Office for Contemporary Art Norway

In anticipation of the opening of dOCUMENTA (13) on 6 June in Kassel, OCA announces On the Destruction of Art—Or Conflict and Art, or Trauma and the Art of Healing by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev published in Spring 2012, as part of the dOCUMENTA (13) notebook series 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts.

According to the dOCUMENTA (13) summary, 'Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev reflects on the historical as well as personal notion of destruction and art, as well as on the potential healing power that art can have. Guiding us through a web of etymological, historical, philosophical, personal, and art historical references, she takes the reader from Melanie Klein’s thinking about the dyadic relationship between mother and child and Walter Benjamin’s reflection on Klee’s Angelus Novus, to object studies starting with Man Ray’s metronomes, his Objects of Destruction, and Lee Miller’s photographs from the end of World War II, to Gustav Metzger’s “Manifesto of Auto-Destruction,” to melted objects from the Beirut National Museum and the blown-up Bamiyan Buddhas, which are accompanied by Michael Petzet’s report of ICOMOS’s response to the destroyed monuments, followed by artworks by Michael Rakowitz and drawings with poems by Anna Boghiguian, in addition to a postscript by art historian Dario Gamboni on the destruction of art, the concept of 'world heritage', and the legislation around it. For Christov-Bakargiev, 'the sphere of art is poised on the edge of the private and of history, and becomes the location where one can experiment the possibilities of being on the edge of the anthropocentric, where the rubble lies.' Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (*1957) is Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA (13).'

About dOCUMENTA (13) notebook series 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts
As a prelude to the 2012 exhibition, dOCUMENTA (13) together with Hatje Cantz are publishing a series of notebooks, 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, that is comprised of facsimiles of existing notebooks, commissioned essays, collaborations, and conversations. The notebooks appear in three different formats (A6, A5, B5) and range from 16 to 48 pages in length. Contributors hail from diverse fields – art, science, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, political theory, literature, and poetry. Matias Faldbakken is part of a list of authors that includes György Lukács, Suely Rolnik, Franco Berardi, Vandana Shiva, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Salvador Dalí and Ignacio Vidal-Folch, Chus Martínez, Édouard Glissant and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Arjun Appadurai, Cornelius Castoriadis, Griselda Pollock, Donna Haraway, Pamela M. Lee, William Kentrige, Erkki Kurenniemi, Walter Benjamin and Nikola Doll, and Lawrence Weiner, among others.

Commissioned by dOCUMENTA (13) Artistic Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, together with Head of Department, Member of Core Agent Group, Chus Martínez, this series is edited by Head of Publications, Bettina Funcke. The 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts series is launched at various places and in various moments, each accompanied by a discussion on the nature and the aim of this publications project. You can acquire individual notebooks or subscribe to the entire series of 100 notebooks in both printed and e-book editions at www.hatjecantz.de/documenta13.

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In Oslo you can acquire the notebooks at Torpedo Bookshop.

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OCA announces the release of the dOCUMENTA (13) notebook, Hannah Ryggen, as authored by OCA’s director Marta Kuzma. Numbered sixty-seven (67) in a series of one hundred notebooks entitled 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, the publication is dedicated to a thought essay around the work, production, and political inclination of the Swedish-Norwegian artist Hannah Ryggen. The notebook includes illustrations of Ryggen’s tapestries, personal notes, a textile dye recipe, letters, and sketches from a workbook belonging to Hannah Jönsson, (Ryggen´s maiden name).

According to the notebook’s author, Ryggen, ‘with a sense of public-mindedness, completed her tapestries around political themes marking a shift away from a general treatment of tapestry as a mere applied art form that conventionally effaced politics to convey with a sense of authenticity, immediacy, and contingency, the unfolding of a precarious socio-political landscape of her time’.

