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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...

During week 44 students from Konstfack and KTH will relocate to Kista Library to explore a public arena for education. The format involves short...

Konstfack students create Ebola clinic simulation for training of medical and non-medical staff going to the regions most affected by Ebola.

Konstfack MFA Industrial Design students went to Cape Town in October 2014.

Hannah Waldron, a recent graduate from the Master's group Textile in the Expanded Field, shares the Danish HAY Talent Award's first prize with Joel...

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Jonas Ahnmé, Senior Lecturer at The Department of Design, Craft and Arts, is awarded as Educator of 2014 at Konstfack.

A total of 226 applications have been received for four positions at the doctoral programme in Art, Technology and Design for the autumn of 2014.

The news that the quality evaluation by the Swedish Higher Education Authority (SHEA) has given Konstfack’s programmes in the field of Craft (Appli...

- Salone del Mobile in Milan

Sara Kristoffersson, guest professor at Konstfack, has recently finished her research project about Ikea's aesthetics in the 1980s and 1990s. This...

Hlin Helga Gudlaugsdóttir, guest teacher at Konstfack's Experience Design Group, is interviewed by Frame Publishers.

Else Abrahamsen, third year student a the Bachelor's programme in Interior architecture & Furniture design, is in Tanzania on a Minor Field Studies...

The guide offers an annotated selection of the educational provision in the spheres of Architecture, Product Design, Graphic Design and Interaction...

This design exhibition on sustainable food experience at "Årets Kock 2014" competition is produced by Konstfack's 3rd year industrial design studen...

The new doctoral student programme "Art, Technology and Design" marks a new stage of the research collaboration between Konstfack and KTH. The...

This is what it looks like at Konstfack right now (January 15, 2014, at 3.45 pm).

More than 10 000 people were at Konstfack's annual Christmas market, which this year took place on November 30 and December 1.

Zandra Ahl, professor in Ceramics and Glass at Konstfack, releases the book "Z-A 2013-1998". It summarises her work since 1998, and includes new an...

Ramia Mazé, visiting lecturer at Konstfack, was officially appointed Docent in Interaction Design after giving her Docent lecture on October 17 201...

In the autumn of 2014, Konstfack will introduce four new Master's programmes in Craft, Design, Art, and Visual Communication. All will prepare...

It's time to apply for research funding. Application deadline is Wednesday November 13, 2013.

The book "Artists Work in Museums: Histories, Interventions, Subjectivities" features among others the Konstfack Professor Zandra Ahl. The book...

Cooking can be done in many ways.

Spontaneous exhibitions and other things at Konstfack.

Emily Roysdon is Professor of Fine Art at Konstfack from August 1, 2013.

Works exhibited in Konstfack's public areas right now.

Björn Hellström, professor at Konstfack, gets a peer reviewed research article published in the prestigious scientific journal JAPR (Journal of...

Former Industrial Design student at Konstfack, Karin Rubing, is awarded gold prize at Creative Conscience Awards for her 2012 degree project.

Tobias Gutmann, student at the master's group Storytelling year 2, is going to Japan and London with his "portrait machine" Face-o-mat.

The Swedish Research Council has announced that Martin Avila , Senior Lecturer at Industrial Design at Kostfack and PhD of Design at HDK/University...

First year students of the Masters group Industrial Design were awarded as "School 2013" at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in...

This year's Degree Exhibition presents the works of 162 recent graduates within art, design, craft and visual arts education.

Don't miss these future designers! Students from Interior Architecture, Furniture Design and Textiles will be representing Konstfack (the Universit...

The Nobel Museum and The Experience Design Group at Konstfack have embarked a collaboration that will take different forms.

Now you can contact us by telephone and e-mail again.

Ulf Klarén and Karin Fridell Anter, reseachers in Colour&Light Reseach Group at Konstfack, contribute to Color and Design – an anthology from Berg...

Two master students at Industrial Design have created a game that supports designers and organizations to create possibilities for improvements and...

On Saturday September 15 Gustavsbergs Konsthall is arranging a seminar on crafts research. Lecturers from Konstfack are professors Zandra Ahl and...

It is time to apply for KU funding for 2013. Also, the KU Board announces Planning Grants and Grants for Network Initialization for future research...

Maria Lantz is Konstfack's new president from June 1, 2012.

On June 4, 5, 7 and 8 juni the library is open 12-4pm. On June 6 the library is closed.

This year's Degree Exhibition presents 181 newly qualified graduates and has the form of a labyrinth, filled with creative expressions within art,...

From May 2 the library is open: Monday 9 am - 6 pm Tuesday-Friday 9 am - 4 pm No librarian service 9-11 am. You can use the borrowing machine.

Future household; what will they look like, and what effect has a sustainability perspective? Konstfack, in collaboration with Umeå University and...

Thirteen students are participating in Konstfack's exhibition Design for a Liquid Society in Milan. During International Design Week in April, thes...

In connection with the departure of Ivar Björkman after nine years as President of Konstfack, a collection is being started to establish a...