3 – 27 May 2012
Dag Nordbrenden
Dag Nordbrenden, Atatürk, 2010, from Rub with Ashes, 2012. Courtesy of the artist
Support provided for a solo exhibition by artist Dag Nordbrenden (b.1971 in Oslo, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) at CFF– Centrum för Fotografi in Stockholm, Sweden. The works included in the exhibition will be based around images produced for an artist book, titled Rub with Ashes, which will be published and released during the exhibition. According to curator Gunilla Muhr, Norbrenden’s work is ‘rooted in a documentary tradition including practises such as using found images and street photography’. The artist indicates the exhibition and book ‘vehicles for bringing together an eclectic mix of pictures, and a way of exploring the potential meaning these photographs can convey’. Curator: Gunilla Muhr, Director, Center for Photography, Stockholm, Sweden.
NOK 12 000
23 May – 16 September 2012
Konsthall C
Lene Berg
Support provided for solo exhibition by artist Lene Berg (b.1965 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Berlin, Germany) at Konsthall C in Stockholm, Sweden. Berg will exhibit her video project The Man in the Background and the related publication Gentlemen and Arsholes. The project focuses on the political intrigue surrounding the journal Encounter, published by the Congress of Cultural Freedom in 1953. According to curator Kim Einarsson, Berg’s ‘approach calls into question what was defined as a ‘liberal conspiracy’ and what was otherwise deemed a successful state sponsored cultural effort carried out by a powerful intelligence agency’. Curator: Kim Einarsson, Director, Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden.
NOK 12 000
11 May – 11 June 2012
Crispin Gurholt
Crispin Gurholt, By Ekebergåsen, 2011. Courtesy of the artist
Support provided for the participation of artist Crispin Gurholt (b.1965 in Oslo, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) in the 2012 Bienal de la Habana. Organised under the theme of ‘Artistic Practices and Social Imaginaries’, the biennial will, according to curator Jorge Fernandez Torres, ‘be developed in international circumstances where the debates regarding the scenarios of contemporary art have been substantially modified and have acquired new meanings for artists as well as for the institutions and the different audiences’. Gurholt will produce a new installation in relation to his ongoing series `Live Photo’ in which he stages models in real environments and documents their performances using photography and film. He writes that his installations are ‘frozen expanded moments that are carefully directed and appear to be concentrated and complex narratives where the past, present and future merge’. Curator: Jorge Fernández Torres, Director, the Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
NOK 25 000
11 May – 10 June 2012
Marita Muukkonen and Power Ekroth
Bjørn Kowalski Hansen
Support provided for the participation of Bjørn-Kowalski Hansen (b.1979 in Nesttun, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) within the Nordic Pavilion at the Dak’Art Biennial in Dakar, Senegal. According to curators Power Ekroth and Marita Muukonen, the exhibition, titled META-REALITIES, ‘poses in a playful way the question of whether or not can art function as a meta-structure of the realities we live in, and is that the only meta-structure we have despite of geo-cultural etc. differences?’ Hansen, the curators write, is a part of a group of artists who are ‘shaking realities more directly by creating alternative cultures driven by dreams, by expanding, questioning and re-creating boundaries between economy, corporate ideas, utopia, society and art’. Other participating artists include Nathalie Djurberg, Matti Kallioinen, Parfyme, Jesper Just, Teemu Mäki and Egill Säbjörnsson. Curators: Power Ekroth and Marita Muukkonen, curators, Dak'Art Biennial 2012, Dakar, Senegal.
4 May – 1 July 2012
Arne Skaug Olsen
Support provided for the participation of curator and publisher Arne Skaug Olsen (b.1974 in Gjøvik, Norway, lives and works in Bergen, Norway) in the book launch of We Who Feel Differently by artist Carlos Motta at the New Museum in New York, NY, USA. Olsen is a co-founder of the Bergen-based publishing house Ctrl+Z, which produced the book for Carlos Motta. He states that the ‘main concern’ of Ctrl+Z ‘is to independently investigate structural conditions for art production, art mediation and art discourse in the form of printed matter’. A collection of 300 of the books will also be shown as an installation within Carlos Motta’s exhibition at the New Museum. Curator: Eungie Joo, Keith Haring Director and Curator, New Museum, New York, USA
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 – 10 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 'In Our Gardens
Forests Are getting Ready' 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
24 February – 6 June 2012
Kari Steihaug
Kari Steihaug, from The Unfinished Ones. Courtesy of the artist
Support provided for the participation of artist Kari Steihaug (b.1962 in Oslo, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) in the 2012 Spring Exhibition at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, Denmark. According to the organisers, the Spring Exhibition ‘features 69 participants from around the world with works covering a wide variety of genres associated with art and design, and this year’s exhibition includes a notable group of works that explores the body, performance and sexuality’. Steihaug will present a documentary project titled The Unfinished Ones, which she describes as focusing on ‘the poetry in imperfection and about directing attention to something failed and lost’. Other participating artists include Sofie Alsbo, Claus Bjerre, Tom Bogaert, Gitte Broeng & Mikkel Damsbo. Curator: Helle Westergård, Exhibition coordinator, Charlottenborg Fonden.
