The Office for Contemporary Art Norway is presenting ‘WORD! WORD? WORD! Issa Samb and the Undecipherable Form’, the first solo exhibition in Europe by the seminal Senegalese artist Issa Samb. The exhibition brings together a selection of emblematic works made by Samb over the past 25 years, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, assemblages and installations, as well as objects, artworks made by others and diverse materials he has amassed in his studio in Dakar’s rue Jules Ferry.
'Beware of the Holy Whore: Edvard Munch, Lene Berg and the Dilemma of Emancipation' is a project organised by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) and Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice, as the official Norwegian representation at the 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia in 2013.
Background image: Edvard Munch: Samfundslære, årsak og virkning (Social Studies, Cause and Effect) © Munch-museet/Munch-Ellingsen gruppen/ BONO, Oslo 2013
In the sixth edition of the Turku Biennial the participants have been invited to examine the concept of 'idyll'. The biennial will include fifteen artists and artist groups from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland, all presenting new works and is open until 1 September 2013.
