Ung Svensk Form 2022 – presenting this year’s winners!

Queer question marks, dismantled norms and transparency in the consequences of growth – mark your calendars for the opening of Ung Svensk Form 2022 (Young Swedish Design 2022) on 7 February! This year’s edition is an agile mix of intelligence, humour and exploratory craftsmanship that proactively exposes the spirit of our time.

The exhibition’s 25 entries range from furniture, fashion and crafts to architecture, industrial design and graphic design. Together, the exhibited works represent a unique transection of today’s key issues within the world of design and the world at large.

“Ung Svensk Form 2022 is a celebration of a creative and courageous generation of designers who are pushing forward the development for a sustainable future through good design,” says Mats Widbom, CEO of Svensk Form.

“The selection in this year’s Ung Svensk Form boasts an enormous breadth of innovation and quality. Nature’s organic shapes meet outstanding design and young, vibrating fashion. It shows a true sense of innovation and confidence in the future,” says Maria Patomella, Curator and exhibition manager at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern.

Press meetings
Ung Svensk Form 2022 premieres at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern on 7 February. Designers and representatives from Svensk Form and Kulturhuset Stadsteatern will be on hand from 10 am to 2 pm to meet the press. Please contact Emma Olofsson emma.olofsson@kulturhusetstadsteatern.se to book an appointment.

Opening and scholarship awards
This year we are pleased to also offer a digital version of the exhibition on opening day, 7 February at 12 am. Join us for a digital tour to see this year’s winning entries and hear some of the young designers share the stories behind their projects. The tour will be translated to english and held by Svensk Form CEO Mats Widbom and Maria Patomella, Curator and exhibition manager at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern. Following the tour is our annual scholarship handouts, while the Jury’s reasons for all winners will be published on Ung Svensk Form’s website. Join us for the tour 7 February at 12 am HERE.

The exhibition will be open to the public from 4 pm on the same day. Tickets are booked via Kulturhuset Stadsteatern’s website and the exhibition is open until 20 March.

“It is incredibly inspiring and rewarding to witness the visions and ideas of these young designers. We are proud producers of Ung Svensk Form and proud to be part of spreading these ideas and making good design available to more people,” says Anna Sandberg Falk, curator at IKEA Museum.

”Ung Svensk Form is an important arena for spotlighting new talent and giving brave creatives the chance to grow. Our partnership will strengthen the competitiveness of young designers by focusing on creative capital and cross-pollinating between industries,” says Caroline B. Le Bongoat, who is business development manager with focus on creative industries at the City of Malmö.

News from Ung Svensk Form 2022
This year we are pleased to announce the addition of a new scholarship donor for Ung Svensk Form – Swedish Wood are stepping into the project with an educational trip to gain understanding of the forest and its importance, through the entire value chain, from seed to processing. In keeping with this spirit, Arvet have reformulated their already existing scholarship by introducing a travel scholarship that will offer insight into their global knowledge exchange on architecture – an exchange that includes the social responsibility that architecture holds, as well as a fundamental understanding of the renewable material of wood.

These two scholarships will complement our already coveted scholarships from IKEA, Kvadrat, Lammhults Möbel, Massive Entertainment and the Swedish Tannery Association.

”Knowledge is crucial in making wise decisions. We therefore want to raise awareness of how wood contributes to sustainable development – from an economic as well as environmental and social perspective. Our partnership with Ung Svensk Form gives us the opportunity to reach out with inspiration and knowledge about wood,” says Björn Nordin, head of architecture and design at Swedish Wood.

Our 2022 Winners
Ung Svensk Form is now in its 24th year and has earned its name as Sweden’s largest national design competition for young designers. Not only is there a wide variety of projects, but the contestants have also come from far and wide, both nationally and internationally, including the United States, Afghanistan, Hungary and Turkey. You can see all 25 of the winning entries HERE.

The winners of this year’s Ung Svensk Form are:

– Akbari, Ali

– Ashton, Matthew

– Berggren, Andreas

– Bornedal, Kajsa

– Butch x Femme

– Francke, Vidar

– Gardtman, Klara

– Helin, Klara

– Hunyadi, Matilda

– Hjalmarsson, Hanna

– Kalabalik
Alayat, Ays
Garreta Cano, Martina
Stampe, Vilde

– Knutsson, Klara

– Kovacs, Gergely

– MISC. Studio
Åhlund, Karl
Bell, Poppy
Tang, Matthew
Cervin-Ellqvist, Helena
Herklint, Frans
Grunbaum, Julia

– Parra, Elinor

– Pierre, Malin

– Rapp Thomas, Josephine

– Ryd, Hanna Linnea

– Sahlin, Lotta

– Segring Björklund, Ingrid

– Sirenius, Therése

– Unnegård, Elsa

– Wetterström, Vendela

– Willumsen, Kajsa

– Winsth, Gustav

The Jury for Ung Svensk Form 2022 is made up of: Samir Alj Fält, Parasto Backman, Caroline B. Le Bongoat, Johan Deurell, Linnéa Therese Dimitriou, Demian Horst, Åsa Jungnelius, Henrik Johansson, Anna Lidström, Eva Lilja Löwenhielm, Petra Lilja, Maria Patomella, Johanna Sjögren Duthy. Petter Sydow, Bea Szenfeld, Andreas Säfström, Tor Lindstrand (jury chairperson) and Mats Widbom.

Tour 2022:

• 7 February – 20 March, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm
• 31 March – 30 April, Sara Kulturhus, Skellefteå
• 30 May – 3 July, Dunkers Kulturhus/H22, Helsingborg
• 24 September – 6 November, Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg
• 19 November – 8 January 2023, Form/Design Center, Malmö

About Ung Svensk Form:
Since its inception in 1998, the juried award and travelling exhibition Ung Svensk Form has evolved into Sweden’s most important forum for designers at the start of their career. Today, the exhibition serves as a meeting hub around which designers, industry businesses, the public and media converge on the important issues of our time.

The Young Swedish Design exhibition 2022 is a co-production between Svensk Form (the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design) and IKEA Museum. The project is executed in association with Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, City of Malmö, and a raft of exhibition organisers and scholarship providers.

For more information, please contact:
Karin Wiberg, Project Manager, Ung Svensk Form
karin.wiberg@svenskform.se
+46 (0)70 365 63 25

Elin Seittu, Communications Manager, Svensk Form
elin.seittu@svenskform.se
+46 (0)72 323 31 48

Emma Olofsson, Communications Professional, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern
emma.olofsson@kulturhusetstadsteatern.se
+46 (0)768 25 46 05