Studio17

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 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/