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2026-01-19
EXPERIMENTS
EXHIBITION. 19 - 23 January 2026. First year students of the bachelor programme Textil show experiments produced in a weaving course. The students have been tasked with reflecting on their relation to weaving as a technique.
The course started with short workshops, one about the quality of the material and the thread in relation to language, and one about placement of colour in a woven construction.
We have had text seminars, and it is from the text "Weaving beyond the binary" by John Paul Morabito that we have chosen a quote that describes weaving as a method of creating knowledge and experiences:
"MATERIAL REALITY SHAPES NOT ONLY THE WEAVER’S APPROACH TO FORM, BUT ALSO THE WEAVER THEMSELVES.
HERE, WE CAN UNDERSTAND THAT THE OBJECT WE TOUCH ALSO TOUCH US BACK."
Students: May Craig Nowinska, Lina Wallenius, Siri Björkman, Simon Gunnarsson, Nelly Gylling, Nike Perlefelt, Sofia Reinholdsson. Teacher: Åsa Pärson
2025-12-17
Books from 2025
BOOK EXHIBITION. The library has accumulated 220 books published in 2025. From picture books for children to academic dissertations and artists’ books. Of these, 71 were in Swedish and 167 in English. This means that at least 18 were bilingual.
Some were small, but we have smaller ones than that. Some were large, but we already had plenty of large books.
Some were beautifully designed and contained interesting texts. Some were full of images. Some were difficult, cryptic. Some childishly simple. Much like our books have always been.
What made these books special is that they were new. They have been on our new‑releases shelf throughout the year, and now a selection of them is displayed on our exhibition wall inside the library, after the architecture and interior design section. The books are displayed to be discovered. They are available to borrow!
2025-12-12
Gfi 25 and Birzeit present 3
VIDEO INSTALLATION. 12 December 2025 - 16 January 2026. During the seven week long course Analogue and digital storytelling, the students in the bachelor programme Graphic design and illustration at Konstfack have cooperated with students at Birzeit university on the West Bank in Palestine. They have shared lectures, tuition and animation assignments.
The end of the course is marked by an exhibition of the final assignment - animated loops that play with the possibilities created by using three synchronized flows of images.
The animations shown are made by students from both schools.
2025-12-10
Tapestry in frame
EXHIBITION. 8 - 19 December 2025. Tapestries made by teacher education students in sloyd, IBIS.
Konstfack educates sloyd teachers in hard and soft materials. Some courses focus on textile materials, others on wood and metal. Most courses feature a combination of textile, wood and metal.
The tapestry assignment was
- to make a wood frame
- weave an image in the frame
- process the frame to contribute to the expression of the image
The aim of this assignment, besides gaining experience in wood and textile contruction methods, was to work with learning outcomes linked to aesthetic expressions and concepts for communicating aesthetic qualities.
2025-11-20
Konstnärlig pedagogik & praktik: metoder, dialoger, reflektioner (Artistic Pedagogy & Practice – Methods, Dialogues, Reflections)
BOOK TALK: 20 November 2025 4-6 PM. Free admission. Language: Swedish
Welcome to a conversation in the library about the publication Konstnärlig pedagogik & praktik: metoder, dialoger, reflektioner (Artistic Pedagogy & Practice – Methods, Dialogues, Reflections).
Participating in the discussion are some of the anthology’s contributing authors: Miriam von Schantz, Mara Lee Gerdén, and Jenny Althoff. Several of the other co-authors will also be present. Moderated by Paulina Nyman.
What does teaching look like at an art university — in studios, workshops, and experimental spaces? In the diverse and exploratory publication “Artistic Pedagogy & Practice”, teachers at Konstfack share concrete methods, reflections, and questions about learning, feedback, and pedagogy. See it as an invitation to further dialogue about the possibilities and challenges of teaching.
Contributors to “Artistic Pedagogy & Practice”: Miriam von Schantz, Jens Schildt, Anneli Renborg, Elsa Chartin, Agnieszka Knap, Katarina Elvén, Mara Lee Gerdén, Jenny Althoff, Michell Zethson. Editor: Paulina Nyman. Design: Jens Schildt.
The publication will be available for purchase at the event. It is part of the Konstfack Education Collection series and can also be ordered from both physical and online bookstores.
More info: Konstnärlig pedagogik & praktik
Facebook event: fb.me/e/99rQEcsLE
2025-11-14
The Letter Form - an lntroduction to Typeface Design
EXHIBITION 14 - 26 November 2025. Graphic design & Illustration, K2.
This course introduces the students to the drawing of letterforms and type design. We outline the ways a typeface eon take shape, from a sketch to a digital translation in the software Glyphs. During the first week we study the construction of letters and their proportions and learn how to build an alphabet bit by bit, beginning with the lower - case letter (n ). The students construct the alphabet using geometric shapes and practice various methods of sketching, by hand and using digital tools. The end result is the project shown in this exhibition. The remainder of the course was spent finishing the typefaces as far as the timeframe allowed.
