HDK-Valand

The collaboration with HDK-Valand dates back to 1925 when the first graduating students from the Valand Academy exhibited at Göteborgs Konsthall. Since then, with some interruptions, the students in fine arts have held their degree exhibitions here. Examples of artists currently active who have been represented in previous degree exhibitions include Lars Lerin, Ernst Billgren, Helene Billgren, Ola Åstrand, Elin Wikström, and Annika Lundgren.

Information about the collaboration in 2025 will be published here.

Nobody and nothing exist in isolation

– a series of public programmes

Welcome to take part in a program series where art’s ability to name and reshape social relationships and its surroundings is tested. In a series of events created by HDK-Valand’s graduating students from the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program, personal and societal experiences, historical structures and speculative futures are explored at Skeppsbron 4 and other locations in the city. 

Through shared meals, workshops, conversations, listening and collective rituals, temporary infrastructures for care and coexistence are created. Non-human forms open space for queer mythologies and new identities. In conversation with researchers and artists, the Asian experience in Sweden is discussed through critical race theory. A guided city walk and roundtable discussions with researchers and artists delve into questions of queer movements and the role of art in ongoing gentrification processes in the city, where alternative spaces are threatened by commercial interests. Through film, performance and installation, biopolitical and radical notions of human experience are explored through distinct ‘states of mind’.  

The Master’s students’ program series moves beyond the traditional exhibition space and, like the Gothenburg Konsthall’s ongoing project Field Studies, artistic practice is put in relation to place, relationships and alternative ways of creating and sharing knowledge. 

The program series is an extension of the students’ graduation exhibition A Necessary Other, which opens on May 17 at 17.00 at Skeppsbron 4, floor 5

Artists 2025

Maria Antchougova, Irma Beširević, Rikke Bogetoft, Marie Bergqvist, Ioulia Florentzi, Kent Grundberg, Kinga Molinska, Jakob Niedziela, Vanja Qvarfordt

Other partners and participants: Cathryn Klasto, Daniel Terres, Garden Loops, Ingela Ihrman, Nätet, Maria Safronova Wahlström, Queer Movement Archive and Library, Tobias Hübinette, Anders Westerström

Past collaborations

Speculative Gatherings 2024

In Spring 2024 the MFA Fine Art programme at HDK-Valand presents Speculative Gatherings at Slakthuset in Gothenburg. In the spirit of creative and experimental ambitions, graduating students share a selection of their artistic work at the site that will become the future Göteborgs Konsthall.

Artists 2024

Alqumit Alhamad (SE/SY); Ida Bomm (DE); Sam Druant (BE); Karen Froede (SE); Ville Hulling (SE); Dominika Kemilä (SE); Theres K Agdler (CH/SE); Cori Rina Oancea (RO/SE); Iza Štrumbelj Oblak (SI); Raghad Resres (PS/JO); David Spraggs (GB); Josefin Tingvall (SE); Catja Tonberg (FI/SE); Zhang Xiya (CN).