May 2006

International Support

Matias Faldbakken

6 May – 17 June 2006
Matias Faldbakken
Luigi Fassi
Irina Zucca Alessandrelli

Participation, Metaphysics of Youth (part of the Fuori Uso exhibition series). Ex Cofa, former food market, Pescara, Italy. Curators: Luigi Fassi, Irina Zucca Alessandrelli

Maya Økland

20 May – 27 August 2006
Maya Økland

Participation in New Nordic Photography, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Sven Påhlsson

1 June – 1 September 2006
Sven Påhlsson
Marta Gili

Participation in Animated Stories at La Caixa Foundation, Barcelona. Påhlsson will show his new three-screen synchronized video installation Balling Games. Curator: Martha Gili

Ane Hjort Guttu

2 June – 30 July 2006
Ane Hjort Guttu
Shedhalle Zürich

Participation in Leap into the Cold Water, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland. She will exhibit her project Trasop School's Print Collection. Curator: Sonke Gau, curator, Shedhalle Zürich

Terje Nicolaisen

7 June – 12 September 2006
Terje Nicolaisen

Exhibition, Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland.

Geir Tore Holm

16 June – 9 July 2006
Geir Tore Holm

Participates in Colonialism Within: Indigenous Rights and Multicultural Realities, Act 4 of Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, VR:n Veturitalli (Finnish Railways Locomotive Engine Shed), Rovaniemi, Finland.

Andrea Lange

16 June – 25 August 2006
Andrea Lange

Exhibition of Refuge Talks at the exhibition Migration 1 at Belfast Exposed Photography. Belfast, U.

Sylvia Kochanska

23 June – 30 July 2006
Sylvia Kochanska
Liv Bugge
Karianne Stensland
Mikkel McAlinden
Martin Skauen

Curatorship Unravelling Demons with Norwegian artists at Galeria Arsenal in Bialystok, Poland. Invited artists: Liv Bugge, Gro Foosnæs Gravås, Sylvia Kochanska, Mikkel McAlinden, Kalle Runeson, Martin Skauen, Karianne Stensland and Monja Wiik.

Marit Følstad

1 July – 17 September 2006
Marit Følstad
Olga Daniylopoulou
Nicola Oxley
Nicolas de Oliveira

Production of the video projection Amplified for Scarecrow, an international group exhibition at The Evangelos Averoff Museum, Metsovo, Greece. Curators: Olga Daniylopoulou, Nicola Oxley and Nicolas de Oliveira

aiPotu — Andreas Siqueland and Anders Kjellesvik

2 – 22 July 2006
aipotu
Marjetica Potrc

Participation in this this year's selective Advanced Course in Visual Arts, an intensive course for young artists that started in 1988 under the patronage of the Como Council The course is structured as a summer seminar in the form of a laboratory for artistic and theoretical experimentation. Advanced Course in Visual Arts is organized by the Antonio Ratti Foundation in Como, Italy. Course leader: Marjetica Potrc

Sabina Jacobsson and Ane Lan

4 July – 28 August 2006
Sabina Jacobsson
Ane Lan
Tsvika Solan

Participation, Intimate Spaces!, Schwules Museum, Berlin. Curator: Tsvika Solan

Mai Hofstad Gunnes

29 July – 22 October 2006
Mai Hofstad Gunnes

Participation in the exhibition A to Z, wooden huts inside a brick building in Hirosaki, Japan. She will have a separate hut where she will show the animated movie Alphabet Street.

Hans Askheim

12 August – 16 September 2006
Hans Askheim

Curatorship of In our own time by our own means at MOT, London, UK. Invited artists: Gardar Eide Einarsson (born in Norway, lives and works in New York City) and Bjørn Kowalski Hansen (born in Norway, lives and works in Berlin), among others.

Camille Norment

18 August – 1 October 2006
Camille Norment
Kunsthalle Bern

Participation in the group show Pre-Emptive, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Curator: Philippe Pirotte, Director, Kunsthalle Bern

Jana Winderen

18 August – 3 September 2006
Jana Winderen

Exhibition of the interactive sound installation Hard Rain ll at IDFX, Breda, the Netherlands.

Kristina Bræin

23 August – 12 November 2006
Kristina Bræin
Leonardo Ramirez

Participation in group show at Museo de Arte Carrilo Gil in Mexico City, Mexico. Curator: Leonardo Ramirez

Einar Hansen

1 September 2006 – 1 March 2007
Einar Hansen

Hansen has been selected as one of eight international artists to take part in CCA Kitakyushu 7-month Research Programme in Japan. PS: Exhibition concluding the residency.

Edvine Larssen

1 September 2006 – 1 March 2007
Edvine Larssen

Travel grant. Larssen has been selected as one of eight international artists to take part in CCA Kitakyushu 7-month Research Programme in Japan.

