Ung Svensk Form is an annual juried award and travelling exhibition that aims to increase and disseminate knowledge about young and innovative Swedish design. It focuses on the need to be able to create and explore freely, without any requirement to adapt the results to the market. Interdisciplinary work is encouraged. Scholarships are awarded to selected designers who have performed particularly well. Ung Svensk Form plays an important role as a forum for the emergence of encounters between designers, manufacturers and the public.
The project began in 1998 at the initiative of Svensk Form (The Swedish Society of Crafts and Design) and Form/Design Center in Malmö, and celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2018. Many participants from previous years are now well established in their respective fields.
“This year’s edition of Ung Svensk Form takes us on a thought-provoking and richly experiential journey into the borderland between utopia and dystopia. This may be the most conceptual edition of Ung Svensk Form since the project began in Malmö in 1998. It is clear that there is a strong need to comment on the uncertain contours of both the present and the future, whether that involves furniture design, visual communication or speculative design.”
/Mats Widbom, Managing Director, Svensk Form
Catalog 2020
Read the catalog online here>>.
All selected participants in Ung Svensk Form 2020
Camilla Arnbert – Surfaced Print
Karin Andersson & Johanna Bratel – Vänskapstorget
Elias Båth – Död Mark
Mattis Dallmann – WITH / OUT
Evelina Dovsten – Every sampling is a testimony
Emilia Elfvik – Pushing Embroidery
Jesper Eriksson – Coal: Post-Fuel // A New Social Relation
Sofia Eriksson – Bodybuilding Mirrors
Sara-Lovise Ask Ewertson – Puffer-jacket-soft-squad, pure sculpture!
Leo Fidjeland & Linnea Våglund – Pink Chicken Project
Erika Geiger Ohlin – Uncanny Traces
Gustaf Helsing – Ängsliga Mattor
Coby Huang – R.O.S.P – Ritual of Sexual Pleasure
AnnaMia Lindblom – Jag kom, jag såg, jag sydde
Lisa Lindh & Klara W. Hedengren – KOLONN
Nils Lilja & Marcelo Rovira Torres – No Composition
Julia Olanders – Mellanting
Erik Olsson – BOJSKAUT
Mattias Pettersson – Alien Worrior Princess
Tilda Ragnartz – Hot Movie New Popular Fullhd
Kajsa Samuelsson – Beginning Middle And
Kitty Schumacher – DESIRE_LINES
Matilda Ellow – SELF TITLED
Mattias Selldén – Mix Sushi
Oscar Wall – Ryafåtölj
Read a PDF over the participants here>>. (Design: Studio Reko)
Find press images for all contributions here>>.
Ung Svensk Form 2020 – The jury
Samir Alj Fält
Parasto Backman
Caroline B. Le Bongoat
Johan Deurell
Linnéa Therese Dimitriou
Salka Hallström
Tom Hedqvist
Åsa Jungnelius
Henrik Johansson
Nike Karlsson
Petra Lilja
Tor Lindstrand
Bea Szenfeld
Mats Widbom
Ung Svensk Form 2020 is a co-production between Svensk Form and The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design (ArkDes) with support from IKEA and the City of Malmö.
