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.
[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 18th of January 2019.
[19 Oct 2018] Taking Place is a series of events organised and presented by artist-educators working in Fine Art at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg. For two days a number of lectures and performances will highlight how processes and methods of research shape their individual works and their overall practices.
