Teaching period: 16-20th February 2026

Location: Funen Art Academy, Odense, Denmark

Teacher(s): Diana Lindbjerg 

Co-teacher: Lise Margrethe Jørgensen 

ECTS: 6 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 2

Level: BA /MA

Application deadline: January 5th, 2026 

How to apply: Please send an e-mail with a short motivation to mb@detfynskekunstakademi.dk. Also state your home school and level of study. Headline: KUNO Express MATERIAL GESTURES 

Course description
This workshop invites participants to cultivate an open and curious approach to working with diverse materials—shifting the focus away from perfection in a single form of expression. It encourages exploration of the dynamic balance between the desire for mastery and the resistance inherent in materials and techniques, fostering a reflective and critical mindset toward artistic creation. 
Combining technical and conceptual perspectives, the workshop aims to deepen artistic reflection on material and spatial qualities. Students will be introduced to selected material techniques within the field of three-dimensional practice and learn to experiment within both technical and conceptual boundaries.  
We will work with materials such as paper, wood, and concrete, examining their unique properties, requirements, and aesthetic as well as physical potentials. 
Throughout the course, students will develop familiarity with materials and tools, building confidence in their practical engagement. Outcomes will vary based on individual skill levels but will include a portfolio of tests, samples, and written reflections. 
The overarching goal is to equip students with practical and analytical methods to articulate their artistic practice with clarity and depth. 

Readings: 
·       François-Xavier Vives. (u.å.). The origami code. https://youtu.be/uFyJykl1O0k?si=KV3Ewq5Ewri7rCjf
·       Architect Søren Pihlmann: Make Materials Matter (s. 15:04). (u.å.). [Video]. Louisiana channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V799M9GbY_4
·       I Pencil: My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Reed (Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y. F. for E. E. (1999). “I, Pencil: My Family Tree” as told to Leonard E. Read, Dec. 1958. Foundation for Economic Education. https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/read-i-pencil-my-family-tree-as-told-to-leonard-e-read-dec-1958
·       Perec, G. (2008). Species of spaces and other pieces (Rev.ed). Penguin.
·       Vi er energiblinde og materialeblinde. Nu må vi lære at elske minerne igen. (2024). Informasjon. https://www.information.dk/moti/2024/03/energiblinde-materialeblinde-maa-laere-elske-minerne-igen
·       Conway, E. (2024). Material World : a substantial story of our past and future. Penguin Random House UK.
·       John-Steiner, V. (1997). Notebooks of the mind : explorations of thinking (Rev. ed.). Oxford University Press.
·       Nonaka, I., Yamaguchi, I., Ishihara, Y., Yamaguchi, Ichirō, & Ishihara, Yuko. (2022). Management by Eidetic Intuition : A Dynamic Management Theory Predicated on the “Philosophy of Empathy” (1st ed. 2022.). Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan. (Chapter 10 The SECI model: Knowledge Creation in the Cycle of Subjectivity and Objectivity)
·       Polanyi, M. (1983). The tacit dimension. Peter Smith.

Financial support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € per week (5-7 days), 100€ per second week.

General KUNO Eligibility Rules:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please contact: Marlene Bregndahl, mb@detfynskekunstakademi.dk

Teaching period: 26-30 January, 2026 (with continuing activities online until 27th March)

Location: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD), University of Bergen

Teacher(s): Professor Eamon O’Kane

ECTS: 3

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA /MA

Application deadline: 10th December, 2025

How to apply: Please send a motivation letter (max one page) to eamon.okane@uib.no, with the course name “Studio Munch House” in the email subject title.

Course description:
The KUNO express course Studio Munch House is taking place within the frames of a larger module Studio Studio. This module will focus on artistic production, reflection, and dialogue developed in connection to Edvard Munch’s winter studio and the ghost of his demolished house at Ekely, Oslo. Students will engage with themes of place, memory, and artistic process through the lens of Munch’s working environment, including his outdoor studios exploring how studio contexts shape creative practice. The module will combine individual and collective studio work, critical discussions, screenings, readings, and short presentations connecting historical and contemporary approaches to painting and installation. You will work in teams with the concept of reconstruction of Munch's demolished house as a centre for art and creativity. Fieldwork, research, material experimentation, and reflective writing will support students in developing a personal and contextually grounded body of work, culminating in an optional final presentation/exhibition at the end of March in Edvard Munch’s winter studio.

The KUNO express course will consist of 5 days at KMD in Bergen with studio and museum visits as well as lectures and screenings and hands on workshops in the outdoors studio and painting workshop.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact eamon.okane@uib.no

Teaching period: 6th-12th of January, 2026

Location: Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Nida, Lithuania

Teacher(s): Full-time twitch streamer and educator Stephanie (AKA Apollolol); Artist and researcher Daina Pupkevičiūtė (AKA Daina Dieva); Artist-researcher from Vilnius Academy of Arts Vygintas Orlovas (AKA V_of_Londor)

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 8

Level: : BA /MA

Application deadline: 16th of December, 2025

How to apply: Please apply by filling in this form: https://forms.gle/JBbTG6f7iFnqPRSD8

Course description
The focal point of this course is exploring tools and techniques for streaming and discussing it in the context of performance art.
Performance art often involves these basic elements: time, space, body, and presence of the artist, the relation between the creator and the audience. How do these dynamics change when the relationship between the creator and the audience takes place online?
The goal of this workshop is not only to discuss key concepts of performance art but also to recontextualize it for a digital environment and provide the tools to do so.
We will discuss the platforms, hardware and software (OBS, streamlabs, chatbots, voicemeeter, capture cards, green screens etc.) needed for streaming and try to apply them for ideas created during the workshop. By brainstorming and mind-mapping we will work together to figure out the possible intersections of the fields of performance art and streaming.
Depending on the group dynamics, by the end of the workshop we could stream either one or multiple pieces of performance art.

Practical information
We will have a laptop set up to be a streaming station, which we can use for the ideas we come up with, however, if you can bring a smartphone or a laptop - that could be really useful equipment.
We will travel to Nida Art Colony from Vilnius faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts by bus and return to Vilnius afterwards. In Nida Art Colony we will live in shared dormitory style rooms and have a shared kitchen where we can prepare food together. There is a grocery store in the town of Nida.

Financial support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € per week (5-7 days), 100€ per second week.

General KUNO Eligibility Rules:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please contact: Vygintas Orlovas at: vygintas.orlovas@vda.lt

Teaching period: 8-12 December, 2025

Location: Malmo Art Academy, Sweden

Teacher(s):  Liz Kinoshita

ECTS: 3

Number of available places for KUNO students: 2

Level: BA/MA

Application deadline: 30th October 2025

How to apply: Please send an e-mail with a short motivation to charlotta.osterberg@khm.lu.se. Also state your home school and level of study.

