Anne Kølbæk Iversen

Anne Kølbæk Iversen, Ph.D. in Aesthetics & Culture, is a researcher, curator, editor and writer living in Copenhagen.

2021-23 she was associated with Aesthetics & Culture at Aarhus University as a postdoc. with the research project The aesthetics of shame, the infrastructure of desire, supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, in which she investigated negotiations of gender, desire and shame linked to representations of the female body and their circulation.

In 2019-20 she was associated with the ARKEN Museum for Modern Art with the research project From Dust to Cosmos, where she studied works from ARKEN’s collection with a focus on speculative cosmologies and ecology.

She obtained her PhD in Aesthetics and Culture from Aarhus University in 2019 with the thesis Forms and Formations of Memory. Artistic negotiations of (trans)individuations in light of contemporary memory conditions as part of the research project The Contemporary Condition.

Kølbæk Iversen has been co-curator of a number of exhibitions, including From dust grains to cosmos, ARKEN Museum for Modern Art, Nov.-Dec. 2020; Systemics #4: Aarhus Report, Kunsthal Aarhus, Sept.-Dec. 2014 and Kunstrum Snæversti, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, April-May 2014.

She has, among other things, published Algorithm together with Lotte Løvholm (Antipyrine, 2022), “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 (2020) and with Sevie Tsampalla, “Bodies and Rhythms,” in The Contemporary Research Intensive (2018).