HDK-Valand


HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design is a school for film, photography, literary composition, and fine art at the University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden. Its precursors trace back to 1848 and 1865, and in this sense is older than the University of Gothenburg.

History

School of Design and Crafts

The School of Design and Crafts at the University of Gothenburg was a design school in the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts. It was started in 1848 with the name Slöjdföreningens skola.
The main building is on Kristinelundsgatan in Gothenburg. The school also contained HDK Steneby in Dals Långed.

Gothenburg Drawing School

The Valand School of Fine Art was founded as the Gothenburg Drawing School in 1865 and has been part of the University of Gothenburg since 1977. The school is situated in central Gothenburg, currently across Vasagatan from the original building. Valand was the name of the construction company formed in order to build the original building which is now occupied by a nightclub of the same name, as well as a fraternal order.

Valand Academy

In 2012, Valand Academy was formed through a merge of the Valand School of Fine Art and three other formerly independent institutions at the University of Gothenburg: the School of Film Directing, the School of Photography and the Department of Literary Composition.

HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design

In 2020, Valand Academy merged with another school within the same faculty, the School of Design and Crafts / HDK. The merged school is now called HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design.

Notable alumni