Students:Alma Odeen, Angelica Nordin, Axel Jakobsson, Cornelia Elgh, Ebba Jakobsson, Ella Bakhshi, Fabian Franck, Fabian Jämsä, Frida Meschke, Hannes-Alexander Stenshäll, Hedda Keszler, Klara Milovac, Kristin Forslöf, Olga Palm, Vincent Malmnäs
Teacher: Jens Schildt
2025-11-05
Picture books
BOOK EXHIBITION 5 November 2025-
In the picture book you can be a whale, a bed bug, or a lonely little old man. There are no limits - it is a reality that stretches itself. On show in the library is a selection of pictures by former Konstfack students, where the reader is invited to explore what happens when animals and nature aquire human features.
2025-10-22
Textile sculpture
EXHIBITION 22 October - 5 November 2025.
Students from the The Department of Visual Arts and Sloyd Education exhibit sculptures from a course in textile construction. One of the tasks in the course is to create An unfamiliar bird in textile clothing.
- A bird is formed in clay.
- A paper pattern is constructed, and the textile bird is sewn together.
- Beside constructing the pattern, the task is to convey a cultural expression in the bird. Where does it come from?
2025-10-06
Book art from Swedish Book Art
EXHIBITION 6-17 October
Svensk bokkonst (Swedish Book Art) is a non-profit association founded with the aim of inspiring the book industry to invest in the quality of book production and design. Every year since 1934 a jury has picked 25 examples of books that exemplify “the purposeful and aesthetic application of design in accordance with the contents, from the standpoint of typography and printing technology” for an exhibition and a catalogue. This year's winner will be presented 9 October at Kungliga biblioteket.
On show here is a selection of catalogues which are themselves examples of the development of book design during the last 90 years.
2025-09-02
Spår / Tracks
EXHIBITION 2-12 September.
Different educational tracks through the school during 180 years
Traces in the library collections of these tracks
Konstfack was founded more than 180 years ago. The school has changed name several times, and trained students in subjects no longer taught at Konstfack. But some things have remained the same for a long time. The school has educated craftspersons, artists and teachers since the 19th century. During the fiorst decades there were no firm programmes, as students could choose from a variety of courses, depending on needs and interests. For most of the 20th century the school was divided into departments which roughly correspond to the current educational programmes.
2025-04-29
Ärad vare Gud i höjden, detta har vi gjort i slöjden
EXHIBITION 29 April - 9 May. Welcome to Konstfack's library for an exhibition by future teachers in the subjects of art and sloyd. We will be showing a variety of objects in textiles, metal and wood that were made during our second year of our teacher education. Drop by and have a look!
Exhibitors: Ella Kindefält, Dylan Ställborn, Fideli Markström, Tuva Rönning, Maja Forsblom Murtnes, Alena Cherepanova, Erik Albrecht, Johan Lindblom, Helena Viale, Max Walter, Pontus Sors, Tindra Johansson, Saga Knutsson
2025-04-23
Vem var Mandelgren? (Who was Mandelgren?)
BOOK PRESENTATION 23 April. Björn Larsson has written a chapter in the book Nils Månsson Mandelgren och kampen för kulturens framtid (Folklivsarkivet i Lund, 2025). He talks to librarian Per Nordgren about Mandelgren, his background, his work, and how he came to lay the foundations for what is today Konstfack.
Björn Larsson is a visual artist, editor of the journal Hjärnstorm and a writer. He is also the archivist at Konstfack.
2025-04-14
X-factor: 4 perspectives on the technology of weaving
EXHIBITION 14/4 - 25/4. X-factor (TC2) could signify some unknown quantity that could be of decisive importance to someone. A possible designation for something interacting with someting, an unknown, unpredictable factor.
TC is short for Thread Control. Digital weaving by hand. Digitally controlled hand and foot power. Instead of drawing the designs and making long series of punched cards to be read by the jacquard mechanism, the images and patterns are manipulated in a computer program, after which the whole thing is transfered to another piece of computer software that controls the specific heddles, each one with a thread threaded through its eye.
The markedly sped up process gives endless opportunities where the limitations mainly reside in the knowledge and vision of the programmer. The only limits are the width of the loom, the density of the thread and the materials in the individual systems of threads, warps and wefts.
In digital imaging each separate thread is represented by a pixel. This should not be interpreted as the thread being a pixel in the weave itself. The weave is not made up of pixels in the physical world. It consists of threads, and every single thread can perform a movement up or down, be lifted or lowered. This can happen in a seemingly irregular fashion, but it can also happen in repeated patterns where a surface pattern is drawn. Knowledge about the architecture of the textile and the rhythm of weaving is a necessary condition for creating woven textiles that are more than image representation - and it can contribute to the the process of challenging and questioning the limits of the physical properties of the materials. How can the materials be strengthened, balanced and refined?
My thoughts on how we can use technologies in contemporary hand weaving have been passed on to four weavers - who have approached, researched and put in practice the (complex and sometimes complicated) possibilities that the TC2 loom offers.
