Events

Wednesday, 13 May
4:30 pm
Welcome to the inauguration of the master’s, bachelor’s, and teacher education students’ Degree Exhibition with Vice-Chancellor Anna Valtonen and the curators Abir Boukhari and Ulrika Flink.

Location: Mandelgren

5:30 pm
Welcome to the inauguration of the Master’s Fine Art students’ Degree Exhibition at Färgfabriken with Vice-Chancellor Anna Valtonen.

Location: Färgfabriken

12:00–3:00 pm
Lea Eilers, Bachelor’s programme, Fine Art

Title: Try Dumpster Food

Have you ever wanted to eat trash? In this installation, you have the chance to try dumpster food. The menu will change during the week depending on what I find.

Location: Svarta Havet

1:00–2:00 pm
Charlie Lennartsson, Teacher Education Programme in Visual Arts

Title: Inauguration of a Collaborative Piece: Boundaries Made Visible

The visitor is invited to contribute to the artwork through their own reflections. These are collected and made visible when the artwork is later destroyed.

Location: The Deep Sea Gallery, entrance from Tellusgången 2

1:00–2:00 pm
5:00–6:00 pm
Julia Johansson, Teacher Education Programme in Visual Arts

Title: Confessions

Enter the confessional and tell me your sins. Any thoughts about gender or transgender people that you feel you do not have a space to express, you can say them to me. No matter how vulgar, questioning, hateful or horny you may be, I can meet you with care.

Location: Trapphus Gallery

5:00 pm
Yu-Chen Chang, Master’s programme, CRAFT! Jewellery and Corpus

Title: The Never-Ending Category: Incompleteness as a Nonverbal Survival Strategy

The performance leads the audience into the artist’s inner world, a space between the workbench and consciousness. Through movement, the artist activates his contemporary jewellery and balances stainless steel rods, creating a surreal experience.

Location: Starting at Svarta Havet and ending in the basement at The Deep Sea Gallery

5:15 pm
Students from Master’s programme CRAFT!, Bachelor’s programmes Ädellab, Textile, Fine Art, plus Teacher Education Programme in Visual Arts: Alexander van Leer, Astrid Skagerström, Lindau, Catriona Donald, Charlie Lennartsson, Ebba Bruce, Ela Strand, Ella Azcárate Lindblom, Emilia Broberg, Emma Hansson, Eric Lagergren, Hedda Söderlund, Peter Kleman, Siri Junell, Thea Strömsten, Thyra Weiss, Vanja Hamdahl, and Yu-Chen Chan

Title: Inauguration of the new Konstfack gallery space “The Deep Sea”

Welcome to the inauguration of a new gallery at Konstfack called “The Deep Sea”. This is an initiative by the students exhibiting in the space.

Location: The Deep Sea Gallery, Tellusgången 2

Thursday, 14 May
6:00–7:30 pm
Nanna Li, Master’s programme, Visual Communication

Title: “hej vännen” – a conversation about being Asian in Sweden with Tobias Hübinette

A conversation between Nanna Li and researcher/author Tobias Hübinette about being Asian* in Sweden. With Li’s graduation project “hej vännen” and Tobias’ book “Swedish Asians” as starting points, we’ll move between personal experiences and broader perspectives.

*“Asian” here refers to people with East and Southeast Asian backgrounds.

Location: Mandelgren

Friday, 15 May
4:00 pm
Ricardo Lima, Master’s programme, CRAFT! Ceramics and Glass

Title: Phonotriene

In “Phonotriene”, ceramic and human bodies collaborate in a spiritual repatriation ritual expressed through sound, movement, and materiality. Viking entities, which have been summoned for decades by Venezuelan shamans to guide and protect their followers, are now offered a passage to return to their ancient homeland.

