on the new releases shelf throughout the year, and now a selection is displayed on the exhibition wall inside the library, after the architecture and interior design section. The books are displayed to be discovered. They are available to borrow!
"Artist work in the post-rural context: Everything you want was already here" took place in Rejmyre, Sweden, 10-22 September 2025.
In its third season, the artist talk series World in My Eyes presents Ibrahim Mahama, Aki Sasamoto and Zoe Leonard. Each artist contributes to both the discursive and formal hybridity of contemporary art at a moment of acute geopolitical volatility and increasing polarization.
Föreläsning
25 March, at 6:00-7:30 pm, Mötesplats Mariatorget – Stockholms Stadsmission, Stockholm
Her practice moves between text installations, such the infamous poem and queer manifesto "I want a president", and recent projects focused on photography's complicity with territorial expansion and the construction of nationalist narratives in the United States and elsewhere.
Föreläsning
17 April, at 6:00-7:30 pm, Mötesplats Mariatorget – Stockholms Stadsmission, Stockholm
Her practice is marked by interdisciplinary collaboration—with scientists, scholars, as well as other artists—and she identifies alternately as performer, dancer, sculptor, writer, and director.
The work to establish an Innovation Office for artistic higher education institutions in Stockholm has now begun with a preliminary study. The aim is to create a common platform for innovation where music, art, design, media, film, and performing arts meet the business sector, the public sector, and other fields of knowledge to develop new ideas, products, and services.
Exhibition
25 October - 8 February, Marabouparken konsthall, Sundbyberg
Twelve new films from 2023 to 2025 are exhibited, most of which are being shown for the first time.
Exhibition
13-24 May, Konstfack/Färgfabriken/Platform Stockholm
Spring is in the air! At Konstfack's Degree Exhibition 2026, around 200 graduating students offer thoughts, ideas, solutions and views on the world around them.
Philipp Remus, student at the master's programme Design Ecologies, is awarded for the project "Felt the Future – Walking with Wool".
Konstfack AlumniKonstfack Alumni is a network including approximately 1800 artists, designers, pedagogues and curators, all of them with a degree from Konstfack.
Updated: 23 January 2026
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