"Artist work in the post-rural context: Everything you want was already here" took place in Rejmyre, Sweden, 10-22 September 2025.
ABOUT THE COURSE
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. Hosted by the artist-run organization Rejmyre Art Lab’s Center for Peripheral Studies, this edition is the fourth in a series of annual KUNO intensive courses exploring rural contextual art practice.
The course brings 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 a selection of MA students from other schools in the KUNO network.
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' past work are core components of the course.
The course is an opportunity for students pursuing master’s degrees in fine and craft art to meet and engage in a site-responsive exploration around these issues through their existing art practices.
Five students from Konstfack’s Master’s programme in Fine Art and CRAFT! will participate together with international peers in a group of 15 students.
Host institution: Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design in Sweden
Project partners: Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki in Finland, and Vilnius Academy of Arts in Lithuania
Location: Rejmyre Art Lab, Sweden
The course and its components can be found on the KUNO website.
Rejmyre Art Lab can be found on Rejmyre Art Lab's website
FACILITATORS
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