Sven Påhlsson participates in the project entitled Animated Stories, an exhibition that opened at La Caixa Foundation in Barcelona, Spain in June, and is followed by its next venue and recent opening at Sala Rekalde in Bilbao (30 October–7 January, 2007). The exhibition, curated by Marta Gili, the newly appointed director of Jeu de Paume in Paris, explores drawing and digital animation in relation to their artistic potential for imagining and producing stories to critically reflect on the world around us.
Jan Christensen's project BAR-code is exhibited through 7 January, 2007 at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Belgium. The project that incorporates murals containing figurative and abstract elements, computer graphics and graffiti writing, is a result of "high and low culture that take on the architecture of the space itself".
Øystein Aasan will participate in the exhibition Klartext Berlin, at the Kunstraum Niederosterreich in Vienna. Curated by Raimar Stange and Christiane Krejs, the project will open on 6 October and will include additional works by Candice Breitz, Michel Majerus, Jonathan Monk, Olaf Nicolai, among others. Aasan will present his work entitled Bootleg Piece — a series of bootleg recordings of concerts distributed freely on CD's, with the aim to create a different distribution system and collection of sound works.
Fredrik Raddum presents an expansive installation within X-rummet at the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. The exhibition which opened on 28 October and will run through 7 January, 2007 will explore notions of home endemic to the ideas of Gaston Bachelard.
Mikkel Wettre will participate in an exhibition entitled The Square Root of Drawing at the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios in Dublin, Ireland. The exhibition, curated by Noel Kelly, will be open from 24 October–2 December, offers a critical survey of international contemporary drawing from three curatorial perspectives: firstly, observing drawing as a primary practice, secondly investigating its elemental place within artists' wider practice and lastly exploring drawing as a method of achieving final works in other media such as painting and sculpture.
Witte de With Director Nicolaus Schafhausen and WdW curator Renske Janssen include the works by Gardar Eide Einarsson and Marius Engh in the exhibition Street: Behind the Cliché scheduled through 19 November, 2006. The exhibition approaches what — and who — fills the sociocultural space of our day to day surroundings. It investigates the public spaces of supermodernity — as defined by Marc Auge — by presenting 28 international artists whose works embody alternatives to the anonymity of the globalized world and render visible the underlying structures and mechanisms of public space.
Leif Magne Tangen will participate in a book launch at the Project Art Space in Dublin, Ireland from 2 November–14 January, 2007. The book project as a collaborative project with Heman Chong is intended as a science fiction novel using a grid of structures collaborating with other invited curators, artists, writers, to be printed by Dexter/Sinister. The book project intended to be shown as a part of Manifesta 6 will be shown in Dublin as one of the alternative sites for the originally planned Manifesta as led by Mai Abu El Dahab.
Anne Szefer Karlsen has been invited by the organization Vector in Iasi, Romania, to present Individual Communities — a presentation of video works from Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The programme will be screened at Vector from November 22–27th of November.
Curator Will Bradley has invited Andreas Dalen to participate in the exhibition How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later, at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, California. The project revolves around the contrasting visions of future put forward in California in the mid 1970s. It takes is title from an essay by science fiction author Philip K. Dick, in which he compares the speculative world building of artists and writers to the scenarios imagined and constructed by governments, corporations and the mass media.
The exhibition opens 28 November, 2006 and runs through 24 February, 2007. Other artists participating in the exhibition: Can Altay, Nate Boyce, Rick Guidice, Shaun O'Dell, Toby Paterson, Eileen Quinlan, Eva Rothschild, Katya Sander, William Scott, Solmaz Shabazi, Bonnie Sherk, and Gitte Villesen.
Geir Tore Holm will participate in the exhibition project Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts, 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 have participated in Rethinking Nordic Colonialism with two works — Mun rahkistan — in mun ge, a music video from 2005 and Vara addit!, a promotion stand for blood donation from 2006. The music video will be launched as part of a DVD Box Set in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, and Stockholm on 25 November.
Else Marie Hagen
Second Thoughts, 2006
C-print, 210x156 cm
Else Marie Hagen has been invited by the curator Petra Bungert to participate in a group exhibition, Double Exposure due to open at the Center for Non-Objective Art in Brussels on 1 December through 14 December.
