ABOUT US

Göteborgs Bildverkstad is a collective workshop for artistic image production, offering a technically advanced workplace for various forms of image making. We are located at Klippans Kulturreservat, and have 15 workstations that members can use free of charge, except for material costs, as well as equipment for loan and rental. Göteborgs Bildverkstad is open to its members around the clock, year-round.

Our members are primarily artists, photographers, filmmakers, illustrators, comic book authors, animators, designers, architects, book publishers, cultural producers, and gallerists.

At Göteborgs Bildverkstad, we work with a goal to give you a space to go from idea to a finished production. Prepare an exhibition, send your book to print, screen your film, or prepare for a design market, etc. There are selected materials available for purchase to help you get started with your work, as well as part-time staff who can support members in their productions.

EQUIPMENT

Printers and Mounting: We have a large format printer capable of producing prints of the highest artistic quality in formats from A4 to 111.7 cm wide. After printing, you can cut your own passepartouts and cold-mount the images on Dibond or Kapa.

Scanners: We have two flatbed scanners for A4 and A3, a large format scanner for up to A0, and a half-drum scanner for negatives and positive film up to 5″x4″.

Additionally, we have our own bookbinding workshop, a vinyl plotter in the width of 122 cm, a 22″ Wacom drawing tablet, and a photocopier that many members use for zines and small-scale publications. There are also three powerful editing computers with calibrated monitors and Adobe Creative Cloud installed. The workstations come with a wide range of supplementary equipment.

At our spaces you’ll find meeting and project rooms that you can book, as well as a small but well-equipped photo studio.

Equipment Lending: Film lights with batteries, compact flashes with battery packs, two projectors, audio recorders, Hasselblad 6×6 analog camera, and Nikon D750 camera with lenses.

Equipment Rental: We have a 45-megapixel camera and a 4K video camera with several lenses and accessories available for rent at 250 SEK per loan period of 5 days.

We also run a darkroom for color and black-and-white photography in collaboration with KKV Göteborg. The darkroom is located at KKV GBG, Sockerbruket 44.

Göteborgs Bildverkstad also works on knowledge sharing by providing internal courses for our members and organizing open workshops, courses, and lectures in collaboration with other associations and interest organizations.