News and press releases

Emma Wikner, student at the master's programme Spatial Design, talks about her bachelor's degree project in a video interview with Lars Bülow at...

Watch the film where the Vice-Chancellor, teachers and students share good things to know if you are thinking of applying.

Konstfack senior lecturer Parasto Backman was awarded for "Best printed communication project". The award cermony took place during the Triennale...

Konstfack's unique workshop where teaching and research around light, color, materials, visual perception and spatial experience takes place receiv...

Three million SEK is awarded to Palle Torsson, Senior Lecturer in Fine art, for the research project "Ada Research: a Meta-Quest into the World of...

Jenna Gillinger, student at the Master's programme in Design - Spatial Design, wins with the modular stool "Boa".

More than 5000 students uploaded their end of year projects and 13 Konstfack alumni were shortlisted by industry experts. The public vote is open...

Four students from Konstfack where part of a group of 15 participating in the KUNO course "Making, Talking, Walking, (not) Working and Being Shy pa...

The artwork "Set Sail for the Levant: A Board Game About Debt (or a Social Satire)" by Olivia Plender, Senior Lecturer at Konstfack, is now on...

Adam Bergholm defended on 13 September 2023 his thesis, "Key Notes on the Unruly City - Social, Material, and Spatial Transgressions", carried out...

In an interview with Techarenen, who together with tech businesses, revive and present the Grand Award of Design.

World in My Eyes is a series of artist talks presenting pioneering practices in sound, performance, sculpture, and painting that transforms the fie...

Konstfack has since 2022 been granted the right to award an artistic doctoral degree. In mid-August 2023 the first four doctoral positions within o...

The exhibition elevates and celebrates contemporary LGBTQIA+ voices working in the metal arts community today, and is on view 4 June - 10 September...

On 1 June, German/American artist, educator and curator Anna Mlasowsky will take over as a new professor of crafts with a focus on ceramics and...

An article (from 14 April) about The Social Club event in October 2022 that brought together former students and recent graduates of the CRAFT!...

Welcome to 199 different voices at Konstfack Degree Exhibition(s): Bachelor's students 6–12 May, Master's and teacher education students 20–26 May.

On 1 August, Anna Valtonen takes office as the new Vice-Chancellor of Konstfack, Sweden's largest artistic university in art, design and crafts.

In this international bootcamp, participants will learn about innovation and sustainability in Tuscany, Italy through the medium of food. Applicati...

The project "Material cultures for interspecies cohabitation" will through design proposals explore how humans can interact with other species....

Senior lecturer at Konstfack and graphic designer Parasto Backman is one of Type Directors Clubs 15 new advisory board members from 10 countries.

Dotdotdot curates and Laslo Strong designs this year's edition of the Degree Exhibition.

Ceramist and Senior Lecturer at Konstfack Mårten Medbo's thesis "Lerbaserad erfarenhet och språklighet" from 2016 was the first in Sweden on the...

During Refractions*, Konstfack Research Week 2023, we explore interdisciplinary practices, discourses and perspectives on artistic research from...

Illustration: Evelina Lavergren, Industridesign, år 3

Today the Sundance Film Festival officially announced Gabriel Gabriel Garble's participation with his film "Well Wishes My Love, Your Love" in the...

Watch a film where Konstfack teachers and the Admissions office tell about our master's programmes.

Konstfack's PhD student Sebastian Gatz is an architect, artist and trained car mechanic, who works and thinks at the intersection of art,...

Two new books out: "Assuming Asymmetries" and "Curating Beyond the Mainstream".

Konstfack Professor of Design Martín Ávila's new book is about the practice of designing and design's capacity to relate (or not) to beings of all...

"Konstfack is an incredible ecology of knowledge and production facilities, a space of discussion and testing that allows students and staff to...

"In my opinion, we are living in the most exciting times," the Konstfack Professor says. "Now, the mainstream is less afraid of this crossing of...

The artist Lina Selander is Konstfack's new Professor in Fine Art, with emphasis on narrativity and installation.

Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship invites you to join the new course made in collaboration with Konstfack: Creating change – designing for...

Konstfack expresses its support for all Ukrainian artists and cultural practitioners, as well as for the Ukrainian people. We help students who nee...

As a member of Inland arts collective, Associate professor Sergio Montero Bravo participates in Documenta in Kassel until 25 September.

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.