Office for Contemporary Art Norway

Marta Kuzma is the Director of OCA since 2005. She is also a member of the curatorial team for documenta 13 under the Artistic Director Carolyn Christov Bakargiev. Kuzma holds a postgraduate degree in Aesthetics and Art Theory, from the Centre for Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, London and an undergraduate degree in Art History and Political Economy from Barnard College/Columbia University. She was Co-Curator of the European Biennale of Contemporary Art, Manifesta 5: San Sebastian, Spain in 2004. Before accepting her first term as Director of OCA in Norway, she held nearly eighteen years of international experience within the contemporary cultural sector including as the Artistic Director of the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, Founding Director of the Center for Contemporary Art at the initiative of George Soros in Kyiv, and Director of the International Exhibitions Programme at the International Center of Photography in New York, NY under the directorship of Cornell Capa. She has taught and lectured at various leading institutions and is a contributing writer to the journals Radical Philosophy, Afterall, Artforum, Art Review, Flash Art, and Mousse. In 2009, Kuzma as OCA's director served as the commissioner for the Nordic Pavilion in Venice and brokered the first time historical cooperation between Denmark and Norway in the form of the Elmgreen and Dragset project. In 2011 she was a co-curator with Pablo Lafuente and Peter Osborne of Norway's official representation for the 54th Venice Biennale, which included the lecture series 'The State of Things'.

Toril Fjelde Høye came into the position as OCA's Head of Finance and Administration in December 2011 with a comprehensive background in business and administration, having completed her studies at Handelsakademiet in Oslo and leadership programmes at INSEAD in France and at the London Business School in the UK. Previous to her position at OCA, Fjelde Høye served as the Chief Financial Officer at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo from 2006.

Pablo Lafuente is the Associate Curator at OCA, the Office for Contemporary Art Norway, for which he has developed a number of projects, among others the anthology Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia? In 2011 he was a co-curator with Marta Kuzma and Peter Osborne of Norway’s official representation for the 54th Venice Biennale, which included the lecture series 'The State of Things'. Lafuente has written for numerous magazines and books, and since 2005 he is an editor for the publishing and research organization Afterall. Lafuente is also a lecturer at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.

Antonio Cataldo has studied at the University of Naples and at Iuav University of Venice, where he completed his MA studies in Visual Arts under the supervision of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. For the past two years Cataldo has been an Assistant Lecturer at Iuav University of Venice. He has worked as an editor within Fondazione March, an Italian foundation for contemporary art based in Padua, Italy, for their publication series. Recently Cataldo has been working within the Graphic Design and Advertising Office of Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia in Venice.

Tonja Boos studied product design at Høgskolen i Akershus (HiAk) and graphic design and art at the Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (KHiO), and worked as a graphic designer in Oslo for several years. She was 'Project Manager' for the research and exhibition project 'Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?', curated by OCA's Director Marta Kuzma and organised by OCA in 2008-09. Boos is currently the Managing Editor of a publication on 'Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?' that will appear in November 2011.

Tara Ishizuka Hassel, a Norwegian and Japanese national, has been living in Tokyo for six years, where she was the head of the International PR section, as well as a production coordinator for international performances at Japan's largest festival of contemporary performing arts, the Festival/Tokyo (F/T). She also has experience in organising concerts and masterclasses with internationally renowned contemporary music ensembles, and promoting international cultural exchange in organisation with the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture. She holds a Master of Arts from the University of Oslo.

Maria Moseng joins OCA's as a Press Officer (Norway) (P/T). Moseng is a freelance film critic, journalist and editor, and holds a MA in film and aesthetics from the universities of Oslo and Copenhagen. Moseng has also worked in past years as a visiting seminar teacher at the Department of media and communication at the University of Oslo, and in art film production. She has also been involved of recent in managing an exhibition series at UiO titled 'History Forms My Revolution'.

Paul Brewer comes to OCA with many years experience from the contemporary art field. A post graduate of critical studies at the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies in Annandale-on-Hudson in New York, Paul had been the Director of the Exhibitions Programme at the Corcoran College of Art in Washington, DC for several years where he organised major exhibitions by artists such as Tara Donovan, Siemon Allen and Critical Art Ensemble, among others. He also organised a series of artists' projects and related educational programmes at the State University of New York, Purchase College. In addition, his writing has appeared in numerous museum catalogues and art journals.

Asle Olsen holds a BA of photography from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and has studied Communication at the Norwegian School of Management, Oslo. Olsen has been working for the last four years as a 'Project Coordinator' for the National Annual Exhibition of the Visual Arts at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. He has experience in installation work from various independent art venues. In addition to be working as an indipendent photographer, he has organised and promoted concerts as well as photographing for musicians and bands.