Apply for MFA Programme in Fine Arts

Portfolio instructions 2025

• Your application must be anonymous. Do not include your name or contact details anywhere in your material.
• Your application should be written in English. 
• If you present projects or works in your portfolio that were created in collaboration with someone else, we ask that you briefly describe the collaboration and your own contribution.
• If you have used generative AI to create or process images, sound, or text in your artistic work samples, or to inform your statement, we expect you to disclose and describe how you have used it. 

Your submission should include:

1. CURRICULUM VITAE, CV  – maximum 2 pages

List your previous education, qualifications and relevant experience.

2. WRITTEN STATEMENT – maximum 7500 characters including blanks.

1. Describe in writing how you currently understand your role as an artist, explain how the work samples demonstrate this, and explain the role/s that your chosen media/s play.
2. Specify in writing why you are applying to this programme. Describe your future study aims and explain how this programme’s description and syllabus fits with them.

3. WORK SAMPLES – 5-7 examples

Each sample may include numerous images etc. Upload any combination of video, sound, still images, text etc. Limit video/sound to a 15-minute total. Give titles, media, dimensions, and dates. If you are trained in a discipline other than Fine Art, use samples (artistic or otherwise) of previous projects relevant to the programme description and education plan.

Assessment 

Applications are assessed on overall suitability to the programme’s description, education plan and vision. This programme interrogates concepts of publicness, questions the roles of art and the artist and introduces students to artistic research. It is concerned to support experimental contemporary practices including those that challenge conventional exhibition practices.

The work samples will be assessed according to the following criteria. To be considered approved, all criteria must be fulfilled.

• Capability to describe your role as an artist as demonstrated via the work samples.
• Demonstrate skill with the specific Fine Art media used in the work samples.
• Capability to describe the relevance of  your future study aims to this specific programme’s description, education plan and vision.

Submit your portfolio  

Submit your portfolio through our portfolio tool SlideRoom . 

SlideRoom closes at midnight (CET) on the day of deadline. When you have submitted your portfolio in time, you will receive a confirmation e-mail från SlideRoom. 

We recommend that you upload your material 24 hours before the deadline. Please note that it is not possible to submit your portfolio after the application deadline. 

Application, selection & admission  

Documentation of Bachelor’s degree i fine arts and English 6 

Submit all documentation on universityadmissions.se that shows you fulfill the entry requirement. It is important that you submit complete documentation and follow the country specific guidelines carefully. More information: Provide application documents .

If you submit incomplete documentation you will be considered unqualified. 

Selection and admission

All complete applications are assessed by a jury consisting of the Programme Director and representatives from the department.  

The work samples are considered approved or not approved. If your work samples are not approved, you will be unqualified for the programme. A number of applicants will proceed to a personal interview. Notification whether you have been invited for an interview will be sent to the email address you have registered on universityadmisssions.se. 

If you do not have a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts you may be eligible for an exemption. To qualify for an exemption, you must demonstrate your ability to benefit from the program through one or more of the following alternatives:

• other relevant educational qualifications
• relevant work experience or other practical experience
• relevant artistic skills and abilities

Please note that exemption is not granted for the requirement of English 6.