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The position is placed at the research centre NAVET where Konstfack is a hub partner. Application deadline is 31 July 2019.

The jury's motivation: "One of the core themes in Catherine Anyango Grünewald’s work is public space and its sensitivity to traumatic events,...

We are proud to announce that Konstfack has been granted an Erasmus+ mobility grant in partnership with Birzeit University in Palestine (2019-2021)...

Hsiao Yuan Huang, student at the master's programme in Design - Individual Study Plan in Design, was one of 26 international university students fr...

Konstfack Degree Exhibition 2019 is curated by Emily Fahlén and Asrin Haidari. The visual concept is created by Jennifer Bergkvist and Moa Sundkvist

Students at Konstfack, in their final year of the Bachelor's programme of Interior Architecture and Furniture Design, present you "Outdoor Diversit...

Four doctoral students wanted for the doctoral (third-cycle) programme Art, Technology and Design. Application deadline is 15 May 2019.

Konstfack is ranked as second best among artistic universities in Sweden by the international ranking company QS World University Rankings.

Momentum – The Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art includes several staff and alumni of Konstfack in this year's edition opening 8 June 2019.

During 2019, starting in the end of March at the Italian Institute of Culture in Stockholm, Vasco Forconi, student at Curator Lab, will curate a...

A selection of lectures and presentations from Konstfack Research Week on 28 January - 1 February 2019.

This year's degree exhibition is curated by Emily Fahlén och Asrin Haidari, and the visual concept is created by Jennifer Bergkvist and Moa...

Petra Lilja, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Miro Sazdic Löwstedt and Cara Tolmie will be joining the transdisciplinary PhD programme Art, Technology and...

A conversation with Johanna Lewengard, professor and head of the Master’s programme in Visual Communication at Konstfack, and Benedetta Crippa,...

Documentation from a two-day seminar 28-29 November 2018 at Konstfack and Iaspis.

Designers and PhD students Erik Sandelin (Konstfack) and Michelle Westerlaken (Malmö University) discuss the oppression or exploitation of animals ...

If you missed one or want to see all the autumn 2018 Friday Lectures again, they are all at Konstfack's Youtube-channel.

Research Lab is a tightly focused course at Konstfack investigating the relationship between contemporary craft practice with real world situations...

Friday Lecture at Konstfack on 23 November 2018. Beatriz Colomina, architecture theorist, curator, and professor at the Princeton University School...

"Designer and Goldcrest" is a newly released book by Erik Sandelin, PhD student at the KTD programme, who works in the intersections of codesign,...

Did you miss the Friday Lecture on 19 October? The lecture is now on Youtube. Pontus Strimling, Associate Professor at the Institute for Future...

The Friday Lecture from 16 November is now on Youtube. Hedvig Kjellström, Professor of Computer Science and Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson, Professor in...

The Friday Lecture from 9 November is now on Youtube. Henrik Arnstad, author and journalist: Is democracy vital for the future human? Moderators ar...

  175 Years of Fight, Joy and Failure. 2019 will ring with a bang and therefore it is high time to bring our wisdom together. An editorial team wit...

Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship (SSES) has, in addition to  breakfast lectures, weekend workshops and freestanding longer courses, now a...

The Board of Education and Research has appointed seven new research leaders with the task, together with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Magnus Bärtås...

Senior lecturer in illustration, Catherine Anyango Grünewald, is at the Göteborg Book Fair presenting her books and participating in several talks....

With an emphasis on installation, text and experimental aesthetic strategies.

A total of 185 applications have been received for four positions at the doctoral programme in Art, Technology and Design for the spring of 2019.

The Konstfack professor in crafts - Matt Smith - is nominated for the h100 Awards as one of ten nominees in the Art, Design and Craft category.

From the autumn term of 2018, the library will be responsible for building a Study Support Unit at Konstfack. The purpose is to provide all student...

The 3, 4 and 10 September are introduction days for new students.

Lourdes Gonzalez, student in the CRAFT - Textile master's programme, was one of 20 international university students from 17 countries to receive t...

