Highlights from 2023

RE: ordinary

BA & MA Furniture and Spatial Design students from KMD participate at the world’s largest platform of Scandinavian design this week, 7-11 February.

Designer receives international recognition for “Pain Communication Tool Kit”

For her work on communicating pain, alumn from Department of Design, Amy Van den Hooven, recently received Silver at the International Design Awards for her “Pain Communication Tool Kit” which won in the category Designs for Social Impact.

The Grieg Academy: World-Class research on composition and musical practice

On the 14th of January 2023, for the first time in the University of Bergen’s history, an audience was laying on the floor of the University Aula in Bergen listening to the piece Triadic Memories by Morton Feldman. The piece was played by Professor Einar Røttingen as part of Professor Dániel Péter Biró’s artistic project Sounding Philosophy.

Stipends to young artists

These are the MA graduates 2023

We thank you all for an exciting year and a magnificent master ceremony. All the best of luck to the students of 2023!

Vanden Eynde with a chain of events

PhD candidate Maarten Vanden Eynde from The Art Academy at UiB keeps himself busy during the summer. His work is currently represented at a handful of exhibitions in The Netherlands, Belgium and Greece.

Oneiric architecture in painting | Eamon O’Kane

Professor Eamon O’Kane at the Art Academy (KMD) is certainly busy on many fronts. After KMD recently published his coffee table-sized book Oneiric Nature, O’Kane has perpetually gone on juggling his artmaking and exhibitions with large-scale research projects and teaching.

Public Defences 2023

Honor and glory to all our disputing PhD candidates so far this year! Congratulations and well done. Read more about the PhD research at KMD and the candidates.