Hannah Ryggen was born in Malmø, Sweden in 1894, but lived most of her life on a small farm in Ørland, Norway, and was married to the Norwegian painter Hans Ryggen. Educated as a teacher, Ryggen studied painting under the Danish painter Fredrik Krebs. A self-taught weaver, she had a solo exhibition at Moderna Museet in Stockholm during 1962 and exhibited in the Venice Biennale in 1964. She died in Trondheim in 1970.

This notebook was made possible with the additional editorial support of Tonja Boos, OCA’s research and programme coordinator. Lenders of images and materials for the notebook include: National Museum of Decorative Arts, Trondheim; The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo; The Hannah Ryggen Archive at the National Museum of Decorative Arts, Trondheim; Hannah Ryggen Archive at Special Collection, NTNU University Library, Trondheim; Hannah Ryggen Archive at Yrjar Heimbygdslag, Ørland.


Hannah Ryggen
Introduction by Marta Kuzma, texts by Hannah Ryggen
Series: dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken No. 067
German/English
2012. 48 pp., 27 ills.
ISBN 978-3-7757-2916-1
Available in printed and e-book editions from Hatje Cantz

About the 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts notebooks series
As a prelude to the 2012 exhibition, dOCUMENTA (13) and Hatje Cantz are publishing a series of notebooks, 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, that is comprised of facsimiles of existing notebooks, commissioned essays, collaborations, and conversations.
A note is a trace, a word, a drawing that all of a sudden becomes part of thinking, and is transformed into an idea. This publication project follows that path, presenting the mind in a prologue state, in a pre-public arena. A space for intimacy and not yet of criticism, dOCUMENTA (13) is publishing the unpublishable, the voice—and the reader is our alibi and ally. Note taking encompasses witnessing, drawing, writing, and diagrammatic thinking; it is speculative, manifests a preliminary moment, a passage, and acts as a memory aid. 
With contributions by authors from a range of disciplines, such as art, science, philosophy and psychology, anthropology, economic- and political theory, language- and literature studies, as well as poetry, 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts constitutes a space of dOCUMENTA (13) to explore how thinking emerges and lies at the heart of re-imagining the world. In its cumulative nature, this publication project is a continuous articulation of the emphasis of dOCUMENTA (13) on the propositional, underlining the flexible mental moves to generate space for the possible. Thoughts, unlike statements, are always variations: this is the spirit in which these notebooks are proposed. 
The notebooks, designed by Leftloft, have been published from March 2011 in three different formats, 16 to 48 pages, in English and German.

Commissioned by dOCUMENTA (13)’s Artistic Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev together with Agent, Member of Core Group, and Head of Department Chus Martínez, this series is edited by Head of Publications, Bettina Funcke. Among the authors to date include: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Matias Faldbakken, Kenneth Goldsmith, Erkki Kurenniemi, Christoph Menke, Thomas Mann & Theodor W. Adorno, Griselda Pollack,  Suely Roelnik, Ian Wallace, among others. 

The Leyline Project; Steingrimur Eyfjjörd, Ulrika Sparre and the cat Snudur at Reykjavík Art Museum - Hafnarhús. Courtesy of the artists

Curator Jonatan Habib Engqvist has invited Steffen Håndlykken, Stian Eide Kluge, Toril Goksøyr, Camilla Martens, Steingrimur Eyfjord, Arild Tveito, Anders Nordby, Eirik Sæther and UKS to take part in the exhibition entitled '(I)ndependent People: Collaboration and Artists Initiatives' as part of the Reykjavík Arts Festival 2012. Taking place in multiple exhibition venues throughout Reykjavík and focusing on contemporary visual art from the Nordic and Baltic region, '(I)ndependent People' inquires, according to the curator, 'if and how collaboration can operate in a continual negotiation between contesting ideas and desires, yet allowing unplanned and transformative action'. Habib Engqvist further says that some of the many projects that will be realised during the course of the exhibition will have 'uncertain' outcomes. 'By putting the 'I' in parenthesis and giving up the authorship of a singular artistic Subject, a specific uncertainty is created and another, hybrid identity is made possible. The in-between state of such collaboration can become a site for social and cultural change. This temporary in-between space created in Reykjavík will serve as a platform for ideas yet to be imagined, examined and constructed. It's a position that can be portrayed as ambiguous and indefinable, but these very qualities often make contemporary art worth putting our hopes in'.

