Apply for Contemporary Performative Arts
This information concerns the program Contemporary Performative Arts (official name: Master of Fine Arts in Performing Arts with Specialisation in Contemporary Performative Arts). Next time you can apply is 1 Dec 2025 – 15 Jan 2026, studies starting in the autumn 2026.
Your application process
Next time you can apply is 1 Dec 2025 – 15 Jan 2026, studies starting in the autumn 2026.
- Apply for the program through universityadmissions.se
Application period: 1 December 2025 – 15 January 2026. NB: Choose autumn 2026 for your search. - Submit your portfolio (project idea, CV, personal letter) through SlideRoom. Last day to submit is January 15, 2026 at 23.59 CET. You create your own account in the system.
- Deadline to complete your eligibility (supporting documentation) at universityadmissions.se: no later than 2 February 2026. More information on general requirements for master's level studies.
- Pay your application fee no later than 2 February 2026. If you are exempt from paying the application fee, you must prove your exemption status by the same date. More information on universityadmissions.se.
- Interview: Based on the portfolios some applicant will be called for an interview. In end of January/beginning of February you will be notified by e-mail if you'll be called for an interview. All interviews will be held via Zoom.
The interviews will be conducted during office hours (CET) between 2 - 6 February and 2 - 6 March. You will be assigned a date and time if you are called for an interview. - Admissions results published: 26 March 2026 through My pages on universityadmissions.se
Admission tests
Apply to the Master's program in Contemporary Performative Arts with a personal project idea in the field of performative arts. The project idea should be written on max three A4 pages.
In addition to the project idea itself, you should also enclose a CV and a personal letter. You should also add documentation, audio files, video clips or other material to your application (1–3 items).
If the admission group so decides, the applicant is then called for an interview. At the interview, the applicant is expected to account for their artistic practice and to discuss the project idea in detail. The personal project idea forms the basis for the independent work (degree work) of the students who are accepted.
The admissions group takes a decision based on an overall assessment of the applicant's merits, artistic project idea and performative skills.
To Work With a Project Shared by Several
It is possible to apply for the program with a project that is, for example, related to other applicants' projects or with a project which is part of a work outside the school. Perhaps you belong to a group where several people are interested in applying for our program or you have a project idea that is part of the work of others.
Note that you are applying for the program as an individual, and as a student you will be examined in the different courses and in the education as a whole based on your own work.
Eligibility and selection
Entry requirements
An artistic bachelor's degree, or equivalent, as well as the theoretical knowledge and skills that are being examined at the entrance examination. Professional experience in theatre, physical performance, live art, art performance, dance, musical drama or sound art is a requirement. In addition, language skills equivalent to English B / English 6 are required.
Selection
Selection of eligible applicants is based upon entrance tests.
Tuition fees
Students with citizenship in countries not within the EU/EEA, or Switzerland, are required to pay application and tuition fees for university studies in Sweden.
