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18 DECEMBER 2019
Presentation of a process
EXHIBITION. 18 December 2019 - 12 January 2020. Third year students from the bachelor programme Textile is exhibiting results from the course Industrial production. The course is collaborating with different partners from the textile industry each year, and this year they have worked with Ludvig Svensson.
28 NOVEMBER 2019
The Jubilee Exhibition
EXHIBITION. 28 November - 4 December 2019. In conjunction with the publication of the new book 175 år av kamp, glädje och misslyckanden (= 175 years of struggle, joy and failure) celebrating Konstfack's history, the library is exhibiting materials from our collection that relate to the themes in the book. The exhibition only lasts for one week, so hurry up!
The image above is an advertisement in the newspaper Aftonbladet from 10 October 1844, advertising the new school, the "Sunday Drawing School for Craftsmen".
6 NOVEMBER 2019
Book presentation and exhibition with Our Polite Society
6 November 2019. Jens Schildt, visiting teacher at Graphic form and illustration at Konstfack and part of the design firm Our Polite Society, presents the book project The FACIT Model. The subject of the book is the typewriter and office furnishing manufacturer Facit in Åtvidaberg, Sweden, which for a period in the 20th century was a world leading company in its field, but which did not survive the burgeoning globalization of the 1980's. The book presents materials from the company archive. The presentation is held in Swedish, with a reading of extracts from the book in English.
An exhibition of background material for the book is shown in an exhibition in the library, beginning on 6 November.
14 OCTOBER 2019
Picture book artists who studied at Konstfack (again)
BOOK EXHIBITION. 14 October 2019. Once again we are showing childrens' picture books by artists who were once students at Konstfack - but it's not the same exhibition as the last time! Most Swedes (and some non-Swedes) will be familiar with at least some of these books.
5 SEPTEMBER 2019
Book presentation with Tomas Colbengtson
11 September 2019. Tomas Colbengtson will be showing images of his artwork and talking about his new book, Faamoe, meaning strenght, power or endurance in the southern Sami language. The book deals with loss of language, colonization and encorced migration of the Sami people. Swedish text by Jan-Erik Lundström, translation into the south Sami language by Per-Martin Israelsson.
Read more about the book here (in Swedish).
4 SEPTEMBER 2019
Zickermans studiesamling
EXHIBITION. September 2019. We have made some changes in the library stacks during the summer. Among them is a new exhibition about Lilli Zickerman and her study collection which is stored there. There is also a new folder about Lilli and the collection, unfortunately only in Swedish. The collection has been digitized:Hemslöjden
2 SEPTEMBER 2019
Poetic Form
EXHIBITION. 2 September 2019. The exhibition Poetic Form is shown outside the library during the introduction week for new students. The library has chosen among books by Swedish poets designed by former students at Konstfack.
30 AUGUST 2019
Artists' Books and comics
EXHIBITIONS. 2 September 2019. The library is proud to present two small exhibitions in the library during the introduction week for new students. Both exhibitions are situated along the same wall of the library, where we have mounted the new shelves for Artists' books. The first exhibition focuses on Artists' books by students and staff at Konstfack. The second exhibition is an updated rerun of an exhibition held earlier in the year, presenting comics by Konstfack students and staff.
29 MAY 2019
"Främmande fåglar i textil dräkt"
EXHIBITION. 28 Maj - 5 June 2019. Teacher education students in the second year exhibit textile sculptures of birds in the library window.
More information (in Swedish)
16 MAJ 2019
Konstfack degree exhibition 2019
EXHIBITIONS. Four students exhibit in the library during the Konstfack degree exhibition.
AnnaLeena Prykäri, Fine Art (Master)
Carola Björk, Fine Art (Master)
Olle Helin, Fine Art (Bachelor)
Joel Arizona Widerberg, Fine Art (Bachelor)
16 APRIL
Människan - en berättelse
EXHIBITION. 9-29 April 2019. An exhibition in the library, by Beatrice Nydahl, Ibis, Ämneslärarprogrammet (Bild och media).
5 APRIL 2019
Comic creators at Konstfack
EXHIBITION. 6-7 April 2019. In conjunction with The Stockholm International Comics Festival (SIS19) the library, together with the bachelor program Graphic design & illustration and the master program Visual communication, presents an exhibition of comic creators with a background at Konstfack, either as students or as teachers. The exhibition takes us from Swedish comics pioneer Oskar Andersson who graduated in 1898 until the present day, and includes many well known artists from the medium of comics. Parts of the exhibition will continue to be shown in the library after the festival.
27 MARCH 2019
Digitisation of the Zickerman collection
The Swedish craft association Svenska Hemslöjdsföreningarnas Riksförbund has just finished digitising the study collection put together by Lilli Zickerman in the early parts of the last century. The collection consists of 12.000 partially colored photographic reproductions of Swedish vernacular textiles. The collection is the property of the association, but it has been housed at Konstfack since 1947. Below is a short video presenting the collection and the digitisation (in Swedish).
Watch the video here.
22 MARCH 2019
Mapping the field of jewellery
EXHIBITION. 22 mars - 3 april 2019, in the library
What does the field of contemporary jewellery look like? In Sweden, Europe, the world? What is the arena we are entering into like, and what do the established names say? The second-year students at the bachelor program at Ädellab have interviewed four professionals in the field of jewellery, in Sweden and internationally.
21 JANUARY 2019
Picture book artists who studied at Konstfack
BOOK EXHIBITION. The library exhibits books by former Konstfack students, such as Tove Jansson, Ilon Wikland, Jan Lööf, Eva Eriksson, Pija Lindenbaum, Stina Wirsén and Siri Ahmed Backström.
10 JANUARY 2019
Action & failure
EXHIBITION. 10-21 January 2018 in the library. The third year students of the bachelor program Industrial design exhibit self initiated design explorations.
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