The official opening of the Reykjavik Art Festival will take place in Harpa concert hall on Friday 18 May at 18.00. The exhibitions as part of '(I)ndependent People' open on Saturday 19 May, accompanied by performances and seminars – and a series of events throughout the summer.

For press inquiries and more information on this exhibition, please contact Kristín Scheving, Reykjavík Arts Festival, or Edda Sigurjónsdottir or Dorothée Kirch, Icelandic Art Center.

About the artists
'(I)ndependent People' is an extensive project that brings together 29 artist-collectives with the collaboration of over 100 participants. Steffen Håndlykken and Stian Eide Kluge represent the Oslo-based artist-run gallery 1857; the UKS have been invited with their editorial project 'No Gods No Parents'; Toril Goksøyr and Camilla Martens are better known as the duo Goksøyr & Martens; Steingrimur Eyfjord will participate as part of 'The Leyline Project'; Arild Tveito, Anders Nordby and Erik Saether constitute the artist collective Institutt for Degenerert Kunst.

OCA Support
These individuals and collectives have been supported by OCA's International Support Programme.

Office for Contemporary Art Norway
The Office for Contemporary Art Norway is a foundation created by The Norwegian Ministry of Culture and The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in autumn 2001. The main aim of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway is to develop collaborations in contemporary art between Norway and the international art scene. The Office for Contemporary Art Norway aims to become a key contributor to the discourses of contemporary art.

A former theatre building in Havana serves as the venue for Crispin Gurholt's installation project. Courtesy of the artist

Crispin Gurholt has been invited by curator Jorge Fernández Torres to produce a new installation in relation to an ongoing series of works entitled 'Live Photo' at the 11th Havana Biennial. Organised under the theme of 'Artistic Practices and Social Imaginaries', the biennial will, according to Fernández Torres, 'be developed in international circumstances where the debates regarding the scenarios of contemporary art have been substantially modified and have acquired new meanings for artists as well as for the institutions and the different audiences'. Torres further says that 'it is essential to listen to the noise on the street; we must devise a way to leave the sacred sites of the big museums, gallery circuits or international events to think about the passer-by, he who is left out of the specialised circuits, to work for the site-specific, time-specific and public-specific'. In this context, Gurholt will produce a work within a former theatre building located in the Vedado district in Havana.

For press inquiries and more information on this exhibition, please contact Michele Nunez.

About Crispin Gurholt
Crispin Gurholt (b.1965 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) graduated from the New York University S.C.E. Film School, New York, NY, USA and the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo. His work has been presented at, among others, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Art Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo; Nordnorsk Art Museum, Tromsø, Norway and Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.

OCA Support
Crispin Gurholt's participation in the 11th Havana Biennial supported by O3–funds as underwritten by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for enhancing collaboration in the contemporary art field with professional artists in countries designated by the MFA.

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'Midsummer: «Back to Nature»' is the fifth and final chapter of ‘Human Valley’, a one-year project by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tristan Bera for Kunsthalle Zürich at the Museum Bärengasse, Zürich, Switzerland. ‘Human Valley’ is presented by the two curators as a ‘one-year project for hybrid presentations of borderline topics in an area comprising three rooms inspired by Jean-Luc Godard's film Une Femme Mariée (1964), with first an entrance resembling a provincial cineclub, then a bedroom for two with books on bookshelves, and also a projection room’. Une Femme Mariée is built up by a collection of fragments, an idea that Elise Storsveen and Eline Mugaas continue in their project. The artists are playing with their ongoing zine series ALBUM#'s favorite topics like nudity and the universe, desire, melancholy, motherhood and lonely men. According to the artists, 'Midsummer: «Back to Nature»' 'looks to the notion of nature, as seen through images found in books from discarded archives'. The artists further say that 'the books have left their alphabetical order and are reorganised in small groups, based on visual clues. Turned inside out and without their explanatory texts, photographs of things that occurred some time ago take on a new presence as they start communicating with each other. Research has been conducted to see if there is a possibility for a return to the wild'.

