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Anne Kølbæk Iversen
Postdoctoral researcher, curator O - Overgaden - Institute of Contemporary Art
Biography
Anne Kølbæk Iversen, PhD, is a researcher, curator, editor, and writer based in Copenhagen. She is Head of education and research at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and currently conducting the research project Crip Time: Art of Impairment, Withdrawal, and Impatience (2024-27) in collaboration with the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen and O – Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, funded by the New Carlsberg Foundation. Recent research projects include Aesthetics of Shame, Infrastructures of Desire (2021-23), funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and affiliated with Aarhus University; From a Grain of Dust to the Cosmos, studying works from ARKEN’s collection from a perspective of speculative cosmology and ecology (2019-20) affiliated with ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, and the PhD project Forms and Formations of Memory. Artistic negotiations of (trans)individuations in light of contemporary memory conditions as part of joint research project The Contemporary Condition at Aarhus University.
Publications include, “Touching, Morphing, Splicing: Articulations of Bodily Complexities and New Erogenous Terrains in Contemporary Danish Art Practice”, in Transformative Feminisms (De Gruyter Verlag, 2026); “Det gengældte blik. Fotografiske selviscenesættelser som kunstnerisk strategi til forhandling af køn, identitet og seksualitet”, Periskop no. 31 (2024); Algorithm (anthology edited with Lotte Løvholm) (Antipyrine, 2023); “Visualising the Invisible, Imagining the (Im)possible,” in ARKEN Bulletin, vol. 8 (2020), “A Parting Ways While Being With. Critical Investigations and Acts of Assembling in Jane Jin Kaisen’s Practice,” in Jane Jin Kaisen – Community of Parting (Archive Books, 2020), “Then you will teach him again to dance inside out. On ingestion and entropy in Kasper Hesselbjerg’s Lunacy exhibition,” in Oberon Magazine (2019), and with Sevie Tsampalla, “Bodies and Rhythms”, in The Contemporary Research Intensive (Sternberg Press, 2018).
