26 January – 30 March 2012
Dubravka Duba Sambolec
Sambolec Dubravka, Hommage à Pioneers, 2011. Courtesy of the artist
Support provided for the production of a catalogue in relation to artist Dubravka Duba Sambolec's three solo exhibitions at SKUC Gallery in Ljubljana, Slovenia (26 January to 26 February 2012), Centre for Contemporary Arts in Celje, Slovenia (9 March to 26 April 2012) and Gallery of Croatian Artists Association in Zagreb, Croatia (TBD). The bilingual catalogue will include photographic documentation of the artist's work and texts by the artist, curator Urska Jurman and Tevz Logar, the director of SKUC Gallery. The exhibition will comprise textual drawings, wall pieces, sculpture, neon texts and video performances. Curator: Urska Jurman, Independent curator based in Slovenia
26 November 2011 – 12 February 2012
Västerås Konstmuseum
Anne-Karin Furunes
Anne-Karin Furunes, Another Day at the Sea, outdoor work at Grane oil platform, North Sea, 2003. Courtesy of the artist
Support provided to the Västerås Konstmuseum in Västerås, Sweden for a solo exhibition by the artist Anne-Karin Furunes (b.1961, Ørland, Norway, lives in works in Stjørdal, Norway). Since the artist’s public project Sara was inaugurated last year in the centre of the city last year, the museum sought to develop an in-depth exhibition of her work. According to curator Åsa Grönlund, the exhibition ‘will focus especially on the large-scale, closely cropped images of faces taken from archival photographs’. Furunes also plans to produce a new work specifically for the exhibition. Curator: Åsa Grönlund, curator, Västerås Konstmuseum
1 April 2011 – 1 April 2013
Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND)
Matias Faldbakken
Support provided for an initial site visit by the artist Matias Faldbakken (b.1973 in Hobro, Denmark, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) in order to plan a public project in Marfa, TX, USA as part of LAND's large-scale, multi-venue exhibition 'Nothing Besides Remains'. According to curator Shamim M. Momin, 'each installation will have a perspicacious relationship to both the artist's individual practice and to the unique location in Marfa'. The series of public projects will launch in the late spring of 2011 and continue through the spring of 2013. Curator: Shamim M. Momin, founding director, LAND
26 January – 30 March 2012
Dubravka Duba Sambolec
Sambolec Dubravka, The Last block on Our Way #1, Drawing for sculpture, 2010. Courtesy of the artist
Support provided for the realisation of three solo exhibitions by Dubravka Duba Sambolec (b. 1949 Ljubljana, Slovenia, lives and works in Oslo, Norway). The exhibitions will be held in three different non-profit galleries: ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Celje, Slovenia and Croatian Artists Association, Zagreb, Croatia in 2012. According to the artist, ‘the installation of the exhibitions will take form in concentrated areas of works with large empty spaces between them and will be reminiscent of different territories’. Dubravka goes on to state that ‘the project comprises textual drawings printed on the indoor banner media, drawings, wall pieces, sculptures, neon text and video performance’. Curator for the three solo-exhibitions: Ursa Jurmann, independent, curator, critic, editor, researcher and organizer in the field of visual arts, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia
9 December 2011 – 19 February 2012
Øyvind Renberg
Miho Shimizu
Arnolfini
Peanut Sofa installed in the 'Danger Museum: Recycled' exhibition at UKS gallery, Oslo, 2008
Support provided for the participation of Danger
Museum consisting of Øyvind Renberg
(b.1976 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Berlin, Germany) and
Miho Shimizu (b.1976 in Tokyo, Japan, lives and
works in Oslo, Norway) in the group exhibition ‘Museum Show: Part
2’ at Arnolfini,
Bristol, UK. According to the artists, ‘Danger Museum will approach
their participation in the 'Museum Show: Part 2' with the creation
of a mini-retrospective’. According to curator Nav
Haq, 'Museum Show’ will be ‘a large-scale exhibition – a
museum of museums – displaying this comprehensive selection of
highly idiosyncratic, fictional institutions’.
Curator: Nav Haq, curator, Arnolfini, Bristol ,UK
11 November 2011 – 12 February 2012
Jorid Lekve Eide
Frode Halvorsen
Jorid Lekve Eide and Frode Halvorsen, And then the guitar sounded like a piano installation view, 2009. Courtesy of the artists
Support provided for the ‘The Darkest Hour Seeks Forgiveness’, a project by artists Jorid Lekve Eide (b.1982, Bergen, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) and Frode Halvorsen (b.1980, Bergen, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) at Beaconsfield in London, UK. The artists use the novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift as a point of departure. Swift’s satirisation of the values and political events of England and Ireland at the time is used, according to the artists, ‘to draw parallels to Norwegian society today’. The artists plan to produce three distinct installations inspired by the stories and characters depicted within Swift’s novel. Curator: Curator: Naomi Siderfin, Director, Beaconsfield
24 January – 6 March 2012
Rachell Dagnall
Tatlin's Tower and The World - A Batik Textile made in Ghana by Henry VIII's Wives (detail), 2010. Commissioned for the Whitechapel Gallery, UK. Courtesy of the artists www.tatlinstowerandtheworld.net
Support provided for the participation of artist Rachel Dagnall (b.1972 in Liverpool, UK, lives and works in Nesodden, Norway) in a lecture seminar titled ‘(in)flexible cities: The City Seminar’ at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. According to the organisers, the discussion will centre on artist Anish Kapoor’s proposed ArcelorMittal Orbit project in London’s Olympic Park ‘as a symbol of urban change and as a partial realisation of Tatlin’s unbuilt Monument to the Third International’. Dagnall will speak in relation to her ongoing project Tatlin’s Tower and the World (in association the artists’ group Henry VIII’s Wives). Other participants in the seminar include Dr. Karen Till, Ash Amin, Anique Hommels, Owen Hatherley and Romola Sanyal. Curator: Michal Murawski, PhD Candidate, Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK.
