At Valand Academy you can study Film, Photography, Fine Art and Literary Composition - where you can choose single-subject courses or degree programmes ranging from undergraduate to doctoral level.
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Situated in the centre of Gothenburg, our department and the activities we pursue are an integral part of the city's cultural life. We are also extensively networked internationally with partners all over the world.
Valand Academy is one of the departments at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, which is Scandinavia's largest arts Faculty - offering a unique breadth of skills and competencies in artistic subjects.
Valand Academy merging with our sister department, HDK Academy of Design and Crafts, in January 2020, is something you know already, right? And that's when we'll be forming a new department - and accommodating Design and Crafts too.
[28 Jun 2018] Valand Academy at the University of Gothenburg and the Hasselblad Foundation are looking for a person with a doctoral degree in photography or art history to fill a postdoc position. The postdoc will participate in a new research project aiming to find new ways to understand the interwar period based on contemporary photographic practices.
[22 May 2018] Internationally recognized filmmaker and researcher Jyoti Mistry is appointed professor of film at Academy Valand at the University of Gothenburg. Jyoti Mistry has many years of experience both from work with film education and with her own artistic activities.
[30 Jun 2017] Valand Academy announces the availability of two doctoral positions at the doctoral education (third cycle) in the subject Artistic Practice commencing January 2018.
12 Sep at 1:00 PM [PhD Seminar]
13 Sep at 9:30 AM [Research profile seminar]
17 Oct at 1:00 PM [PhD Seminar]