This year the Konstfack Degree Exhibition is framed by Swedish poet and novelist Karin Boye's poem about pain and spring. - The 2018 Konstfack Degr...

Lars Pettersson, guest teacher at Interior Architecture & Furniture Design, is one of five finalists in the competition Grand Award of Design.

Welcome 17–22 April to see some of our answers in a socially beneficial exhibition with state-of-the-art craftsmanship featuring Konstfack Universi...

Former senior lecturer Martin Avila is appointed new professor in design at the Department of Design, Interior Architecture and Visual Communicatio...

Selected lectures and presenations at Konstfack Research Week 2018 are now published.

This year's Degree Exhibition is visualised through a playful identity where Konstfack's graphic profile is contrasted with flowery and...

As Academic Rights Watch (ARW) made a complaint to the Parliamentary Ombudsmen (JO), accusing Konstfack's Vice-Chancellor Maria Lantz of breach of...

Konstfack's Vice-Chancellor Maria Lantz on the latest #metoo related appeal #konstnärligfrihet – with witness testimonies from individuals active...

Konstfack's new logo is drawn by hand with a font that is unique to Konstfack. It is created by Carolina Laudon, typeface designer and graphic...

This autumn, the Department of Fine Art at Konstfack has the joy to host a guest postdoctoral researcher, Lena Séraphin.

Martin Avila, Senior Lecturer at Konstfack, presents a project from his postdoctoral work in Paris. And his PhD dissertation titled "Devices. On...

Christina Schaffer, teacher at the Konstfack course "Design for Sustainable Co-Creation" about the course:

Today is the first of three introduction days for new students at Konstfack.

Hybrid artist, curator and historian Matt Smith is our new professor of crafts with a special focus on ceramics and glass.

Konstfack c/o Venice Biennale 2017 with Loulou Cherinet, Magnus Bärtås and Behzad Khosravi Noori.

With its 195 students from 28 nations, Konstfack's Degree Exhibition 2017 is the largest in the school's 173-year history. Consequently, this year...

The book "Färg&Ljus för människan – i rummet" is published in English by the publishing house Routledge on 17 May 2017. The book's English title is...

The research was mainly structured through three projects in Argentina. Each of these being developed to enact responses that dealt with everyday...

Gunilla Muhr is the new Head of the Department of Fine Art where she succeeds Olof Glemme who is retiring. Gunilla comes from CFF, the Centre for...

The Swedish section of Scholars at Risk, which Konstfack is part of, is deeply concerned about the change in Hungarian legislation that will limit...

Konstfack participates on Monday 10 April at the national memorial ceremony with a minute of silence in Vita Havet at 12:00 pm for anyone who wants...

The doctoral programme that Konstfack and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) started together in 2014 has two new doctoral students: Jenny...

A selection of lectures and presentations from Konstfack Research Week 29 January - 3 February 2017.

This year's application statistics for Konstfack's master's programmes shows that the number of complete applications is 34 percent higher than las...

The visual concept, created by Minna Sakaria, reflects a feeling of distorted reality combined with a celebration on the red carpet. The Konstfack...

Images of visits to Lina Bo Bardi's Gregorio de Mattos Theatre and the abandoned Coaty restaurant.

During two weeks in January, nine students along with our graduate student Luis Berríos-Negrón are visiting the Brazilian city of Salvador in the...

Stemming from the semester-long research focus group taught by our doctoral candidate Luis Berríos-Negrón, eight students from our fine arts and...

Anne Klontz has been appointed new Exhibition Manager at Konstfack. Klontz has a wide experience in the school's main areas of art, design and...

Andreas Nobel's dissertation from 2014 "Dimmer på Upplysningen" is published in English. The title is "Shady Enlightenment - textualized thinking a...

Approximately 8,000 visitors came to this year's Christmas Market at Konstfack.

Marti Manen has been appointed as curator of Konstfack's Degree Exhibitions 2017 and 2018, this parallel to his job as a curator at the Public Art...

Rasmus Nossbring, student at the Bachelor programme in Ceramics & Glass, receives Pilchuck Auction's 2016 People's Choice Award. The award entitles...

