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When conflict and violence cast their shadow over the world, every artistic expression is inherently an element of resistance to authoritarian rule...

The designer, researcher, artist and curator Maja Gunn is a new Professor of Crafts with a focus on Textiles.

"Co-Culturing: Crafting the Living" – a recorded conversation about the role of designers within the bio-tech industry; notions of scale and...

CuratorLab's course director Joanna Warza has curated the Polish pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale together with Wojtek Szymanski featuring the...

SSES invites all Konstfack students to participate in a highly interactive deep-dive into explore Tuscan food-systems during 4-11 June in...

Considering the current war on Ukraine, Konstfack wants to express our support and concern for all Ukrainian artists and cultural workers, as well ...

In recent years painting has yet again been called upon to represent and document the manifold roles of addressing visibility through figuration an...

Benedetta Crippa, who earned a master’s degree in Visual Communication from Konstfack in 2017, won the traditional competition for the graphic...

Creating sustainable jewellery using left over shells.

Alicia Knight, student at the master's programme Individual Study Plan in Design, year 1, is the winner of Perimeter Protection's design competitio...

The Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship (SSES) offers a workshop free of charge and open for all Konstfack students and alumni to apply to. The...

Konstfack's holiday card competition is now finalized; a warm, inclusive proposal won.

About living systems, relationships, ecological literacy and scorpions. Martín Ávila is a Professor of design and responsible for the master's...

The book "Red Love: A reader on Alexandra Kollontai", designed by Jiri Novak, graphic designer and administrator at Konstfack, has been selected by...

The book "De kommer att drunkna i sina mödrars tårar", designed by Parasto Backman, Senior Lecturer at Konstfack, has been selected by Svensk...

On 1-19 November we will need your help to make the study environment in the library better. Every Monday we will ask a new question on our...

On 15 October, Maja Frögård successfully defended her doctoral thesis, "Negotiating Tensions – Designers' responsibilities in democratic...

The Polish pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale 2022 will be co-curated by Joanna Warsza, CuratorLab course director at Konstfack, and Wojtek...

A research and education collaboration between Konstfack's Perceptionsstudion and KTH's Lighting Design Lab is looking at the use of colored light ...

This year 5211 art and design students uploaded their 2020-21 end of year projects. Eleven Konstfack graduates were selected by expert judges to be...

matt lambert, PhD student at Konstfack, talks about the power of jewelry, to relate to bodies, to tell our stories and share our histories, in this...

We are delighted to announce that on 14th June 2021, Behzad Khosravi Noori successfully defended his doctoral thesis, "Three or Four Ir/relevant...

Due to all the news articles that have followed the one published in DN on 2021-02-01 with the headline "No, the Vita Havet exhibition at Konstfack...

C-print is an online art journal and a curatorial platform for contemporary art. Students from the Bachelor's programme in Graphic Design and...

The installation "Experimania" by Sofia Bahlner, student at Master’s programme CRAFT! Textiles, is the winner in the "Best Studio Artist Design"...

A glittering lake, a fragile snowflake, a foaming wave cresting above a stormy sea. Like this life-giving water, so too can art, design, craft and...

Palle Torsson, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Fine Art, has been given a runner-up award in the 2020 SAR RC Prize for Best Exposition for...

Congratulations Alina Rentsch (Fine Art) and Sofia Priftis (Spatial Design)!

"Home Works – A Cooking Book: Recipes for Organising with Art and Domestic Work" is a cooking book that highlights the art and politics of eating...

Konstfack is climbing on the QS Top Universities ranking list with the worlds best art and design schools 2021.

The book Vitamin D3 showcases more than 100 artists exploring drawing's possibilities – from intimate to large-scale works – in a diversity of...

Linda Hallstan, Sissela Jensen and Brit Pavelson, who graduated together from the Master's programme in Visual Communication in 2020, won the...

During two and a half years (October 2020 - April 2023) the project Artist-Run Network Europe (ARNE) will focus on artist-run initiatives co-funded...

As an independent, international art university, Konstfack strongly condemns the imprisonment and death sentence of the Swedish-Iranian scholar Dr....

Konstfack's doctoral research group has expanded with Sebastian Gatz (design) and matt lambert (craft). Gatz's doctoral thesis project is about...

Last week Erik Sandelin, PhD student at Konstfack and KTH, presented the research paper "Design (In)actions" at the NordiCHI conference on...

