5 April – 15 June 2008
5th berlin biennale for contemporary art
Lars Laumann
Lars Laumann (b. 1975, Brønnøysund, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) is invited to participate in the 5th berlin biennale. He has produced a new video work, to be exhibited in the sculpture park Berlin_Zentrum. In addition, he will curate a three week exhibition with works by Pushwagner in the Schinkel Pavilion. Curators: Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic
14 June – 21 September 2008
10th Sonsbeek International Sculpture Exhibition
Participation for Charlie Roberts (b. 1984 in Kansas, USA, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) in the 10th Sonsbeek International Sculpture Exhibition in Arnheim, Netherlands entitled Grandeur - Unique tradition, legendary reputation. Curator: Anna Tilroe, Artistic Director, 10th Sonsbeek International Sculpture Exhibition
19 July – 2 November 2008
Kristina Bræin
Manifesta 7
Participation with an installation entitled The Problem of Functionality within Manifesta 7, under the section curated by Raqs Media Collective in Bolzano, Italy. Curators: Raqs Media Collective
19 July – 2 November 2008
Knut Åsdam
Manifesta 7
Invited to participate in Manifesta 7 in Roverto, Italy, with a new work that spans from architectural installation to the cinematic in a hybrid installation that encompasses a large narrative architectural environment. Curator: Adam Budak
18 June – 7 September 2008
Anawana Haloba
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Production of a new video work to be exhibited within the Sydney biennale, Sydney, Australia. Curator: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
19 July – 2 November 2008
Raqs Media Collective
Manifesta 7
Participation within Manifesta 7, under the section curated by Raqs Media Collective, Siv Helene Stangeland (b. 1966 in Stavanger, Norway, lives and works in Stavanger, Norway) and Reinhard Kropf, (b. 1967 in Gleisdorf, Austria, lives and works in Stavanger, Norway) as architects Helen & Hard proposes a project that grasps a temporary condition of one of the venues of Manifesta 7, a disused aluminium factory, as a biotope and host structure. The intention is to create a site-spesific installation which initiates resonance and evocative relations between natural and cultural/political spaces. Curators: Raqs Media Collective
1 October 2008 – 1 January 2009
Johannesburg Art Gallery
Maria Fidel Regueros
Torbjørn Rødland
Toril Goksøyr
Camilla Martens
Bodil Furu
Maia Urstad
Participation for the artists Torbjørn Rødland (b. 1970 in Stavanger, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway), Goksøyr & Martens (Toril Goksøyr, b. 1970 in Oslo Norway and Camilla Martens, b. 1969 in Oslo, Norway, both live and work in Oslo, Norway), Bodil Furu (b. 1976 in Askim, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) and Maia Urstad (b. 1954 in Norway, lives and works in Bergen, Norway) in a major survey exhibition entitled Disturbance - Contemporary Art from Scandinavia & South Africa to take place at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. Curators: Clive Kellner, Director of Johannesburg Art Gallery and Maria Fidel Regueros
12 February – 22 March 2008
Swiss Institute
Gianni Jetzer
Ida Ekblad
Travel grant for participation for Ida Ekblad (1980 in Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) in the group exhibitionGood News for People Who Love Bad News at the Swiss Institute. Curator: Gianni Jetzer, Director Swiss Institute
12 March – 20 April 2008
Tone Hansen
Charlotte Martinz-Turek
Luisa Ziaja
Anna Sigmund Gudmundsdottir
Travel grant for Tone Hansen, Anna Sigmond Gudmundsdottir, (b. 1974, Reykjavik, Iceland, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) and Marit Paasche (b. 1970, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) to be part of the exhibition Have Your Cake and Eat it too. Institutional Critique as Instituent Practice at the Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, Austria. Tone Hansen and Marit Paasche as the project "The Art and the Law" have made the text and framework, while Anna Gudmundsdottir has produced collages and drawings for the project entitled Deadlock Exhibited. Curators: Charlotte Martinz-Turek and Luisa Ziaja
