Borders are everywhere. Yet, not all of them are seen and sensed as borders for many. They are designed to be more visible and more violent for certain bodies on the move. This lecture brings forward different instances of how borders operate through material, visual and technical practices and how they can be possibly dismantled through the same capacity of design. Welcome 27 March.
Welcome to the Italian Institute of Culture in Stockholm where Vasco Forconi, student at CuratorLab at Konstfack, will curate a series of exhibitions entitled Shoegaze. The project is divided in four chapters running throughout 2019 and will show Sweden and Italy-based artists interact with the building designed by iconic architecht Gio Ponti.
"The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream" (Wallace Stevens). "I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create." (William Blake). Välkommen till vernissage torsdag 21 mars kl 17–21 i Vita havet. Utställningen är öppen 22–31 mars, vardagar 9–16, helger 12–16.
Most welcome to the Master of Fine Arts exhibition "With", opening Thursday, 21 February from 5 to 9 pm in Vita Havet. All other days until 3 March the exhibition is open from 12 until 6 pm, or by appointment.
Vems hand är det som gör? En systertext om konst/hantverk, klass, feminism och om viljan att ta strid. Konsthantverkaren Frida Hållander, samverkansdoktorand mellan HDK (Högskolan för design och konsthantverk, Göteborgs universitet) och Konstfack, disputerar fredagen den 15 februari kl 13 på Konstfack.
I know everything about you.
If you knew everything about me, you would not be here.
I am here to have a friendly chat with you.
There is no such thing as a friendly chat between us, you’re lying.
All right, I know something about you.
You know nothing about me.
I know that you have been hiding things from me.
What could I possibly be hiding?
You have been hiding your weak
Petra Lilja, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Miro Sazdic Löwstedt and Cara Tolmie will be joining the transdisciplinary PhD programme Art, Technology and Design (KTD), run jointly by Konstfack and The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm.
Varje plats har olika behov men de flesta av våra offentliga rum är ändå möblerade på liknande sätt. Hur kan vi skapa en mer heterogen offentlig miljö? Det undrar vi avgångsstudenter från kandidatprogrammet för Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign och svarar på vår ställda fråga genom en skiftande kollektion av nya föremål som utforskar och utmanar det invanda.
Konstfack Research Week 2019 offers a rich and diverse program on/with research on artistic and scientific foundation in art, craft and design. With workshops, lectures, presentations, seminars, films, walks, site visits, and performance lectures.
Welcome to the OPENING Thursday 24 January 4 – 8 pm, The TRAPPHUS GALLERY at Konstfack (inside the building, opposite the main entrance)
Lisa Grip´s body of work reflects on intimacy, force and release within human relationships. Through photography and moving image, she displays complex and intricate scenarios, oscillating between the secretive and the voyeuristic. In situations she composes, people close to her are dissolving into and detaching from one another. She calls this untwinement.
Du kommer att se något skimrande. I slutet av en korridor. Den byter namn allteftersom. Den kan vara vår babe, vår skog, vår värld, något på sidan av, något vi vill ha, något vi känner och som känner oss. Jag har skapat ett rum där. Du får gärna komma in. Krypa igenom. Rummet vill aktiveras.
