Royal University College of Fine Arts (KKH) was founded in 1735, and is today both the oldest and the leading university college of fine arts in Sweden. KKH offers courses in fine arts at basic and advanced levels and in architecture at an advanced level. KKH has approximately 240 students; some of them are on a five-year programme leading to a Master’s degree, others a three-year Bachelor programme in fine arts, or on various project programmes for professional artists, supplementary courses in architecture, restoration art, and in art and architecture. There will be a two-year Master’s programme in fine arts starting in 2010.

The goals of the fine arts programmes include the ability to formulate and express your own distinctive character through various media forms, to develop your skills, and the opportunity to develop an independent attitude and a critical view of artistic creation. The courses are based on the student’s own individual artwork, extending this with theoretical and practical training in both older and more recent techniques in KKH’s own workshops. At the School of Architecture at KKH, the goal is to make more in-depth studies of professional work in architecture and the restoration of buildings, as well as broadening the knowledge of architectural history.

Lectures, project work, seminars, workshops, and study visits in Sweden and abroad are prominent parts of the programmes. The teachers in fine art and architecture are professional artists or architects, or teachers with other relevant professional specialisations. As they have their own professional careers besides their work at KKH, they maintain a close contact with the world of art and society at large, which makes the teaching more alive and continuously subject to change, whether it be in step – or out of step – with current society.

Number of full-year students in year 2009: 215
Number of programmes: 7
Number of programmes in English: 2


Contact:
E-mail: info@kkh.se
Phone: +46 8 614 40 00
Web-site: www.kkh.se

Find it on the map: Flaggmansvägen 1, Stockholm