Course description
Drawing from twenty years of experience performing in multidisciplinary creations often in visual arts contexts, the purpose of this course is to offer tools for performative practices to arts students. We will focus on presence, grounded-ness, and the ability to pivot in instant compositional set ups, to surprise oneself through rigorous scores, structures or a ’cage’ to set oneself ’free’. 
We will study principles from dance artists Deborah Hay, Tino Sehgal, Chrysa Parkinson, Jonathan Burrows, Meg Stuart, and ZOO/Thomas Hauert, as well as Liz Kinoshita’s own performative practice principles. 
The course will start with physical engagement to get the heart pumping, blood flowing, and body ignited in a studio space.  We will work on gradations of presence, experimenting with spectrums of intense muscle tone to visceral subtlety.  We will play with different proximities and modes of receiving performance, such as differences between a large proscenium stage, a white cube, a film screen, etc, examining the roots and conditions of each of these scenarios. 
We will investigate what history and habits we carry with us whether consciously practiced or not, and how we can deviate from these when we wish to, so that one’s performativity is not being presented by default nor accident but is rather deliberate and responsive.  By reframing our attention, we will practice varied modes of being seen, of inhabiting and relating to space and time, to deliver our work to a visitor or audience member with clear intentions and understanding of what is being transmitted. 
We will establish a safe lab for learning through proposing, through action, through repetition, and through generous formatted discussion of what reverberations our attempts create as we witness each other engaging with performance exercises.  There will be room to examine specific contexts each participant may be working on, to workshop what optimal mechanisms could be used in one’s own art. 

Learning outcomes:
On completion of the course the students shall be able to embody performative proposals with a knowledge of their inherent strengths and weaknesses and be equipped with tactics for nonetheless delivering a performance as they intend it to be received. 
Students will be able to describe what they are aiming for in their performative practices, to clearly identify what they hope to project in their performance and why, to help them through creation, rehearsal, and collaboration. 
The goal is for the students to gain confidence, tools, and understanding in relation to executing performance proposals in any setting. 

Assessment:  
The course consists of a five-day full-time in studio workshop where participation is obligatory. (Action and feedback should be reciprocal).  

Examination: 
Evaluation of the students will be based on live and filmed performances received in studio on the last day of the workshop.  

Financial support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € per week (5-7 days), 100€ per second week.

General KUNO Eligibility Rules:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please contact: Charlotta Österberg, charlotta.osterberg@khm.lu.se

Teaching period:  24th –28th November 2025

Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway

Teacher(s):  Marthe Ramm Fortun

ECTS: 3

Number of available places for KUNO students: 2

Level: BA & MA

Application deadline: 7th October 2025 23:59

How to apply:  Please apply via this form online:  https://nettskjema.no/a/542795

Course description:
"Slide into my DMs #2» is a project oriented class that addresses grey-zones in which artists could find themselves vulnerable and where asymmetrical relationships, political engagement and taboo is placing the individual and/or their affiliates at risk; for example financially, sexually or in terms of their access to platforms and freedom of speech.

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories who recently lectured in Oslo, recognizes that one of the most powerful tools at her—and our—disposal is the act of naming. This is precisely what we will do; «montre ton proc», as they say in France, name your pig! Out of your DMs and out into the daylight! As artists naming taboos, in great company with alleys from art history, we can gather formal and conceptual survival strategies and place responsibility where it belongs.

Through seminars and art making such as drawing, performance and visits to relevant institutional archives and exhibitions, we are approaching useful strategies to counter taboo and censorship. We will look to cross-ideological rainbow coalitions, activism and examples of artist led resistance. For example, ACT UPs actions against unconstitutional ideological crusades by conservative state legislators during the culture wars at the height of the AIDS crisis, Nan Goldins recent legal pursuit of Purdue Pharmaceuticals in the wake of the opioid crisis, contemporary literary practices spurring on the fourth wave of #metoo or how contemporary activists are determined to incorporate Decades of Israeli occupation of Palestinian land in the global climate Justice conversation even when facing criticism and backlash.

The paradox resides in how the informal and unregulated is often presented as a space of opportunity and creative exploration. But who is free to enjoy informal transactions with no track record? And at what cost, to whom?

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

General KUNO Eligibility Rules:

- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please contact  Hanna Gjelten Hattrem hannhatt@khio.no 

Teaching period: 16/11/2025 – 22/11/2025

Location: Vilnius Academy of Arts, Kaunas faculty, Muitinės St.2, Kaunas, LT-44280, Lithuania

Teacher(s): Gideon Rubin, Petras Lincevičius

ECTS: 2

Number of available places for KUNO students: 8

Level: BA /MA

Application deadline: November 6th, 2025

How to apply: Please fill out the online form.

Course description
Embodied Identity: Painterly Gestures and Visual Thinking invites participants to explore identity as both a visual and conceptual field within contemporary painting. Led by artists Gideon Rubin and Petras Lincevičius, the workshop examines how memory, perception, and personal storytelling shape the painterly process. Through studio practice and discussion, participants will investigate how surface, layering, and erasure can embody the fluidity of identity and reveal new visual meanings.

Blending theoretical reflection with hands-on experimentation, the course encourages participants to create a personal visual narrative through idea generation, material exploration, and critical dialogue. Renowned contemporary painter Gideon Rubin, one of the leading figures in figurative painting today, will introduce his subtle, anonymous approach to portraiture, exploring how absence and ambiguity shape identity in art. Petras Lincevičius, artist and Associate Professor at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Kaunas Faculty, will guide students to reflect on their personal painterly color palette and how it can convey narratives of identity.

Participants are encouraged to bring a personal object, photograph, or memory as a point of departure for their artistic investigation. The workshop culminates in a public presentation at Panemunė Castle, offering an opportunity to reflect on identity, memory, and self-expression within both local and international art contexts.

Petras Lincevičius is a visual artist, lecturer, and organizer of cultural projects. His work is rooted in exploring specific geographical locations, observing everyday life, and its relationship to the flow of virtual information. The author defines the theme of his research as the (in)significance of local identity in a global world. The conservation of Time, Memory, and Experiences are of utmost importance to this painter. https://www.petraslincevicius.com/

Gideon Rubin is an internationally acclaimed artist whose subtle, anonymous figurative paintings have captivated audiences worldwide. Born in Tel Aviv in 1973, he studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and earned an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where he now lives and works. Rubin’s works are held in major collections and have been exhibited at prestigious museums and galleries such as the Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, the Freud Museum in London, and Galerie Karsten Greve. His distinctive style blends introspective portraiture with abstraction, inviting viewers to explore themes of memory and identity. Through muted tones and delicate brushwork, Rubin creates a profound emotional resonance that transcends cultural boundaries, focusing on faceless figures that evoke universal human emotions and personal reflection.

https://www.gideonrubin.com/work 

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

Further information on the course: petras.lincevicius@vda.lt 

Teaching period: 10th – 14th November, 2025

Location: Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus (Kalkværksvej 30, DK 8000 Aarhus)

Teacher(s): Hamishi Farah

ECTS: 2 study points (equal to 2 ECTS)

Number of available places for KUNO students: 3

Level: BA /MA (all years)

Requirements: no previous knowledge needed

Application deadline: 25th September, 2025

How to apply: Please send an application form and short motivation to frontdesk@djk.nu. Please state the course name “Art” in an email subject title.

Course description:
My name is Hamishi Farah. I am a figurative painter.

 If you take this workshop we will have 5 days together to talk about art.

 The course is open for everyone not just painters

 If you are interested in the following, this might be for you:

Painting, Psychoanalysis, Historical Materialism, what does the limits of representation mean, art and politics - how do we reconcile them, the state, money, modernity, Black studies, architecture, antagonism, gossip, craft, coloniality

Course Method:

We will do exercises and talk.

Bio

Hamishi Farah is an artist practicing painting and other media. 
Born in 1991 in Melbourne, Australia.

