2020

Konstfack appeals: free Ahmadreza Djalali
Thursday 26 November 2020

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

Sebastian Gatz and matt lambert: two new doctoral students in design and craft
Thursday 5 November 2020

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

Design (In)actions Paper Presentation by Erik Sandelin
Tuesday 3 November 2020

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

Formas funds for expanding access to public space
Thursday 22 October 2020

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

Maria Lantz, Anne Klontz, Bella Rune and Behzad Khosravi Noori contributors to new book on CrossSections
Tuesday 20 October 2020

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

Industrial Design BA graduate winner in the Global Design Graduate Show
Friday 9 October 2020

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

Konstfack recruits Sweden's first doctoral students in visual communication – a historic step for the area's development
Thursday 8 October 2020

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

Luis Berríos-Negrón – congratulations on the successful defence!
Wednesday 16 September 2020

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

Craftsight – podcast about craft
Friday 28 August 2020

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

Konstfack's and KTH's doctoral programme assessed by UKÄ
Friday 26 June 2020

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

How to Stage Urban Struggles
Wednesday 24 June 2020

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

The magazine Form about degree projects by Asli Abdulrahman Ali and Daniel Svahn
Tuesday 16 June 2020

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. ...

Konstfack's Degree Exhibition opens today – online, at Sergel's torg and in other public spaces
Friday 5 June 2020

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...

Ceramics & Glass – cross-border work in a broad cultural field
Friday 8 May 2020

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

Textiles Bachelors analyze the present with the concept of craft as a filter
Friday 8 May 2020

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

Konstfack alumni receives an honourable mention in Cumulus Green Competition 2020
Friday 8 May 2020

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

Ädellab's Bachelors – potential, context, materiality
Tuesday 5 May 2020

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

Konstfack Research Lab – connecting with the unfamiliar at the Ethnographic Museum
Wednesday 29 April 2020

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

CuratorLab in e-flux podcast: "Red Love. A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai"
Tuesday 28 April 2020

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

Pushing the limits and norms of what is expected from craft-based processes
Monday 20 April 2020

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

Degree Exhibition 2020 – CHANGED PLANS!
Friday 17 April 2020

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...

A good example of transition
Friday 27 March 2020

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

Solidarity through distance, experience Konstfack digitally!
Friday 27 March 2020

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,...

Video documentation from Konstfack Research Week 2020
Tuesday 24 March 2020

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

"Hulda" one of Sight Unseen's favorite objects of 2020
Monday 2 March 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...

Bernadotte grantholder Laleh Kazemi Veisari exhibits at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts
Tuesday 28 January 2020

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...