For press inquiries and more information on this announcement, please contact Ursina Merkt, Marketing and Communication Responsible, Kunsthalle Zürich.

About the artists
Elise Storsveen (b.1969 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry and the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts (Now Oslo National Academy of the Arts). Recent solo exhibitions include 'Fyktelige angrep i ly av', Gallery Trafo, Asker, Norway (2009); 'A week of Kindness' (with Are Myklebost), 0047, Oslo (2008) and 'It's All In Your Mind', Galleri Bouhlou, Bergen (2006). Group exhibitions include  'Take Me To Your Leader', The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo (2010); 'Rock Paper Scissors', Galerie Susan Nielsen, Paris, France (2009); 'Cut-ups', Centrum för fotografi, Stockholm, Sweden (2009) and 'Cons and Idols', Kistefoss Museet, Kistefoss, Norway (2008). Together with Eline Mugaas she is publishing the zine ALBUM#. Until 14 May 2012 ALBUM# 1-5 is presented at the Library of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA, as part of the exhibition ‘Millenium Magazines’.

Eline Mugaas (b.1969 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) is a graduate from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY, USA. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Face of young man half in shadow’ Galleri Riis, Oslo (2010); ‘Skin flick’, Galleri Riis (2008) and 'Some Cities', Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (2007). She has participated in exhibitions such as 'Cities ReImagined', MoCAV, Novi Sad, Serbia (2010); 'Fake Snow', Galleri Riis, Oslo (2008); 'Recent History of Norwegian Photography', Stenersen Museet, Oslo (2007); 'Syntetische Natur', Kunstraum D-21 Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany (2007) and ‘Likheter & Forskjeller / Similarities & Differences, New Norwegian Photography’, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway (2005). Together with Elise Storsveen she is publishing the Zine ALBUM#. Until 14 May 2012 ALBUM# 1-5 is presented at the Library of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA, as part of the exhibition ‘Millenium Magazines’.

OCA Support
The participation of Elise Storsveen and Eline Mugaas in ‘Human Valley’ is supported by OCA's International Support Programme.

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Mai Hofstad Gunnes, Bike and Bolex production still. Courtesy of the artist

As a result of Mai Hofstad Gunnes' nine-month residency in Brussels, Belgium, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre presents the 16mm film Bike and Bolex. Echoing the artist's ongoing reflection on the construction of identity, Bike and Bolex shows a group of five women bicycling in circular paths while filming each other with Bolex cameras. According to the artist, 'the revolving movements captured by the five subjective cameras draw a molecular structure without a fixed center and convey an idea of a non-hierarchical multiple subjectivity'. An artist book will be launched alongside the exhibition. French art historian Benoît Lamy de La Chapelle has contributed with an essay that is also accompanying the project.

For press inquiries and more information on this announcement, please contact Devrim Bayar, Residency Curator, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre.

About the artist
Through 16mm film, installation and collage, Mai Hofstad Gunnes (b.1977 in Lørenskog, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway and Berlin, Germany) has developed a personal imagery based on a type of associative logic, where different layers of reality are tested against each other. Her artistic point of departure derives from an interest in concrete systems of categorisation and the translation of these into a more non-hierarchical formalist language. Her recent films, as attempts to externalise inner worlds, involve performers to focus on the embodiment and personification of architecture and science. Recent exhibitions include 'Oh how time flies', Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (2011); 'Le choix du titre est un faux problème', Cneai de Paris, Paris, France (2011); 'Goddesses', Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo (2010); 'Pyrrhic Fortune', Sils, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2010) and 'A shape of love you can never imagine', Oslo Fine Art Society, Oslo (2009).

