Vibeke Tandberg,
Albert Camus, L'étranger, 2006
Courtesy of the artist
Ivo Mesquita, Chief Curator of the 28th São Paulo Biennial and a guest at OCA's International Visitor Programme (IVP) in May 2008, together with curator Ana Paula Cohen, have invited Vibeke Tandberg to exhibit in the 2008 São Paulo Biennial. For the exhibition, that takes place from 26 October to 6 December, 2008, Ivo Mesquita proposes to rethink the way in which the São Paulo Biennial Foundation has been producing the successive editions since 1951, opening up an interlude of reflection in the exhibition's history and what role biennials play for the cultural, tourism and event industry. In São Paulo, Tandberg will exhibit the work Albert Camus, L'étranger, Roman, Gallimard 2003, Prémier dépôt légal: juin 1942. ISBN 2-07-021-200-3, in which the artist dissects an edition of the book L'étranger by Albert Camus in cutting out each of the 32 000 words comprising the text and subsequently alphabetizing each onto separate formations divided into individual framed works. Tandberg draws from Camus' story about the ultimate meaninglessness of life to evolve a work that gives another form to that connoting what is effectively formless and functionless.
For accreditation and media inquiries please contact Felipe Taboada at felipe@bienalsaopaulo.org.br or Bruna Azevedo at bruna@bienalsaopaulo.org.br. For developing information, please visit the biennial's website.
The 6th edition of the Taipei Biennial, curated by Manray Hsu and Vasif Kortun, a guest at OCA's International Visitor Programme (IVP) in April 2008, takes place between 13 September, 2008 and 4 January, 2009 in various venues throughout the city of Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. According to the curators, this year's biennial 'will not have a single theme, but a constellation of correlated themes, most of which address the chaotic states of things in this time of globalization'. The threads of investigation in the exhibition are processed and witnessed through do-it-yourself practices, individual stories, and humor. Within the biennial, Lene Berg will exhibit Stalin by Picasso, which, according to curator Kristine Jærn Pilgaard is 'about how two icons from the 20th century, Stalin and Picasso, once were perceived and how much their public personas have changed since then. On another level, it is about art and artistic freedom, or un-freedom, and of ways of reading and using images, particularly images of so-called great men'. Other exhibiting artists are Superflex, Nevin Aladag and Mario Rizzi.
For accreditation and media inquiries please contact Juillet Lu at juillet@tfam.gov.tw, or contact the biennial at info@taipeibiennial.org for more information. The project is supported by 03–funding*.
Hans Hamid Rasmussen,
Papillon, 2004
Courtesy of the artist
Hans Hamid Rasmussen is invited by international curators Gao Shiming, Sarat Maharaj and Johnson Chang Tsong-zung to exhibit within the Third Guangzhou Triennial. The triennial takes place from 6 September to 16 November, 2008 at the Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China under the title Farewell to Post-Colonialism. According to the curators, the title and framework of the triennial refers to a desire 'for the renovation of the theoretical interface of contemporary art, to depart from its all pervasive socio-political discourse, and work together with artists and critics to discover new modes of thinking and develop new analytical tools for dealing with today's world'. In addition to the exhibition, the Third Guangzhou Triennial will present an International Symposium and a Round-table forum in November 2007. For the exhibition, Hans Hamid Rasmussen will produce a new textile work, that addresses the perception of geographical places in relation to social bodies.
For more information please refer to the triennial website or contact Tang Xiolin and Asea Dai at gztriennial@gmail.com.
Participating artists from Norway:
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset
Danae Mossman and Fulya Erdemci, curators of the 5th SCAPE Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space, have invited Elmgreen & Dragset to exhibit the public artwork I am thinking of you, within the biennial. Entitled Wondering Lines: Towards a New Culture of Space, the 2008 edition of the biennial will look at the 'impact of globalization on the transformation of cities which are guided by a culture of consumerism'. The 5th SCAPE Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space takes place in Christchurch, New Zealand from 19 September to 2 November, 2008.
For media enquiries and details regarding previews please contact Emma Velde, the SCAPE Programme Manager at emma@scapebiennial.org.nz.
Participating artists from Norway:
aiPotu
Lene Berg
Annie Anawana Haloba Hobøl
Pushwagner
and special projects by Vibeke Tandberg and Matias Faldbakken
Organized by its Artistic Director, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, a guest at OCA's International Visitor Programme (IVP) in January 2007, the 2008 Biennale of Sydney is entitled Revolutions – Forms That Turn. This year's biennial investigates the impulse to revolt and the desire for change, through works of approximately 180 historical and contemporary artists, including around fifty new works.
