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Programmes and courses
  • In focus

    • 15Oct

      Departure 2026

      Enjoy our acting students present their solo projects. Each performance is max 45 minutes.

    • Three dance students lying on a stage.

      Courses in spring 2027

      Now is the time to apply for our courses in circus, dance, dance pedagogy, film and media, opera and theatre. Welcome with your application by 15 October!

    • ON / OFF SCREEN – Artistic research through the screen

      What happens to an artistic practice when it is translated onto a screen? VIS Open Call #18 invites artistic researchers to explore the screen as a surface, filter, barrier, window or portal. The editor of the issue is Mia Engberg, filmmaker and PhD alumni at SKH. Deadline 11 November 2026.

  • 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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    • Thursday, 15 Oct+ 2 other occasions
      15Oct

      Departure 2026

      Enjoy our acting students present their solo projects. Each performance is max 45 minutes.

    • Wednesday, 21 Oct
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      21Oct

      Wednesday seminar: Is this dance to be seen? Semiosphere and Kaleidoscopic figurations

      Join us on Wednesday for Andreas Berchtold 50% seminar. An afternoon exploring dancing, conversation and kaleidoscopic figurations of documentation.

    • Sunday, 25 Oct
      man with a theatre mask
      25Oct

      Operadax 2026

      Welcome to an evening of beautiful opera music, as nine vocal performers from Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (KMH) perform with KTH Academic Orchestra.

    • A picture of Akka/Áhkká, one of the sacred mountains in Sámi culture.ne of the Sámi people’s sacred mountains

      A series of seminars on Sápmi and Sámi history, culture and contemporary life

      2026-09-30

      This autumn, SKH is taking part in a seminar series on Sápmi and Sámi history, culture and contemporary life. The series is organised by Kin Museum of Contemporary Art together with several higher education institutions and organisations. The series coincides with the submission of the Sámi Truth Commission’s final report on 30 September 2026.

    • Portrait

      The Swedish Research Council awards 4.5 million to research project at SKH

      2026-09-30

      The Swedish Research Council has decided to award a project grant for artistic research in 2026 to the project SOLAR SONIC SENSORIES: Staying with listening-through-solar in the digital era, led by Jenny Sunesson.

    • ON / OFF SCREEN – Artistic research through the screen

      2026-09-28

      What happens to an artistic practice when it is translated onto a screen? VIS Open Call #18 invites artistic researchers to explore the screen as a surface, filter, barrier, window or portal. The editor of the issue is Mia Engberg, filmmaker and PhD alumni at SKH. Deadline 11 November 2026.

  • 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.

    • Two dancing people spinning in red fabric. From the performance The New Theatre/Scenex 2022.

      Quality Enhancement Work

      These web pages are primarily aimed at the staff and students of Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) and are intended as a support for quality enhancement work. The quality enhancement web pages are also aimed at other interested parties.

    • 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.

  • A dozen hot air balloons silhouetted against the sunset

    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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