BFA3 - Examination

Information about the BFA exam

The BFA exam semester (30 credits) takes place during the spring semester 2026, but we recommend you begin the process during the fall semester, so the work can develop over a longer period of time.

About your BFA- essays

You are to write a bachelor’s essay on approximately 5 pages, and the deadline is 1. March 2026. Please write in your preferred language, and the school will provide translation of the text in dialogue with the yearbook editor. You are obliged to follow the deadlines and to be in dialogue with the translator and the copyeditor, as well as the editor of the yearbook. The text will be presented in the digital yearbook. 

The essay is not supposed to be an academic paper, and not a literary work, but an essay. You don’t need to make an analysis of your own work, but you are to present the context of your work – references, background, and where you are heading. A part of the references should be artistic. If you choose not to have any artistic references, you’ll need to explain why in the text. The references can of course also be philosophical, political, musical etc. You will get an introduction to references and bibliography by one of the faculty librarians.

You can select between three tutors on the BFA text who will tutor you individually on the text, and you can contact them during the writing process for a meeting. 

The tutors are Gabriel Karlsson: Gabriel [dot] Karlsson [at] khm [dot] lu [dot] se (Gabriel[dot]Karlsson[at]khm[dot]lu[dot]se), Stephan Möller: stephan [dot] moller [at] khm [dot] lu [dot] se (stephan[dot]moller[at]khm[dot]lu[dot]se)  and Prof. Gertrud Sandqvist: Gertrud [dot] Sandqvist [at] khm [dot] lu [dot] se (Gertrud[dot]Sandqvist[at]khm[dot]lu[dot]se). 

Many of you know Gabriel and Gertrud, and below you will find a short bio for Stephan Möller. Please make a prioritized list of text tutors – you can’t be guaranteed your priority, but we are striving to get everyone either first or second choice of tutor. There will be presentations in September of the text tutors, and you will select your tutor after the meeting that takes place 5. September 2025. 

Stephan Møller 

I graduated from Malmö Art Academy's MFA programme in 2019 and has been a guest Teacher at Malmö Art Academy from 2019 – since 2023 I have been tutoring MFA students texts and teaching to write about your own work for the BFA1 students.  Furthermore, I have been a guest teacher at Ærø Kunsthøjskole since 2020.

At the Academy, I taught theoretical courses in collaboration with Gertrud Sandqvist, focusing on close readings of a wide array of thinkers and writers, including Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Hélène Cixous, Georges Bataille, Simone Weil, Karen Barad, and G. W. F. Hegel. 

At Ærø Kunsthøjskole, I have conducted introductory courses in semiotics and writing, exploring possible ways to connect artistic practice with text. Additionally, I have facilitated practical courses that involve organizing group exhibitions. I have also published a few essays and worked as an editor. Most recently, I edited the catalogue for the annual exhibition SommerSkulpturSøby, contributing an article on the work of Étienne-Louis Boullée. 

In my artistic practice, I work with multiple mediums, and my projects often culminate in installations that include texts, videos, and objects. While I have worked with various media in different projects, my work consistently begins with research. Generally, I have a strong interest in human interaction and intersubjectivity, and how our experience is immersed in and influenced by language. I have exhibited at Skissernas Museum in Lund, Galleri Arnstedt in Östra Karup, and Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen. However, since 2020, I have primarily focused on teaching, reading, and writing.

After the text has been approved it will be sent to a translator. You will work with the translator so the meaning of your text is intact in the English version. Karin Hald who is the editor of the yearbook will contact you regarding deadlines, and you are obliged to keep them.

The texts that have been approved by the tutors will be presented in a text seminar 23-25. March 2026 together with your peers in the BFA3 group. In the seminar, each of you will get one of your colleague’s texts to oppose on, meaning that you’ll read carefully through the text, present it to the seminar and pose questions to it, for approximately 30 minutes. After that the professors will make their comments on the text.Followed by an open session for general comments from the group. All in all, each text will be discussed for one hour.

After the seminar you’ll have two weeks to make alterations before they’ll finally be sent to the copy editor, whom you will work with to complete the essay in an English version before it will be published in the digital yearbook. The work with the copy editor is an important part of the process and exam, and you need to go carefully through the text. The role of the copy editor is to get the English text correct after the translation, and before it will be published in the digital yearbook. It is important that you keep the deadlines and respond to the emails from the editor, translator and copy editor.

About the BFA exhibition

The BFA Exhibition takes place in the two galleries KHM1 & KHM2, and the exhibition will open 8. May 2026 (TBC). The BFA3 students can choose their own tutor for their BFA work, and the available tutors will be Alejandro Cesarco, Joakim Sandqvist, Gabriel Karlsson, Ann Böttcher, Marie Murraciole, Nina Roos, Maria Hedlund, Youngjae Lih. This will take place after the meeting on 5. September. Youngjae Lih will be the coordinator of the BFA3 exam exhibition. The BFA exhibition is a group exhibition, which is open for two weeks – during this time the external participant in the examination will also meet all students individually for one hour. Here you will present your work for approximately 20 min and have a discussion for the remaining time. https://www.khm.lu.se/en/about-us-new/facilities/galleries

Finally, the professors will pass/fail your texts and exam exhibition in an examination meeting together with the external participant in the examination.