PhD programme in Fine Art

The four-year postgraduate programme in Fine Art is the first of its kind in Sweden. The programme is directed towards the visual arts, music and theatre. This postgraduate programme builds on artistic knowledge and work. The main emphasis of the study is on independent artistic development. The artistic work is the object as well as the method. The studies with a reflective or theoretical content are not an end in themselves but rather a means to artistic development. The purpose of the programme is to give the postgraduate student the opportunity to - develop knowledge of specific artistic issues and also gain the capacity to communicate them, - achieve a deepened artistic maturity, - achieve a deepened awareness in his or her personal artistic activities and a deepened capacity to speak and write about them, - achieve a deepened capacity to be active in the cultural life in a national and international perspective. A qualified applicant to the artistic postgraduate programme is a person who has - taken an artistic first degree of at least 160 credits or has the equivalent qualifications - artistic skilfulness in relation to his or her main artistic direction or has a relevant connection to artistic activity more