12 March – 22 April 2008
Trine Lise Nedreaas
Kornelia Röder
Invited for a solo exhibition at Kunstverein Schwerin, Germany within which two videos; It Takes Two To Tango and Dead-Lift and 20 drawings, will be included. Curator: Kornelia Röder
25 March – 19 April 2008
Anne-Britt Rage
David Rych
Dr. Gulsen Bal
Travel grant to participate with a project under the title On Xenophobia Redux consisting of an open workspace, an exhibition of new works and several lectures within the project xeno.no, at Open Space, Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna, Austria. Curators: Anne-Britt Rage and David Rych, Director: Dr. Gulsen Bal
28 – 29 March 2008
Anders Nordby
Tyson Reeder
Scott Reeder
Ida Ekblad
Nils Bech
Travel grant for Willy Wonka Inc (Anders Nordby, b. 1975 in Oslo, Norway and Ida Ekblad, b. 1981 in Oslo, Norway, both live and work in Oslo, Norway) together with Nils Bech (b. 1981 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) to participate in Dark Fair - a two day event of individual artist projects, screenings and performances at the Swiss Institute, NYC, NY, USA. Curators: Tyson Reeder and Scott Reeder
3 – 11 April 2008
Morten Norbye Halvorsen
Raimundas Malauskas
Travel grant for participation in the exhibition Once Within a Room at New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA. Curator: Raimundas Malauskas
12 April – 22 June 2008
Le musée de Sérignan
Per Barclay (b. 1955 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Paris, France) will have a solo exhibition at Le musée de Sérignan. Curator: Hélène Audiffren
24 May – 21 September 2008
Museion, Museum of modern and contemporary art Bolzano
Unni Gjertsen has selected the films Flickorna and Nattlek by Swedish director Mai Zetterling (1925-1994) to be part of the screening programme within the exhibition Peripheral Look and Collective Body at MUSEION. Gjertsen will present the movies at the MUSEION 3 July 2008. Curator: Corinne Diserens, Director, MUSEION
30 May – 30 August 2008
Lina Viste Grønli
Tine Bundgaard Quedenbaum
Participation in the annual outdoor sculpture exhibition Partiche in the park surrounding Sølyst Castle in Jyderup, Denmark. Lina Viste Grønli will present her new work Untitled (Super Form), a piece in shape of a cross that focus on the formal, sculptural and abstract qualities of this well know form. Other participants include Anders Bonnesen, Richard Hughes, Eva Rothschild, Jacob Dahl Jürgensen, Tommy Støckel, Claus Egemose, Neil Zakiewicz, Gernot Wieland, Karen Land Hansen, Thomas Lindvig and Sofie Hesselholdt & Vibeke Mejlvang. Curator: Tine Bundgaard Quedenbaum
1 June – 1 October 2008
Jesper Alvær
Joanna Zielinska
Alvaer is invited to participate in the opening of the international exhibition about the collecting phenomenon. The title of his project is Employer & Employees, and will be shown at The Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun, Poland. Curator: Joanna Zielinska
5 June – 14 September 2008
Göteborgs Konsthall
Mika Hannula
Johan Sjöström
Josefine Lyche
Martin Skauen
Participation for Josefine Lyche (b. 1973 in Bergen, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) and Martin Skauen (b. 1975 in Fredrikstad, Norway, lives and works in Berlin, Germany) in Tomorrow Always Belongs to Us, a group exhibition with new Nordic paintings at Göteborgs Konsthall. Curators: Mika Hannula and Johan Sjöström
6 – 28 June 2008
Kristina Bræin
Floris Kruidenberg
Invited for a solo exhibition at the Stiching Project Space 1646 in Den Haag, Netherlands. She will do a site-specific work, not yet described. Curator: Floris Kruidenberg
6 June – 17 August 2008
Snorre Hvamen
Julija Fomina
Ignas Krunglevicius
Travel grant for participation by Snorre Hvamen and Ignas Krunglevicius, (b. 1979 in Kaunas, Lithuania, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) and Dordi Strøm (b. 1971 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) in the exhibition Sounds at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania. Sounds is organized by the Contemporary Art Center alongside with the international exhibition of artist awarded with "Arts Viva" prize. The trio will create four installations integrated into mundane objects in and around the Contemporary Art Centre. Other participating artists are: Kutlug Ataman, Walerian Borowczyk, Oskar Dawicki, Wojtek Doroszuk, Lilla Khoor, Gosha Macuga, Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova, Janina Turek, Andrzej Urbanowicz. Curator: Julija Fomina
