30 April to 26 June 2010
Curator: Marta Kuzma, Director, OCA
From 30 April to 26 June 2010 the Office for Contemporary Art Norway presented 'Postulates of Contiguity,' the first European solo exhibition by the Bangalore based artist Sheela Gowda. The project took the form of a dialogue between two works – And… (2007), a languorous serpentine rope produced from individual threads and needles that coils throughout the exhibition space to intercede the spectator's path and field of vision, and Best Cutting (2008), a display that combines a constructed newspaper, The Chronic Chronicle, overlaid by tailoring patterns. Both works asymptotically share the support of a material line to formulate a postulate on space that undermines continuity and coherence to instead, privilege notions of contingency making unstable logical connectives and inferred certainties. 'Sheela Gowda: Postulates of Continguity' was supported by O3–funds as underwritten by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Click here for more information.
21 October 2009 to 17 April 2010
Curator: Marta Kuzma, Director, OCA
'The Grammar of Forms' was a series public events, workshops and presentations that took place throughout autumn 2009 and winter 2010 at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway, with the aim to look at language, writing, criticism and publishing in relation to contemporary art, exploring its diverse modes of operation and possibilities within historical and contemporary practices. As a complement to this programme of events, OCA hosted a series of projects, including presentation of artworks and libraries of publications, further transforming OCA's public space into a place for production and exchange of discourse. Click here for more information.
6 March to 20 June 2009
Guest curators: Suman Gopinath and Grant Watson
The Office for Contemporary Art Norway presents 'Nasreen Mohamedi: Notes – Reflections on Indian Modernism (Part 1)', the first solo exhibition
in Europe of Nasreen Mohamedi. Curated by Suman Gopinath and Grant Watson the exhibition is part of
'Reflections on Indian Modernism', a comprehensive
programme of public projects and residencies organised by Gopinath and Watson for OCA and CoLab Art & Architecture, Bangalore, India. Regarded as one
of the most important Indian artists of her generation, Mohamedi (1937–1990) produced, from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, paintings, drawings and
photographs that constitute a key body of work within the modernist canon.
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8 November 2008 to 31 January 2009
Curated by Marta Kuzma, Director, OCA
'Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?' is a research project that consists of three platforms – an exhibition, a programme of public events and a publication – examining the juncture of the political and the erotic through the work of artists produced predominantly in the context of the countercultural movements of the 1960s and 70s. Part of OCA's Verksted series, the exhibition and public programme are the result of an extensive research project about the international perception of Scandinavia during the 1950s, 60s and 70s as a utopic region of socialism and sexual freedom. This project will introduced OCA's new premises at Nedre gate 7 in Oslo. Click here for more information.
