VELFERDEN PRESENTS #01 / 26
Happy New Year everyone! In 2025 we had a lot of exciting things programme and guests at Velferden and now we invite you to the first event of the year, we hope you will come and bring a friend:
Welcome to VELFERDEN PRESENTS #01 / 26: Nic Walter / Taylor Smith / Kiarash Dadgar / Sara Oveissi!
Come for a nice evening at Velferden and get to know us and our artists better.
In connection with the presentations, there will be a communal dinner (payment via vipps)
Meet visual artists Nic Walter and Taylor Smith, filmmaker Kiarash Dadgar, and multidisciplinary artist Sara Oveissi who are on residency with us now in November.
VELFERDEN PRESENTS is a series of events where artists and researchers present themselves and their work, creating a space for joint dialogue.
Time and place: Velferden -built at Sandbekk, Monday 26 January at 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Welcome!
Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/5VhysbOyF
The artists on tour in Jøssingfjord.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Nic Walter (b. 1992, Los Alamos, New Mexico) is a visual artist who explores the physical and psychological dimensions of toxicity. He paints exclusively with biohazardous materials such as herbicides, narcotics, and post-industrial waste.
On Velferden Nic has started a new series investigating by-products of the mining industry in Southern Norway, where he works directly with contaminated sediments and mineral waste. The paintings will show the distinctive visual properties of these materials (such as colour , viscosity, opacity and reactivity), as well as the range of effects they can have on the environment around them.
Taylor Alaina Liebenstein Smith is an American-born (b. 1993, Rochester, New York), French citizen and visual artist, currently residing in Oslo. She understands the climate crisis as a crisis of perception, and thus also as a crisis in our capacity for affect and action. With this as a starting point, she seeks, through interdisciplinary collaborations, to deconstruct perceived boundaries between scientific and artistic knowledge.
During the stay at Velferden Through photochemical film, microbial image processes, sound and text, she has explored the violent aesthetic and material gestures used in processes related to mining, toxic waste management and landscape "restoration".
Kiarash Dadgar (b. 1994, Esfahan, Iran) is an Iranian-Canadian filmmaker, writer, and interdisciplinary artist, currently residing in Toronto. He holds an MA in Dramatic Literature from Soore Art University in Tehran and is currently completing an MFA in Film at York University. His work often explores themes of memory, displacement, aging, and social injustice through minimalist visual storytelling and hybrid cinematic forms.
His award-winning short film The Steak has been screened at over 300 international film festivals and received more than 110 awards worldwide.
Sara Oveissi (b. 1994 in Tehran, Iran) is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist and creative director working in photography, video, and mixed media. Her work explores memory, identity, displacement, and emotional transformation through a poetic visual language and experimental storytelling.
She has exhibited work in Iran and Berlin, and is constantly developing her visual expression through interdisciplinary collaborations.
During the stay at Velferden Kiarash and Sara have worked together on the development of Graveyard, Kiarash's first feature film, focusing on research, script development, visual experiments, and site-specific image production as part of the project's pre-production phase.
