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.
Do you know that Valand Academy and HDK will merge and form a new department for design and art in January 2020? The name of the new department will be HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design.
[1 Apr 2019] Save the date November 13-15 for PARSE Research Conference. For the third time, just over 200 researchers and artists from all over the world gather to exchange knowledge and ideas, maintain and make new contacts and jointly strengthen artistic research.
[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.
19 Sep at 1:00 PM [Dissertation]
23 Sep at 1:00 PM [Research profile seminar]
11 Oct at 11:00 AM [Open Day]