Recent exhibitions include
Undermining the Immediacy, MMK, Frankfurt (2025) Post Scriptum. A museum forgotten by heart, MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome (2024); Black Painting, Maxwell Graham, New York (2023); London, UK, Arcadia Missa, London (2023) Dog Heaven 2: How Sweet the Wound of Jesus Tastes, Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fribourg (2021); Antagoni, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles (2020)

Photo credit:
Hamishi Farah
Pawn, 2023
Oil and pumice on linen
39 ½ × 18 ½ inches (100.33 × 46.99 cm)

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact Susanne Brokmann at: frontdesk@djk.nu

Teaching period: November 3-7, 2025
Location: Vilnius Academy of Arts, Panemunė Castle, Lithuania
Teacher(s): assoc. prof. dr. Marius Daraškevičius, architect (Vilnius Academy of Arts), honorary prof. dr. Fritz Barth, architect BDA (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Friedrich Barth, M.Sc. Architect (Barth & Barth).
ECTS: 3
Number of available places for KUNO students: 10
Level: BA /MA
Requirements: students from Sculpture, Scenography, Sight-specific Art/Monumental Art, and Painting study programmes are invited to join.
Application deadline:  8th of October, 2025, 12th of October, 2025 – confirmation for selected participants.
How to apply: Please send your motivation letter and portfolio (the main artistic field / artistic research, maximum 12 slides, *pdf) to aida.kirkickiene@vda.lt

Course description
It is a multidisciplinary express course for the KUNO, CIRRUS and NBAA network students.

We invite applications for the KUNO Network (KUNO), CIRRUS and Nordic Baltic Academy of Architecture (NBAA) Express Course dedicated to the art and pedagogy of fireworks architecture, an extraordinary and nearly forgotten art form at the intersection of architecture, sculpture, and pyrotechnics. This program offers students in Architecture, Sculpture, Scenography, Sight-specific Art/Monumental Art, Painting and Product Design the rare opportunity to explore the design, construction, and performance of festive, ephemeral structures that come alive through fireworks.

Background. Once celebrated as a highly sophisticated art of the Baroque era, fireworks architecture combined architectural imagination with pyrotechnic spectacle to create unforgettable festive landscapes. From triumphal arches to sculptural stage sets, these works turned gardens, castles, and city squares into temporary theaters of light and fire. Today, as the cultural value of fireworks is questioned and their future uncertain, we see an urgent chance to revisit and reinterpret this unique form. The Baltic Manor Festival 2026, hosted at Panemunė Castle in Lithuania, provides a perfect setting. Its historic landscape garden will become the stage for an architectural fireworks display in the spirit of early modern station theater, where audiences move through a pyrotechnically transformed enchanted garden. The project draws inspiration from the past but is firmly anchored in the present: an exploration of fireworks as a contemporary art form capable of addressing complexity, temporality, and transformation.

Pedagogics. (Pedagogy) Ephemeral architecture offers students something rarely possible in their studies: the realization of ideas on a one-to-one scale. Unlike permanent buildings, festive structures are playful, time-bound, and experimental, yet demand rigorous thinking about context, purpose, feasibility, and teamwork. In fireworks architecture, time itself becomes central. Objects must stand as enigmatic works on their own, then transform during the pyrotechnic performance into radiant spectacles, before settling back into altered, memory-laden remains. This sequence of states—before, during, after—invites design approaches closer to music or film than conventional architecture. Participants will be challenged to design for change, rhythm, and transformation, developing strategies that transcend traditional methods.

The Task. Participants will collaboratively design and construct three architectural structures, as well as smaller scattered objects, to serve as platforms for the fireworks display concluding the Baltic Manor Festival on June 27, 2026. Designs must balance aesthetic ambition with technical, financial, legal, and safety considerations. Each structure must function both as a silent, sculptural presence by day and as an integral element of the fireworks choreography by night.

Schedule. The program unfolds in two phases:

• Phase 1 (Nov 2–8, 2025, Panemunė Castle, Lithuania): Introduction to fireworks, safety, and design principles. Lectures, workshops, and simulation exercises (Finale 3D) lead to the development of architectural-firework concepts. This call is valid for this phase.

• Phase 2 (June 20–27, 2026, Panemunė Castle, Lithuania): Construction and assembly of the designs, culminating in the public fireworks performance on June 27.

Full commitment to both phases is required.

Financial support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € per week (5-7 days)

General KUNO Eligibility Rules:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact marius.daraskevicius@vda.lt or aida.kirkickiene@vda.lt

Teaching period: 3rd-10th of November, 2025

Location: VDA Mizarai workshop and recreation base, Lithuania

Teacher(s): dr. Vygintas Orlovas

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 8

Level: : BA /MA

Application deadline: 18th of October, 2025

How to apply: Please apply by filling in this form: https://forms.gle/JmbDuJpDL8iuXvg29

Course description
The course is aimed at exploring Vaporwave and publishing the results of the workshop as an album. On the surface Vaporwave, is a microgenre of electronic music and a meme; however, the ideas behind it are a statement and a position towards music production, art and copyrights in general. The course will provide in-depth knowledge on the background, core ideas, strategies and methods for functioning applied in Vaporwave.

Organization of the course
The course will start with an introductory meeting on the evening of the 3rd of November to discuss the field where Vaporwave formed, the ideas behind it and the methods and strategies applied in it. Afterwards, we will divide into groups depending on the interests: source scouting, audio editing, image editing, video editing. On the 4th, we will start by having short introductions to using the basic features of related free and cross-platform software: Audacity, Gimp and DaVinci Resolve. Afterwards, we will have a hackathon type workshop to create a collaborative album and the relevant materials for it. Depending on how productive we will be, the workshop can last till the evening of the 8th - we will have to finalize the release by then to do the audio mastering and share the results on the evening of the 9th.

Practical information
The course will take place in VDA Mizarai workshop and recreation base. We will meet at Vilnius faculty of VDA and take a bus to travel there together.
Both the bus and accommodation (which includes bed linen and towels) at Mizarai are provided by VDA, however be sure to come to Vilnius either early on the 3rd or one day in advance to be able to board the bus at 9 AM on the 3rd of November. We will be back in Vilnius via bus in the afternoon of the 10th of November.

Notes
* All participants should have a laptop. If you do not have the possibility to bring one, inform me and I’m sure I could find some extra ones in the academy or my personal storage. Those who wish to work with sound editing, need to bring a set of headphones as well. We will be using cloud storage for sharing files and working together as a group.
* The result of a similar courses hosted in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022 was a project called “One Person And”
(https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd78ljdlMd1PCllN5C9W0w61uI7hrRrw_&si=BlqndMtyG7-qnzR5). The result could be the fifth album of this project, but if it ends up being different, it could be a new project instead.

Financial support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € per week (5-7 days), 100€ per second week.

General KUNO Eligibility Rules:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please contact: Vygintas Orlovas at: vygintas.orlovas@vda.lt

Teaching period: 21/10/2025 – 31/10/2025

Location: Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki

Teacher(s): Slavs & Tatars collective, Kasia Korczak and Payam Sharif

ECTS: 1-4 (based on participation in teaching and execution of the course tasks)

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA /MA

Requirements: Basics of screen printing is a desirable skill, alternative printing method, e.g. Riso printing is also possible on a basis of independent practice.
Those interested in books and various printed ephemera, Eurasia, performance, philology, tea, translation, crafts, and poetry are welcome to apply.

