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13 DECEMBER 2022
Slöjdens huvudverk
EXHIBITION. The year 2 Teacher Education students aimed at teaching at secondary school level, complete two courses during the autumn semester, Slöjdens material och redskap (= The Materials and Tools of Sloyd), and Slöjdens hantverk och formgivning (= The Craft and Design of Sloyd). The exhibition shows a selection of items priduced during these courses.
28 NOVEMBER 2022
Illustrations by Tania Goryushina
EXHIBITION. Children's books and illustrations by Ukrainian artist and illustrator Tania Goryushina. Four of the books have been recommended by the Swedish Arts Council (Kulturrådet). The books are available for purchase during the exhibition. Proceeds go to a charity supporting Ukrainian refugee children. The exhibition lasts between 28 November and 6 December 2022.
23 NOVEMBER 2022
Book presentations
Some of the Konstfack teachers who were published in book form in the years between 2020 and 2022 gather to present their books in front of an audience.
- Martín Ávila: Designing for Interdependence : A Poetics of Relating
- Tina Carlsson: jag vet hur folkhemmet luktar
- Simon Ceder: Sexualitet och relationer : att möta ett engagerande och föränderligt kunskapsområde i skolan
- Michell Zethson: kokoligrafin
- Magnus Bärtås: Orienterarsjukan och andra berättelser
14 - 27 NOVEMBER 2022
Uncomfortable
EXHIBITION. Maja Björk is showing uncomfortable textile sculptures and comic zines dealing with all the anxiety, jealousy, heartbreak and failures you can dream of. Indulge yourself in feelings you wish you didn’t have. Enjoy the less pleasant side of life!
26 OCTOBER - 14 NOVEMBER 2022
Åsa Pärson
EXHIBITION. Exhibition around three books by Åsa Pärson: Fabricate - Composition and Texture (2017), Konsten att väva - en handbok (with Amica Sundström, 2021), Yoroke (2021). The books are also available for loan in the library!
21 OCTOBER 2022
Textile sculpture
EXHIBITION. In the course Textila konstruktioner, year three students in Visual Arts and Sloyd work with clothes, form and identity, and different ways to create and shape woven fabric. The course starts off with instructions and exercises in shaping flat fabrics to tree dimensional shapes.
The exhibit in the library window contains examples from the following assignment:
An unfamiliar bird in textile costume
- A bird is shaped in clay
- The clay figure is clothed in paper and adhesive tape. The clothing is cut with a blade into flat shapes.
- The pieces are cut in fabric and sewn together in the shape of the bird.
The assignment is to convey a cultural expression in the bird. Where does it come from, and how can that be shown? This is a central goal in the sloyd curriculum in the compulsory school in Sweden.
12-16 SEPTEMBER 2022
Books given away
The Konstfack library occasionally rolls out carts full of books that we give away. These are often books received as donations – books that we already have in our collections and don't have the space to hold.
We want to offer books in good condition and of relevance to Konstfack. During the summer, we have therefore continued going through our library stacks and have selected numerous books that we are now giving away for free. These are often second or third copies of books that we find we no longer need to keep. Some of these may be old and worn, but some are brand new and without library markings.This year we are giving away a lot of books in art, design and architecture – as well as some other goodies!
Book carts with a mixed selection will be placed by the library's entrance, Monday-Friday throughout the week!
22 AUGUST 2022
Degree exhibitions 2002-2022
BOOK EXHIBITION. We display a sampling of all the material the library has collected in conjunction with the Konstfack degree show during the last twenty years. Exhibition catalogues, artists' books, fiction etc. Most of the books are not found in the collections of any other library.
20 MAJ 2022
Konstfack Collection
BOOK EXHIBITION. Exhibition of books published by Konstfack 2019-2022. Konstfack's publication committee was established in the autumn of 2018, with the stated mission of "promoting publications of high quality made by the researchers and teachers at Konstfack". Twelve books have been published since then, in four publication series:
- Konstfack Research Collection
- Konstfack Education Collection
- Konstfack Artists' Book Collection
- Konstfack Dissertation Collection
28 APRIL 2022
Prototypes
EXHIBITION. Students from the bachelor programme Industrial design exhibit prototypes from a project on materials, prototypes and production.
20 APRIL 2022
How is history made?
EXHIBITION. In the course History of art, design and craft (year 1) the students have worked with the theme How is history made? Works from two student groups are shown.
Amanda Leksell, Alma Jarnestad, Ambra Byrne, Johanna Söderberg and Jonathan Gard pose the question which objects, what kinds of knowledge become archived and are preserved? They are showing a glass receptacle that prompts the visitor to create an archive of the present time at Konstfack.
Alice Larsson, Hanna Ailaskar, Hannah Nittnaus and Ronja Joensuu have worked with the paraphrase as method where they translate and research historical works by Hannah Ryggen (1894–1970), Yayoi Kusama (1929), Anders Bruno Liljefors (1923–1970) and the three sculptors Athenodoros, Polydorus and Hagesander from around 170–50 BCE (the photograph shows Alice Larsson's work paraphrasing the sculpture Laocoön and His Sons)
8 APRIL 2022
Timeline 1844-2022
BOOK EXHIBITION. A book exhibition highlighting a number of former Konstfack students. Hilma af Klint, for instance. She was trained in portrait painting at Tekniska skolan (later renamed Konstfack) in the 1880's. A couple of decades later she began to make abstract paintings inspired by spritism and theosophy. Now widely regarded as a world pioneer in abstract art, she is the first stop on the timeline.
1 APRIL 2022
Three simultaneous book exhibits!
EXHIBITIONS. We exhibit books by every recipient of the Hasselblad Award, from 1980 (Lennart Nilsson) to 2022 (Dayanita Singh). The second exhibit consists of books published during 2021, and lastly, a small exhibit honouring this year's laureate of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) and former Konstfack student Eva Lindström.
28 MARCH 2022
Semiotic & 3-D gestalt
EXHIBITION. Second year students from the bachelor programme Industrial design show results from the course Semiotic & 3-D gestalt, led by Cheryl Akner Koler and Jonas Lundin. The frame of each of the robots is a dish brush, and it is set in motion by vibration created by a small battery powered motor attached to the brush.
10 FEBRUARY 2022
Industrial production
EXHIBITION. A course in industrial production is held during the fall as a part of the bachelor programme Textile. The third year students participate in study visits at the major hubs of the Swedish textile industry. One of the tasks during the course is to work together with a manufacturing company and work out a proposal using the technology available at the company. A sampling of the resulting works is exhibited in the library window display. The students have worked with two companies, Ekelunds Linneväveri in Horred and Hitex in Svängsta. Participating students: Emma Lundberg, Micael de Leeuw, Carli Halvars, Lynn Stenvall, Tyra Mohager, Moa-Matilda Nilsson, Sanne Lovén Rolén
19 JANUARY 2022
Weaving
EXHIBITION. Students from year one students at the bachelor programme Textile exhibit woven works. The quotes in the exhibition come from the book On weaving (1965) by the German-American textile artist Anni Albers (1899-1994).
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