Master of Fine Art

Konstfack University of Art Crafts and Design

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admissions@konstfack.se
46 8 450 41 77

Course Info

Subject
Fine Art
Languages
Swedish
Duration
2 years
Degrees
Master

Course General Description

An individualised Master's Programme in Fine Art with a focus on strong self-reflection as well as development and intensification of your artistic project.

Requirements

Academic Transcripts
Letters of recommendation
Letters of statement
Portfolio
CV
Swedish language proficiency

School Info

Region
Europe
Country
Sweden
City
Stockholm
Year of Establishment
1844
Number of students
585
QS Rank
NA
THE Rank
NA
Webometrics
7846

School General Description

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". The school was taken over by Svenska Slöjdföreningen the next year and renamed Svenska Slöjdföreningens skola. In 1857, the first two female students were accepted, and the following year female students officially were invited to apply. It became a state school and was renamed Slöjdskolan i Stockholm in 1859; and in the context of a thorough reorganisation, where the school was divided into four departments in 1879, to Tekniska skolan. From 1945 it was known as Konstfackskolan, 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 just Konstfack, the short form of the name formerly used colloquially

School Contacts

https://www.konstfack.se/en/Education/Bachelors-Degree-Programmes/Grafisk-formgivning-Illustration-180-hp/
admissions@konstfack.se
46 8 450 41 77

School Notable Alumni

Fine Arts:
Hilma af Klint, Cecilia Edefalk, Ingela Ihrman, Stig Lindberg (textile and ceramic designer), Annika von Hausswolff, Carl Milles, Dorinel Marc, Johanna Billing, Maria Miesenberger, Miriam Bäckström, Caroline Schlyter, Karin Mamma Andersson.

Graphic Design & 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.

Interior Architecture & Furniture Design:
Claesson Koivisto Rune, Gunilla Allard, Jonas Bohlin, Mats Theselius, Stefan Borselius, Thomas Bernstrand, Greta Magnusson-Grossman.

Industrial Design:
A & E Design, Katja Pettersson, Front (arty designers), Veryday (formerly Ergonomidesign), No Picnic, Propeller, Transformator Design.

Ceramics & Glass:
Bertil Vallien, Per B. Sundberg, Zandra Ahl, Christian Pontus Andersson (artist).

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.

Metal Design:
Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe, Gunnar Cyrén.

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