Application deadline: September 24th, 2025

How to apply: Please fill out the online form including a motivation letter:

https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/7B5B92781BAEADC3

Course description
The course—part seminar, part workshop—will take place during an intensive two-week period in October 2025. We will explore material and conceptual approaches to reading as an act of hospitality, including translation and transliteration, with an emphasis on genres of religious texts, poetry and historical scholarship.
For much of its history, reading has been a collective and performative act. For millennia, texts have been recited, delivered to crowds, and experienced as a social body. Only in recent centuries have we become accustomed to understanding reading as a private, individual, and silent act.

In our age of rampant disinformation and increasingly fragmented, molecular attention, the course "Radical Reading" proposes to reexamine the potential of reading—in a broader sense—to create spaces for social cohesion. How does hospitality function as a discursive but also affective practice? How can the analytical and intimate act of contemporary reading be translated into a phenomenological and public act?

Learning material:

Hamja Ahsan, Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert

Dib, El Janaby, El Juridy, Hadi, Lariby, Younis, Manifesto of the Arab Surrealist Movement (1975)

Graham, Beyond the Written Word: Oral aspects of Scripture in the History of Religion

Henri Lefevre, The Production of Space

Saba Mahmood, “Religious Reason and Secular Affect: An Incommensurable Divide?”

Siah Armajani: Walk this Line, ed Victoria Sung and Claire Davies, Walker Art Center, 2018.

Rima Vesely-Flad, Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition, NYU Press: 2022.

Viktor Shklovsky, Turksib

Karen Brodine, Woman Sitting at the Machine Thinking

MMS, The Natural Enemies of Books: A Messy History of Women in Printing

Reza Negarastani, Cyclonopedia

David Melnick, Men in Aïda (Translations of the Iliad)

Mots d’Heure Grousse Reims (Nursery Rhymes Homophonically Translated into French)

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

Further information on the course content: annu.vertanen@uniarts.fi

Further information on applying and practical matters: kuva.international@uniarts.fi

Teaching period:  13th –17th October 2025

Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway

Teacher(s):  Dora Garcia

ECTS: 3

Number of available places for KUNO students: 2

Level: BA & MA

Application deadline: 19th September 2025

How to apply:  lease apply via this form online: https://nettskjema.no/a/542792

Course description:
What do we mean when we say that art is for everyone? can truly everyone access art? what does it mean to own an artwork, is ownership really something only for the elite? Art for the many or art for the few?

As art producers, Who do we have in mind when we make art?

As art producers and art consumers, Who benefits from art? Who decides and contextualises the art that we see?

keywords: art practice, public, public sphere, access to art, right to art

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Art is for everybody but only the elite knows it is a workshop/course made in collaboration with Athens School of Fine Art, the University of Bologna and KHiO Oslo, using the formats of group discussion and collective practice to develop new forms of political imaginations and of new forms of presence of art in the public sphere.

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Art is for everybody: the concept "commons" is defined as the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society (everybody), including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable Earth. But commons are as well worlds in movement, communities that create forms of life in common that are continuously transformed. Under conditions of art/commons, the making and circulation of (art)objects are aimed at concretising, making visible and surrendering agency to the expanded, multimodal and abstract relational network in which human value resides. The commons counter capitalist forms of production and value, but they are not outside capitalism, rather, they have carved zones of self-organisation and autonomy within them. The commons are a socialist and postcolonial space where knowledge, gestures and social relations go towards the reproduction of the commons.

But only the elite knows it: we will discuss together how art acquires value, monetary value and symbolic/influential value, and who determines this value and according to which factors. We will discuss how art is exhibited (made accessible) and for whom; how society is educated in relation to art - is art a necessity for everyone or just an amusement/luxury for the few? and we will discuss what is the role of artists in all that, and who has the right to call themselves an artist.

Practical/ theoretical

The workshop is mainly addressed to practice, but based on discussion and debate.

Bibliography (new items will be added)

Poetry is not Luxury, by Audre Lorde :https://sites.rutgers.edu/teaching-against-erasure/wp-content/uploads/sites/893/2022/11/Teaching_Black_The_Craft_of_Teaching_on_Black_Life..._-_Poetry_Is_Not_a_Luxury_Audre_Lorde.pdfLinks to an external site.

Hope and Fears for Art, William Morris: https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1882/hopes/chapters/chapter1.htmLinks to an external site.

Open Call for the Communist Museum of Palestine : https://en.bergenassembly.no/Open-Call-from-the-Communist-Museum-of-PalestineLinks to an external site.

'The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility , Walter Benjamin: https://monoskop.org/images/6/6d/Benjamin_Walter_1936_2008_The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Its_Technological_Reproducibility_Second_Version.pdfLinks to an external site.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

General KUNO Eligibility Rules:

- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please contact  Hanna Gjelten Hattrem hannhatt@khio.no 

Teaching period: September 8 – September 12, 2025

Location: Vilnius, Lithuania

Teacher(s): assoc. prof. Jolanta Mikulskytė

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6 - 10

Level: BA /MA

Requirements: some printmaking experience recommended, contemporary visual art, drawing, photos, writing, composition, the concept of color expression and harmony.

Application deadline: 29th of June, 2025, 2nd of July, 2025 – confirmation for selected participants.

How to apply: Please send your motivation letter and portfolio (the main artistic field / artistic research, maximum 12 slides, *pdf) to jolanta.mikulskyte@vda.lt

Course description:

This is a stone lithography printmaking workshop.

The course takes place at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Graphic Laboratory, printmaking workshop. Lithography is a particularly auspicious form of creative expression, encompassing a wide variety of expressive forms: an expressive drawing method, a watercolor like treatment of color, the drawing of miniatures, the raster offset printing, the art of ink etc.
Stone lithography is one of the most popular and revered forms of fine art printmaking. Originally invented in 1796, this form of printmaking utilizes a limestone slab, made flat and smooth, and relies on the mutual repulsion of oil and water to transfer an image from the stone to the paper.
During the course the participants will be introduced to the specifics of the planography print: stone and offset lithography, also polyester lithography and mixed media; and its main technological image creation principles that separate it from other graphic printing methods. The students will be encouraged to use the plentiful and unique plastic expression opportunities offered by stone lithography.
During the printmaking process the students will be encouraged to experiment and use common as well as non-traditional means of lithographic image creation and search for their own individual artistic style.
It will cover all the basic steps involved, including graining and preparing the stone, drawing with a variety of materials, etching the stone, inking, and printing; to try phototransfer on the stone, or print an offset lithography (optional).

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact jolanta.mikulskyte@vda.lt

Teaching period: 01/09/2025 – 05/09/2025

Location: Helsinki, Finland

Teacher(s): Magnus Quaife and Andy Best + guest teachers

ECTS: 2 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 10

Level: BA /MA

Application deadline: June 12th, 2025

How to apply: Please fill out this online application: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/17E40E3A13877025

Course description
This one-week course will explore how artistic practices might bring new perspectives on the state of the Baltic Sea. The Helsinki Commission’s (HELCOM) 2023 State of the Baltic Sea report explained that. “The Baltic Sea has unique biodiversity, and people around the region depend on its ecosystem in ways that are not always directly apparent or appreciated. But in spite of its ecological, economic and cultural importance, biodiversity is continuously being degraded and lost.” In what ways can artists respond, what kind of strategies can they employ, and how can art make a difference without being instrumentalised or deployed as propaganda? The course will involve artists talks, presentations and discussion with experts on the Baltic Sea, site visits, and workshops and will ultimately ask the students to imagine and plan an artistic response to the crisis that will become the subject of a seminar on the final afternoon.

