What is the inclined? Why support structures? And how can these help us speak about change—(because yes, we still want many things around us to be different)? Support is generally intended as something that holds up or serves as a foundation, provides a basis for the existence or subsistence of someone or something, keeps from yielding, and gives comfort. Inspired by Adriana Cavarero’s words, this issue explores 'support' as all that sustains and shapes an art practice—what enables someone to stand as an artist or art professional today, whether in the absence of or despite certain systems, within the gaps of material constraints, transforming these limitations into opportunities for collective action and self-empowerment.

Guest-editors of this issue: Maja Bekan and Angela Serino, with contributions by Manuela Zammit and Alina Lupu, Patricia H. McMeans, Eleonore Pano-Zavaroni and Kathrin Wolkowicz, Multiple Choice, Irena Borić, Mari Kalabegashvili, Gunndís Ýr Finnbogadóttir, Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodriguez, toni kritzer.

Kunstlicht is a Dutch academic journal focusing on art, visual culture, and architecture.

Launch events were held at Casco Art Institute in Utrecht with presentations by artists toni kritzer and Patricia H. McMeans (20 January, 2024), and at Framer Framed in Amsterdam featuring art critic Manuela Zammit and artists Alina Lupu, Rumiko Hagiwara and Bea Mc Mahon from Multiple Choice, and Kathrin Wolkowicz (21 February, 2024).