Norwegian artists Abroad

OCA International — In Brief
Norwegian Artists and Curators Abroad
September 2007
Selected International Venues

At the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco: Bull.Miletic were invited by Renè de Guzman to participate in a group exhibition entitled Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible that opened in San Francisco on 28 July and will run through 11 November. Bull.Miletic participate with the installation Heaven Can Wait, a larger project that delves into "the obscure and often sinister, testing the limits of the imagination to offer a range of work including internet-eavesdropping installations, surveillance projects." Other artists participating include Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen, Sergio Prego, Walid Raad, Kambui Olujimi, Alison Sant, Richard Johnson, Richard Barnes, Alex Schweder and Charles Mason.

Also in San Francisco: Lars Laumann participates in the interactive exhibit of work sourced from and inspired by the Internet, There is always a machine between us, from 6 September to 17 November at SF Cameraworks galleries. Organized by curators Kate Fowle, Karla Milosevich, Chuck Mobley and Dan Orendorff, the project is designed to generate new material as it evolves.

At the non-profit space Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis, Matias Faldbakken has a solo exhibition entitled I don't think so from 8 September through 27 October, 2007. The exhibition, curated by John Rasmussen, Director of Midway, notes that for his solo presentation "Faldbakken presents a recently completed body of new work. Prominent within the installation are two large-scale photographic works that are pasted like billboard advertisements to the gallery walls. Radically dialed back on content, the images are enlarged digital scans of the margins and ads of newspapers. Through this zeroing out, the reverse text from the back side of the originals gain (an albeit illegible) prominence amidst the overall pattern of visual static picked up via the scans."

Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén are having a solo exhibition from 19 September–25 November at the Salzburger Kunstverein in Austria by invitation of its director, Hemma Schmutz. The project entitled Stories for Empty Shopwindows originates from a series of stories from Scheibbs in Austria in exploring "how it is possible to construct evidence and to play on the questioned capacity of photography to act as a testimony of truth." An artists talk will be held on 20 September at 19:00.

Leander Djønne participates in Crosskick/Plattform #4 at the Kunstverein Hannover, 14 September–26 September 2007. Along with the yearly rotating Plattform series initiated in 2004, the Kunstverein Hannover turns the public attention to the relationship between artistic training, art teaching and art education, a relationship which is of eminent importance for the entire art world.

Djønne also contributed with The doghouse is a small house but its better than no house at all to the Documenta Magazine LTTR. LTTR is a feminist genderqueer artist collective with a flexible project oriented practice founded in 2001. The art journal LTTR is published annually.

Jan Freuchen will participate in the exhibition Objet Perdu in Pierogi, Leipzig, from 15 September–10 November 2007.

Gijs Frieling Director, of W139 in Amsterdam invites the artist group Kultivator (Kalle Runeson and Marlene Lindmark) featuring El Parche (Herman Mbamba, Olga Robayo, Marius Wang) and Floor Wesseling into a solo exhibition entitled Supermodel that opens on 12 October and runs through 11 November. The subject of Kultivator's work is agriculture and ecology, rural versus urban culture, food production and distribution, global trading and economy.

Trine Lise Nedreaas and Jannike Låker participate in Reality Crossings in Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg, Germany, as curated by Christoph Tannert, director of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. The project which takes the form of a photography festival takes place from 21 September to 21 October 2007 to focus on current trends in the areas of photography and video, concentrating here on the documentary perspective.

Anne Katrine Senstad's exhibition entitled Light Writes Always in Plural will be open at Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas, USA, on 13 September. The project will run through 21 October 2007.

Stefan Schröder participates in Über Tage_07, which is a site specific project, reflecting urban landscape development and site specific interventions after several decades of coalmining activities in the former East-German region of Sachsen. The project opened 1 September, and will expand into the summer of 2008. The project is curated by Susanne Altmann.

Marit Følstad and Crispin Gurholt participate in On Air — From North to South, a project including various works based in video and film from 28 September at the Skandinavisk Forenings Kunstnerhus in Rome. The project has been curated by Lorella Scacco and Mette Perregaard.

Torpedo bookstore is invited to the New York Art Book Fair in the end of September. The New York Art Book Fair is an annual fair of contemporary art books, art catalogues, artists' books, art periodicals, and 'zines offered for sale by over 120 international publishers, booksellers, and antiquarian dealers.

International Projects supported with 03–funding:

In Uruguay: Vibeke Tandberg participates in La Cuadratura del Cono / Border Jam, a project curated by Gerardo Mosquera as part of the international project Regional Meeting of Art. Region: Frictions and Fictions. Art in transit — A dialogue with history (Mdv-Era07), which will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay. The event will last from 9 August through to 30 September, 2007. The project will be held in differents venues; the Blanes Museum, the National Museum of Visual Arts, the Spanish Cultural Centre of Montevideo, and in urban spaces as a site for the interventions of contemporary artists. Border Jam will respond from the standpoint of contemporary artistic practices the social and cultural environment of solidarities and exclusions, not necessarily inscribed by territorial limits. Other artists participating in the project — Monica Bonvicini, Shilpa Gupta, Mona Hatoum, Teresa Margolles, Fernando Sanchez Castillo and Santiago Sierra. Tandberg will participate with her work Sunflower from 2001.

Adriana Alves at Fuzuê Arte e Cultura in Rio de Janeiro: José Loyola has invited Adriana Alves to exhibit in the new art center Fuzuê in Rio de Janeiro. In addition to Alves' two floor-exhibition there will be a Norwegian contemporary video art programme and a seminar. The exhibiton will run from January 2008. Adriana Alves will exhibit two installations and three sculptures. Her project is entitled Tragedy of the Common Man.

Norwegian curator Hans Askheim together with Claire Davies, Tom Keogh and Miranda Pope, graduates of the 2007 MA Creative Curating from Goldsmiths University of London, are developing a curatorial research project entitled Overland: London to Beijing. The curators travel by train from London to Beijing, transporting a commissioned artwork. Along the route, the work of art will be exhibited at local venues. Through the physical transportation of the artwork Overland: London to Beijing, the curators strives to challenge the practical, geographic, historical and political connotations and value of the artwork.

7 September, 2007