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HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design
HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design

HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design

  2. HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design

HDK-Valand at the University of Gothenburg, conducts education and research in Design, Film, Photography, Fine Art, Crafts and Literary Composition – as well as teacher education in Visual Arts and Sloyd. We provide highly specialised degree programmes in an outgoing, international environment.

News and events

HDK-Valand GRADUATION 2021
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Freestanding Courses at HDK-Valand, Spring 2022
APPLICATION OPEN!
Advanced Studies that Create New Professional Opportunities
From climate change at Svalbard to the use of artistic methods in organisations. There is a broad spectrum of course…

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News – 4 October 2021
Sustainable Design Requires New Forms of Collaboration
Helena Hansspn will defend her dissertation in the field of design on October 8
Watching movies
Opacity and the Act of Making an Image of Dancing Bodies
Opacity, a concept in photo and video editing, is the degree to which light is allowed to travel through, where the full…
Exhibition
Master the Matter
12 students from the Master's program in Crafts at HDK-Valand show current work - in the upbeat to the spring's master's…
Lecture
Living Jewellery and Dead Objects
Zoom lecture with the Norwegian jewellery artist Nanna Melland arranged by the Craft programme at HDK-Valand.
Seminar
Transforming the City for PLAY. CRAFTING PLAY:CE – Time and Place for Youth…
Welcome to the second site-specific seminar in the seminar series arranged by the research platform PLACE. This time we will…

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L'Internationale Online
Online publications on urgent matters in the expanded field of contemporary art.

Study at HDK-Valand

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Locations and workshops

HDK-Valand is situated on two different addresses in Gothenburg, but also in Steneby, 170 kilometers north of Gothenburg.

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Kristinelundsgatan, Gothenburg
Our facilities on Kristinelundsgatan are situated in the middle of Gothenburg in the same building complex as Röhsska Museum…
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Steneby, Dals Långed
Steneby is a creative cultural and educational environment in Dals Långed. The educational programmes at Steneby share a…
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Vasagatan 50, Gothenburg
Based in the centre of Gothenburg, HDK-Valands facilities on Vasagatan 50 is closely integrated into the city’s cultural…
Our research
The University of Gothenburg is the only Swedish university with practice-based research spanning the arts from design,…

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You can apply for all our vacant positions online at the University’s Job Application Portal. We look forward to receiving…
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