About OCA's WIELS Contemporary Art Centre Residency Programme, Brussels
Mai Hofstad Gunnes holds a fellowship from OCA as part of its International Studio Program at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, Belgium. OCA offers a nine-month residency programme for an artist at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre. Applications are accepted from Norwegian artists and international artists residing in Norway. The programme is designed for artists who have already elaborated a specific and promising aesthetic language but seek artistic, theoretical and professional support in order to develop their practice.

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'Aftertaste' candies served as part of 'Thank you for listening'. Photo: Anne Marte Dyvi, Ytter

The artist-run spaces KNIPSU (consisting of Hilde Jørgensen, Kristin Tårnesvik and Maya Økland), Volt (a curatorial project by Marie Nerland) and Small Projects (consisting of Jet Pascua and Laurent Fauconnier) are participating in Supermarket 2012, an international artist-run art fair in Stockholm. According to curator Pontus Raud, the goal of Supermarket is to 'provide a showcase for artists' initiatives from all over the world and to create opportunities for new networks in the Swedish as well as the international art scene'. Initiated and organised by artists, Supermarket 'invites the wider public to become a part of what is happening on the artist-run scene, offering visitors unexpected meetings and experiences rather than focusing on sales'. An extensive series of lectures and performances titled 'Supermarket Talks' and 'Red Spot Performance Programme' is also taking place throughout the period of the fair.

For Supermarket 2012, KNIPSU will conduct a workshop under the title 'Thank you for listening' together with the artist group Ytter (consisting of Julie Lillelien Porter, Anne Marthe Dyvi and Anngjerd Rustand). As a starting point for the dialogues and works, the 'ethical side of being a wealthy oil nation, and the consequences this has for artists and art in Norway' will be discussed. The workshop will deal with thematically linked keywords such as power, economy, authority and guilt through conversations, performance and visual artworks. A Speakers Corner will be set up and self-made black 'Aftertaste' candies will be served. Volt is participating with ‘an exhibition in the form of a book’, presenting artworks made especially for the occasion by aiPotu, BADco., Milena Bonilla, Phil Coy, Institute for Colour, plan b, Mai Hofstad Gunnes and Per-Oskar Leu.
 Small Projects will present works by artists Ane Sagatun, Kristine Halmrast, Margrethe Pettersen, Joar Nango, Sigurd Gurvin and Eric Zamuco.

For press inquiries and more information on this announcement, please contact Pontus Raud.
Press accreditations can be obtained by contacting accred@supermarketartfair.com.

About KNIPSU
KNIPSU is both an artist-run space based in Bergen, Norway, and a mobile platform, producing exhibitions, events, screenings, concerts, workshops and publications. KNIPSU set out to provide an interdisciplinary meeting point for creative exchange and dialogue between artists across national borders. It is run within the framework of collaboration and DIY by Hilde Jørgensen, Kristin Tårnesvik and Maya Økland since August 2010.

About Volt
Volt is a curatorial project initiated in Bergen in 2008 by Marie Nerland, presenting new art projects by Norwegian and international contemporary artists, including exhibitions, time-based media, performances, discursive projects and sound art projects, with a special focus on artists who work across several media and modes of expression. Volt is a non-commercial curatorial initiative that does not have its own exhibition space, but finds suitable locations for each project.

About Small Projects
Small Projects began as a nomadic art initiative in 2001. After receiving support from the Norwegian Arts Council, Small Projects established a permanent location in the city of Tromsø in January 2011.

OCA Support 

The participation of KNIPSU, Volt and Small Projects at Supermarket 2012 has been supported by OCA's International Support Programme.

