Studio17

Studio17 invites you to the exhibition opening of Crude Milk by our current artists in residence, VidAmir (Vida Kashani & Amir Komelizadeh).

🗓 Exhibition opening: Thursday 7 May 18:00–21:00

The exhibition continues Friday and Saturday (8–9 May)

Crude Milk is a multi channel video installation combining moving image, text, sound and sculpture.

The work reflects on what it means to live within an oil nation, materially, psychologically and politically. It explores a central contradiction where welfare and comfort coexist with extraction, dependency and unease.

Drawing on Norse and Iranian mythologies, Crude Milk approaches oil not only as a resource, but as inheritance shaping memory, identity and everyday life.

At its center is a divided voice questioning how one resists a system one also benefits from.

Kunstnerpresentasjon: Kunstnerduoen VidAmir (Vida Kashani & Amir Komelizadeh)
20. april kl. 18,

Studio 17 inviterer til kunstnerpresentasjon med residenskunstnerne Vida Kashani (f. Teheran) og Amir Komelizadeh (f. Teheran) ved Rogaland Kunstsenter 20. April kl. 18.

De vil presentere sin kunstneriske praksis, tidligere arbeider og gi innblikk i prosjektet de utvikler under sitt opphold ved Studio 17. Duoen arbeider med essayfilm, video og installasjon, og undersøker olje som både materiale og fortelling – med særlig oppmerksomhet på landskap, tid og kollektive minner. Velkommen!

Artist Presentation: Vida Kashani & Amir Komelizadeh

Studio 17 invites you to an artist presentation with artists-in-residence Vida Kashani (b. Tehran) and Amir Komelizadeh (b. Tehran) at Rogaland Kunstsenter on April 20 at 18:00.

They will present their artistic practice, previous works, and share insights into the project they are developing during their stay in Stavanger. Working with essay film, video, and installation, the duo explores oil as both material and narrative, with a particular focus on landscape, time, and collective memory.
Welcome!

Screening & Open Studio with VidAmir at Studio17, Stavanger

Friday 17 April, 18:00–20:00
Screening: One Image, Two Acts (2020)
+ introduction & Q&A

Saturday 18 April, 15:00–17:00
Conversations & interviews

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25–26 April, 13:00–15:00
Open studio continues

An entry point into VidAmir’s ongoing research on oil, memory, and place.

Free and open to all.

Studio17 Residency
Vida Kashani & Amir Komelizadeh
📅 14.04 — 10.05.2026

Studio17 welcomes VidAmir - Vida Kashani and Amir Komelizadeh, arriving on 14 April!

Originally from Iran and now based in the Netherlands, they work between essay film, video installation, and interdisciplinary projects, engaging oil as both substance and story.

Working on site through filming, writing, walking, and conversations with local residents, they trace how geological time, landscape, and collective memory shape the narratives that surround extraction.

In Stavanger, they are interested in listening for the quieter stories beneath these global echoes.

Public program (first weekend):
17 April
Screening: One Image, Two Acts (2020) by Sanaz Sohrabi

18–19 April
Conversations with local residents (afternoon)

More information to follow 🙂

Photo #1: Sebastiaan Rodenhuis

Studio17 is thrilled to invite to the exhibition opening of “Almost Held” by our current artists in residence, Damaris Athene and Valentino Vannini.

Exhibition opening:
Wednesday 4th March 6-8pm

Opening Hours:
Thursday 5th March 2-6pm
Friday 6th March 12-4pm
Saturday 7th March 12-4pm

Almost Held brings together new work by Damaris Athene and Valentino Vannini, developed during their residency at Studio17 in Stavanger. United by a shared interest in thresholds and states of transition, the exhibition unfolds as a material and perceptual dialogue shaped by the coastal landscape. Athene presents expanded photographic works initiated through site-responsive image making in Stavanger and on the island of Vassøy, printed on fabric and installed in space. Vannini exhibits a new installation combining lamp-worked glass and wax, informed by dissolving ice and chain-link fences observed around Storhaug park. Together, the artists create an environment of suspended transition and permeable boundaries.

Studio17 Residency is pleased to welcome artists Damaris Athene & Valentino Vannini to Stavanger for the first Residency of 2026!

Damaris Athene and Valentino Vannini are exploring thresholds during their stay in Stavanger. They are interested in the borders between land and water, people and the social or commercial systems around them, or the boundaries between bodies. They are keen for the materiality of the Stavanger landscape to permeate their practices, making work in response to their embodied experiences.

Stay tuned for insights into their processes and announcements about events during their residency!

Happy 2026 everyone! ✨
We’re excited to introduce our artists-in-residence for the year ahead. Follow along for projects, processes, and moments from the residencies.

Studio17 is excited to welcome artists—K.C ⇄ Q [K.Chen (.chen._) and Kasper Quaink ()]

Their residency explores photograph-documentations, field research and developing tools to “observe” and archive the shapes around the locals.

Follow along for updates and events during their stay!

The Open Call for Studio17 Residency 2026 is out now! This time we will only have one open call for all the Residencies of 2026.

Check our website https://s17.no for more information, Residency slots and application form! Deadline is Monday December 1st.

We’re excited to see your work 🤩🤩

Studio17 Residency is excited to welcome Miina Laine & Hans-Peter Schütt from Finland! 🌿

Together they continue their ongoing project Walking Narrative (since 2018) — where art emerges through walking, wandering, and chance encounters with the environment. During their residency they’ll create works in public space as well as a gallery exhibition here in Stavanger.

✨ Follow along for updates on their journey!

🔗 More info: https://s17.no/miina-laine-hans-peter-schutt/

Digging for the next
A performance and exhibition from Sinae Lee () & Lucie Garrigues ()

Opening and performance tonight at 18:30!
The exhibition is open Saturday and Sunday 12:00 - 16:00
Free entrance and open to everyone!

Studio17
Øvre Strandgate 66
4005 Stavanger

Fb—event: https://facebook.com/events/s/sinae-lee-lucie-garrigues-digg/1229211014950647/