Opening: 4 May, at 12.00-16.00.
Opening speech at 12.30 by Theo Harper, artist and senior lecturer at HDK-Valand and Paul Thomassen, gallerist.
The 2024 graduates of HDK-Valand’s Master’s Programme in Crafts represent a diversity of practices that contribute to what contemporary craft means today. Studying during political and economic precarity unseen in recent decades, their work emerges in a time where very little can be taken for granted.
The craft fields of jewellery art, ceramics and textile art studied at HDK-Valand demand an appetite for acute attention to the material world. For the 2024 graduates, this attention is manifest in practices that explore the ubiquitous and the rare, the familiar and the unnerving, the joyful and even the ugly. Over the two-year Masters, students have undertaken investigations of topics as disparate as heritage, illness, family, appropriation and violence. Making in response to these themes has resulted in works that deploy speculation, sloppiness, humour and sorrow.
Program
May 5
- 13.00 guided tour in Swedish
- 14.00 guided tour in English
(Alexandra Hedberg and Klara Lord)
May 12
- 13.00 Artist Talk with Ann-Maj Risgaard-Nielsen, Irys Kluska, Lena Milićević, Malin Mattebo, Sofie Alm Nordsveen, Sofie Karlsson
Exhibiting students
Alexandra Hedberg, Alva Markusson, Ann-Maj Risgaard-Nielsen, Carina Cresta, Irys Kluska, Jiayang Huang, Katla Runarsdottir, Klara Lord, Kristina Zetko, Lana León, Lena Milicevic, Malin Mattebo, Maria Widegren, Sofie Alm Nordsveen, Sofie Karlsson,Tobias Berntsson, Xuying Chen.
Opening hours:
Monday: closed
Tuesday-Thursday: 12.00-18.00
Friday-Saturday: 12.00-16.00
Sunday: 12.00 15.00
More information about other graduation events during the spring of 2024.