Blue Green Algae in the Baltic Sea

(Eutrophication is one of the main threats to the biodiversity of the Baltic Sea and is caused by excessive inputs of nutrients to the marine environment. Eutrophication is driven by a surplus of the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus in the sea. Nutrient over-enrichment causes elevated levels of algal and plant growth, increased turbidity, oxygen depletion, changes in species composition and nuisance blooms of algae.)

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact ulla.tissari@uniarts.fi 

Teaching period: 26 – 30 May 2025

Location: Nida Art Colony (VDA), Lithuania

Teacher(s): Flora Bühlmann and Katharina Riedl 

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 10

Level: BA and MA

Application deadline: 27 April 2025

How to apply: A 250-word statement outlining motivation for taking part in the course should be submitted to: info@gemeinsambauenwirneu.ch 

Course description:

Through collective construction and discussion, participants in this study course engage in a critical examination of gender roles and power relations in architecture and design. A range of feminist tools is introduced to address current challenges in these fields, drawing on both historical and personal perspectives and experiences. The course aims to foster a deeper understanding of craft—particularly woodworking—through a feminist and social lens. Conversations are complemented and grounded by hands-on activities, including material harvesting and woodworking. Participants are encouraged to interrogate established norms in design, crafts, and education, and “untool” joinery in a joyful manner. 

Timber from the Curonian Spit has been central to the Neringa Forest Architecture project, initiated at Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2020, which redirects wood originally intended for the biofuel and paper industries towards architectural, design, artistic, and research inquiries. Within this framework, the course will also attend to the unique landscape of the Curonian Spit, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with further materials identified during field visits, including an excursion to a local disposal centre for reuse sourcing.

Over four days, the programme will include technical introductions to woodworking and joinery. Participants will work with tools and machines, share meals, and engage in collective discussions and walks through the forests of the Curonian Spit. The course encourages a critical and convivial approach, placing emphasis on questioning established practices in design, crafts, and education, and rethinking joinery beyond conventional frameworks. Participants will share and discuss their experiences of working with the materials around them, following their narratives, while learning how to build sustainably with found and locally sourced regenerative materials.

The study course is open to participants from all disciplines and is primarily intended for women and genderqueer individuals. No prior experience in crafts or woodworking is required, and all materials and equipment are provided. Applications from individuals of all genders will be considered when accompanied by a clear motivation, with the aim of ensuring a safer and inclusive environment for all participants. 

TUTORS

Katharina Riedl is a trained architect and clay builder in Switzerland and Austria. She has expertise in reuse of building material, regenerative materials and self-determined design and construction processes of self-organized spaces, with a special focus on housing. Together with Flora Selma Bühlmann she is part of Bau-Teilen, a company in Zurich that critically questions the construction industry in its practical implementation. She is founding member of the feminist crafts collective gemeinsam bauen wir neu and has implemented several projects, which are intended to enable the visibility of women and genderqueer people with and without disabilities in construction.

Maria Flora Selma Bühlmann is an architect and craftswoman based in Zurich. Her work explores reuse, self-construction, and participatory building processes. She has been involved in scenography, spatial transformations, and off-space interventions, often using salvaged materials. Since 2022, she has been part of Bau-Teilen, a collective of architects and craft workers focusing on sustainable construction. Alongside her practice, she teaches craft and building techniques in workshops and schools, fostering hands-on engagement with materials and space. She is founding member of the feminist crafts collective gemeinsam bauen wir neu and has implemented several projects, which are intended to enable the visibility of women and genderqueer people with and without disabilities in construction.

https://gemeinsambauenwirneu.ch/

https://bau-teilen.com/

https://ighallenleben.hotglue.me/

Additional information: The workshop will take place at the Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, E. A. Jonušo str. 3, Neringa LT-93127, Lithuania.  The teaching period begins on Monday morning (26 May) and ends on Friday evening (30 May). Participants are expected to arrive on Sunday, 25 May and depart on Saturday, 31 May. The cost of travel, accommodation, and meals are to be covered by the participants.  

Accommodation costs: a room with a shared bathroom costs 16€ per person per night. A room with a private bathroom costs 24€ per person per night. Rooms are shared by 3 to 4 students. Shared and self-funded cooking in the group will be planned for specific days as part of the study process.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility requirements:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please contact egija.inzule@nidacolony.lt

Teaching period: May 19-23, 2025

Location: Vilnius, Lithuania

Teacher(s): prof. Žilvinas Lilas

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA /MA

Course description (due to a high demand this is a repeated course)

It is a workshop on thinking. We will be thinking. With a focus not so much on what but how. Re-thinking Deleuze’s cinematic thinking on Truth, Time and the Falsifier. Attempting simultaneous or permanent thinking instead of successive. Also, intensive rather than extensive. We will practice mastering a concept with the right percepts, leading to meaningful affects. Also, we will contemplate degrees of power spread along the chromatic scale. And decide if abolishing organic description in the name of the crystal one and submitting the true to the power of false and raising the latter to its highest degree of power will give us back the truth. And is it still as liberating as it was in the 80’s? Discussing the shift of the concept of truth from something which pre-exists and must be discovered into something to be created or constituted. Asking ourselves if the Deleuzean project somehow fits into the classical thought topology of absolute poles, stacking the planes of thought on a linear scale, (zero to maximum degree) and rendering anything less than a maximum false—false of a lower power, or a worse-performing false—as inferior. In other words, placing moderate or mediocre false lower than the highest degree or genius of false, thus following the value-scale of crystalline purity and at the same time, performing a flip of the common values. Will it empower us, creators, while spinning the carousel of the “erased object and the imaginary, the created (by description) object” faster and faster, running them behind one another into an indiscernible flow, and thus unleashing the highest degree of the power of false and therefore rescuing the truth from the claws of the “truthful man”? And anyway, who is this truthful man of today, and what sort of truth emerges from the bosom of the power of false?  Will it offer us a framework for the multiplicity of fragments operating as One, or is multiplicity itself already a sufficient oneness (organs with no need for a body)? Last but not least, we will touch upon the theme of Fall. It is in the air… Would Hamletian utter— “The time is out of joint” —lamenting the loss of circularity and an onslaught of the linear, very well meaning a promethean linearity of flight or of free fall? 

Application deadline: April 27th, Sunday, 23:59

How to apply: Please send a free-form motivation letter along with your CV to zilvinas.lilas@vda.lt Please state the course name “KUNO image detox 2” in an email subject title.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact Zilvinas Lilas at: zilvinas.lilas@vda.lt

Teaching period:  19th – 23rd May 2025

Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway

Teacher(s):  Marthe Ramm Fortun

ECTS: 3

Number of available places for KUNO students: 2-3

Level: BA & MA

Application deadline: 6th April 2025

How to apply:  lease apply via this form online: https://nettskjema.no/a/5006966

Course description:
The course takes place at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, accessing Jean Brown Personal Papers with the consultancy of curator Caroline Ugelstad and archivist Dorthe Håker. The institution acquired the archive in 2013, a collection that other institutions found lacking of value from a collectible and quantifiable perspective. However, bordering on the private life both of Brown and the artists that contacted her, the archive for example serves a s a document of all the mail Brown received as a collector and supporter of DADA and Fluxus related art. For example, her archive serves as a document of the international mail art-movement, and invitations to performances in the format of both gallery shows and institutional programming makes evident the recent history and possible ways to contextualize performance art today. Our group will dive into the materials and employ the archival furniture designed for Brown by the self proclaimed - but not unproblematic description - "father" of Fluxus, George Maciunas. 

