Konstfack Degree exhibition – With students from Konstfack’s Master’s programme in Fine Art
Group exhibition
Smedjan, Färgfabriken
Graduate students from the Master of Fine Arts program exhibit as part of Konstfack’s spring exhibition.
As part of Konstfack’s Spring Exhibition 2025, the graduating master students from the Fine Art programme exhibit their work in Lövholmen at Färgfabriken and Platform Stockholm.
The class of 2025 consists of 15 students with practices that touch upon questions such as the poetic potential of materiality, rewritings of urban landscapes, body as tool, relations in domestic spaces, how to look at something small to look at something big, how to gather around urgent matters, thinking hands, mutation of signs, and hijacking images.
This year’s initiative is a continuation and thanks to the new actor, Platform, an expansion of last spring’s student-led collaboration between Konstfack and Färgfabriken.
The exhibition is organized by the graduating students of the Master of Fine Arts program with support from Konstfack, Platform Stockholm and Färgfabriken.
The top image is created by Hilda Tenow Benulic and Sofia Ljungberg.
Participating artists
Ailin Mirlashari
Ailin Mirlashari (b. 1992) Being both an artist, social worker and having a foot in the grassroots movement, it shapes her world and positions how she sees it. Growing up in between cultures, her duality influences her artistic outlook. It makes her more sensitive to issues connected to duality, both physical, geographical and philosophical. In her works, she investigates themes that disturbs, or create love declarations to collective experiences. She goes back and forth between social issues, poetry, seriousness and humor, and is interested in dissolving boundaries and building bridges between different stories and experiences.
Contact:
Website
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ailinmoami@gmail.com
Albin Borg
In my artistic practice as a painter, path finder, collector, I frequently reflect on what it means to listen to history. I strive to maintain an awareness of sociocultural contexts, And one could say my work are often characterized by idiosyncratic experiences, including my upbringing in a small community, art history, and the collection of memories manifested through drawings and archival images, all imbued with emotional resonance.
Contact:
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albin.borg@live.se
Charlie Vince Jakobsson
Charlie Vince Jakobsson (he/him, b. 2000) is based in Stockholm and works with painting. In Jakobsson’s practice, everyday materials are used as restrictions and instructions to guide the painting process. Through the methods of cutting, assembling and covering, his work consistently researches how subtle shifts in everyday life — a small sound approaching or a soft skin that hardens — can turn things upside down.
Contact:
Website
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charlievinces@gmail.com
Daiane Rafaela
Daiane Rafaela (b. 1989) is a Brazilian transdisciplinary artist working in performance, photography, and visual arts. Their work is rooted in personal and collective histories, exploring themes of migration, belonging, borders, and the body as a political territory.
Contact:
Website
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daianerafaela.art@gmail.com
Elis Essinger
Elis Essinger (b. 1994), based in Stockholm, investigates the boundaries where private and public spheres intersect or collide through their artistic practice. They sample visual material from public spaces and institutions, which is then transformed into sculptural works andinstallations where both digital technology and craftsmanship interact. The works displayed at the spring exhibition are based on logos and instructional images from public authorities.
Contact:
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essinger.elis@gmail.com
Inês Varandas
Inês Varandas (b. 2001, PT) explores, in her artistic practice, atmospheres, climates and energetic transfers, on a physical-chemical level (meteorological, by touch) and on anemotional and interpersonal level (by affect, by mood). Varandas takes a close look into how things affect each other, how they allow themselves to be touched and through that touch change. A crucial element to her practice is the unfolding of meaning within words: an atmosphere is a surface of air; it is also a perimeter of feeling between two people. Typically, her work materializes into sculpture, installation and text.
Contact:
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inesvarandas.info@gmail.com
Johanna Kim
Johanna Kim (b. 2001) , works with storytelling, the continuity of self and the material possibilities of animation. She wants to explore the slowness of the inbetweens and how it relates to the processing, transformation and release of emotion and words. Her works are often presented through forms of video, installation and text.
Contact:
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johannatekim@gmail.com
Laurens Rohlfs
Laurens Rohlfs (b. 1993) collects, compares and renders visual material from the everyday. In his work lies an interest in language and its relation to form, material and sensation. Often he uses slow processes of transfer, such as printmaking and cast paper, as a way to suggest new qualities in familiar symbols.
Contact:
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laurensrohlfs@gmail.com
Lisa Irvall
Lisa Irvall (b. 1980) is a psychodynamic therapist and artist based in Stockholm and the countryside of Värmland. Her practice explores through installation, sculpture and photography, the power dynamics of domestic and therapeutic rooms, as well as themes such as attachment and motherhood. Recently, the act of forging has taken an important role in her artistic process.
Contact:
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lisa.irvall@gmail.com
Ljubomir Popović
Ljubomir Popovic (b. 1987) My work is surrounded by urban city life. I look for materials around construction sites and infrastructure, from spaces that manifest the latest phases of urban change. By taking the material out of its context, it constitutes an interruption in these processes. In this way, we can witness what happens in urban development. My artistic practice aims to promote new forms of spatial awareness, in resistance and of cultural preservation.
Contact:
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ljupop1@gmail.com
Lovie Peoples
Lovie Peoples (b. 1985) works with sculpture and installation, often using textile techniques and found objects. Interested in everyday dialogue, its post-construction, and its itch for fiction, she explores personal stories through modification, re-materialization, and staging, examining how they relate to the present, history, and physical space.
Contact:
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peoples.lovie@gmail.com
Mariana Pestana
Mariana Pestana (b. 1997) places found objects at the centre of her practice. After careful selection, the collected items are brought to the studio where the passing of time – however much that may take – and much deliberation, determine her manoeuvre. The desire to take care of these abandoned objects motivates every action she pursues.
Contact:
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marianacamarapestana@gmail.com
Rebecka Bergman
Rebecka Bergman (b. 1994) practices within intersections of text, photography, sound and performative gestures. An interest in the embodied knowledge and layering of time; how legacy is passed down through generations and how we are weaved and entangled together as a part of the world and its history. A fascination of how we as children approach language when we understand that our parents bodies are not equal to the world – the question is what do we do with the loss, the abandonment? In the work there are also often direct imprints of more immaterial aspects such as light, time and breath. There is an echo.
Contact:
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rebeckaeivorlinnea@gmail.com
Theodor Ander
Theodor Ander (b. 1991) is driven by curiosity about how materials can be redefined through tender manipulation. His practice is rooted in craftsmanship, and his work spans sculpture, collage, relief, and drawing. Through intricate layers of mixed materials, the sense of bodily presence, lust and discomfort is explored.
Contact:
Instagram
ander.theodor@gmail.com
Zoi Johansson
Zoi Johansson (b. 1989) works with reliefs and sculptures with an ancient technique from Marocko that she combines with ancient stories from The Black Sea. In her art the material hardening is put beside the psychological hardening of the mind and creates a path into the past as well as the future.
Contact:
Instagram
zoikatarinajohansson@gmail.com