21 January – 19 February 2012
Randi Nygård
Munan Øvrelid
Munan Øvrelid, stills from A Sense of a Beginning, 2011. Courtesy of the artist.
Support provided for the participation of artists Randi Nygård (b.1977 in Bergen, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) and Munan Øvrelid (b.1978 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) in the group exhibition ‘New Horizons, Landscape and the Contemporary Romantic’ at Kunstraum T27 in Berlin, Germany. According to the curator Rebecca Partridge, the exhibition brings together artists who ‘look to the natural sciences, literature and art history to underline and explore the impact ideas about nature on contemporary life’. Nygård plans to develop ‘an installation where still images from films about biology and scenes from fiction films are mixed’. Øvrelid plans to develop a video project using ‘monuments/statues representing figures from Romanticism,’ which will ‘break down and open the static image they represent’. Other participating artists include Jane Hughes, Bjarte Alvestad, Sarah Jane Gorlitz, Wojciech Olejnik and Katie Paterson. Curator: Rebecca Partridge, independent artist and curator, based in Berlin, Germany and London, UK.
11 January – 22 April 2012
Tensta Konsthall
Matias Faldbakken
Matias Faldbakken, Double Cover Xerox 03, 2008. Courtesy of the artist
Support provided for the participation of artist Matias Faldbakken (b.1973 in Hobro, Denmark, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) in the group exhibition Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies at Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm, Sweden. According to curator Maria Lind, ‘Abstract Possible’ is a ‘research project in the sense that it evolves over a longer period of time, exploring a set of questions in relation to physical and spatial articulations which then in turn lead to further iterations of the project’. Beginning at Malmö Konsthall, the project continued on to the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City and the Zurich University of the Arts before arriving in its new iteration in Stockholm. Faldbakken has produced a new series of Triple Screenprints specifically for the exhibition. Other participating artists include Doug Ashford, Claire Barclay, Yto Barrada, Pia Camil, Jose Leon Cerillo and Zachary Formwalt. Curator: Maria Lind, Director, Tensta Kunsthall, Spånga, Sweden
1 January – 1 October 2012
Morten Andersen
Jonas Bendiksen
Ingrid Nilsson
Jan Erik Lundstrom
The FotoDepartament Foundation
Support provided for the participation of artist Morten Andersen (b.1965 in Lørenskog, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway), photojournalist Jonas Bendiksen (b.1977 in Tønsberg, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) and curators Ingrid Nilsson, Director, Preus Fotomuseum, and Jan Erik Lundstrom, Director, Samisk Kunstsenter, in the Nordic Photography Experience, a cultural collaboration and educational programme at the FotoDepartament Gallery in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. According to curator Nadya Sheremetova, the project is the result of a new ‘programme of cultural and educational exchange between North-West of Russia and Northern countries, which begins with the invitation of 4 key figures in Norwegian contemporary photography to hold lectures and workshops’. Curator: Nadya Sheremetova, Director, The FotoDepartament Foundation, St.Petersburg, Russia
28 January – 3 June 2012
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon (MUSAC)
Tor Navjord
Support provided for the participation of artist Tor
Navjord (b. 1974 in Melbu, Norway, lives and works in
Oslo, Norway) in the group exhibition project 'The Green of the
Earth Will Shine Again for You' at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
de Castilla y Leon (MUSAC) in Castilla y Leon, Spain. According to
curator Eneas Bernal, the purpose of the project 'is to convey,
show, transmit, objectify, set in motion, through art, the
explosions of sensitivity that have taken place and continue to do
so today from the North Pole to Greece, from the unprecedented
forces of beauty of Charles Fourier’s clairvoyance'. Tor Navjord
will collaborate with artists Miriam Martín and Rafael
Sánchez-Mateos Paniagua to produce the exhibition and accompanying
catalogue.
Curator: Eneas Bernal, cultural manager and curator, MUSAC
1 December 2011 – 1 May 2012
Jumana Manna
Sille Storihle
Support provided for the artists artists Jumana Manna (b.1987, New Jersey, USA, lives and works in Los Angeles, USA) and Sille Storihle (b.1985, Tromsø, Norway, lives and works in Los Angeles, USA) to conduct a lecture at the International Academy of Art Palestine in Ramallah, Palestine in relation to their research and preliminary shooting for the production of their film Osloånden: The Oslo Peace Accords. According to the artists, the project ‘explores Norway’s role as a rising international political player, examining notions of peace-making, solidarity and interventionism through the case study of the Oslo Peace Accords’. The resulting docu-fiction film will be presented in an exhibition scheduled at Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, Norway in 2012. Curators: Khaled Hourani, Arts Director, International Academy of Art Palestine and Elisabeth Byre, Curator, Kunsthall Oslo
1 – 28 February 2012
Jorunn Hancke Øgstad
Support provided for the development of artist Jorunn Hancke Øgstad’s (b.1979 in Bærum, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) performance project and exhibition at the El Parche Artist Residency programme in Bogotá, Colombia. According to the artist, her work ‘cites the formal language of abstraction and minimalism, but the focus is not on the analysis of form and content, but rather on playing through these elements of style in order to go beyond their logic’. At El Parche, she will use Samuel Beckett’s play Quad (1981) as a point of departure to engage local performers in the development of a collaboration the manifests itself in a performance and exhibition. Curator: Olga Robayo and Marius Wang, funders and curators, El Parche, Bogota, Colombia