Location: Trapphus Gallery

4:30–5:00 pm
Francesca Pezzotti, Master’s programme, Design Ecologies

Title: Design talk: Designing a Transition for Regenerative Wildfires with Biochar

As boreal forests become increasingly vulnerable to wildfires, this talk reflects on soil moisture and carbon as conditions shaping regeneration. Through material exploration with biochar and two time-based interventions, it explores how forest management might be rethought over time, opening space for more regenerative approaches to wildfire prevention.

Location: S2

5:30 pm
Yu-Chen Chang, Master’s programme, CRAFT! Jewellery and Corpus

Title: The Never-Ending Category: Incompleteness as a Nonverbal Survival Strategy

The performance leads the audience into the artist’s inner world, a space between the workbench and consciousness. Through movement, the artist activates his contemporary jewellery and balances stainless steel rods, creating a surreal experience.

Location: Starting at Svarta Havet and ending in the Basement at The Deep Sea Gallery

Saturday, 16 May
2:00–3:00 pm
Julia Johansson, Teacher Education Programme in Visual Arts

Title: Confessions
Enter the confessional and tell me your sins. Any thoughts of gender or transpeople that you feel you do not have a space to tell, you can say them to me. No matter how vulgar, questioning, hateful or horny you may be, I can meet you with care.

Location: Trapphus Gallery

3:00 pm
Yu-Chen Chang, Master’s programme, CRAFT! Jewellery and Corpus

Title: The Never-Ending Category: Incompleteness as a Nonverbal Survival Strategy

The performance leads the audience into the artist’s inner world, a space between the workbench and consciousness. Through movement, the artist activates his contemporary jewellery and balances stainless steel rods, creating a surreal experience.

Location: Starting at Svarta Havet and ending at The Deep Sea Gallery

4:00 pm
Ricardo Lima, Master’s programme, CRAFT! Ceramics and Glass

Title: Phonotriene

In Phonotriene, ceramic and human bodies collaborate in a spiritual repatriation ritual expressed through sound, movement, and materiality. Viking entities, which have been summoned for decades by Venezuelan shamans to guide and protect their followers, are now offered a passage to return to their ancient homeland.

Location: Trapphus Gallery

Sunday, 17 May
2:00–3:00 pm
Julia Johansson, Teacher Education Programme in Visual Arts

Title: Confessions

Enter the confessional and tell me your sins. Any thoughts of gender or transpeople that you feel you do not have a space to tell, you can say them to me. No matter how vulgar, questioning, hateful or horny you may be, I can meet you with care.

Location: Trapphusgalleriet

Tuesday, 19 May
3:00 pm
Charlie Lennartsson, Teacher Education Programme in Visual Arts

Title: Destruction of the Piece: Boundaries Made Visible
The visitor is invited to contribute to the artwork through their own reflections. These are collected and made visible when the artwork is later destroyed.
Location: The Deep Sea, entrance from Tellusgången 2


Wednesday, 20 May
2:00–4:00 pm
CuratorLab with Florian Auer, Laisa Conde, Johan Devigo, Tina Helmersson, Aleksandra Jarosz Laszlo, Dafne Leidi, Therese Nilsson, Vanesa Peña, Marybeth Sandell and Marti Manen.

Title: Curating Between Platforms and Performativity

Participants from CuratorLab will present their final curatorial projects, developed after a year of exploring platforms and performativity from a curatorial perspective. These projects span a wide range of approaches, including hair salons, cassette tapes, sunken ships, gossip magazines, meditation, open archives, emotional engagements with historical material, and open-ended questions about possible forms of gathering within contemporary art.

Location: Moderna Museet, Visningsmagasinet

2:30–3:00 pm
Francesca Pezzotti, Master’s programme, Design Ecologies

Title: Design talk: Designing a transition for regenerative wildfires with biochar

As boreal forests become increasingly vulnerable to wildfires, this talk reflects on soil moisture and carbon as conditions shaping regeneration. Through material exploration with biochar and two time-based interventions, it explores how forest management might be rethought over time, opening space for more regenerative approaches to wildfire prevention.

