Image: Mikael Lundgren
The Arts Campus celebrates spring with public exhibitions, the reopening of Bildmuseet, a furniture fair and other events between May 23 and June 3.
Starting on Friday, May 26 and continuing into June, the Arts Campus will be buzzing with more life than usual. All schools - Umeå School of Architecture, Umeå Institute of Design and Umeå Academy of Fine Arts - have new exhibitions, while the Bildmuseet opens up its operations again with several new exhibitions.
Umeå is also hosted by the industry event Design S - Swedish Design Awards - which is arranged for the first time outside Stockholm and where the Umeå Institute of Design is a co-organizer, as a part of Umeå Design Week.
On this page we collect events, exhibitions, articles and links to more information.
Architecture student Frida Block, design student Isabelle Olsson and art student Jo Öqvist are all preparing for the degree shows that will take place at the Arts Campus in late May and early June.
An international crop of young designers will reveal their 30-plus design concepts to the world
New (old) plant wall on the Art campus provides opportunities for design and molecular biology students.
What is like to study at the Umeå School of Architecture? ? Interview with master's student Frida Block.
Bildmuseet: Art Friday with exhibition opening / Opening party
We open the doors to three new exhibitions:
When: Friday, May 26 at 17:00 - 23:59.
Where: Bildmuseet
Read more about Art Friday here
Umeå School of Architecture: Grand opening: Exhibition open to public
Opening with speeches, guided tours and happenings.
When: Friday, May 26 16.00 - 18.00
Where: Umeå School of Architecture
Artist Talk / Down North
Welcome to artist talk in connection to the exhibition Down North with D'Arcy Wilson and others. The artists present their works in conversation with the curators Anders Jansson, Bildmuseet, and Jaime DeSimone, Portland Museum of Art, USA.
When: Sunday, May 28 14:00 - 15:00
Where: Bildmuseet
Umeå School of Design: Live Broadcast of UID23
The UID23 broadcast offers a unique opportunity to get a glimpse into each students individual design journey as they strive to make positive change through design. The show also includes interviews with our specially invited guests, followed by their indivudual keynote addresses. Recurring programme favourites such as the traditional signing of the 'Wall of Fame' and the announcement of this year's 'Golden Seed Award' recipients will also be part of the programme.
When: Wednesday, May 30 13.00-18.00
Where: Watch Live Broadcast
Umeå School of Architecture: Roundtable on “Holistic Habitat”
This roundtable discussion will invite contemporary architects Dagur Eggertsson, Jenni Reuter and Helen Runting to present their holistic approach and discuss recent developments in architecture where the politics of space includes the politics of care. This will include new ways of framing architectural problem solving, from concept development, public engagement and collaborative production in the region, Sweden and internationally.
Chaired by Professor Ele Carpenter and Professor Roemer van Toorn.
When: Wednesday, May 31, 14:00 - 16:00
Where: Umeå School of Architecture
Umeå School of Architecture: Furniture Fair Opening
The Furniture fair, produced by the students themselves, showcase furniture crafted by the students based on the concept “noisy”.
When: Wednesday, May 31, 16:00
Where: Umeå School of Architecture
Umeå School of Design: Live Broadcast of UID23
The UID23 broadcast offers a unique opportunity to get a glimpse into each students individual design journey as they strive to make positive change through design. The show also includes interviews with our specially invited guests, followed by their indivudual keynote addresses. Recurring programme favourites such as the traditional signing of the 'Wall of Fame' and the announcement of this year's 'Golden Seed Award' recipients will also be part of the programme.
When: Wednesday, May 31 10.00-12.00
Where: Watch Live Broadcast
Arts Campus: Unveiling of the Plant Wall
The plant wall is a vertical plant wall that stretches over several floors and is placed in a common area where students and visitors can enjoy the green environment. The plant wall withered and was removed, but is now about to be reborn. The project is the result of a collaboration between students from the University of Design (UID Climate Group), the Department of Molecular Biology, the Umeå Center for Microbial Research (UCMR), the Swedish University of Agriculture (SLU), the Faculty of Forestry, the Institute for Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå, Forest Master's School, Skinnskatteberg and Vertisà Umeå.
When: Wednesday, May 31 12.15-12.45
Where: Arts Campus
Umeå School of Architecture: Public Exhibition May 26 - June 3
Maps and information are available at the school's entrances. Possibility of a guided tour of the exhibitions by students.
When:
May 26: 16.00-18.00 (opening)
May 27: 12.00-17.00
28 May: 12.00-17.00
31 May: 12.00-17.00
June 1: 12.00-17.00
June 3: 12.00-17.00
Umeå Institute of Design: Public Exhibition June 3
What? Public exhibition of the degree projects from our graduating students
When? Saturday, June 3, 10.00-16.00
Where? Umeå Institute of Design, Östra Strandgatan 30, Umeå
Who's welcome? Anyone and everyone
Read more about the public Exhibition
Umeå Academy of Fine Arts: Public Exhibition May 26 - August 20
For the last two years, the master’s degree students at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts have been working in the studios and workshops overlooking the Umeälven River: a powerful torrent in the summer, an iced-over, wide-open canvas during the long, semi-Arctic winter.
When: Friday, May 26 - August 20
Where: Bildmuseet
Read more about the exhibition.
I Cut across the Stream / Umeå Academy of Fine Arts May 26 - August 20
For the last two years, the master’s degree students at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts have been working in the studios and workshops overlooking the Umeälven River: a powerful torrent in the summer, an iced-over, wide-open canvas during the long, semi-Arctic winter.
When: Friday, May 26, 17:00 - 23:59.
Where: Bildmuseet
Read more about the exhibition
Down North / Contemporary Art in the Arctic May 26 - January 14
The world's most northern regions are emerging as more important than ever before. Areas previously seen as peripheral are leading a societal transformation that will shape our common future. The exhibition Down North presents works by thirty contemporary artists from Canada, Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States, as well as from Sápmi and other indigenous nations in the Arctic regions. They explore the critical issues of our time and use art as a catalyst for change.
Read more about the exhibition.
Swedish Picture Book of the Year / The Wound
The Wound has been named the best Swedish picture book of 2022 and awarded the national Snöbollen (Snowball) prize. Emma AdBåge, who created both the pictures and the text, received the prize during Littfest, Umeå International Literature Festival, in spring 2023. The exhibition at Bildmuseet presents original drawings and sketches for the book, and you can hear Emma AdBåge talk about how t it came about.
Read more about the exhibition.
Extra open June 3 to June 6 and fun family activities
Curiosum is Umeå University's science center for curious and creative visitors of all ages. Welcome to us to explore, experience and discover science and technology in fun ways. Experiment, play games, create special effects in film, challenge your friends in a sustainability gameshow, travel through space in our theater, and much more.
When: Extra open from June 3 to June 6 10.00-17.00. Regular opening hours are Saturdays and Sundays 10.00-17.00 and Wednesday 16.00-19.00.
Where: Curiosum
Umeå School of Architecture has an artistic profile and an international character.
UID offers a rare blend between the local and the global in a unique Scandinavian setting.
Collaboration across national and cultural borders is an important part of the artistical education.
Visiting address
Umeå Arts Campus
Östra strandgatan 30, Umeå
Phone:+46 (0)90-786 50 00