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Please note that all applications for Internatinal Support from
artists, curators and institutions must be received by OCA by 15
May. For any questions regarding the application process, please
contact Velaug Bollingmo at vb@oca.no.
The Office for Contemporary Art Norway provides financial
support on a quarterly basis for international projects including
Norwegian artists and/or cultural producers. This includes
extending support to group or single artist exhibitions initiated
by international institutions and international curators.
International artists who have permanent residence in Norway may
also apply for support. The objective is to foster innovative
artistic production, expression and the creative process by
encouraging and supporting projects that support, exhibit and
interpret a broad spectrum of contemporary artistic practices. The
funding for International Support is provided by the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
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03–Funding (Funds for the Exchange with Countries in the South)
is a support program initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
for enhancing collaboration in the contemporary art field with
professional artists in countries in the South. This programme is
also administered by OCA.
Click here for information on
the application process.
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The
recipients of the grants of February 2007 are listed here.
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The Nordic Pavilion exhibition in 2007, under the title Welfare
— Fare Well, is curated by Renè Block, the director of Kunsthalle
Fridericianum in Kassel (1998–2006) and internationally acclaimed
artistic director of several international exhibitions and
biennials. The exhibition will include projects by Adel Abidin
(Finland), Jacob Dahlgren (Sweden), Toril Goksøyr and Camilla
Martens (Norway), Lars Ramberg (Norway), Sirous Namazi (Sweden),
and Maaria Wirkkala (Finland).
Toril Goksøyr was born 1970 in Ålesund,
Norway, Camilla Martens 1969 in Oslo,
Norway. They both live and work in Oslo after having studied at the
National Academy of Fine Art in Oslo. They have been working
collaboratively since 1997 in the construction of performance based
projects with social implications. Drawing their inspiration from
theatre, their projects often integrate staged situation
integrating outside actors in predominantly socially interactive
public spaces outside of museums and galleries.
Lars Ramberg was born in 1964 in, Oslo,
Norway. He lives and works in Berlin after having completed the
National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. Ramberg produces
architectonic projects that function to intervene with a practiced
public space with the intent to infer a political and social
commentary.
Press Preview: 7–9 June 2007
Opening dates: 10 June–21 November, 2007
Requests for invitations:
http://www.labiennale.org/en/news/art/en/71580.html
Publication
A special FRAME edition, 56 pages, colour, will be released in
conjunction with the biennale.
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In 2007/08, Office for Contemporary Art Norway offers a studio
grant in two periods, each two months in length Norwegian
curators/critics/artists at the Residency Berlin
Mitte. The residency provides a fully equipped appartment
located at Kunstwerke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin
Mitte. OCA covers travel costs up to NOK 4000,-. Curators and
critics are especially encouraged to apply and their applications
will be prioritized.
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The artist and filmmaker Lene
Berg (b. 1965, Oslo) was granted the one year artist
residency programme at ISCP New York which commences as of 1
September 2007. Several of Berg's projects have their point of
departure in documentary material without that necessarily being a
priority in the result. One of her themes is fictional thinking in
relation to and confrontation with the physical world. In 2006, she
presented the publication Gentlemen and
Arseholes and the video The Man in the
Background, two parts of a project about art and propoganda
during the Cold War. More recently that work has been shown at
Midway Contemporary in Mineapolis, at [OCA, NYC], and upcoming at
the Frankfurter Kunstverein.
The critic and writer Kjetil
Røed (b.1973) has received the three month curatorial
residency at ISCP New York commencing as of 1 September, 2007. A
regular contributor in areas of visual art, film, and literature,
to Morgenbladet, Vinduet, Film & Kino, Le Monde Diplomatique,
Prosa, Kunstkritikk.no, Billedkunst, Røed is also a contributor to
international journals of contemporary art such as Frieze and
Contemporary.
Oslo based artist Martin Skauen (b.
1975) has been granted the one year artist residency at
Künstlerhaus Bethanien commencing as of 1 December, 2007. Skauen,
who recently participated in a major group exhibition at the
Kunstverein in Frankfurt as curated by Chus Martinez, bases his
practice in drawing, video, and music. Interested in the depiction
of humanity and the notion of redemption, Skauen often stages
situations through the use of metaphor and the interpretation of
inner and outer worlds, reflecting on cultures in despair that
evolve into fanaticism. Skauen was also the former curator of the
artspace Subcomandante.
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The upcoming OCA Semesterplan for spring/summer 2007 will be
announced by the end of April.
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The International Studio Programme Oslo is available for
international artists and curators by invitation for a stay from
two weeks up to six months, independently or in connection with
research in Norway. The programme comprises four studios located in
the city centre of Oslo.
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Chin-tao Wu
Author and Academic
Born 1961, Taiwan, lives and works in Taiwan
Chin-tao Wu specializes in contemporary art and
culture, and has contributed to New Left
Reviewand New Statesman. Her latest
book, Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention
since the 1980s, published by Verso in 2002, is being
translated into Chinese. The Turkish edition was published in 2005,
the Portuguese edition in October 2006, and its Spanish edition was
published in February 2007. She is currently Assistant Research
Fellow at Academia Sinica in Taiwan and an Honorary Research Fellow
at University College London.
