The following is a selection of upcoming international exhibitions and projects supported and enabled by OCA either through its International Visitor Programme and/or the International Support Programme:
Ane Hjort Guttu's project Trasop School's Prints Collection will be included in the exhibition Jump into Cold Water at the Shedhalle in Zurich, Switzerland that runs from 6 June through 30 July. Curated by Sonke Gau and Katharina Schlieben, the project addresses the questions of artistic education, and the production of artistic knowledge, such as – what are the motivations for becoming an artist? What contribution can art provide to a socially relevant knowledge production? Is art a practice that is able to demonstrate a concept of transdisciplinary thought in a performative way, as well as actively help to shape it? Jump into Cold Water picks up on some of these questions through projects that grapple the question of artistic teaching and education in a discursive, interactive, associative, and documentary way. Ane Hjort Guttu's project, that consists of a collection of elementary school prints that deal with the strong ideological content in Scandinavian post-war graphics, questions the centralized way of organizing public art, and the social democratic approach to art in general.
Ingrid Book and Carina Hedèn have been selected by Hemma Schmutz, Director of the Salzburger Kunstverein in Austria, to participate in scheibbs_ project in public space, a project which is concerned with the structural change and the future position of Scheibbs: Scheibbs is an intact, attractive small town, a district capital with institutions of public administration, but suffering in the last years of movement of labour and migration. On the other side, there are some highly specialized companies in the neighborhood that are internationally orientated. The art projects should work with the local infrastructure and deal with the economic situation. Could we think about a positioning of a town that does not function through entertainment and event culture? What part does art play in this context? For the participants, art residencies will be installed, which can be used from mid May to mid June. In a passage on the main street, a project centre with infrastructure for participants will be installed, which should also function as a communication centre for the local community. The process of the research and development of the project should be visible for the town and its inhabitants. Other artists and scientists participating in the project are Annette Wehrmann (DE), Klub Zwei (AT), Georg Winter (DE), Bureau d'études (FR), Jens Kastner (Soziologe) (AT).
Philippe Pirotte, Director of the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland, has invited Camille Norment to participate in the exhibition entitled Pre-Emptive, which will include Florian Dombois, Vanessa Van Obberghen, Kris Fierens, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Serkan Ozkaya, Zhang Enli, Marine Hugonnier, and Daniela Keiser. The project approaches the very ideas around the "pre-emptive" in creating the space and the place suffused by possibilities and the reflection upon the non-effectuation of history. Within the context of this exhibition, Norment plans to exhibit Driftglass, 2001–2004, an interactive series of optically deceptive mirrors with sonic feedback – an example of the transformation of everyday objects and behaviours.
The Norwegian curator Hanne Mugaas has been provided support from OCA to organize an online exhibition entitled New Realities via Rhizome.org at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY. The curator states that "Google video and YouTube, both repositories for home-made video, are significant for offering a more expansive notion of what an archive can be, and for framing the amateur video producer as a legitimate media producer ... this exhibition will explore how such open source systems of production may affect artistic practice."
Marit Følstad has been invited into an exhibition entitled The Scarecrow, as curated by Olga Daniylopoulou, Nicola Oxley and Nicolas de Oliveir at the Averoff Museum of Modern Greek Art, in Metsovo, Greece from July 1st through September 17th. The 'scarecrow' provides the central motif for the exhibition "acting both as a celebratory emblem, and as a warning sign for transgressors." Works in the exhibition approach the uncanny, the inevitable return of what remains unresolved, and what cannot be confronted. Artists in the exhibition include: Hans Op de Beeck, Stefan Bruggemann, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Thomas Eller, Marit Følstad, Rosemarie McGgoldrick, Mariko Mori, Nicola Oxlay, Elisabeth Price, Ugo Rondinone,Bob and Roberta Smith, David Wilkinson, Zafos Xagoraris.
Sven Påhlsson has received support to participate in the project entitled Animated Stories which will open at La Caixa Foundation in Barcelona, Spain from June to September 2006 and will follow with venues at the La Sala Rekalde in Bilbao and at Le Fresnoy in Lille, France in January 2007. The exhibition is curated by La Caixa's Marta Gili.
Trine Lise Nedreaas has been invited to participate in Into Me / Out of Me with the work 'Dead Lift' and films from the series 'Forget me not.' The exhibition which opens June 25th and runs through September 25th and is co-organized by P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. It is curated by Klaus Biesenbach, P.S.1 Chief Curator, Curator in the Department of Film and Media at The Museum of Modern Art, and the Founding Director of KW. The exhibition will travel to KW in late 2006. A fully-illustrated publication by KW and P.S.1 will be available in the fall of 2006. The exhibition approaches the imagined, descriptive, and performative act of the passing into, through, and out of the human body. Spanning over 40 years and featuring an international group of more than 130 artists, the exhibition spans the frameworks of natural science, historical and mythological confrontations, ritualistic practices, and self-exploration. The body has been a consistent concern of contemporary artists including Marina Abramovic, Chris Burden, Valie Export, Bruce Nauman, Carolee Schneemann, Kiki Smith, and Andy Warhol, all of whom are represented in the exhibition. From Hannah Wilke's unflinching self-portraits in illness and Matthew Barney's performance-based installation to Cindy Sherman's surreal photographs and Kara Walker's antebellum figures, Into me / Out of Me examines how artists have explored the physical and psychological boundaries of their bodies and those of others creating images of fragility and strength, illness and suffering, tenderness and violence.
