Konstfack is hosting the Nordplus/KUNO intensive course titled "Artist work in the post-rural context: Everything you want was already here" in Rejmyre, Sweden, on 10-22 September 2025.
Host institution: Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Sweden
Project partners: Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki, Finland and Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania
Location: Rejmyre Art Lab, Östergötland, Sweden
About the course
Artist work in the post-rural context: Everything you want was already here is a two-week intensive, site-responsive course that takes place in the small glass factory town of Rejmyre, Sweden and is hosted by the artist-run organization Rejmyre Art Lab’s Center for Peripheral Studies. Participants will explore issues central to making site-responsive art in ‘rural contexts’ and create an artwork in response to the site of the course.
The course will bring together MA students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design in Stockholm and the Vilnius Academy of Arts along with select MA students from other KUNO schools.
This transdisciplinary course explores contextually responsive art practice with a specific focus on ‘the rural’. The dominance of the urban in artistic discourses and the marginalization of the rural, as an often invisible space of industrial production and resource extraction, combine to form a strong argument for focusing our attention, within the space of master-level art and craft education, on developing our conceptions of the rural and rural publics and our capacity to make complex works within and about rural contexts. Group exercises, collective meals, shared and individual work time as well as presentations of participants' passed work are core components of the course.
The course is an opportunity for students pursuing master’s degrees in fine and craft arts as well as media art, to meet and engage in a site-responsive exploration around these issues, through their own existing practices.
Five students from Konstfacks Master's programme in Fine Art and CRAFT! will participate together with international peers in a group of 15 students.
More information
The course and its components: KUNO website
Rejmyre Art Lab: Rejmyre Art Lab's website
Faciliators
Daniel Peltz
Professor of Site and Situation Specific Practice, Department of Time and Space Arts
Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Dr. Vytautas Michelkevičius Assoc. Prof.
Head of Photography and Media Art Department and Head of Doctoral Programme in Fine Art
Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania
Sissi Westerberg
Senior Lecturer, Department of Craft, Smycke & Corpus: Ädellab
Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden
David Larsson
Senior Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts
Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden
