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.
The application deadline for MA in Music Performance or Composition is 15 December. You may apply from 1 November.
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.
On Monday, 23th - 25th of October, the Illusion of Form International Conference kicks off in Poznań.
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.
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.
We thank you all for an exciting year and a magnificent master ceremony. All the best of luck to the students of 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.
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.
BA & MA Furniture and Spatial Design students from KMD participate at the world’s largest platform of Scandinavian design this week, 7-11 February.
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.
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.
The academic year at KMD starts on Monday 15 August 2022 with a number of meetings and events throughout the week.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
– In fact, we wish we could stay longer in Bergen. We would both have liked to stay for a year!
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!
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.
This year, Marte Skogstrand Andersen and Thanee Andino won thisyear's newcomers in Furniture and Spatial Design/Interior Architecture and Visual Communication.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Department of Design at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD), University of Bergen, recently hosted a Master Class in Body-conscious Design from Berkeley- Professor Galen Cranz.
The academic year at Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD) started Monday 12 August 2019 with a number of meetings and events all week. See images from the official opening.
The 11th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research 2020 takes place in Bergen 25 – 27 March 2020.
Times may seem bleak but Brandon LaBelle believes art can help resisting hard and corrupt systems weighing us down. In his own art he is searching for subversive ways of escaping aggressive capitalism and reaching «The Other».
The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD) has employed nine PhD fellows in the new artistic PhD program, which recently was established at the University of Bergen.
From 24 - 25 September, closer to 200 registered national and international participants attended The Norwegian Artistic Research Programmes 'Artistic Research Forum 2018' at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design.
Kari Dyrdal, Professor in Textiles at KMD, exhibits at the National Ceramics Museum of Sèvres in France, together with Marit Tingleff and Torbjørn Kvasbø, both alumni at KMD.
Einar Wiig is appointed new Vice Dean of Education at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD).
The academic year at Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD) starts Monday 13 August 2018 with a number of meetings and events all week 33.
Each spring students at KMD prepares for their final exhibitions and exam concerts that takes place at a number of stages and venues in the city center of Bergen. See the overview of the concerts and exhibitions that took place in the spring of 2019!
"People seem very welcoming and nice here," says Charlotte Besuijen. She came to Bergen all the way from the Netherlands to visit the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design during the annual Portfolio Day.
Associate professor Anne Szefer Karlsen is appointed as Head of Research at Bergen Assembly from 1 February 2018.
11 bachelor students at the Faculty of Arts, Music and Design exhibit at the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, the most important arena for furniture manufacturers and designers in the Nordic countries.
During the autumn, several reknowned International magazines and newspapers have paid our new building by Snøhetta a visit to write about it. The building houses the Department of Fine Art and the Department of Design. Take a look at a selection of the articles.
In the spring of 2017 the visual identity won gold at the European Design Award. In the summer, the Bronze Lion in Cannes was won. Now, the British magazine Creative Review draws attention to the identity through its 'The Year in Visual Identity', where it is presented as one of 2017's most important projects. Also recently, the reputable Brand New reviewed the identity in very positive terms.
Terence Koh flew in for the opening week at KMD in October and staged a performance that nobody quite expected. It is a long way from being a star in the galleries in New York to a little room in the new art-building in Møllendal. I was one of the lucky ones who were granted an audience with Koh.
Professor Jill Halstead believes music should be for the many not the few. Her social engagement is deep rooted, and now Halstead coordinates a new project called Socially Engaged Arts.
Vanessa Thorpe writes in The Guardian / The Observer that while Michael Fassbender has been in town filming the Scandi-noir horror, artist Jeremy Deller is there too, working on a very different project.
The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD) welcomed new and old students at a historic opening of the new semester Monday 14 August 2017. For the first time in the brand new KMD building in Møllendal.
How to apply for an Artistic Research Fellowship at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD)
The week 14-18 August will be filled with events, and the official semester start ceremony will be held at our brand new campus in Møllendalsveien 61, Monday 14 August at 11.15am.
The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design´s new building in Møllendal features state of the art facilities for the study of art and design.
The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen welcome five new artistic research fellows from the autumn of 2017.
For the first time Music Academies in Norway collaborate in organizing a summer school.
Synsmaskinen presents the performance 2061 INMORAL LIDOS at the Venice Biennale 2017. The work is inspired by the financial crisis and addresses the phenomenon Dark Pools.
«Art is the night watch of the world, the guard when times get tough», said Rector of the University of Bergen, Dag Rune Olsen, at the opening of the new Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design in the University Aula on Wednesday 4 January.
Artist Hildur Bjarnadóttir tells stories of colors and belonging in her recent doctoral work at the University of Bergen.
Frode Thorsen, Anne-Helen Mydland and Linda Lien will lead the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design over the next four years.
Eleven bachelor’s degree students from the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design are exhibiting their work at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, which is the most important arena for furniture manufacturers and designers in the Nordic countries.