1 August 2008
Gabriella Göransson
Lealey Miller
Travel grant for the participation for Anniken Amundsen (b. 1971 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) and Eva Schølberg (b. 1959 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) and Gabriella Göransson in CULTEX - a collaborative exhange of ideas, working methods and creative processes between six artists from Japan and Norway within textile. The project takes place at Seika University in Kyoto and Tama University in Tokyo, Japan. Curator: Lealey Miller
9 August – 20 September 2008
Kathrin Höhne
Angela Lennon
Bjarte Gismarvik
Höhne and Bjarte Gismarvik (b. 1972 in Haugesund, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) will realize the project Bycatch at Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland. Assistant curator: Angela Lennon
1 – 14 September 2008
CEC ArtsLink
Anna Bitkina
Anne Katrine Dolven
Anne Katrine Dolven (b. 1953 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in London, UK) is invited to participate in Nordic and Russian Public Art in Non-traditional Spaces, organized by H2O Contemporary. Curator: Anna Bitkina
19 September – 12 October 2008
Dundee Contemporary Arts
Arika
Participation for Kjell Bjørgeengen (b. 1951 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Stabekk, Norway) with an installation of single channel works on monitors in an exhibition together with the late American artist Paul Sharits, entitled Kill Your Timid Notion. Bjørgeengen will also give two separate performances within a collaboration project with Keith Rowe and Phillip Wachsmann at this years annual festival also entitled Kill Your Timid Notion, which explores the relationship between sound and image, at Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland. Curator: Graham Domke, Curator, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Barry Esson, Curator, Arika, and Bryony McIntyre, Curator, Arika
11 April – 5 May 2008
Synne Bull
Dr. Zoran Eric
Travel grant for participation in solo exhibition of Bull.Miletic at Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Serbia. The exhibition will include a three-channel video installation entitled Unfinished: Scares of the Past/Face of the future. Curator: Dr. Zoran Eric
11 April – 5 May 2008
Dragan Miletic
Dr. Zoran Eric
Travel grant for participation in solo exhibition of Bull.Miletic at Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Serbia. The exhibition will include a three-channel video installation entitled Unfinished: Scares of the Past/Face of the future. Curator: Dr. Zoran Eric
22 – 27 April 2008
Jørund Aase Falkenberg
Dilara Vahabova
Travel grant to participate in the collective exhibition Bridge at Baku Contemporary Art Center in Baku, Azerbaijan. Curator: Dilara Vahabova
22 – 27 April 2008
Nils-Thomas Økland
Dilara Vagabova
Participation in the exhibition Bridge at Baku Contemporary Art Center in Baku, Azerbaijan. Curator: Dilara Vagabova
22 – 27 April 2008
Eli Glader
Dilara Vagabova
Travel grant to participate in the exhibition Bridge at Baku Contemporary Art Center in Baku, Azerbaijan. Curator: Dilara Vagabova
1 May – 1 September 2008
Leander Djønne
Torkil Sandsund
Rahraw Omar Zad
Participation in a project initiated by the Norwegian theater director Torkil Sandsund and the Centre for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan (CCAA). Djønne will present a performative work entitled Devil in Disguise which will be performed by students in Kabul. Curator: Torkil Sandsund and Rahraw Omar Zad
9 May – 9 June 2008
Samba Fall
Ousseynou Wade
Participation in DAK'Art 2008, the Dakar biennale for Art in Senegal. The theme of this edition is "Mirror" in relation to Africa's current presence in the world. Invited by Ousseynou Wade, General Secretary of Dak'Art.
