When the distinctions between the origin of the material, the practice of making and a completed materialization become blurred, the place, material, body and action come together.
Konstfack Craft! cordially invites you to a unique opportunity to experience the exam works of our MA2 students. Traditionally our materials would have been glass, ceramics, textiles or metal, but in this exhibition the Craft! programme students keep pushing the limits and norms of what is expected of a craft-based work process.
Master's of CRAFT! exhibition 2020
Three of the program's professors, Anders Ljungberg, Andrea Peach and Bella Rune talk about, among other things, the importance of materiality in a digital world.
In the films you get to meet the students and their thoughts behind their individual practices.
Amanda Varhaugvik
A Merging of Costumes, Voice and Transcendence combines music, double bass and performers and puts textile at the centre.
Beata Grahn & Klara Sandqvist
Working together under the name Poetic Justice, reshaping or “sacrificing” work to a common process. Some of their results are shown in a church-like setting with a decorated twin jeweller’s bench.
Caroline Harrius
The Repulsive Flower is a project that departs from gender differences in ceramics history. The works are presented packed tightly together in an old wooden factory storage shelf.
Emelie Liljebäck
Finding Presence of the Absent shows different layers of history and structures invisible yet present in everyday life.
Emilia Sundqvist
Come into my world with a soft marble bust, Botox-lipped bunnies, poodles and a cake as self-portrait that skew the cuteness.
Emma Hansen
In need of Others is a floor-to-ceiling steel installation housing gilded broaches in plexiglas boxes.
Jo Andersson
Being is an interactive light, water and glass installation with music composed by Jesper Målsten.
Johan Schalin
Welcome to my world – a place for hoarders, for gargoyles, totems and conversation.
Lisa Juntunen Roos
(kahvi) Break With Tradition
This is a story about hidden knowledge and female making, about tradition and empowerment and it begins in Finland 1946.
Maja Bäckström
Flower heart consists of five portrait photographs printed on textile with embroided floral motifs and hand made books.
Malin Ida Eriksson
When time becomes form – The monuments is an installation where shadows are created by sculptures made from paintings created through a performance.
Maria Johansson
Dressing a space:
Textile installations of a cushion, fabric by metre, and screenprint paintings.
Sebastian Hägelstam
Civilization Bar is an attempt to create a bar and a pop culture alluding to the West seen through its own colonial gaze.
Sijia Li
The perfect image, absolute beauty standards are restrictions in our lives. Can we let the perfect image go? Can we accept the failures of perfection?
Simone Kuhs
It must be a bad child is a girl’s room that combines several objects into a scene that portrays feelings and mental states about sexual abuse.
Tina Domeij
Fusion is an exploration of cultural identity through creative practice.
Tongxin Gao
Still life Portrait is a delicate silver celebration of the fragility of existence.
Tuva Widén
All is Full of Life. Our relationship with our surroundings should be always a relationship between living, sentient subjects. Yet, we often treat the living planet as instruments for external ends. The items you see investigate an underlying illusion of control and the conditions of subjectivity.
Åsa Sjödin
The whole is “other” than the sum of its parts: A textile patchwork joining many small pieces of fabric into a larger whole evokes many questions about how the completed entity is perceived.