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Tonje Kjellevold (b. 1989) lives in Oslo. She is the project manager of networks, collaborations and partnerships at Norwegian Crafts. She is the co-editor of the craft anthology Earth, Wind, Fire, Water (Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2020) together with curator Randi Grov Berger. Through her work at Norwegian Crafts, she has contributed to many international exhibitions and other projects, including the Sino-Norwegian exhibition “Beyond G(l)aze, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, China and KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes, Bergen” (2015); the Nordic Craft Pavilion magic language /// game of whispers at Revelations Fine Craft and Creation Fair, Grand Palais, Paris (2015); the exhibition series “Norwegian Presence Norwegian Contemporary Crafts and Design”, Milan (2015–2019) and Earth, Wind, Fire, Water – the 44th edition of Tendenser currently on show at Galleri F 15 in Norway. Kjellevold holds a BA in East-Asian studies and Mandarin Chinese from the University of Oslo, with additional language studies in Mandarin from Fudan University, Shanghai. Since 2019, she has been studying Norwegian and Nordic linguistics and literature.