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

General KUNO Eligibility Rules:

- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please contact  Hanna Gjelten Hattrem hannhatt@khio.no 

Teaching period:  5th – 9th May 2025

Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway

Teacher(s):  Pedro Gomez-Egana

ECTS: 3

Number of available places for KUNO students: 2-3

Level: BA & MA

Application deadline: 30th March 2025

How to apply:  lease apply via this form online: https://nettskjema.no/a/497877

Course description:
Lonely Mountain is a course set at Akademirommet (Kunstnernes Hus) with the aim of making an exhibition based on a series of interrelated rules and frameworks devised by the group itself.

The timeline of the course means that the exhibition is developed Monday-Thursday, and the "exhibition" (or event) happens Thursday-Sunday. So attendance at every single session is compulsory.

Making a public exhibition with reduced time and a freshly assembled group is not an easy feat. This course, however, will turn this difficulty into its main asset. Not only will we find ways to make this exhibition happen, we will double up and make it even harder. This course is about making things as difficult as possible and seeing what comes out. For instance, one of the starting ideas will be to use none of the participants' previous work and to use as little physical material as possible...

However, this won't be all about chaos and despair! This will instead be about building frameworks for creative and collective work that keep us moving on, protect us from paralysis, and render something worthy of public view. No obstacle will be insurmountable!

The course will start with some reference points, from new complexity music scores (a form of scoring so complex that it can almost not be performed, but that renders a very special kind of performativity) to Fluxus instructions and situationism. I will bring the first outline of guidelines and frameworks, as well as a gamified system for us to develop the work. The rest will be up to the group...   

Participants in this course will summon their most open-minded, patient, pro-active, and mystery-embracing selves. This will not be a showcase of individual practices but rather an experiment in turning struggle into opportunity in the most practical ways possible. Welcome!

The course title, Lonely Mountain, doesn't mean anything, but doesn't it sound nice?

See you!

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

General KUNO Eligibility Rules:

- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please contact  Hanna Gjelten Hattrem hannhatt@khio.no 

Teaching period: 31 March - 4 April 2025

Location: Helsinki, Finland

Teacher(s): Harri Monni KUVA, Josefina Posch HDK- Valand, Anna Liljedal HDK-Valand, Jonatan Habib Enqvist,Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen

ECTS: 2-3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 8

Level: BA /MA

Course description
To rethink the notion of “activity” in artistic practices and artworks, conversations and develop new knowledge being able to see the artistic practice anew.

The main objective of the course is to create a critical awareness and discussion around the notion of passivity in art. We will discuss laziness, non-doing and withdrawal and furthermore reflect on the incitement and reception of artworks by looking at both art historical and contemporary examples, as well as different theoretical tools.

“When conceptual artists dismissed the production line when making an artwork, the contemporary artist puts the spectator in a situation of passivity where nothing is going to happen and how that can make a change."

The learning outcome is to rethink the artistic processes and develop new knowledge being able to see the artistic practice anew.

Course contains lectures and workshops. Active participation is important. At the end of the course there will be an event or exhibition.

Application deadline: February 24th, 2025

How to apply: Please fill out this application form: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/96D815CA666200CC

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact ulla.tissari@uniarts.fi 

Teaching period: 17-28 March 2025

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Teacher(s): Ida Lundén, Björn Larsson

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 4

Level: BA /MA

Course description
What is a sound?   

The first, still existing, recorded sound was created by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1860 in Paris. Sixteen years earlier, in 1844, Nils Månsson Mandelgren founded the Söndags-ritskola för Handtverkare (Sunday Drawing School for Craftsmen) in Röda bodarna (the Red sheds). Since then, the Konstfack school has operated at eight different addresses before the school, its library and archives moved to Telefonplan in 2004. 

Despite the fact that we have been able to record sound for 164 years, there are today very few sounding objects preserved in Konstfack's archives. Maybe there is still information about sound in the many works of art, pictures, objects, books, letters and other text documents that are in the archive? 

The course investigates, on several different levels, what a sound object is, and can be based on questions about conservation, archiving and sustainability through seminars, lectures, site visits, and workshops. In addition to this, there is also individual and group-based practical, creative work. 

More information about the course

Application deadline: 23 February 2025, 23:59

How to apply: Please send a free-form motivation letter along with your CV to ida.lunden@konstfack.se . Please state the course name “KUNO Hidden Sounds” in the email subject title.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact ida.lunden@konstfack.se or course administrator tomas.nilsson@konstfack.se

Teaching period: 17-21 March 2025 (in Trondheim), plus 13-20 February 2025 (online)

Location: Trondheim, Norway

Teacher(s):

 Annett Busch, Prerna Bishnoi among other guest lecturers

ECTS: 4 ECTS (for those who join online and in Trondheim) / 2 ECTS (for those who join in Trondheim only)

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6 - 12

Level: BA /MA

Application deadline: 20 January 2025, 23:59

How to apply: Please fill out this form with a short motivation statement and other information.

Course description:
ARTISTIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP argues for an agency that involves and engages new combinations and new forms of cooperation among researchers, concepts and ideas, technologies, resources, and machines. It paves the way for a different kind of entrepreneurship in the truest sense of the word: Rather than just a business model, it is the undertaking or new beginning of acting together across sectors, across actors and across disciplines, to inspire people to tackle the challenges society faces. How does Artistic Entrepreneurship extend the studio practice? What if Artistic Entrepreneurship is the new Punk Rock?

The course combines artistic practice and critical artistic research through project based thinking and reframing exercises. We are creating a playful glossary, rewriting and counter-mapping the rules of Monopoly, reimagining innovation by analysing rural frameworks, stimulating collaborative ideas and looking at dissemination and publishing formats.

As a KUNO express mobility course, “Exploring Artistic Entrepreneurship” is embedded in an elective course at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. Participants are encouraged to attend at least one introductory session online in preparation for the intensive course days in Trondheim.

In conjunction with the introductory elements, the course builds on the participants' artistic practice and aims to develop entrepreneurial ideas and themes collectively to foster strategic artistic agency against monoculture.

Learning Outcomes

Students can use relevant methods for research and artistic entrepreneurial development. The students can reflect on and articulate the significance and potential of art and artists in relation to society. Students will have the skills and training required to work collaboratively.

Readings: 

Antonio Negri / Michael Hardt, ‘Entrepreneurship of the Multitude’, in: Assembly, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Bernard E. Harcourt, Cooperation—A Political, Economic and Social Theory, New York: Columbia University Press, 2023

Keller Easterling, Medium Design , Verso, 2021

Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Francis de Vericourt, Framers, Penguin Random House, 2021.

Explore and learn from Fluxus artists: https://monoskop.org/Fluxus

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 100 €

Financial support is not provided for online participation. 