Norwegian artists aiPotu (Anders Kjellesvik and Andreas Siqueland) contributes to the Sydney Biennale with two separate works entitled If you don't like the weather – wait 15 minutes and Boomerang Boat. Annie Anawana Haloba Hobøl is exhibiting a new video installation entitled When the Private Became Public. Pushwagner is exhibiting the paintings Klaxton II and Self Portrait, the pictorial novel Soft City, and the animation Soft City. Lene Berg is presenting a new project consisting of a video and a series of images and objects entitled The Drowned One. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev has also invited Norwegian artists Vibeke Tandberg and Matias Faldbakken to take part in the biennial's online venue. In addition, the Sydney Biennial is also exhibiting an important historical work from Hungarian artist Victor Vasarely entitled Vega 222 from the collection of Erling Neby in Oslo, Norway. Among other artists exhibited within the biennial are Thomas Bayrle, Yoko Ono, Claire Fontaine and Dan Graham.
The project is also supported by 03–funding*.
For further information, please refer to Biennale of Sydney, or contact info@oca.no. For press inquiries, please refer to imogencorlettepr@gmail.com.
Participating artists from Norway:
Knut Åsdam
Annie Anawana Haloba Hobøl
Kristina Bræin
Helen & Hard Architects
Special Projects:
Elisabeth Byre as part of Konstfack CuratorLab
Espen Sommer Eide
For Manifesta 7,
three coordinated, but autonomous curatorial teams have been selected to realize an exhibition that emphasizes the use of public
spaces. Artists, curators, intellectuals and diverse publics have been invited to consider the region as a zone of contact.
Raqs Media Collective, formed by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and
Shuddhabrata Sengupta and OCA's International Studio Programme (ISP) visitors in April 2008, will be
presenting the exhibition entitled The Rest of Now, in Bolzano. Anselm Franke and Hila Peleg, will develop their exhibition entitled
The Soul
(or, Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls) in Trento, and Adam Budak, OCA's IVP visitor in October 2007, will develop his
exhibition entitled Principle Hope in Rovereto. The curators will collaborate on the fourth venue within the fortress of Fortezza with a project
entitled Project Scenarios.
Knut Åsdam,
Still from Oblique, 2008
Courtesy of the artist
Within the biennial, Knut Åsdam presents a new work entitled Oblique, Annie Anawana Haloba Hobøl premiered the sound installation The Air between Two Women. Kristina Bræin is exhibiting a partly site-specific installation entitled The Problem of Functionality and the Stavanger based architecture office Helen & Hard presents a site-specific installation entitled The Naked Garden. As part of special projects curated by Raqs Media Collective, Elisabeth Byre participates whitin Manifesta 7 within a project entitled Hot Desking: Four broadsheets, four cities, four events and Espen Sommer Eide will present the performance Building Instruments, taking place 12 September.
Please refer to manifesta7.it for further information.
The project also is supported by 03–funding*.
Børre Sæthre
My private Sky, 2001
Courtesy of Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo and the artist
19 October is the opening date for Børre Sæthre's solo exhibition at P.S.1/MoMA, New York, USA. Curated by Lia Gangitano, Curatorial Advisor to P.S.1/MoMA, the exhibition will incorporate and adapt elements from the exhibition For Someone Who Nearly Died But Survived, which was on view at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway in 2007. According to the curator, 'Sæthre transforms physical space' through 'his open-ended, quasi-narrative installations'.
Kjell Bjørgeengen,
still image 2007, 2007
Courtesy of the artist
Barry Esson and Bryony McIntyre, curators at Arika, an independent production company, and Graham Domke, curator of Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK have invited Kjell Bjørgeengen for an exhibition together with the late American artist Paul Sharits at this year's Kill Your Timid Notion at Dundee Contemporary Arts. In the 2008 edition, Kill Your Timid Notion – an annual festival which examines the relationship between sound and image – will explore the notion of the 'Flicker'. For the festival exhibition, also entitled Kill Your Timid Notion, the Norwegian artist will occupy the main exhibition space with an immersive installation of single-channel works on monitors. Bjørgeengen will also present two separate performances in collaboration with Keith Rowe and Phillip Wachsmann, two of the leading figures in UK improvised music. Kill Your Timid Notion opens on 19 September, 2008 and culminates with a music and cinema programme from 10 to 12 October.