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst in Berlin has invited Ane Lan to participate with her video Elegi in the exhibition Sexwork — Kunst Mythos Realität. The exhibition is scheduled to open on 16 December and to be shown at NGBK through 25 February, 2007. The exhibition will explore the phenomenon of prostitution, from various perspectives and will investigate the myths and limited perceptions that have arisen around prostitution.
Hungarian curator Livia Paldi selected works by Vibeke Tandberg and Torbjørn Rødland to be included in the exhibition Dreamlands Burn, scheduled to open at the Mucsarnok in Budapest on 7 December, 2006. The exhibition which is scheduled to run through 24 February, 2007 proposes a crossover of the contemporary art scenes in the Nordic countries, with an investigation of identity through the very personal. Other artists included in the project are Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Johanna Billing, Tommi Grönland and Petteri Nisunen, Felix Gmelin, Alexander Gutke, Jesper Just, Joachim Koester, Gitte Villesen among others.
Yokoland (founded by Aslak Gurholt Rønsen and Espen Friberg) has been invited by Robert Blackson, the curator at the Reg Vardy Gallery at the University of Sunderland to exhibit their print based work from 23 January–23 February 2007.
Tom Sandberg will have a major exhibition curated by Bob Nickas at P.S.1 MoMA in New York City. The exhibition, scheduled to open in February, 2007, will include more than thirty photographs taken over the past ten years, this will be the photographer's first major exhibition in the United States. Nickas writes:"Sandberg has produced a remarkable body of work that is consistent in its vision, imbued with a sense of mystery and great depth of feeling ... Sandberg's work is about photography, about the act of seeing, and ultimately about being in the world."
Trine Lise Nedreaas
Forget Me Not 1, 2004
Still
Curator Mami Kataoka has invited Trine Lise Nedreaas to participate in All About Laughter at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan from 27 January–6 May, 2007. Nedreaas has been invited to participate with video and photographic work Forget Me Not 1, 2, 3 in an exhibition which explores the role of "humour in depicting worlds that are not possible in real life". The exhibition which is divided into three sections — 1) avant-garde and laughter, 2) laughter in everyday life and 3) laughter across different cultures — includes among others works by George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Erwin Wurm, Peter Land, Gabriel Orozco, Damian Ortega, Mark Bradford, Carlos Amorales, Alora and Calzadilla among others.
Katja Høst has been invited to a present a project Blind Spots at the artist run space Articule in Montreal Canada. The project approaches "ones visibility in public space and the impossibility of escaping ones own subject and become "the other"." The project will be exhibited from 2 February through 18 March, 2007.
Martin Skauen has been invited into a group exhibition entitled Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time, by Chus Martinez, Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. The exhibition scheduled to open at the Kunstverein in March 2007, explores a world run by states and corporations, in activating our immediate reality. Martinez has asked that Skauen participate with The Polarbear Split.
Martin Skauen
The Polarbear Split, A Handmade Musical, section, Pencil on paper, 2006
OCA supported Norwegian curator Leif Magne Tangen in curating a project entitled I will never make it at Kunstraum D21 in Leipzig, Germany. The exhibition, writes Tangen, is born out of the necessity of failing. Built upon an original work by Jan Christensen from 2000, the project includes artists Mikkel McAlinden, Mark Hamilton, Paolo Chiasera, and Reto Pulfer. The show will open in March 2007.
Gardar Eide Einarsson
I Will Never Give My Hand to the Police, 2006
Courtesy private collection and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo
Frankfurter Kunstverein Director, Chus Martinez, will curate a major solo exhibition with the works of Gardar Eide Einarsson in September 2007 at the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Martinez notes that Einarsson's work refers to the notion of utopia understood as "the impossibility of a place". On the other hand, the artist also addresses the notion of the "future" — or better, "the near future" — as the social ground we are already sharing and constructing for our collective tomorrow in the sense that we live in a permanent negotiation of different cultural and social backgrounds. Therefore, the solo presentation of Gardar Eide Einarsson should serve as a terrain to imagine this new territory. A place where different aesthetic premises co-exist.
Dr. Barbara Steiner, Curator and Director of the Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst Leipzig, Germany, invited the artist Stefan Schröder to participate in a public project entitled Plagwitzer Sand in Summer 2007 in Leipzig.
13 November, 2006