General KUNO Eligibility Rules:

- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions:

In case of any questions please contact annett.busch@ntnu.no

Teaching period: March 10-14, 2025

Location: Vilnius, Lithuania

Teacher(s): prof. Žilvinas Lilas

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA /MA

Course description
What shall we do? Is Alice in Wonderland a new real? Fakes everywhere, “deep” or shallow, freaky or banal, everybody and everything lies, can’t trust our eyes (and other senses) anymore. Images lie, appearances lie. Well, it seems we are cornered… But we still have to find the way out. Nihilism is not an answer. Diligent and resolute warriors of the phenomenal truth as we are, we are facing an onslaught of existential falsity. Plato rightly suspected that it will come to this and as a precaution, banned us from his City, Hegel retired us from History, cheerfully proclaiming that our mission is “accomplished”. By “we” I, of course, mean us, artists. Is there still any meaning left in creation of appearances? Perhaps sticking to fidelity? Fidelity to small things (within the reach of your arms—cups, pine cones, twigs, small neglected gestures). Rabid fidelity. Why don’t we go back to basic sensorics of taste, touch, smell? Flushing out the concept and keeping just an idea. If there’s nothing left to see, perhaps we shall close our eyes and try to remember? To remember instead of  imagine, remember actively, not re-actively. Finding something of a guidance in Deleuze’s Painting and the Question of Concepts? Let’s see…

Application deadline: January 31st, Friday, 23:59

How to apply: Please send a free-form motivation letter along with your CV to zilvinas.lilas@vda.lt Please state the course name “KUNO image detox” in an email subject title.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact Zilvinas Lilas at: zilvinas.lilas@vda.lt

Teaching period: 22nd – 28th January, 2025

Location: Mizarai recreation and workshop base, Lithuania

Teacher(s): dr. Vygintas Orlovas

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 7

Level: : BA /MA (all years)

Course description
The main aim of the workshop is to provide a theoretical background and terminology (based on Strategies of interactive art by Ryszard Kluszczynski) to discuss interactive art and the practical tools to create interactive works via the use of a visual programming language - Pure Data. The next step could be extending Pure Data via microprocessors (such as arduino).

Pure Data allows us to transform any input from the environment (sound, motion, touch, change in lighting, the conductivity of a plant etc.) into a number. That number can control any other parameter (modulation of sound, changes of an image, flow of electricity, values in different pieces of software etc.), thus it can be a handy tool when creating interactive artworks.

Throughout the workshop, I would like to discuss the methods for creating audio signals, graphic elements, electric currents, and manipulating and connecting various types of signals. And using microphones, webcams, microprocessors and other types of sensors while having Pure Data as a connection between these input and output devices and interactions.

The workshop will take place at Mizarai recreation and workshop base, which can be not only a place to share, but also a site to explore: https://www.vda.lt/en/facilities/mizarai-recreation-and-workshop-base

Example plan of the workshop: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oSqvJBU46tLCHzG9uhn6DVVSB1E0ZRKP/view

Application deadline: January 10th, 2025

How to apply: Apply by filling out this form, https://forms.gle/wA9BBEgJ38uoA8jPA

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact the coordinator of the workshop: vygintas.orlovas@vda.lt

Teaching period: 25th – 29th November, 2024

Location: Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus

Teacher(s): Stine Marie Jacobsen, artist and professor

ECTS: 2 study points (equal to 2 ECTS)

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA /MA (all years)

Requirements: no previous knowledge needed

Course description:
This course is an introduction to social art practices, conflict analysis, environmental and artistic inquiry where art students can reflect on their ethics and approach to working with/within different interests, cultures and other factors that influence their art projects. From a multifocal and multimedia perspective on the interactions and constitutive relationships between knowledge and art, we will discuss a transition from a production mode to a reproductive mindset in which art is not dominated by (individual) value extractions and hegemonic power/knowledge constellations. How can the reception of people's opinions, stories and information lead to new project ideas? What is at stake when artists make art that involves people? Artistic research can generate new collective knowledge about care and (ecological) care, motivated by a sense of political urgency. 

COURSE METHOD 

Students in this course will create their own art projects in contact with a person, a community or a specific place of their own choice. While practically applying the tools learned, conducting research, practicing negotiation skills, and learning tools of active listening through conflict analysis methods, students will reflect on their personal agenda, gather information and develop their ideas, to finally evaluate what impact their social art project has or will have on the person, community, or place they have chosen to work with or on during this 5-day workshop. Some parts of this course will be speculative due to the course time. The main goal is to develop a root concept of your own. 

BIO 

Stine Marie Jacobsen holds an M.F.A. in Fine Arts from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Copenhagen, Denmark) and a B.F.A. in Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Los Angeles, California, USA. She also completed an advanced training program in conflict resolution and peacebuilding at the Chulalongkorn University Peace Center in Bangkok, Thailand. Over the past 15 years, she has gained extensive experience working in conflict zones and post-colonial contexts in countries such as Colombia, Lebanon, Greenland and Eastern Ukraine. Jacobsen has conceived and developed a series of participatory and educational projects such as Direct Approach, where people retell the most violent movie scene they have seen from memory and play either the victim, perpetrator or bystander in a cinematic re-enactment. Also Law Shifters, where, in collaboration with lawyers, she invites people to performatively re-enact real-life legal processes and then write their own legal proposals. Or Group-Think: a sports and protest project in which she trains collective intelligence and safety with large groups. 

www.stinemariejacobsen.com

Application deadline: 14th October, 2024

How to apply: Please send an application form and short motivation to frontdesk@djk.nu. Please state the course name “When Theory lacks street” in an email subject title.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact Susanne Brokmann at: frontdesk@djk.nu

Teaching period:  25th – 29th November 2024

Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway

Teacher(s):  Marthe Ramm Fortun

ECTS: 3

Number of available places for KUNO students: 2-3

Level: BA/MA

Course description:
"Slide into my DMs" is a class about textual artist exchanges, love letters and sustainable strategies with regards to an open ended and reciprocal communication with an audience, exploring boundaries, vulnerabilities and possible asymmetrical institutional relationships.

This is a project class that will result in both individual and group presentations.

Application deadline: 4th November 23:59

How to apply:  Please apply via this online form: https://nettskjema.no/a/461393

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

General KUNO Eligibility Rules:

- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please contact hannhatt@khio.no

Teaching period:  18th – 22nd November 2024

Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway

Teacher(s):  Jan Verwoert

ECTS: 4

Number of available places for KUNO students: 2-3

Level: BA/MA

Course description:
Arguably one of the hardest moments about making art and being an artist comes when you need to step up and say: "This is a work and I want you to look at it and tell me how it makes you feel." You may have been more or less happy with what you were doing in the studio. Some parts about making art may even be fun and get you so excited you want to go back to where you left it the last day and do some more. But then we get to the deadline for a crit or show, and, on the doorstep of the soul, you wonder: "What the x am I doing? Who the x am I to do it? How the x am I going to get your attention?" Two main options present themselves. Number one is the conceptual claim: "Listen up, you need to consider my project because it's based on a good idea!" Number two is the holistic existential option: "Look, I give you all of me, so in return, give a little piece of your heart to me!" This is real. And it can drive you nuts. Giving the gift of your art feels like it's all about you. But when it comes to if and how the gift is received, it seems like it's not about you at all. How can you live with this contradiction?