Anette Göthlund, a professor at the Department of Visual Arts and Sloyd Education (IBIS), Miro Sazdic Löwstedt, a PhD student in Konstfack's KTD...

"CrossSections, Processing Artistic and Curatorial Research", edited by Basak Senova, is the accumulation of the CrossSections which reflects on...

Swasti Sethi, Industrial Design BA graduate in 2020, is the winner of the Industrial public vote in the first ever online Global Design Graduate...

Illustrator and storyteller Cecilia Hei Mee Flumé and graphic designer Brita Lindvall Leitmann will be the first to enrol in doctorate studies in...

On 15 September, Luis Berríos-Negrón successfully defended his doctoral thesis, Breathtaking Greenhouse Parastructures, at the public disputation...

Hannah-Molly Brown and Veronika Murarikova, students at the master's programme Craft!, are running a podcast where they share ideas from the positi...

On 2 June 2020, KTH and Konstfack received confirmation of UKÄ’s assessment of their collaborative, Art, Design, Technology (KTD) doctoral programm...

A project initiated by Alba Folgado as part of CuratorLab 2019/20, in collaboration with the artists Pablo Echaurren and Elof Hellström. The projec...

Asli Abdulrahman Ali's degree project Life on the Outside of the White Standard wants to represent the reality of life outside the white standard. ...

Welcome at 2 pm to KONSTFACK2020.SE or to the projection at Sergel's torg. Head of Exhibitions Anne Klontz inaugurates the Degree Exhibition togeth...

With a foundation in craft production, the students at Ceramics & Glass base their cross-border work on different material traditions. The focus of...

The education offers everything from professional methods and equipment to lively experimentation. In well-equipped workshops for weaving, knitting...

Hanna Turesson Bernehed, a 2019 Konstfack graduate, is mentioned as an Honorable Entry for her project "Åker". It is system that harvests the...

Konstfack's programme within jewellery and corpus is called Ädellab and offers interpretation, understanding and shaping of objects and jewellery....

The exhibition "Renegotiating Material Culture" is the result of a year long partnership between the Ethnographic Museum and Research Lab at...

Listen to the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/red-love-a-reader-on-alexandra-kollontai/id1332021431?i=1000472177307 The book is published by...

When the distinctions between the origin of the material, the practice of making and a completed materialization become blurred, the place, materia...

In the beginning of June, we will launch a digital catalogue with all the degree students' works. Until then, you can follow filmed presentations o...

Education and research at Konstfack is currently being carried on primarily in the form of distance education, and the school is closed to outside...

Welcome to many experiences in Konstfack's digital exhibition space. An opportunity to take part in all the great things that happen at the school,...

A selection of lectures and presentations from Konstfack Research Week on 27-31 January 2020.

The online magazine "Sight Unseen" has selected the Konstfack student Siri Svedborg's "Hulda" armchair as one of their favorite objects of 2020 so...

Laleh Kazemi Veisari is the 2019 recipient of the Bernadotte program studio and working grant from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. The...

Konstfack's Vice-Chancellor Maria Lantz has been interviewed about the 175 year book by the Stockholm guide "Totally Stockholm".

Acne Studios selected Konstfack master's student Marcus Badman to win the 1st prize in the "Together is Better" contest.

Research Lab at Konstfack is once again focusing on a different aspect of craft. In 2020-21 the theme is Craft and the Royal Palace.

Malin Björklund, master's student from the Individual Study Plan in Design programme, participates in the 5th edition of the exhibition taking plac...

The video documentation from the two Artist Talks by Michael Rakowitz and James Richards is now published on the Konstfack website.

Erik Sandelin, PhD student at Konstfack, contributes with a chapter, titled "Bully Goes Fishing" to the new anthology "Design and Nature: A...

The extensive exhibition of CrossSections with 19 participating artists is the first international exhibition taking place at Konstfack. This is a...

As part of the Being Human Festival Professor Andrea Peach (Konstfack, Stockholm) and Professor Sarah Pedersen (Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen)...

Andrea Peach has over twenty years of experience teaching contextual and critical studies in UK art schools.

From the press release: "The global discourse around urban ecology tends to homogenize and universalize, relying on such terms as "smart cities,"...

Mara Lee Gerdén has an international artistic practice that stretches from poetry to performance lectures and essays. She has a PhD in literary...

Two Konstfack employees are among "19 Women Rocking The Scandinavian Art Arena", according to the news magazine The Art Gorgeous.

2, 3 and 9 September are introduction days for new students.

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.