Åsa Pärson, lecturer in woven construction
Participating artists: Lisa Hagström, Matilda Dominique, Katja Beckman, Sara Elggren
2025-03-28
Hidden sounds in Konstfack's Archive
EXHIBITION 28/3 - 11/4. The display cases in the library contain results from the course Hidden Sounds in Konstfack’s Archive, a course within KUNO, a collaboration platform för Nordic and Baltic institutions of higher learning within the arts. Teaching in the course is Ida Lundén, composer and performer, and Björn Larsson, artist and archivist at Konstfack. The course has also exhibited in Pölen. Lea Ingrid Eilers and Sara Melin are two students in the course who exhibit own works and materials found in the archive.
2025-03-21
WORLD POETRY DAY 2025
BOOK EXHIBITION. World Poetry Day has been celebrated on 21 March since 1999, when it was declared by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The aim is to inspire people to read, write, teach, and publish poetry. Among the books in our displayed selection are both current sudents (Hanna Rajs) and staff (Mara Lee, Gunnar Larsson)
2025-03-19
HOMAGE OR LCEZIL
EXHIBITION. A group exhibition and a book collection of collages curated by Katja Aglert and Florence Wild. March 19-27 2025.
The collages presented here were created by participants in the seminar Rhizome through Artistic Practice, held by Katja Aglert earlier this year as part of the DGS25 seminar series at Konstfack. The par-ticipants in the seminar explored through artistic practice Gilles Deleuze's and Félix Guattari's notion of the rhizome as an artistic method for thinking through practice, and doing collage as a transformative mode towards new imaginaries. As part of an idea to present the collages to an audience in an ex-hibition, Katja invited Florence Wild to curate a selection of books from the library collection on the theme of collage, to be presented simultaneously. To accompany the books Florence has selected for HOMAGE OR LCEZIL, she has also created unique artist multiple in the form of bookmarks inspired by the theme of the exhibition. People who borrow the books included are welcome to keep the art multiples if they wish. The people participating with the collages are students and teachers at Konstfack from different departments and programs from bachelor level to PhD.
Participants: Meriç Algun, Thomas Elovsson, Ernesto Garcia, Lisa Johansson, Ricardo Lima, Freyja Rein, Franciska Forslund Toubro
2025-03-06
Ukiyo-e : The transient world
EXHIBITION. 6-18 March. The library shows examples from their collection of woodblock prints from Japan. Ukiyo-e is the word used to describe the this art form, which had its most active phase between the 17th and late 19th century. Ukiyo-e prints were made in a variety of genres: portraits of actors and warriors, landscapes, scenes from mythology and literature, erotica and historic events. Some of these genres are represented in ths small exhibition, which among other things contains four prints from Hokusai's famous suite 36 views of Mount Fuji.
2025-03-04
Students at work
EXHIBITION. 4 March-. We exhibit photographs from the library collection. This is the fourth and last selection shown of photographs from Konstfacks past. These images were gathered in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the school, in 1994. They were the subject of an exhibition in 1997, curated by Lars-Lennart Forsberg. All of the photographs in this selection were taken by students at Konstfack, depicting other students at work in classrooms, studios and exhibitions.
2025-02-18
First-year bachelor students in Textile show woven textiles
EXHIBITION. 18-28 February. First-year students from the bachelor programme Textile will be showing woven works, produced during a course in weaving during the autumn. The course included planning, sketching, process and practical work on the loom under the tutelage of Åsa Pärson.
Exhibitors: Alma Ekholm, Selina Rüegger, Hannah Parman, Ellen Mårdsjö, Emma Petters, Elgin Kuhnert, Anna-Clara Leo, Noa Kandell, Lisa Skalare, Agnes Kern
2025-02-07
Ida Wallin - Det sagolika havet (The Wondrous Sea)
EXHIBITION. 7-14 February. A reality where we were never really allowed to be children, where responsibilities covered all our dreams and silenced them before they had even taken shape.
This is a place where we can be honest, playful, free, and return to what has always been ours.
Right here, right now, together, you & me - are finally allowed to be children.
2025-01-29
Kneading Cultures
EXHIBITION. 29 January - 10 February. The workshop Kneading Cultures was held in conjunction with Konstfack Research Week 2025. The organisers are Cheryl Akner-Koler, Loove Broms, Katja Pettersson and Carl-Johan Vesterlund, together with guest Sébastian Boudet, sourdogh baker and pastry chef, founder of the bakery Petite France.
2025-01-15
Weave Away
EXHIBITION. 15-24 January. Our project aims to develop a textile proposal for Konstfack's library consisting of three draperies and four wall-hung textile works. By working with reuse and preservation of older texttile techniques, such as dräll, we want to create a dialogue between tradition and sustainability.
The exhibitors are four second-year students from the bachelor programme Textile: Fanny Stengårds, Julia Schantz, Annie Lindblad, Molly Börjlind
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