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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.

    • 25Nov
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      Circus BA Degree Presentations 2025

      BA Circus students in the disciplines juggling, duo rope, teeterboard, Chinese pole, cyr wheel, tight wire and swinging trapeze perform questions, answers, and curiosities that their research processes inspired.

  • 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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    • Friday 14 Nov+ 1 other occasions
      Wooden hut in a forest
      14Nov

      Readings - objects, texts, and other media

      Readings from current and future publications by staff members from the subject area of dance at SKH. 

    • Wednesday 19 Nov
      The back of a post card
      19Nov

      Wednesday seminar: Speculative Fiction with FutureBrownSpace: Part One

      Sometimes we work with seemingly impossible situations… Why isn’t that situation being dealt with? Why is the glaringly obvious glided over? These questions and more will be discussed during the seminar.

    • Thursday 20 Nov+ 1 other occasions
      20Nov

      Anna Frida Maria Nilsson’s 30% seminar – Part 1

      Anna Frida Maria Nilsson’s 30% seminar will be held in two parts. Part 1: Experiment #4 – Immersee enters breeding ground, will be held on 20 and 21 November. Part 2 is on the 17 December.

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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

    • A dozen hot air balloons silhouetted against the sunset

      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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