Key resources and databases
General information about the library and the collection.
Shelves in the library
You will find shelf information for each subject under "Resources for your subject". See Library of Fine Art and Design for a general overview of the library.
Journals and newspapers
The library has a large selection of journals within art and design.
New printed journals are on display, and older issues are in the compact stacks.
Students and staff at UiB have access to digital journals. An overview is available in BrowZine, and they can be searched in Oria. Remember to use VPN to get access.
The library has several newspapers that can be read in the library (BT, Dag og Tid, Dagens Næringsliv weekend, Klassekampen, Morgenbladet and Weekendavisen). Many other Norwegian and international newspapers are digitally available to students and staff in PressReader.
Key databases
Film and video
Reference works
Oxford Reference – Art & Architecture
Image databases
Artistic research (incl. KMD works)
Research Catalogue – an international database for Artistic Research
PhD candidates' critical reflections (KMD and KHiB)
THILDE LOUISE DALAGER (2026)
SIV LIER (2026)
HUMAN OBJECT: A disobedient pathway towards a more resonant design practice
SIDSEL CHRISTENSEN (2025)
INTERDIMENSIONAL ARTISTIC REFLECTION:
Speculative movements through Spatial, Digital and Narrative Media
KAREN WERNER (2025)
MAARTEN VANDEN EYNDE (2024)
SIREN ELISE WILHELMSEN (2024)
Odd New Spring: Towards Evolving Landscapes and a Reorientation in Design Practice
INGRID RUNDBERG (2024)
SØREN THILO FUNDER (2024)
Oceanic Horror or How to Survive the Night in the Haunted Mansion of Absolute Capitalism
SVEINUNG RUDJORD UNNELAND (2023)
Urgent Affairs, Strange Empathy
PAULIINA PÖLLÄNEN (2023)
Porous Worlds – the Liminal Spaces of Relief
ERIK FRIIS REITAN (2022)
JULIANE ZELWIES (2022)
SABINE POPP (2021)
Agential Matter (Invisible Landscapes)
FREDRIK RYSJEDAL (2019)
Frozen Moments in Motion: An Artistic Research on Digital Comics
ALBERT CHENG-SYUN TANG (2018)
Reflective Roaming – Design, ubiquitous fantasy, everyday reality
TAO G. VRHOVEC SAMBOLEC (2017)
RHYTHMS OF PRESENCE
HILDUR BJARNADÓTTIR (2016)
TEXTILES IN THE EXTENDED FIELD OF PAINTING: RECONSTRUCTING THE PAINTER'S CANVAS BOTH CONCEPTUALLY AND LITERALLY THROUGH WEAVING: USING PLANTS AS A SOURCE OF PIGMENT IN CONNECTION TO A PLACE OR A PERSON: Reflection on an Artistic research project 2012-2016
MICHELLE TERAN (2016)
ELLEN JOHANNE RØED (2014)
SKYVELÆRE: Critical Reflection on Artistic Results of a Fellowship Project in Artistic Research
PATRICK ENTIAN (2013)
LOOKING FOR PAINTING: Critical reflection on artistic research
PEDRO GÓMEZ-EGAÑA (2012)
15.07.2006 - 21.04.1976 - 19.01.2012: A Collection of Writings as a Critical Reflection on an Artistic Research | Video chapter
KJELL RYLANDER (2012)
kontentum: återblick, omformulering, dokument
CAROLINE SLOTTE (2011)
SECOND HAND STORIES – reflections on the project
LINDA LIEN (2010)
Identitetsdesign for geografisk avgrensa område
TROND LOSSIUS (2007)
Sound - Space - Body: Reflections on Artistic Practice
About artistic research
Nina Malterud: Kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid – nødvendig og utfordrende, published in: Nordic Journal of Art & Research Vol. 1 No. 1 (2012)
Resources for your subject
Detailed resources per subject – with databases, reference works and a subject contact.
Fine art
Shelves in the library
700 Art in a broad sense
701-708 Visual art and crafts
709 Art – history, various countries
709.2 Artists – biographies (shelved along the wall)
730-736 Sculpture
738 Ceramics
750 Painting
760 Printmaking
770 Photography, computer art, film, video
770.92 Photographers
Various resources
- Getty Research Portal – digitized art-history texts
- Videokunstarkivet – 3,000+ works by 660 Norwegian artists (1960–)
- Free resources: Art21 · Louisiana Channel · UbuWeb · Open Culture
- e-flux – international network for visual-art professionals
- Contemporary Art Daily – international exhibitions
- Metropolitan Museum of Art – digitized collection (~440,000 records)
- MoMA – online exhibition archive (from 1929)
- Monoskop Log – art, culture and media technology
- Naxos Music Library – audio for design processes and presentations
- VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
Artists' books and fanzines
- SABPP (Scandinavian Artists' Books Partnership Project)
- Torpedo Books (Oslo)
- Katalog for kunstnerisk publisering
- Artists' Books Online
- Bergen Art Book Fair · Boekie Woekie · Book Works · Printed Matter
Subject contact
Design
Shelves in the library
Graphic design and visual communication:
741 Drawing and drawings
744 Design in general, graphic design
745.2 Industrial design, product design
776.6 Computer animation
791.4334 Animated film
Furniture and spatial design, interior architecture:
710-719 Land-use planning and landscape architecture
720-728 Architecture
729 Interior architecture
747 Interior design
747 Furniture design
Journals
Design in general:
Communication Arts
Creative Review
Form: Svensk och nordisk design
Slanted
Surface Design Journal
Wallpaper
Graphic design and visual communication:
Eye Magazine
Journal of Illustration
Letter Arts Review
Numer: tidsskrift for tegning, illustrasjon og bokkunst
Furniture and spatial design, interior architecture:
Arkitekten
Arkitektur N
Frame
Lyskultur
Databases and resources
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Material District
Subject contact
PPU (teacher-education programme)
Shelves in the library
370 Education and training
371 Schools, special needs education
372-374 Specific levels of education
375 Curricula, study plans
378 Higher education
The Social Sciences, Music and Psychology Library has a large selection of education books. KMD students can borrow the books there, or order the books for pickup at the Fine Art and Design Library.
Journals
- Norsk pedagogisk tidsskrift (Idunn, from 2002)
- FORM: subject-didactics journal for art and design – available in print in the library from 1999
- Art Education
Databases
- ERIC – international subject database for education
- ProQuest One Education
- PsycArticlesDirect
Subject contact
Maria Refsdal (Art and design) – Daniel Henry Øvrebø (Music)