Konstfack
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Konstfack | ||
Vice-Chancellor Anna Valtonen | | |
Academic staff | 111 (2022)[1] | |
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Administrative staff | 67 (2022)[1] | |
Students | 872 (2020)[1] | |
12 (2022)[1] | ||
Location | , Sweden | |
Campus | Urban | |
Website | konstfack | |
Konstfack, or University of Arts, Crafts and Design, is a university college for higher education in the area of art, crafts and design in Stockholm, Sweden.[2]
History
Konstfack has had several different names since it was founded in 1844 by the ethnologist and artist Nils Månsson Mandelgren as a part-time art school for artisans, under the name "Söndags-Rit-skola för Handtverkare" ("Sunday Drawing School for Artisans"). The school was taken over by Svenska Slöjdföreningen (today known as Svensk form)[3] the next year and renamed Svenska Slöjdföreningens skola.
In 1857, the first two female students (Sofi Granberg and Matilda Andersson) were accepted, and the following year female students officially were invited to apply.[3]
It became a state school and was renamed Slöjdskolan i Stockholm (Handicraft School in Stockholm) in 1859; and in the context of a thorough reorganisation, where the school was divided into four departments in 1879, to Tekniska skolan (The Technical School). From 1945 it was known as Konstfackskolan (The school of art departments), when the institution was divided into the departments devoted to distinct disciplines that remain largely today: Textile, Decorative art, Sculpture, Ceramics, Furniture and Interior Design, Metal and Advertising and Printing. The school also obtained official status and had a two-year day school and a three-year arts and craft evening school. To this was added a two-year higher Arts and Crafts school and a three-year Art Teacher institute. It was given the status of a högskola ("university college") in 1978. From 1993 it was called Konstfack, the short form of the full name, formerly used colloquially.[4]
Long located on
Education
Following the standards of the
There are seven Bachelor's Programmes :[3]
- Ceramics and Glass
- Jewellery and Corpus
- Fine Art
- Graphic Design and Illustration
- Industrial Design
- Interior Architecture and Furniture Design
- Textiles
The Undergraduate Programmes are conducted in Swedish.
There are five Master's Programmes:[3]
- Craft (Ceramics and Glass / Jewellery and Corpus / Textiles)
- Design Echologies
- Fine Art
- Spatial Design
- Visual Communication
One goal of Konstfack's two-year Graduate Programmes is to attract both Swedish and international students, and the education is held mainly in English.
There is also a doctoral program given in collaboration with
- Art, Technology and Design
Professional courses
Konstfack offers courses for professionals, for example CuratorLab and Research Lab.
Departments
Konstfack has four departments:
- Craft
- Design, Interior architecture and Visual communications
- Fine Art
- Department of Visual Arts and Sloyd Education
Examinations and The Degree Exhibition
The third year of the bachelor's programme and the second year of the master's includes a degree project, ten weeks at BFA-level and twenty at MFA-level, ending with a public examination and, if the student passes the examination, an exhibition for all graduating students: the Degree Exhibition (Vårutställningen in Swedish). The annual exhibition usually takes place at Konstfack during two weeks in May, with around 180 exhibiting students, and attracts thousands of visitors.
Link to the official website for the Spring Exhibition 2023.
Notable alumni
A selection of some distinguished former students at the different departments at Konstfack (Art or designer groups referred to by their collective names):[4]
Fine Arts:
Graphic Design and Illustration:
Carl Johan De Geer (artist and designer), Lasse Åberg (filmmaker), Brita Granström (artist and illustrator), Lotta Kühlhorn, Lars Hall (advertising), Oskar Korsár (artist and illustrator), Tuulikki Pietilä (artist), RBG6 (motion graphics), REALA, Stina Wirsén (illustrator),
Ana Biscaia, Tove Jansson (artist and illustrator).
Interior Architecture and Furniture Design:
Claesson Koivisto Rune, Gunilla Allard, Jonas Bohlin, Mats Theselius, Stefan Borselius, Thomas Bernstrand, Greta Magnusson-Grossman.
Industrial Design:
Ceramics & Glass:
Bertil Vallien, Per B. Sundberg, Zandra Ahl,
Art Education:
Cecilia Torudd (cartoonist), Elsa Beskow (writer and illustrator of children's books), Gert Z Nordström, Jan Stenmark (artist), Jockum Nordström (artist).
Textiles:
Astrid Sampe, Hans Krondahl, Mah-Jong (creators of intellectual fashion in the 1960s and 1970s); Susanne Pagold (fashion journalist), 10-gruppen; Helena Hernmarck.
Metal Design:
Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe, Gunnar Cyrén.
Sources
- ^ a b c d "Konstfack" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-27. Retrieved 2009-05-20.
- ^ Annual report 2022 (in Swedish, read 18 October 2023) and annual report 2020 (in Swedish, read 27 October 2020).
- ^ a b c d e "Home". konstfack.se.
- ^ a b Björkman, Ivar; Konstfack 2006-07, Stockholm 2006. ISBN /91-85549-00-2, ISBN /978-91-85549-00-9.
- ^ "Sveriges Arkitekter - Konstfack Telefonplan 7 juni 2004". Archived from the original on 2006-01-28. Retrieved 2008-08-24.
See also
- Valand School of Fine Arts
- Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm
External links
- Official website
- The Degree Exhibition from 2004 and forth Links to Degree exhibition websites from 2004 and forth.