NOK 5 000
25 April – 24 May 2012
Maia Urstad
Maia Urstad, MEANWHILE, IN SHANGHAI#1, Flandern Festival Kortrijk, Belgium, 2011. Courtesy of the artist
Support provided for the participation of Maia Urstad (b.1954 in Kristiansand, Norway, lives and works in Bergen, Norway) in a project at singhur – hoergalerie within the Kunsthaus Meinblau in Berlin, Germany. Urstad will produce a sound installation titled Meanwhile in Shanghai #4, which she describes as ‘part of an ongoing series of works related to radio, time and location, carried out in various editions over recent years’. According to curators Carsten Seiffarth and Markus Steffens, Urstad’s project reflects her fascination with radio as an object, as a technology, as a source of sounds and as a means for globe-spanning communication’. Curator: Carsten Seiffarth, Artistic Director, Singhur-hærgalerie, Berlin, Germany.
NOK 4 000
15 May – 15 June 2012
Morten Andersen
Morten Andersen (2012A International Support recipient), from the Black and Blue series, 2011. Courtesy of the artist
Support provided for a project by artist Morten Andersen (b.1965 in Lørenskog, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) at Lauba House in Zagreb, Croatia. Andersen plans to exhibit photographs from his recent publication Black and Blue, which he says explores ‘architectural details, graffiti, objects and vegetation that are often overseen but nevertheless important for the city of Oslo’s identity’. According to curator Vanja Zanka, Andersen’s project will help Croatians ‘understand the infrastructure and art system in Norway in order to develop long-term collaborations’. Curator: Vanja Zanka, curator, Lauba House, Zagreb Croatia.
NOK 12 000
1 – 31 May 2012
Anders Smebye
Marianne Zamecznik
Support provided for a project by artists Anders Smebye (b.1975 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Berlin, Germany) and Marianne Zamecznik (b.1972 in Trondheim, Norway, lives and works in Berlin, Germany) at Space for Art and Industry in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Smebye and Zamecznik—working together as B-Bastard—indicate they plan to ‘work closely with local company Duggal Visual Solutions to develop a holographic window foil’ as well as North Brooklyn Mill Works to collaborate on ‘building a freestanding wall which is to be placed in the middle of the room’. According to curator Marc Ganzglass, his interest in B-Bastard resulted from their ability to ‘consistently upend divisions between individual work, curatorial practice, communal art and educational programming’. Curator: Marc Ganzglass, Director, Space for Art and Industry, New York, USA.
NOK 12 000
20 April – 17 June 2012
Eline Mugaas
Elise Storsveen
Support provided for a project by artists Eline Mugaas (b.1969 in Oslo, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) and Elise Storsveen (b.1969 in Oslo, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) at Kunsthalle Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland as part of the ongoing exhibition series ‘Human Valley’, curated by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tristan Bera. The curators describe ‘Human Valley’ as a ‘one-year project for hybrid presentations of borderline topics in an area comprising three rooms inspired by Jean-Luc Godard's Une Femme Mariée with first an entrance like a provincial cineclub then a bedroom for two with books on bookshelves and also a projection room’. According to the artists, their project mirror the playful juxtapositions found in their zine ALBUM and address Scandinavian topics such as ‘nudity and the universe, desire and pet hold, melancholy, motherhood and lonely men’. Curator: Tristan Bera and Dominique Gonzalez-Forester, curators, ‘Human Valley’, Kunsthalle Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland.
