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Announcing the winners of Ung Svensk Form 2023
Leftovers, deadstock or outright rubbish – there are many ways to describe this year’s edition of Ung Svensk Form, where contestants have demonstrated how we can reuse materials and look to nature as our problem solver. We are pleased to present this year’s winners!
The 25th annual Ung Svensk Form opens on 7 February at the Greenhouse section of Stockholm Furniture Fair. This year’s line-up is brimming with circular ingenuity – leftovers are turned into furniture by humans and bark beetles alike, waste products ranging from the sun to baby clothing are put to good use, and disassembled spills from previous constructions are given new life. Complete with thought-provoking depictions of our digital lives and all-in-one solutions for clothing and interiors, Ung Svensk Form provides a sampling of our time’s most pressing issues.
– Every year, I am equally amazed when I receive the designers’ entries that have been selected by the jury of Ung Svensk Form – amazed at their straight, honest strive and their desire to make a change, their courage to go their own direction in terms of craftsmanship, material choice and expression. Of the 23 entries starring in Ung Svensk Form 2023, this force is more evident than ever, these are our stars of tomorrow whose brilliance will dazzle us, says Karin Wiberg, project manager of Ung Svensk Form.
Press screening and scholarship awards ceremony
This year is Ung Svensk Form’s silver jubilee! That calls for celebration, not least by once again counting Stockholm Furniture Fair as one of our main partners. The exhibition will open at 10:30 on 7 February at Greenhouse – the fair’s most international and visionary section. The opening will be followed by Ung Svensk Form’s scholarship awards ceremony. Awards include work, travel and exhibition scholarships from Arvet, IKEA of Sweden, Kvadrat, Lammhults Möbel, Massive Entertainment, the Röhsska Museum and Dynamo Väst, Swedish Tanners, String Furniture and Swedish Wood. An added feature this year is a brand new scholarship announced on stage.
– Ung Svensk Form is an important platform for young, innovative designers who demonstrate that good design has many different expressions. IKEA has been involved since the start 25 years ago and, as a producer, we are proud to contribute to spreading innovative ideas to more people, says Anna Sandberg Falk, curator at IKEA Museum.
– We are very happy to welcome Ung Svensk Form back to Greenhouse, says Hanna Nova Beatrice, project area manager for Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair and Stockholm Design Week. Ung Svensk Form and Greenhouse are driven by the same goal – to promote young design and provide a springboard into the industry.
Winners, Ung Svensk Form 2023
Every year, Svensk Form receives hundreds of applications for the award and its travelling exhibition. Having been selected by an eminent panel of judges, the winners represent the most thought-provoking and innovative stratum of today’s emerging young designers.
The winners of Ung Svensk Form 2023 are:
Simon Bågstam – Essing
Karin Bäckström – Seemingly ordinary
Mia Bøgedal Troelsgaard – 2-in-1 designs, Distorted to fit
Martina Claesson & Luisa Wirth – ON/OFF Grid
Axel Danhard – Along New Tracks
Olof Davidsson – Spread
Matilda Envall – The Story of a Dress
Ebba Hedlund – Actissance
Lars Høie – Letters from Utopia
Natalia Ikebara – Hemi
Lovisa Ingman – Life of Compliance
Christoffer Jansson – Uncanny Spaces
Sophie Jungkvist – Woven change, Shifting expressions
Laura Kjaer – Super Superficial
Jasmijn Kooijman – Dance My puppet
Hedvig Ljungström – Mother Elizabeth
Frida McDavitt Wallin – Sandhagen 2
Simon Mattisson – Granland
Taurai Valerie Mtake – *madímì
Maja Möller – Tied/Firmly tied
Olle Sahlqvist – Biomimicry Furniture Design
David Selander – Photographs from Stockholm
Oliver Weglinski – Carbon Care Work
The Ung Svensk Form 2023 Jury consists of: Samir Alj Fält, Parasto Backman, Caroline B. Le Bongoat (chair of the jury), Linnéa Therese Dimitriou, Johanna Sjögren Duthy, Sandra Frank, Jonas Fridén Kihl, Demian Horst, Magnus Ingerstedt, Åsa Jungnelius, Anna Lidström, Eva Lilja Löwenhielm, Petra Lilja, Tor Lindstrand (chair of the jury) , Björn Nordin, Johanna Magoria, Marie Isacsson, Bea Szenfeld, Andreas Säfström and Mats Widbom.
Tour dates 2023
7 – 11 February, Stockholm Furniture Fair / Greenhouse
2 March – 16 April, IKEA Museum, Älmhult
26 May – 4 June, Sara Kulturhus, Skellefteå
2 September – 5 November, Textile Museum, Textile Fashion Center, Borås
16 November – 11 February, Malmö Museer, Malmö
About Ung Svensk Form:
Since its inception in 1998, the award and travelling exhibition of Ung Svensk Form has become Sweden’s most important forum for designers at the dawn of their careers. Today the exhibition is a meeting place where designers, the industry, the public and the media come together to discuss the important issues of our time.
Ung Svensk Form 2023 is a co-production between Svensk Form and IKEA Museum. The project is carried out in collaboration with IKEA of Sweden, the City of Malmö, Stockholm Furniture Fair, Swedish Wood and a long list of exhibition organisers and scholarship donors. The exhibition opens in February 2023 at Greenhouse during Stockholm Furniture Fair.
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 director, Svensk Form
elin.seittu@svenskform.se
+46 (0)72 323 31 48
Catarina Oscarsson, press officer, Stockholm Furniture Fair
catarina.oscarsson@stockholmsmassan.se
+46 (0)70 789 43 66
Ämnen
Svensk Form är en ideell oberoende medlemsförening för privatpersoner, företag och yrkesverksamma inom form, design och arkitektur. Föreningen grundades 1845 som Svenska Slöjdföreningen och har sedan dess främjat design i Sverige och utomlands. Svensk Form ger ut tidningen Form sedan 1905.
