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Programmes and courses
  • In focus

    • 4Dec
      Three acting students on a stage in a messy, black-and-white set, with the audience sitting around them.

      Open House: Film and Media, Acting and Performing Arts

      On Thursday 4 December, we will hold an open house at Valhallavägen 189 and 193.

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      Can ethical boundaries inspire creativity?

      VIS Open Call #16, “Beyond Compliance: Ethics in Artistic Research”, invites artistic researchers who explore ethics as a generative force that shapes, directs, and enriches their practice. Deadline 27 November.

    • 13Nov
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      Artist talk: Margreth Olin

      We explore the power of documentary film in an Artist Talk with director Margreth Olin. The conversation will be led by Manuel Cubas. The evening is organised at The Cell, in collaboration with the Norwegian Embassy in Stockholm and Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH).

  • Two people on a stage stand in line and hold out their arms.
    Photo: Eos Karlsson

    This is SKH

    Stockholm University of the Arts, SKH, offers education and research within the fields of Circus, Dance, Film and Media, Opera and Theatre. It is both one of the oldest higher education institutions in Stockholm – and one of the youngest.
  • Events

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    • Saturday 8 Nov+ 1 other occasions
      8Nov

      Tillsammans

      A dance performance and workshop reflecting on the interwoven threads of co-existence, collaboration and being with. we.do dance company i collaboration with SKH and Telefonfabriken.

    • Wednesday 12 Nov
      12Nov

      Wednesday seminar: The Heart of the Experiment (and the Art of Failure)

      SKH’s Vice Rector for Research, Anne Gry Haugland, in conversation with Assistant Professor Alexander Skantze and PhD student Marcia Nemer about their contributions in the latest issue of VIS.

    • Thursday 13 Nov
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      13Nov

      Artist talk: Margreth Olin

      We explore the power of documentary film in an Artist Talk with director Margreth Olin. The conversation will be led by Manuel Cubas. The evening is organised at The Cell, in collaboration with the Norwegian Embassy in Stockholm and Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH).

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      VIS #14: Experiment and failure in focus

      2025-11-05

      On 22 October, SKH hosted a release event for VIS #14. Editor Michael Duch and five participating artists presented their research projects and discussed how experimentation and failure function as artistic methods.

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      Can ethical boundaries inspire creativity?

      2025-10-13

      VIS Open Call #16, “Beyond Compliance: Ethics in Artistic Research”, invites artistic researchers who explore ethics as a generative force that shapes, directs, and enriches their practice. Deadline 27 November.

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      Exchange of experiences central when Egyptian faculty visit Stockholm

      2025-10-10

      Initiating an entire new degree programme in filmmaking is not an easy task. For the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) in Cairo, Egypt, one source of help was their long-term relationship with SKH – where faculty members and students at both universities co-operate and learn from each other.

  • Shortcuts

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      International cooperation

      International cooperation is an important part of education and research at SKH. Through an active dialogue with external partners and close cooperation with universities around the world, we strengthen the quality of our education and research and give students and staff the possibility to develop.

    • Three circus students standing on each other. From the performance Closing Acts, 2018.

      Targeted study support

      At SKH, everyone should be able to study on equal terms and have the same opportunities to conduct their studies regardless of functional variation. If you as a student have a functional variation that affects your ability to study, you are entitled to targeted study support.

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      Careers

      SKH is looking for people who want to contribute to an attractive study, research and working environment. Here you will find job vacancies at SKH, plus links to trade union organisations, information on preferential rights and the criteria for applying for teaching positions.

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    Exchange studies

    SKH welcomes international students to experience academic studies and student life at a university with a variety of educations within the field of art!
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