NOK 22 254
18 May – 3 June 2012
Jonatan Habib Engqvist
Steffen Håndlykken
Linus Elmes
Steingrimur Eyfjord
Toril Goksøyr
Camilla Martens
Arild Tveito
Lars Cuzner
Anders Nordby
Eirik Sæther
Support provided for the participation of artists Steffen Håndlykken (b.1981 in Oslo, lives and works in Oslo, Norway), Linus Elmes (b.1972 in Skovde, Sweden, lives and works in Oslo, Norway), Steingrimur Eyfjord (b.1954 in Reykjavik, Iceland, lives and works in Dale, Norway), Toril Goksøyr (b.1970 in Oslo, lives and works in Oslo, Norway), Camilla Martens (b.1969 in Oslo, lives and works in Oslo, Norway), Arild Tveito (b.1976 in Oslo, lives and works in Oslo, Norway), Stian Eide Kluge (b.1977 in Oslo, lives and works Oslo, Norway), Lars Cuzner (b.1974 in Södertalje, Sweden, lives and works in Oslo, Norway), Anders Nordby (b.1975 in Oslo, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) and Erik Saether (b.1983 in Halden, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) in the 2012 Reykjavik Arts Festival at multiple exhibition venues throughout Reykjavik, Iceland. According to curator Jonatan Habib Engqvist, the 2012 iteration of the festival, titled ‘(I)ndependent People, collaboration and artists initiatives’ will investigate collective activities in which ‘giving up the singular artistic subject creates the specific uncertainty that makes another, hybrid identity possible; where the in-between of collaboration can become a site for social and cultural change; “around identities”, between defined singularities’. Other participating artists include Jamie Stapleton, Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson, The Artist Formerly Known as Geist, AIM Europe and Wooloo. Curator: Jonatan Habib Engqvist, curator, Reykjavik Arts Festival 2012, Reykjavik, Iceland.
NOK 96 000
5 May – 9 September 2012
Liv Dysthe Sønderland
Pushwagner
Asbjørn Hollerud
Espen Dietrichson
Stefan Mitterer
Peter Mitterer
Anna Christina Lorenzen
Hariton Pushwagner, Getting Up, 2010. Courtesy of the artist
Support provided for the participation of Terje Brofoss, Pushwagner (b.1940 in Oslo, lives and works in Oslo, Norway), Asbjørn Hollerud (b.1976 in Kristiansand, Norway, lives and works in Bergen, Norway), Espen Dietrichson (b.1976 in Stavanger, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway), Stefan Mitterer (b.1983 in Zell am See, Austria, lives and works in Bergen, Norway), Peter Mitterer (b.1982 in Zell am See, Austria, lives and works in Bergen, Norway) and Anna Christina Lorenzen (b.1981 in Hamburg, Germany, lives and works in Bergen, Norway) in the 2012 Graphica Creativa International Print Triennial in Jyväskyla, Finland. Titled ‘Neighbors’, the triennial presents artists from Finland, Norway, Sweden, Russia and Estonia. According to curator Liv Dysthe Sønderland, the Norwegian artists included in the triennial produced graphic works with a tendency for the ‘surrealistic, absurd, or pushing beyond rationality’, while at the same time being ‘highly relevant because they are rooted in modern history and use common references’. Other participating artists include Kadri Alesmaa, Peeter Allik, Maija Albrecht, Heli Kurunsaari, Yuri Belyj, Mikhail Karasik, Nina Bondeson and Eva Björkstrand. Curator: Liv Dysthe Sønderland, curator, Graphica Creativa 2012 International Print trienal, Jyväskyla, Finland.
NOK 20 000
23 April – 5 August 2012
New Museum
Support provided for the participation of trans-activist Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad (b.1949 in Norway, lives and works in Grimstad, Norway) and scholar Mathias Danbolt (b.1983 in Norway, Copenhagen, Denmark) in a public programme in association with the project ‘Museum as Hub: Carlos Motta: We Who Feel Differently’ at the New Museum in New York, NY, USA. According to curator Eungie Joo, the project ‘explores “difference” as a way of being in the world, and how it represents a prospect of individual and collective empowerment, social and political enrichment, and freedom’. Pirelli Benestad and Danbolt will contribute to a two-day symposium organised by Carlos Motta and performance studies scholar Raegan Truax-O’Gorman. Other participants include Todd Shalom and Juan Betancourth, Jeannine Tang and Reina Gossett, and Jared Gilbert. Curator: Eungie Joo, curator, New Museum, NY, USA.
NOK 18 000
3 April – 10 June 2012
ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts)
Matias Faldbakken
Matias Faldbakken, Television sculptures, Institute for Contemporary Arts 2012. 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 ‘Remote Control’ at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London, UK. According to curator Matt Williams, the exhibition ‘offers an insight into the impact of television broadcasting on cultural and socio-political phenomena by looking at the physical shift in news and entertainment consumption, from the public social space of the cinema to the private and enclosed space of the home’. Faldbakken will contribute a new series of his ongoing container sculptures using empty flat screen TV boxes and plastic jugs (typically used for producing and distributing moonshine) as molds. Other participating artists include Bob Stanley, Experimental TV Center, Stephen Sutcliffe, Jonny Woo and Lucky PDF. Curator: Matt Williams, curator, Institute for Contemporary Arts in London, UK.
NOK 9 903
