Thursday 25 November, 10–16 in Svarta Havet at Konstfack
Arguably, one of the most significant questions for art and painting today is how we respond to ideas around representation. With the advent of photography, figurative painting long ago relinquished its primary role of documenting the world and with debates around painting’s relationship to photography no longer carrying such urgency, pai
14 June, 2–7 pm, organized by the Doctoral Programme in Art, Technology and Design. Live: Kollegiesalen, Brinellvägen 8, KTH, Stockholm. Zoom: kth-se.zoom.us/j/65212746253
Three or Four Irrelevant Stories, Art and Hyper-Politics is a practice-based doctoral thesis work presented in the form of a book that documents, comments upon and provides a context for the included artistic projects, co
Welcome to Konstfack Degree Exhibition 2021! With the arrival of spring, we and 175 graduating students are celebrating this year at two locations – Konstfack and Konstnärshuset in Stockholm – with four unique events following the dates below. Visit the exhibitions every day from 11:30 a.m. – 7 p.m. and book your time on www.konstfack2021.se.
Congratulations Alina Rentsch (Fine Art) and Sofia Priftis (Spatial Design)!
Through a unique partnership with 11 international institutions from seven countries, the Octopus Programme has selected 10 outstanding artists to take part in the programme during the academic year 2021/2022. From a rigorous, multi-institutional application process with five interconnected evaluation committees, the
Soil-on-to-logic is a proposal for long term engagement, a time for speculation, a refusal of binary formations and most probably a space for (un)learning in public. It’s a sneaking suspicion following me, of what it means to be a creator? The creator of something. What is produced in these hands and what is reproduced in common sphere?
Madeleine Hertz’s work revolves around spatial interventions of the places we inhabit, connected to structural ideas of certain environments interpreted through architectural conceptualizations such as form and function.
Erik Viklund's work is inspired by places and encounters with people and their destinies in these locations. Utilizing photography, he is interested in approaching the transient, but also how the transient is expressed in our lives in a purely physical way from one place to another; on a found piece of paper, a broken window or the torn down wallpaper in a house that has been deserted.
In the old days it was important to keep the fire in your fireplace burning. As the main light and heating source, it was also how you kept the (evil) spirits from entering your home and bringing misfortune. The fire signalled human presence.
An amazing week is planned and many events are open to the public. Join in, have fun, spread the news and see you in the virtual realm!
Konstfack Art Department Lecture Series presents Amy Sillman who will give a newly written talk on her "principles for painting" which can also be said to be an "ethics of tactility".
For more than four decades Himid has created paintings, drawings and installations that uncover and celebrate marginalised histories, figures, and forms cultural expression. Her work frequently references art history and the so-called canon as a means to address the invisibility of the black body in the Western pictorial tradition.
About the repeated movement and the act of painting itself. About the differences in the simple in Vilma Hammare's paintings. While Hannes Ferm asks how you sing in a world that’s falling apart in a time impaired by cultural stagnation in contrast to techno-capitalistic acceleration.
In the thesis "Breathtaking Greenhouse Parastructures: a supplement to the Arcades Project from a Caribbean Perspective [and a call for a careful practice of epistemológica]" Luis Berríos-Negrón's core question is whether colonial memory is the drive of global warming. Welcome to join on Zoom!
Welcome at 2 pm to KONSTFACK2020.SE or to the projection at Sergel's torg. Head of Exhibitions Anne Klontz inaugurates the Degree Exhibition together with Matilda Ernkrans, Minister of Higher Education and Research, Vice-Chancellor Maria Lantz and the curators Emily Fahlén and Asrin Haidari. The graphic concept is presented along with performances for all to enjoy.
Zoom is now our second home and a format that we quickly have gotten accustomed to. It has become a space for work as well as for chatting about everyday things. A place where we present ourselves to the world – the big and the very closest. A look into the lives and working conditions of 14 artists – the spring of 2020.
Experience and get information about the graduating students' works in filmed exhibitions, interviews and texts. Welcome!
Participants will have access to a diverse range of futures that are possible within artistic research: from magic and meditation, to challenging canons and hierarchies, to the Anthropocene and how various lighting sources affect our lives.
Please join for the first Artist Talk of the year, arranged by Konstfack's Department of Fine Art. Jumana Manna (b. 1987) is a visual artist working primarily with film and sculpture. Her work explores how power is articulated through relationships, often focusing on the body and materiality in relation to narratives of nationalism, and histories of place.
It’s all happening in this tiny bed, we’re only wearing thick woollen socks, there is a candle lit up, it’s very cold outside and it’s an hour long porn movie called Boyfriends...
The exhibition consists of a series of abstract paintings; an Interplay between chance, structure, spatiality and time. Different variations of directions connect in subtle constellations and in drastic cuts. Daily impressions are filtered through the painter's hand out onto the canvas, consisting of both transparent and opaque color layers.