During this launch Kunstlicht will present a reading from Clementine Edwards, and speak with artist Tanja Engelberts, Ruby de Vos, and writer Niloufar Nematollahi, all introduced by the guest editors and curators Anne Szefer Karlsen and Helga Nyman. Please join us for an evening in the name of the experiences of oil hosted by Kunstlicht’s editors-in-chief, Joyce Poot and Anna Sejbæk Torp-Pedersen.

Clementine Edwards is a Rotterdam- and Naarm/Melbourne-based artist who works across sculpture, film, performance, writing and [removed];Her ongoing research line is material kinship, which she locates in the context of climate colonialism. Soon Clementine publishes The Material Kinship Reader, co-edited by Kris [removed];[removed]

Tanja Engelberts is currently a resident at
the Rijksakademie voor beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. She graduated from a master fine art at Chelsea College of Art & Design after studying sculpture and monumental arts in both the Netherlands and [removed];Her works are included in the collections ([removed]) of Clifford Chance (UK), Nationale Nederlanden (NL) and the Ucross Foundation (USA).

Helga Nyman is an art historian and curator at Stavanger Art Museum, Norway.

Niloufar Nematollahi is a Rotterdam-based artist and researcher currently studying Middle Eastern studies and international relations. Intrigued by the intersections between culture and politics, Nematollahi studies artifacts such as stories and propaganda in order to construct a truthful representation of people’s entanglements with political dynamics of all sorts. Currently, Nematollahi’s research focuses on the links between the Iranian oil industry, labor movements, and resistance literature in the south of Iran.

Anne Szefer Karlsen is a curator, writer, editor and Professor of Curatorial Practice, currently programme director for MA Curatorial Practice at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen, Norway.

Ruby de Vos is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen, where she is finishing her project on the temporalities of toxicity in contemporary art and [removed];