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• Volt group
• Small Projects group

Per Teljer, still from The Cabin, 2011. Courtesy of the artist

'Stories from under a pale moon – videos from northern Europe' is the title of an exhibition and a seminar including Jannicke Låker, Per Teljer, Claudia Reinhardt and Morgan Schagerberg held at the Meta House in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from 12 to 26 February 2012. Within the exhibition Låker will present Sunday Mornings (2007), which is about a woman who is exposed for a mortal situation in her home after a night out. In Teljer's The Celebration (2001) three outsiders living on state benefits gather to celebrate New Year’s Eve together. Reinhardt's No Place Like Home (2007) explores how the personality and individuality of an ordinary girl in a small town in southern Germany develops. In Schagerberg's City and Nature (2008) crystal crowns slowly rain on a road in a quiet and desolate landscape. The seminar will be held during the last week of the exhibition period, addressing issues such as identity, belonging and alienation, with a special focus on how childhood, society, home and history have formed the artists' expressions.
'Stories from under a pale moon – videos from northern Europe' brings to focus the term 'Bygdedyret' ('the village animal'), which is not, as the artists describe, 'an animal in a regular sense, but rather a mental monster composed of a corporate state in small communities'. The term was created by the Norwegian author Tor Jonsson and is related to 'The Jante Law' first published by the Danish/Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose in A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks (1933). The artists go on to say that the concept of 'Bygdedyret' isn't limited to Norway, but is a well-known international phenomenon. 'Bygdedyret ignores and breaks down all kind of innovations, changes and dreams that pop up in its milieu—sometimes with ignorance and silence, sometimes with mental or utterly physical violence'. 'Stories from under a pale moon – videos from northern Europe' is curated by researcher, author and director Nico Mesterharm.

For press inquiries and more information on this announcement, please contact Jannicke Låker.

About the artists

Jannicke Låker
Jannicke Låker (b.1968 in Drammen, Norway, lives and works in Berlin, Germany) is a video artist known for her explicit treatment of taboos such as shame, guilt, immodesty and mental abuse. She has been presenting her works internationally. Selected venues include Nordic Panarama 2011, Århus, Denmark; Lilith Performance Event 2011 Malmö, Sweden; Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad, Norway (2011); The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel (2010); International Women's Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2010); International Competition South by SouthWest, Austin, Texas, USA (2009) and Festival International de Film et Video de Creation, Beirut, Lebanon (2008).

Per Teljer
Per Teljer (b.1970 in Smögen, Sweden, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) graduated from the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. He is represented at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Norway; The Norwegian Arts Council and The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo. Selected exhibitions include 'What Happened to God?', ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany (2011); Oslo Screen Festival, Oslo (2010); Trunk '09 – The Nordic Art Video Festival, Östersund, Sweden (2009) and LIAF 04 – Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvær, Norway (2004). Teljer is an associate professor at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art.

Claudia Reinhardt
Claudia Reinhardt (b.1964 Mannheim, Germany, lives and works in Bergen, Norway) studied visual communication at Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany. Solo shows include 'Liebesmüh' - Lover's Labour', Galerie Richter & Brückner, Köln, Germany (2011); 'Heimat-Hotel', Bredaphoto International Photo Festival, Breda, the Netherlands (2008); 'Underdagen', Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen (2007) and 'She must be seeing things', The Pound Gallery, Seattle, USA (1999). Reinhardt has been teaching at the National Academy of the Arts, Bergen, since 2000.

About O3–funds
Jannicke Låker, Per Teljer and Claudia Reinhardt's participation in 'Stories from under a pale moon – videos from northern Europe' at the META House is supported by O3–funds as underwritten by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for enhancing collaboration in the contemporary art field with professional artists in countries designated by the MFA. The purpose of the O3–funds as allocated to OCA is to further develop cooperation and professional networking between OCA and the constituency of artists, independent cultural producers, and organisations that are located in designated 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', 'seminars, conferences, art projects, workshops that focus on the further development of professional exchange and networking between and among countries', and 'project development on an international scale'.


OFFICE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART NORWAY
The Office for Contemporary Art Norway is a foundation created by The Norwegian Ministry of Culture and The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in autumn 2001. The main aim of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway is to develop collaborations in contemporary art between Norway and the international art scene. The Office for Contemporary Art Norway aims to become a key contributor to the discourses of contemporary art.

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