Now accepting applications for fall entry 2014
Submission deadline: March 3, 2014
Umeå University
Academy of Fine Arts
SE-901 87 Umeå
Sweden
Located on the banks of the Umeälven river in Umeå, European Capital of Culture 2014, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts is the northernmost of all Swedish Art Academies. Within the Arts Campus, together with the School of Architecture, Institute of Design, HUMlab, and BildMuseet, our school is part of a thriving creative focal point in the north.
Program
Umeå Academy of Fine Arts offers an English-taught, two-year Master program in an intimate environment, with international connections through its renowned faculty. Critical discourse on artistic practice and an emphasis on analysis and self-reflection contribute to an understanding of contemporary art located within a larger cultural, social and political context. Guest artists from abroad support the faculty in engaging students in contemporary creative initiatives worldwide.
The program comprises of supervised independent individual projects, lectures, seminars, master classes and field research. Well-equipped workshops for photo, video, sound and other computer-based work as well as for wood, metal, plaster, bronze, printmaking, are open to all students. Each student is provided a studio space, and all teachers at the school are available as supervisors.
Over the 2-year curriculum, the MFA program includes many opportunities to discuss the artist’s practice: Graduate students are encouraged to develop a solo show in our gallery that is part of the Arts Campus. At the end of the MFA-program, all students work towards a final group show, including an extensive catalogue, and installed in the internationally renowned Umeå Bildmuseet.
Faculty
The Umeå Academy of Fine Arts faculty is a team of renowned instructors with active, international careers and a strong interest in cross-disciplinary debate, research, and modes of production. Faculty includes Swetlana Heger, Rasmus Nielsen/Superflex, Florian Zeyfang, Per Nilsson, Carin Ellberg, Magnus Wallin, Ann Edholm, Julia Peirone, Erla Haraldsdottir and Micael Norberg. Our program of visiting faculty and guests included in the past, to name just a few, Joan Jonas, Judith Barry, Sabeth Buchmann, Martha Wilson, Jan Verwoert, Chto Delat, Maria Lind, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, John Akomfrah, Emily Roysdon, Alejandra Salinas & Aeron Bergman, Dominic Eichler, Sven-Olof Wallenstein, Walid Raad, Judith Hopf, Anselm Franke, Kayle Brandon, Lars Mathisen, Ariane Müller, Adnan Yildiz, Niklas Goldbach, Melati Suryodarmo, Ian White, Zineb Sedira, and many more.
Exchange
Umeå Art Academy is involved in international exchange with the sixteen schools of the Nordic Fine Arts network KUNO, the Art Academy in Vienna, the Städelschule in Frankfurt, and others within the Erasmus system. As of 2013, our school runs project studio spaces in Berlin and Barcelona.
Tuition
Students from the EU member states pay no tuition.
Apply
Artists/students with diverse backgrounds interested in innovative artistic practice and research are encouraged to apply.
The Web application is open February 3rd–March 3rd.
Application closing date for Fall 2014 program is March 3rd.
For more information, eligibility requirements, etc., please see our web site: www.art.umu.se
