The current and future premises of the Malmö Art Academy

In the last few days there has been an intense debate in the media about the Art Academy, which has been described as threatened with shut-down due to an eviction notice from the city of Malmö on its current premises. Lund University has been warned that the city needs the building as soon as possible, preferably within a year, with the aim of using it as a primary and lower secondary school. The city needs all the premises it can get hold of to open new schools, because of pressure from the number of pupils to be enrolled. Within Lund University, we have been working since 2015/16 on creating shared premises for the faculty, i.e. a common location for the activities currently housed in the Theatre Academy, the Academy of Music, the Art Academy and the IAC. This major project will take a few years and offers us great opportunities to develop our activities for the future. This type of process certainly takes time, but the date of 2027 which has been circulating in the media has never been mentioned in our work. We are hoping for a much faster process.