Foto: Johanna Stillman and Tessa Van Thielen MIDDLE OF NOWHERE – Johanna Stillman Tulsa, Wednesday 27 September Oh Taylor, Yesterday I saw someone...

Four Konstfack teachers and several former Konstfack students win prizes in the contest Kolla! 2016. It is organized by Svenska Tecknare and one ca...

Konstfack regrets the fire at the Royal Institute of Art. The Graphics house on Skeppsholmen with all its equipment, techniques and organization fo...

Konstfack has appointed Senior Lecturer Rochus Hinkel as Professor of Interior Architecture and Furniture Design in order to strengthen a field whe...

Ikko Yokoyama isn't working at Konstfack any longer, where she worked as head of exhibitions since 2004. Ikko Yokoyama is moving to Hong Kong and...

Alessandra Cislaghi, exchange student at the bachelor's programme Interior Architecture & Furniture Design, is blogging about life, studies and...

The 29th of August was the first of three introduction days for new students at Konstfack for the academic year 2016/2017.

Konstfack is part of the opening programme in the Nordic pavilion with the ambition to bring interiors to the agenda of the world's most prominent...

28 May – 1 June across Stockholm

Pinar Arabağ, master's student at Individual Study Plan in Design, is one of 22 international top students from 17 different countries to receive t...

Solidarity, value and meaning is created jointly by 177 newly graduated visual arts teachers, master's and bachelor's students from 15 different...

Axel Bergholm, student at the bachelor programme Interior Architecture & Furniture Design, exhibitits his chair Peek at the interior fair ICFF in N...

Åsa Cederqvist, Senior Lecturer at Konstfack, has been awarded a one year recidency at Kunst Werke and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin through The...

Master's student Else Abrahamsen at Konstfack's Interior Architecture Programme, has started a non-profit, interdisciplinary collective which aims ...

Konstfack continues to climb the QS World University Rankings list of the world's leading universities and higher education institutions for art an...

Katarina Sjögren and Marie-Louise Bowallius the Heads of Departments of Konstfack's two new departments; the Department of Design, Interior...

Oskar Laurin, student at the Master's programme Visual Communication, is selected to participate in the Bologna Children's Book Fair - Mostra degli...

At the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair students from Interior Architecture & Furniture Design, Industrial Design and Textiles show design that...

Tom Sandqvist, Adjunct Professor at Konstfack, participates in Art Safari Bucharest 2016 with a lecture about the Eastern roots of Dada. Art Safari...

Silversmith Anders Ljungberg is our new professor of crafts with a special focus on jewellery art and corpus.

As requests increase from a number of different industries looking for an approach to design that is somewhat beyond a fixed format, beyond product...

Bo Westerlund, professor at Konstfack, participates in the anthology "Action Research for Democracy : new ideas and perspectives from Scandinavia"...

Today was the first of two Konstfack Christmas market days. A preliminary estimate said that just over 4,000 visitors came to look at, touch and bu...

The artist Loulou Cherinet will start her new position as Professor of Fine Art at Konstfack on 15 August 2015.

Chamaikarn Chartsiri, master's student at Texile in the expanded field is one of around twenty international top students to receive the Global Swe...

Master's students Mirja Leierth and Erik Thulén at Ceramics & Glass have made an official standard for dissertations and other ceremonial occasions.

Konstfack based study "The Transaction Project: Digital networking in craft research" has received SEK 200,000 from Innovativ Kultur and will be...

Radical re-thinking and contrasts characterize this year's Degree Exhibition. Konstfack's role as a public cultural institution is evident as 154...

Three artists with ties to Konstfack and its research will be taking part in activities during Biennale Arte 2015.

Konstfack Research Week 2015 takes place between 26 and 30 January, with a solid programme on the theme "Practicing Research", including...

A short film from the Speed Crafting Jam event on 15 December 2014.

These are the front desk's opening hours during Christmas and New Year.

The Local, a web based newspaper with news in English, visited Konstfack's Christmas market 2014.

Students from third year BA Industrial design at Konstfack and KTH Kista collaborated to create a day of public access workshops. Located in the...