Angela Lennon, Assistant Curator at Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, UK has invited Kathrin Höhne and Bjarte Gismarvik with their project Bycatch between 9 August to 20 September, 2008. Bycatch is an investigation into the decline of the fishing industry in Aberdeen and its effects on the local community. The project consists of three elements: a fanzine to be distributed throughout the city, a workshop involving a local community group and an exhibition at Peacock Visual Arts.
As part of Whitechapel's Art in the Auditorium program, Lene Berg have been invited to exhibit the film The Man in the Background, alongside Leandro Erlich's El Ballet Studio and Le Cabinet du Psychanalyste. According to the gallery press release, 'The Man in the Background consists of found home-movie images repeated with different narratives that gradually reveal a complex double life shaped by Cold War cultural politics'. Art in the Auditorium – Lene Berg/Leandro Erlich is taking place at Whitechapel Callery until 28 September, 2008.
Ruba Katrib, Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA has invited Ida Ekblad to exhibit in Dark Continents, taking place at MOCA from 26 September to 9 November, 2008. According to Ruba Katrib, 'the artists in Dark Continents invoke and challenge the suggested links between femininity and nature. Referencing historical moments in the work of Gauguin and related artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the exhibition questions the aesthetics of the 'primitive' and 'exotic' in modern art through a contemporary lens'. For the exhibition, Ida Ekblad will produce new works approaching themes raised by the exhibition. Other artist exhibiting within Dark Continents are Hadassah Emmerich, Naoi Fisher and Paulina Olowska.
Maia Urstad,
Sound Barrier, 2004/05
Courtesy of Malmø Konsthall and the artist
Following a visit to Norway to participate in OCA's International Visitor Programme, the Director of Johannesburg Art Gallery, Clive Kellner has invited, together with Maria Fidel Regueros, Torbjørn Rødland, Goksøyr & Martens (Toril Goksøyr and Camilla Martens), Bodil Furu and Maia Urstad to participate in the exhibition Disturbance – Contemporary Art from Scandinavia & South Africa, at Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa. The exhibition will examine the relationship that Scandinavian and South African artists have to notions of identity and place. The thematic of the show will focus on 'disturbance' – a term used here to explore ruptures in society. For Disturbance, Torbjørn Rødland will present various various photographs; works with pop culture elements that poke fun at clichés. Bodil Furu will exhibit My Ambience, and Opera, works which filter the immediate reality using video and sound. Maia Urstad will exhibit a sound installation consisting of a wall of radios and a performance entitled Sound Barrier. The artistic duo Goksøyr & Martens will exhibit Speech Choir, a new work created for the exhibition. The Scandinavian artists Paul Gernes, Alija-Lisa and Veli Granö will also participate in the exhibition alongside South African artists such as Anthea Moys, Lerato Shadi and Siemin Allen. Disturbance – Contemporary Art from Scandinavia & South Africa takes place at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa between 26 October, 2008 and 1 March, 2009. The project is supported by 03–funding*.
As part of the artist collective Henry VIII's Wives, Rachel Dagnall has been invited by curator Chema González to exhibit the work Iconic Moments of the 20th Century within This is how history is written, at La Casa Encendida, in Madrid, Spain. The exhibition explores approaches to history in contemporary art. Iconic Moments of the 20th Century is a photo series made for the exhibition Evolution Isn't over Yet at the Fruitmarket Gallery, in Edinburgh, UK, 2000. This is how history is written, takes place between 24 June and 1 September, 2008. Other participating artists included On Kawara, Hito Steyerl and Felix Gmelin.
Matt Packer, Curator of Exhibition and Projects at Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland, has invited Marte Johnslien to exhibit within Bookish at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery from 26 June to 26 October, 2008. The exhibition presents works from artists including John Baldessari, Richard Prince and Rainer Ganahl, who have worked with publications and printed matter. Within Bookish, Marte Johnslien will exhibit Le Livre Sur Le Livre, which focus on the book as a medium for distribution of knowledge.