Norwegian curator Hans Askheim has received support from OCA to curate the exhibition entitled In Our Own Time By Our Own Means, to open at the non for profit space MOT in London. The title is taken from one of John Heartfield's montages as a point of departure to explore how the political motivation of dada and surrealist movements relate to contemporary artists. A work of John Heartfield will be presented alongside contemporary artists Mark Titchner, Lisa Kirk, Gardar Eide Einarsson, and Bj örn Kowalski Hansen. In this context of MOT, an artist-run exhibition venue in East London housed in a building set up by the Greater London Consul, the project will seek to address questions concerning the use of socially related aesthetics, and play with the ubiquitous term "non for profit". The exhibition will open on 12 August and run through 16 September, 2006.
Bodil Furu has been invited by Manu Park to participate in the Busan Biennale 2006 in Busan, Korea which will run from 16 September to 25 November. The exhibition will be held under the title Everywhere and will be composed of three parts. Furu will participate in the section entitled A Tale of Two Cities: Busan-Seoul/Seoul-Busan.
Knut åsdam will participate in Satellite, a project being organized by Nina Oeghoede in conjunction with the official Shanghai Biennale from the 4th of September, 2006. The concept of Satellite has multiple levels: physical, geographical, political, astronomical, and biological, and brings together an international team of curators and artists from China and elswehere. Knut åsdam has been asked to participate in the subject theme "The Irreparable" together with Pavel Buchler, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Martin Creed, Ruberto Cuoghi, Wim Delvoye, Serkan Oskaya, Luc Tuymans, Christoph Buchel and others.
Børre Sæthre will have a solo show at The Participant located on the Lower East Side in New York City from 8 September–8 October, 2006. The title of the project – I've Been Guilty of Hanging Around – is generated from a dialogue with the American writer Dennis Cooper about his latest project in which he investigates the darker and hidden connections between male teenage prostitutes and older men, in an almost Genet-like manner.
René Block, Director of the Kunsthalle Museum Fridericianum in Kassel is this year's designated curator for the Belgrade Biennial entitled the 47th October Art Salon. The theme of this next biennale is "Art, Life, and Confusion" and will take place in Belgrade from September 29 through mid November 2006. As a result of his recent research visit to Oslo, Block has selected the following artists to participate in the biennial: Toril Goksøyr & Camilla Martens, Kim Hiorthøy, Matias Faldbakken, Vibeke Tandberg. 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.
Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic have been invited by American curator Elizabeth Armstrong to participate in the upcoming California Biennial scheduled to open at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California, USA. The Biennial runs from 1 October to 31 December, 2006.
Maya Økland has been selected to participate in the New Nordic Photography exhibition held at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg, Sweden from 20 May to 27 August, 2006.
Norwegian curator Leif Magne Tangen will curate a project entitled I will never make it at Kunstraum D21 in Leipzig, Germany, a new not for profit initiative opening in September. Included in the project are Jan Christensen and Mikkel McAlinden. The show will run from 9 September to 6 November, 2006.
Geir Tore Holm will participate in the exhibition project Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts, as curated by Frederikke Hansen and Tone Olaf Nielsen for NIFCA. The exhibition constitutes the last major exhibition production before the institution closes in 2007. Geir Tore Holm will participate with an exhibition project in Five Acts with two works – Mun rahkistan – in mun ge, a music video from 2005 and vara addit!, a promotion stand for blood donation from 2006.
Prague-based Jesper Alvaer has received support from OCA's 03 Funds to hold a series of film screenings within a three day film festival in Oslo in November 2006 in cooperation with Torpedo and Fotogalleriet. The screenings will include films by the Iranian filmmakers Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi and 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.
Dr. Barbara Steiner, Curator and Director of the Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst Leipzig, Germany, has invited the artist Stefan Schr öder to participate in a public project entitled Plagwitzer Sand in Summer 2007 in Leipzig.
Einar Hansen and Edvine Larssen have been accepted into the highly competitive research programme at the Centre for Contemporary Arts Kitakyushu, Japan. The two artists were selected among eight international artists who will participate from September 2006 through March 2007.
aiPortu (Andreas Siqueland and Anders Kjellesvik) have been invited to participate in this year's selective Advanced Course in Visual Arts organized by the Antoni Ratti Foundation in Como, Italy. The course leader will be Marjetica Potrc. The Advanced Course in Visual Arts is an intensive course for young artists. It started in 1988 under the patronage of the Como Council, and it is structured like a summer seminar in the form of a laboratory for artistic and theoretical experimentation.
Post Nora, an exhibition with Norwegian and Chinese female artists curated by Baoju Wang who was in OCAs ISP Oslo programme in 2005 and did research for the exhibition. It is scheduled to open 22 October 2006 at Today Art Museum, Beijing, China. Participating Norwegian artists: Ingrid Book, Carina Hedén, Bodil Furu, Gillian Carsson, Marianne Heier, Siri Hermansen, Inghild Karlsen and Marianne Heske.
7 June, 2006