Until 17 June / Mejan Arc, Mejan Residents until 10 June
Opening: 31 May, 15–20
Royal Institute of Art
Flaggmansvägen 1
Skeppsholmen, Stockholm
Hours: weekdays 11–17,
weekends 12–16
Featured artists, MA show
Meriç Algün Ringborg, Rune Andersson, Carla Garlaschi, Giorgio Giusti, Julius Göthlin, Virlani Hallberg, Tamara Henderson, Calle Holck, Emma Houlihan, David Larsson, Peter Larsson, Mikael Lindahl, Haidar Mahdi, Sebastian Nordbeck, Cecilia Nygren, Max Olofsson, Anne Marte Overaa, Disa Rytt, Linnéa Sjöberg, Marika Troili, Theodore Trottner, Helena Wallberg, Anna Åstrand.
Featured artists, BA show
Rebecka Bebben Andersson, Leontine Arvidsson, Carolina Billvik, Peppe Borge & Caroline Näslund, Lisa Gideonsson, Dimen Hama, Kristoffer Hedberg, Olof Inger, Pella Kågerman, Gustaf Londré, Ulrika Lublin, Anders Moss, Linus Nordensson Spångberg, Johanna Nordin, Britta Persson, Sofia Restorp, Sannah Salameh, Vanja Sandell Billström, Dan Wid, Daniel Wiklund.
The Royal Institute of Art’s Degree and Spring Exhibitions open on 31 May at 15–20.
This year’s Degree Shows of Fine Art present works by some fifty Master and Bachelor students. “As in previous years, it is difficult to identify any dominant tendencies,” says Vice-Chancellor Måns Wrange, and views this as a sign of independence and high quality among the graduating artists.
Another three exhibitions open the same day.
Project works, which have been pursued during the academic year at the Royal Institute of Art’s architectural department Mejan Arc, will be exhibited at Galleri Mejan. Project works pursued at the courses Architecture and Architectural Conservation will be displayed at Galleri Mejan. In the Architecture course “Just Grounds: Cape Town,” students have explored how a just and sustainable urban development can be initiated in Cape Town, one of the world’s most segregated cities. An interdisciplinary exhibition presents Cape Town’s urban challenges and possibilities. Proposals for “seeds of change” are presented—catalysts which take their point of departure in local initiatives and receive larger urban and global implications.
The theme of the Architectural Conservation course has been “Inclusive India – Re: Pune,” where students have developed proposals for small-scale projects aiming to restore and innovate as well as highlighting social sustainability and preserved continuity in conjunction with the rapid urban transformation which threatens the historical city centre.
On display will also be project works developed by four Mejan Residents students, who, during the course of a year, have pursued artistic research projects. The focused commitment to Mejan Residents is part of the Royal Institute of Art’s ambition to strengthen and expand the research environment which comprises a number of PhD candidates and researchers.
The Royal Institute of Art’s main building on Skeppsholmen houses the exhibition Open Studios, which presents works by project students (professional artists who, during the course of a year, have pursued an art project), exchange students, and students of Fine Art. Some 70 students participate in the exhibition.
Exhibition curators
MA exhibition: Miriam Bäckström and Eberhard Höll; BA exhibition: Ann-Sofi Sidén and Carl Johan Erikson; Mejan Arc: Henrietta Palmer and Michael Lee Dudley (Architecture), Tina Wik and Cecilia Sagrén (Architectural Conservation); Open Studios: Annette Felleson, Göran Svenborn, and Maria Lindström
Exhibition producer of the MA and BA shows: Renée Padt
Editor of the Fine Art graduation exhibition catalogue: Fredrik Ehlin
Exhibition venues
MA exhibition: The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Fredsgatan 12
BA exhibition: Drottninggatan 81B
Mejan Arc’s exhibition: Galleri Mejan, opposite Moderna Museet on Skeppsholmen
Open Studios: The Royal Institute of Art’s main building, Flaggmansvägen 1, Skeppsholmen
Mejan Residents: The Royal Institute of Art’s seminar and lecture hall, House 28, Holmamiralens torg 8, Skeppsholmen
For more information: www.kkh.se.
Contact
Public Relations Manager: Anne Joki Jakobsson, +46-(0)8-614 40 31, anne.joki.jakobsson(at)kkh.se
Postal address: Box 163 15, SE-103 26 Stockholm, Sweden
T +46-(0)8-614 40 00
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