In an Exceptional Time

The degree projects exhibition from the 2021 Master's programme from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts is a very personal show of young artists, who have put their energy and reflections into an old poetic and narrative system – art – at a time when so many certitudes have started to erode. This exceptional time, will be a sort of hidden sub-text of the works presented.

But there is also the trajectory of their individual practice, their interest to discuss materialities and media, like painting, video or sculpture, their narratives, stemming from the personal and a perception of the world. The approaches are individual, but this does not mean that they put up barriers of separation, since they communicate through the exhibited works.

The exhibition ran 8 May–23 May, 2021. Main tutor was the Berlin based artist Ariane Müller, guest teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts.
Read her text about the exhibition here.

Meet the students

André Fischer

Through depictive sculpture and drawing, André Fischer examines human nature as a sentient and reflective bein...

Charlotte Ostritsch

Charlotte Ostritsch works in a process-based way and sees the actual doing as more important than the end resu...

Emma Hjelm

Emma Hjelm creates her animated films on the basis of a feeling or atmosphere.

Erica Giacomazzi

Having moved from the Venice Lagoon to the lush north of Sweden, Erica Giacomazzi investigates the context-sen...

Hannah Brännström

The relationship with the home and its interiors is the central theme of Hannah Brännström's sculptures and sp...

Joel Danielsson & Louise Öhman

Mainly working with video, text, and installation, Joel Danielsson and Louise Öhman have formed an artist duo ...

Jonatan Pihlgren

Jonatan Pihlgren works primarily with painting but also with sculpture, performance, cartoons and music.

Judit Kristensen

In painting and drawing, Judit Kristensen depicts her life: a declaration of an outer world of Coca Cola, iPho...

Mrah Gazi

Mrah Gazi explores aspects of historical contingencies, paradigm shifts, self-fulfilling prophecies, and unfor...

Per Nenzelius

With a focus on fantasy and symbolism, Per Nenzelius examines the dissociation between existential questions a...

Rakel Bergman Fröberg

"The (un)sensed insides of surrounding beings; from light to darkness and back again."

Sandra Wasara-Hammare

A conveyor belt made of vulcanised rubber, a wall painting and a sculpture in two parts, represent the work of...

Tekla Bergman Fröberg

Tekla Bergman Fröberg is interested in memories, both visible and invisible, and in deconstructing the current...

Yuri Rusinov (Georgios Lazaridis)

Yuri Rusinov attempts to explore a collective subjective superstructure, a topos [place] that may not be spoke...

Latest update: 2023-04-27