Location: S2

Thursday, 21 May
6:00–8:30 pm
Nanna Li, Master’s programme, Visual Communication

Title: Swedish Asians–a relational exploration** with Magdalena Tran

A workshop with relational artist Magdalena Tran in a practice called circling. Here, participants are invited into an exploration into experiences of identity, belonging, and being Asian in Sweden. Through simple somatic and relational exercises, we create a space for reflection, listening, and authentic connection.

** This workshop is aimed at people with East and Southeast Asian backgrounds in Sweden. Registration is required. Please email nannali@gmail.com

Location: Vita havet

6:00–8:00 pm
Michelle Heising, Master’s programme, Design Ecologies

Title: The Reed Cycle–Design Talk (in English)

The designer is presenting her degree work in an exclusive talk with an open discussion. The project is tackling aquatic bioremediation and community creation through reed harvest in the Baltic Sea area and is showcasing a potential utilization of reed plants in a design and system proposal.
More information: www.mhei-design.eu

Location: Café Glasklart

Friday, 22 May
12:00–3:00 pm
Lea Eilers, Bachelor’s programme, Fine Art

Title: Try Dumpster Food

Have you ever wanted to eat trash? In this installation, you have the chance to try dumpster food. The menu will change during the week depending on what I find.

Location: Svarta havet

5:00–7:00 pm
Design Ecologies Master’s programme with Åke Andersson, Andreas Lejon, Anna Maier, Brohwyn Brennan, Émilie Gibert, Francesca Pezzotti Schjetnan, Linn Thomessen, Michelle Heising, Panisa Jermhansa, Rebecka Österlund, and Soraya Hassan.

Title: Design Ecologies Degree Projects Tour

The Master’s programme Design Ecologies is hosting a guided tour through the class’s degree projects, with students presenting and talking about their work. The tour will be held in English. RSVP – michelle.heising@student.konstfack.se

Location: The meeting point is at Infocenter

5:30 pm
Yu-Chen Chang, Master’s programme, CRAFT! Jewellery and Corpus

Title: The Never-Ending Category: Incompleteness as a Nonverbal Survival Strategy
The performance leads the audience into the artist’s inner world, a space between the workbench and consciousness. Through movement, the artist activates his contemporary jewellery and balances stainless steel rods, creating a surreal experience.

Location: Starting at Svarta havet and ending at The Deep Sea Gallery

6:00–8:00 pm
Nanna Li, Master´s programme, Visual Communication

Title: ‘I become more with you’ – film screening & a conversation about growing up in Sweden with MyNa Do & Farah Yusuf

A screening of the documentary “I become more with you”–by MyNa & Farah. Starting with the film–which explores friendship, creativity, and growing up in a small town–we follow with a conversation about our different experiences of Sweden, and how they are shaped by place, relationships, and context.
More about the film: www.pramfilm.se/i-become-more-with-you/

Location: Mandelgren

Saturday, 23 May
2:00–3:00 pm
Julia Johansson, Teacher’s Education programme

Title: Confessions

Enter the confessional and tell me your sins. Any thoughts of gender or transpeople that you feel you do not have a space to tell, you can say them to me. No matter how vulgar, questioning, hateful or horny you may be, I can meet you with care.

Location: Trapphus Gallery

3:00 pm
Yu-Chen Chang, Master’s programme, Craft! Jewellery and Corpus

Title: The Never-Ending Category: Incompleteness as a Nonverbal Survival Strategy

The performance leads the audience into the artist’s inner world, a space between the workbench and consciousness. Through movement, the artist activates his contemporary jewellery and balances stainless steel rods, creating a surreal experience.

Location: Starting at Svarta Havet and ending in The Deep Sea Gallery

Sunday, 24 May
2:00–3:00 pm
Julia Johansson, Teacher Education Programme in Visual Arts

Title: Confessions

Enter the confessional and tell me your sins. Any thoughts of gender or transpeople that you feel you do not have a space to tell, you can say them to me. No matter how vulgar, questioning, hateful or horny you may be, I can meet you with care.

Location: Trapphus Gallery