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.
[1 Feb 2019] The artist Behjat Omer Abdulla has made a new work at the Kirkeristen in Dronningens gate. In the mural he draws inspiration from a Swedish phenomenon called Resignation syndrome: refugee children who seem to lose the will to live and disappear into sleep.
[19 Nov 2018] On Friday the 23rd of November the group show "Rest Assured in Unknown Places" will open at Galleri Format in Malmö. The exhibition features nine international artists currently studying on the last year of the MFA Programme in Photography at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg.
[25 Oct 2018] Application for our international master's programmes in Film, Photography and Fine Art is now open. Apply by 15th of January 2019.
20 Feb at 10:30 AM [Lecture]
6 Jun at 8:00 AM [Workshop]