This seminar series will consist of a series of talks about the histories, politics, psychologies and demonologies at play when a work is called a work, presenting different traditions and techniques for going about the transactions (between people, things, sensations, spirits and spaces) that shape art. The talks will be followed up by a seminar session in which participants are asked to coin concepts for building their own philosophy of handling how to call a piece a work.

Application deadline: 27th October 23:59

How to apply:  Please apply via this online form: https://nettskjema.no/a/457507

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

General KUNO Eligibility Rules:

- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please contact hannhatt@khio.no

Teaching period: 21st October– 1st November, 2024

Location: MALMÖ ART ACADEMY, Sweden

Teacher(s):  Michael Portnoy

ECTS: 6

Number of available places for KUNO students: 3

Level: BA

Course description:
The focus of this practice-based course is experimental creative writing. We’ll be looking at a diverse selection of short fiction and experimental texts from authors such as Richard Kostelanetz, Sheila Heti, Raymond Queneau, M. NourbeSe Philip, Lucy Corin, Edouard Levé, Claudia Rankine, R.A Lafferty, Padgett Powell, Greg Bordowitz, Lucy Corin, Daniil Kharms, Lydia Davis, Lucy Ives, László Krasznahorkai, Jamaica Kincaid and Olga Ravn, among others, as well as visual and performance artists who have innovative approaches towards language. The core of the course is the engagement in daily writing which follows from different formal and conceptual prompts. Through practice and discussion, we’ll do things with words both on the page and in the mouth in order to build a toolbox of techniques which can be drawn upon when incorporating text into one's work. The course will culminate in a PDF produced by the class including a selection of the writing created as well as prompts devised by the students designed to inspire future prose stylists.

Application deadline: 29th of September, 2024

How to apply:  Please apply by sending a motivation letter to Maj Hasager:
maj.hasager@khm.lu.se Please state the course name “Doing Things With Words” in an email subject title.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact charlotta.osterberg@khm.lu.se

Teaching period: September 17-27, 2024

Location: Nida Art Colony (VDA), Lithuania

Teacher(s): dr. Vitalij Červiakov

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6-8

Level: BA /MA

Course description
Information about the physical and psychological health benefits of daily walking, step-counting competitions and the accumulation of virtual points for daily walking is seen regularly in the public sphere. In artistic practice, walking together or alone takes on a much broader meaning. Walking and being together - embodies an artwork in each participant.
Artists use various walking practices in their work or research in the context of the growing concern about ecological and migration crises, urban planning decisions that are not compatible with natural human movement, new forms of being together in the virtual, post-pandemic situation and alienation. In light of these issues (and many more), the workshop will focus on embodied, participatory and collaborative art practices, using walking as a key tool.
The tutor of the workshop, Dr. Vitalij Červiakov, has been studying walking as an artistic practice for over 15 years. He is not only actively involved in the Lithuanian contemporary art field by developing structured and site specific participatory walks, but also conducts scientific/artistic research on the topic at the VAA Art Institute, describing walking as one of the most immediate ways of experiencing and thinking about space.
Only working your leg muscles will not be enough. The practice will also include guest lectures, collaboration with local institutions and enjoying the warmth of Nida's dunes!
An important day for the practice is 22 September, which is not only the autumn Equinox but also the day of Baltic unity and the International Car Free Day. For the sixth time in a row, this day will be the day of the all-day walk across the Curonian Spit, organized by Dr Vitalij Červiakov for the students of the Photography, Animation and Media Art department in Vilnius Academy of Art. This is a challenge that everyone who takes part overcomes in one way or another!

Application deadline: August 30th, 2024 

How to apply: Please fill out the application form https://forms.gle/GA7KoNhxZykZMyqJ7

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact the coordinator of the Workshop: gaile.cijunaityte@vda.lt

Teaching period: September 16-20, 2024

Opening of the city festival “All Roads Lead to Roam”: 13 September  (in Trondheim)

Location: Trondheim, Norway

Teacher(s): Annett Busch, Margarita Torrijos, Kristian Byskov Rasmussen

ECTS: 2 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6 - 10

Level: BA /MA

Course description:

A week of festive artistic urban research that invites site specific thinking and experimenting: Starting point of the course is a student-initiated city and exhibition festival in Trondheim, all roads lead to roam, that opens right the weekend before the course. The exhibition consists of nine spots, located within walking distance to the art academy, situated in Møllenberg and facing Solsiden, neighbouring Lademoen & Svartlamon, Rosenborg and Bakklandet. The selected locations, where the artworks are then installed, and walks connecting those spots, lead to places that may not have been noticed before. 

Places can open up new sights and perspectives, question everyday routines and blind spots, offer entry into historic narratives and struggles, point to economic and social divides and hidden infrastructures. 

We will engage with these places, artworks and their context and surroundings, add scientific-fiction and theoretical readings on site (outdoor), create audio-visual recordings and imaginary maps. As we roam (physically and theoretically) we will try to understand how things appear, how they are and how we would like the urban-social fabric to become. Playing with experimental utopias, exploring the potential of play in the city beyond designated playgrounds. In that sense, roaming locally can propel ideas translocally, can become a model and a new starting point to develop second festival editions, here and elsewhere. Students will discuss and work collaboratively in smaller groups, drawing on their knowledge of the different places they come from, to develop their own proposal for a site specific city festival, or propose a continuation in Trondheim. Folded into the specifics of sight and sites. "We often see computers not cables, light not electricity, taps and water but not pipes and sewers.” (Brian Larkin, “The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure,” 2013)

More information

Application deadline: 30 July 2024, 13:00   

How to apply: Please fill out the following online application form with a short motivation statement and further information.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 100 €

Eligibility:

- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions:

In case of any questions please contact annett.busch@ntnu.no

Teaching period: September 3-8, 2024

Location: Nida Art Colony (VDA), Lithuania

Teacher(s): prof. Žilvinas Lilas

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA /MA

Course description
Small Realities - Reconstructing Reality (later SR-RR) is a facilitator of artistic action focused on surroundings, perception, the factual, the remembered, and the desired, the interferences and obstacles, the real and the believed.
SR-RR is a 3rd International Media Refuge - a joint event of Caspar-David-Friedrich Institute of the University of Greifswald; Academy of Media Arts, Cologne; Turku University of Applied Sciences; Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Vilnius Art Academy. The previous events commenced at Naples and Cologne.
The practical idea of this residency is to observe, perceive and record Nida's surroundings using a variety of media, from traditional ones such as text, drawing, gesture/movement, photography, video and sound recording to new forms such as 3D scanning / photogrammetry. Students can work alone or in groups and engage in a mixture of outdoor and indoor activities, interspersed with periodic critical brainstorming sessions around the bonfire.
We plan a small work-in-progress exhibition on the premises of Nida Art Colony. The goal is to create what is possible with the tools that are at hand while using the visible and the seen in order to create new trains of visual thought inside the field of uncharted new media. It is expected to have a wide variety of different approaches such as but not limited to light/projection, sound, performative, and situated strategies.

Application deadline: August 16 (Friday), 2024 at 18:00 (CEST)

How to apply: Please send a short motivation letter (one A4 page maximum) with a link to your portfolio to Žilvinas Lilas at: zilvinas.lilas@vda.lt, with a subject heading “KUNO SR-RR Nida 2024”

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact Zilvinas Lilas at: zilvinas.lilas@vda.lt