Curator Ann Geeraerts invited Unni Gjertsen to exhibit the work Creative History within The Last Marquise, taking place from 12 September to 23 November, 2008 at the Castle van Gaasbeek, Belgium. Organized by vzw Gynaika, in Antwerpen, Belgium, the exhibition will present a selection of contemporary artworks in dialogue with the life of the marquise Arconati Visconti, who lived in the Castle van Gaasbeek. Unni Gjertsen's Creative History is composed by ten silk screens with tabloid statements about female intellectuals and artists. The statements are a mix of facts, lies and possible truths that provoques a questioning on how history is created. Among other artists included in The Last Marquise are Cindy Sherman, Katharina Fritsch, Sylvie Fleury and Barbara Visser.
Enrico Lunghi, Artistic Director of the Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg, has invited Bodil Furu and Talleiv Taro Manum to exhibit within Don't Worry – Be Curious, at the Casino Luxembourg from 12 July to 14 September, 2008. The exhibition, curated by Dorothee Bienert, Kati Kivinen, and Enrico Lunghi is an extended version of the Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, that, after being exhibited in Kiel and Berlin, Germany; Tallinn, Estonia; Pori, Finland; and Riga, Latvia will be shown in Luxembourg. Within Don't Worry – Be Curious Bodil Furu will exhibit the video installation My Ambience and Talleiv Taro Manum will exhibit the installation Greetings from Ringnes. Among other artists exhibiting are, Olga Chernysheva, Kaspars Goba and Angel Vergara.
Anne Katrine Dolven, Bring Me Back, 2007
Courtesy of carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany and
Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
Anne Katrine Dolven has been invited by curator Anna Bitkina to participate in the exhibition H2O: Nordic and Russian Public Art in Non-Traditional Space. Initiated by CEC ArtsLink, H2O is St. Petersburg's first international exhibition of public art. The exhibition will present works in different media from artists from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and St. Petersburg, all dealing with the theme of water. According to the curator 'water plays an important role in St. Petersburg's identity and serves as a geographic and unifying element, connecting the North-West of Russia with neighboring Northern countries'. For H2O, A K Dolven will produce a video piece with the working title Liberty. The work questions the reality of what one actually sees and where one is. Other participating artists are Tommi Gronlund & Petteri Nisunen, Ulf Rollof, Jacob Kirkegaard and Finnbogi Petursson. H2O: Nordic and Russian Public Art in Non-Traditional Space takes place at the Peter and Paul Fortress, in St. Petersburg, Russia from 1 to 14 September, 2008.
Mette Tronvoll has been invited by curator Prof. Dr. Apinan Poshyananda to exhibit her work within Traces of Siamese Smile: Art + Faith + Politics + Love, taking place at the new Bangkok Art and Culture Center from 20 September to 23 November, 2008. Acording to the curator, the exhibition features works by invited Thai and international artists, 'each interconnecting with one another to tell the stories of Siamese Smile through different aspects of art, faith, politics and love'. For Traces of Siamese Smile: Art + Faith + Politics + Love, Tronvoll will produce a new video work, related to her photograph series Isortoq Unartoq. Other exhibiting artists are Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois and Pierre et Gilles. The project is supported by 03–funding*.
Jesper Alvær is invited by The Foundation of Modern Art in Situ in Warsaw, Poland to exhibit within the second edition of Passengers, an annual international festival for public space and art. Curated by Zuzanna Fogtt and Kuba Szreder, this year's edition of the festival, entitled About Walls, Fences and Other More or Less Visible Barriers, takes place from 9 to 16 September, 2008, in Warsaw, Poland. The festival investigates the 'problem of today's public space and its participants, its present situation in the era of globalization and consumerism'. About Walls, Fences and Other More or Less Visible Barriers, which includes works in the public space, exhibitions and workshops, focuses on the vanishing if a city's public spaces. Jesper Alvær will contribute to the festival with a project with the working title Rhythmanalysis that seeks to explore how elements of rhythm analysis can be employed in fieldworks by artists. Among other artists exhibiting within the festival are: Kuba Bakowski, Miklos Erhardt and Farida Heuck.
Josefine Lyche, Rainbow Pickets (Grayscale), 2008
Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden
04 September, 2008
*03–funding: The purpose of the 03-funds as allocated by the MFA to OCA is to further develop cooperation and professional networking between OCA and the constituency of artists, independent cultural producers, and organizations that are located in designated countries or associated with 03-countries. This includes but is not limited to "professional research visits by cultural producers, artists, and curators", "short-term residencies for cultural producers and artists", "the development of seminars, conferences, art projects, workshops, etc. that focus on the further development of professional exchange and networking between and among countries", "project development and "pilot projects" on an international scale."