12/05 - 2025
The University Board has appointed Professor Åsil Bøthun as the new Dean of KMD. She will assume the position on 1 August.
02/04 - 2025
What do you picture when you think of a composer? Sheet music, dusty attics, and wild hairstyles – or computers, an array of speakers, and sounds colliding and moving around the room?
03/02 - 2025
Join the renowned mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato for an exclusive masterclass at the University of Bergen, as part of the Bergen International Festival.
02/12 - 2024
The new building for the Grieg Academy is included in the final state budget that was presented 1 December.
16/09 - 2024
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay fell in love with film as a medium when he was a child, believes that poetry is utterly important, and wants his art to make people think. Despite this—or perhaps because of it—he argues that we need to stop controlling artificial intelligence. He wants to set AI free.
20/06 - 2024
On June 13, Associate Professor Chloe Lewis was awarded the status of Excellent Teaching Practitioner (FUND) by the faculty board, a recognition given to teachers who stand out through their dedicated and purposeful work to raise educational standards and to promote a culture of collaboration in teaching.
This year’s master’s students were celebrated with speeches, music, and flowers at Grand Bergen on June 13th. We congratulate all our new alumni and thank them for exciting and content-rich years filled with concerts, exhibitions, submissions, openings, and internships. Good luck in the future!
28/05 - 2024
Welcome to this sping's Master Degree Concerts between 10th - 13th of June! It is with great pleasure the Grieg Academy presents this year's master students and their exciting repertoire!
19/12 - 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.
2023 has gone by so quickly! Here are some of the highlights from last year.
01/11 - 2023
The application deadline for MA in Music Performance or Composition is 15 December. You may apply from 1 November.
25/10 - 2023
Are you currently a PhD student, postdoctoral researcher, or a recently finished PhD student in the music field? Sign-up for this unique opportunity for mentorship through the Bridge Mentorship programme. The deadline for the application is 27 October by 23:59h CET.
20/10 - 2023
On Monday, 23th - 25th of October, the Illusion of Form International Conference kicks off in Poznań.
23/09 - 2023
Strong projects with social sustainability and high aesthetic value were something that was repeated in the projects of this year's nominees.
11/08 - 2023
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.
26/07 - 2023
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.
20/06 - 2023
We thank you all for an exciting year and a magnificent master ceremony. All the best of luck to the students of 2023!
15/06 - 2023
27/02 - 2023
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.
16/02 - 2023
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.
07/02 - 2023
BA & MA Furniture and Spatial Design students from KMD participate at the world’s largest platform of Scandinavian design this week, 7-11 February.
22/11 - 2022
Application deadline for The Master’s Programme in Music Performance or Composition at The Grieg Academy is 15. December
10/10 - 2022
The project Music4Change, which will scale up the Grieg Research School into a European project, has been awarded 400,000 EURO. Project leader is professor of music at The Grieg Academy, Jill Halstead.
24/08 - 2022
Nina Malterud (b.1951), artist and former Rector of the Bergen Academy of Art and Design (now Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen), has from His Majesty The King been appointed Knight of 1st class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
09/08 - 2022
The academic year at KMD starts on Monday 15 August 2022 with a number of meetings and events throughout the week.
28/06 - 2022
What a year! Exhibition has gone as planned at Bergen Kunsthall and in Møllendalsveien, while MA concerts have been performed for greater audiences. Thank you for patience in uncertain times, works of the finest quality and brave, ambitious projects. Congratulations to all of our MA graduates of 2022.
24/06 - 2022
Did you miss out on the MA Exhibtiion in Design this year? Not a problem. Here are the website to all of the wonderful projects!
14/06 - 2022
For the first time art and design students from The Faculty of Art, Music and Design will go on exchange to Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. Likewise art and design students from Makerere will come to KMD. Over the next five years, KMD is collaborating with Makerere University in Kampala Uganda, in development of curriculum through mobility at both institutions.
16/05 - 2022
Professor Tim Parry-Williams recently got a 3 million NOK funding for [BEYOND HERITAGE: MATERIAL MAKING MEANING]. This is a collaborative research project with, Professor Franz Petter Schmidt as partner from KHIO.
22/04 - 2022
This year, Charlotte Besuijen with the project “Most Familiar Strangers” during this years “Picnic”, won the Trykkeriet Print Award. The prize is brand new and will continue in the years to come.
13/03 - 2022
The debate around the value of the man-made and machine-made has been an important aspect in design student (MA) Topher Gent’s process.
11/01 - 2022
– In fact, we wish we could stay longer in Bergen. We would both have liked to stay for a year!
22/12 - 2021
Another year has gone by, and what a year it has been! Therefore, we have gathered a little collection of this year’s news stories from the art, music and design world!
15/12 - 2021
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.
07/12 - 2021
This year, Marte Skogstrand Andersen and Thanee Andino won thisyear's newcomers in Furniture and Spatial Design/Interior Architecture and Visual Communication.
07/09 - 2021
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.
02/07 - 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.
25/06 - 2021
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)
07/06 - 2021
The deadline for admission to the Master's Programme in Design has been extended.
01/06 - 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
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.
26/04 - 2021
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.
08/03 - 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
03/02 - 2021
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.
13/11 - 2020
Two master students in design have been awarded Statsbygg's prize for interior architecture 2020. Follow link below to see the video of the students talking about their winning projects.
26/08 - 2020
The University Museum in Bergen is best known for its large selection of stuffed and long dead animals. Artist Andy Lock wants to shift our attention to the living creatures in The Natural History Museum, small bugs he calls The Shadow Collection.
04/06 - 2020
While Russia holds supressive legislation against ‘homosexual propaganda’, Russian popsa music is flooded with men in drag and homoerotic displays. – It is the «voice» of the phantom limb, says Stephen Amico.
03/06 - 2020
Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD) at University of Bergen (UiB) is a partner in the Erasmus+ project, which aims to merge art, science and entrepreneurship. All students of UiB can apply for participation.
26/11 - 2019
Our newly appointed Professor in Fine Art at KMD, with focus on textiles, is a British artist and designer with specific skills that have had a great influence on his practice and teaching.