This year’s events 2021

This year's newcomers - Bergen Design Festival

This year, Marte Skogstrand Andersen and Thanee Andino won thisyear's newcomers in Furniture and Spatial Design/Interior Architecture and Visual Communication.

Masters concerts in Universitetsaulaen and Gunnar Sævig's hall

From 1 - 15 June, the exam concerts for the Masters students in Music Performance and Compostition from the Grieg academy, will be performed in front of an audience. After last year’s exam cancellation, the MA co-ordinator Einar Røttingen is very happy to welcome you all to ten exciting concerts.

MA-2021: a little larger than the entire universe

The Master Exhibition in Fine Art 2021 is created during a pandemic. The students are from different parts of the world and their work is very diverse. The exhibition tells the stories of conspiracy, knitted doomsday prophecies and the relation between art and religion.

Rørsle - a project for climate and sustainability

The contruction «Rørsle» is symbolising movement. Movement shaped by hands working together. Movement from shapes strengthening each other. Together they create a strong construction. Together they create rørsle (movement)

Artistic Research Week at the Grieg Academy

It is the 10th year of the project week «Artistic Research Week» for the jazz students at the Grieg Academy. The goal of the week is to give the students a taste of artistic development.

These are the MA students of 2021

2021 has been an interesting year for our students. Still, projects, exhibitions and concerts have been carried out - this with strong will, commitment and lots of talent. These are students of 2021.

Communicating climate change through art in Greenland and Fiji

In a groundbreaking multidisciplinary project with the Bjerknes Centre for climate research, Eamon O´Kane, Professor of Visual Art at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at UiB, will facilitate and inspire the writing of stories and paintings by young people from Greenland and Fiji. In this way showing  the effects of climate change on their lives. 

Designactivism at KMD for Women’s Day 2021

Third year students from Bachelor Design, is behind the design for the new identity for Women’s Day in Bergen 2021. The new identitet is a result from the course'Design Activism' with professor Dóra Ísleifsdóttir

- Technology conceals untold stories about human intention

Albert Cheng-Syun Tang (湯承勳) will from February 2020 fill the position as Associate professor in Interaction Design at KMD. In his work Tang explores the aftereffects of technology and seek to experiment on new modes technological interaction.

Drop-in Concerts 2021

Finally! The Drop-in concerts are now available! Do not miss out on the opportunity to see young and promising mucians in Grieghallen between 27.May and 8. June