Stefan Schröder

1 September 2006 – 1 September 2007
Stefan Schröder
Dr. Barbara Steiner

Participation in the public project Plagwitzer Sand at the Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. Curator: Dr. Barbara Steiner

Børre Sæthre

8 September – 8 October 2006
Børre Sæthre

Exhibition at Participant INC in New York City, USA.

Leif Magne Tangen

9 September – 5 November 2006
Leif Magne Tangen
Jan Christensen
Mikkel McAlinden

Curatorship, I Will Never Make It, Kunstraum D21, Leipzig, Germany. Artists: Jan Christensen, Mikkel McAlinden.

Bodil Furu

16 September – 25 November 2006
Bodil Furu

Participation in the Contemporary Art Exhibition at the Busan Biennale 2006, Busan, South Korea. Furu will screen two video works on monitor and at a local TV-network.

Hanne Mugaas

1 October 2006
Hanne Mugaas

Organizing of the online exhibition New Realities for Rhizome.org for the 10th Anniversary Festival of Art and Technology of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, USA. The project is to take place as an online show as well as an evening at a local cultural institution.

Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic

1 October – 30 December 2006
Dragan Bull.Miletic
Elizabeth Armstrong
Karen Moss
Rita Gonzalez

Participation in 2006 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art/OCMA, California, USA. Bull and Miletic will exhibit two video installations. Curators: Elizabeth Armstrong, Karen Moss, Rita Gonzalez

Mikkel McAlinden

1 November 2006
Mikkel McAlinden

Exhibitions of the projects The Landscape Project and Inner World at a seminar on "Photography and Minimalism", at the Russian National Centre of Photography, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Mette Tronvoll

16 – 19 November 2006
Mette Tronvoll
Andrea Holzherr

Participation, Central Exhibition, Paris Photo. This year's edition has a focus on Nordic countries. Curator Andrea Holzherr participated in OCA's International Visitor Programme in December 2005 to do research for the show.

International Support with 03–funding

Karl Ingar Røys

7 – 11 June 2006
Karl Ingar Røys

Participation in a workshop initiated by Sezgin Boynik and Minna Henriksson in Prisitina, Kosovo.

Knut Åsdam

1 September 2006
Knut Åsdam
Nina Oeghoede

Participation in Satellite, side show to the Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai, China. Åsdam will show two video works: Come to your own and Pissing. Curator: Nina Oeghoede

René Block, Director of the Kunsthalle Museum Fridericianum, Kassel

29 September – 15 November 2006
René Block
Toril Goksøyr
Camilla Martens
Kim Hiorthøy
Karen Tandberg
Matias Faldbakken

Block is this year's designated curator for the Belgrade Biennial, the 47th October Art Salon. he theme of this next biennial is Art, Life and Confusion. The exhibition explores the relationship between art and life amid a collapse of political systems, dissolution of existing value systems, and massive social changes brought about by globalization. Block selected the following artists to participate in the biennial: Toril Goksøyr & Camilla Martens, Kim Hiorthøy, Matias Faldbakken, and Vibeke Tandberg.

Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén

1 October 2006
Ingrid Book
Carina Hedén
Wang Baoju

Participation in Post Nora, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China. Curator: Wang Baoju

Gillian Carson

1 October 2006
Gillian Carson
Wang Baoju

Participation in Post Nora, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China. Curator: Wang Baoju

Bodil Furu

1 October 2006
Bodil Furu
Wang Baoju

Participation in Post Nora, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China. Curator: Wang Baoju

Marianne Heske

1 October 2006
Marianne Heske
Wang Baoju

Participation, Post Nora, Today Art Museum, Beijing. Title of work: Mind Projections - two video projections in loops. Curator: Wang Baoju

Wang Baojuv

22 October 2006
Wang Baojuv
Ingrid Book
Carina Hedén
Bodil Furu
Gillian Carson
Marianne Heier
Siri Hermansen
Inghild Karlsen
Marianne Heske

Curatorship of Post Nora, an exhibition with female artists from Norway and China, at Today Art Museum, Beijing, China. Baoju participated in OCA's International Studio Programme in 2005 to do research for the exhibition. Participating Norwegian artists: Ingrid Book, Carina Hedén, Bodil Furu, Gillian Carson, Marianne Heier, Siri Hermansen, Inghild Karlsen and Marianne Heske.

Jesper Alvær

1 November 2006
Jesper Alvær

Series of film screenings within a three day film festival in Oslo, in cooperation with Torpedo and Fotogalleriet. Screenings including films by Iranian filmmakers Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi. Film directors Bahman Kiarostami and Alireza Rasulinezhad are invited. The idea around the project is to further develop the focus on contemporary documentary films from Iran.