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Pablo Lafuente
Writer, Curator and Research Fellow
b. 1976, Santurce, Vizcaya, Spain. Lives and works in
London, UK
Pablo Lafuente is the managing editor
of Afterall, a journal of contemporary art
co-published by Central St. Martins College of Art, London and
California Institute of the Arts, Los
Angeles. Afterall is published twice a year, and
focuses on contemporary art practice in relation to artistic,
theoretical, social and political contexts. He is currently
developing a series of books for Afterall Books analyzing the
history of curatorial practice. He has curated several exhibitions,
including Watch out ... it's real! at
greengrassi, London (2006) and Unit
Structures at Lisboa 20, Lisbon (2006). In 2005 he edited
the book Display: Recent Installation Photographs from
London galleries and venues (London: Rachmaninoff's). His
writing has been published in several art and culture magazines,
including Flash Art, Art Monthly, frieze and The Wire, and in the
volume Continuous Project no.8, edited by Bettina
Funcke (Paris: Les presses du réel, 2006). He is currently working
on a PhD at Middlesex University on Jacques Rancière and the
relation between aesthetics and politics.
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The 2nd Edvard Munch Award for Contemporary Art
was awarded to German artist Alice Creischer still in November 2006
with the intent that the artist assume her residency period in Oslo
in Spring 2007. Creischer will assume her residency at the Munch
Estate as of early May 2007 with a presentation planned on 22 May
within the original Munch studio at Ekely entitled Why Not
Lobby Today? — the title of her projected work for the
upcoming Documenta in Kassel. The work takes the form of an opera
and is a political critique approaching the models of economic
democratisation and socialization of private industries discussed
still in post Nazi Germany. As typical to the artist's previous
production, the project assumes the form of a narrative to
deconstruct the various economic and political strains of her
argument. The work is presented as an Opera within Documenta in the
first days of July, 2007.
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The Office for Contemporary Art Norway runs an International
Visitor Program to support international curators and cultural
producers in their research in Norway for upcoming exhibitions and
projects.
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Marta Gili
Director, Jeu de Paume
Paris, France
Marta Gili graduated in Philosophy and
Education from Universitat de Barcelona. Between 1983 and 1988, she
was part of thePrimavera Fotográfica de
Barcelona Organizing Committee. Between 1991 and 2006,
she was head of the Department of Photography and Visual Arts of
the Fundació la Caixa. On October 2006, she was appointed director
of the Jeu de Paume in Paris. Simultaneously, she was Artistic
Director of Printemps de Septembre (a visual
arts festival) in Toulouse, for the 2002 and 2003 editions. She was
member of the Acquisitions Committee for the Fonds National d'Art
Contemporain of the French Ministry of Culture, between 1994 and
1997. Marta Gili has been the curator of a multitude of monographic
exhibitions, such as those of Helen Chadwick, Tracey Moffat, Miguel
Rio Branco, Lorna Simpson, Aernout Mik, Christer Stromholm, Gillian
Wearing and Doug Aitken, amongst others. She has also headed
thematic exhibitions, such as la Image Fràgil, Ficcions
Documentades or Historias Animadas. She has contributed with
articles in El Pais, El Mundo, ABC, Tema Celeste Beaux Arts
Magazine, and she also collaborates monthly in EXIT magazine. Marta
takes part in numerous seminaries and conferences, and teaches
several postgraduate courses, both in Spain and abroad. Her texts
have been published in several monographs of artists and in theory
books published by Phaidon, Steidl, Gustavo Gili and the Fundació
la Caixa.
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[OCA, NYC] is an experimental platform launched the The Office
for Contemporary Art Norway in Oslo in an aim to initiate projects,
host seminars, talks and screenings with an effort to draw from the
resources and network already available in New York City. In
supplement to the existing residencies overseen by OCA in
Manhattan, [OCA, NYC] attempts to provide a less formal context for
the exchange and presentation with shorter term networking and
research possibilities for Norwegian professionals while also
initiating OCA programming, discursive panels and wider platforms
of discussion.
In the first week of May,[OCA, NYC] hosts 1) on 1 May: a
presentation format led by research fellow and
artist Tone Hansenregarding alternative
organizational forms around the model of the museum in dialogue
with Liam Gillick; 2) on May 2: New York
based artist Corey
McCorkle presents Tower of Shadows, a
film produced out of the artist's participation in OCA's off-site
residency programme in India; 3) on May 3: OCA
launches Verksted #8 with a lecture
by Peter Osborne on the Contemporary
Art, Spatialization, and the Urban Form. Throughout each evening,
the Oslo based book concern Torpedo will
have a presentation of its wares. R.S.V.P. is required to all
events as seating is limited. For detailed programming, please
refer to www.oca.no
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Hanne Mugaas and Cory Arcangel in their presentation entitled Art Since 1960 (According to the Internet) at [OCA, NYC], 8 March 2007.
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ISCP conducts Open Studios the weekend of 5–9 May. ISCP Artist
Resident Ole Martin Lund Bø participates
and is available for visits.
www.iscp-nyc.org
Martin Braathen, a resident of
the Whitney
Independent Study Program in NYC, has
invited Marianne Heier to participate in
the exhibition, The Price of Everything ... /Perspectives
on the ArtMarket, a project organized by the Whitney
Independent Study Program and scheduled at the Art Gallery of the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 17
May through 24 June, 2007.
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ISMS: Recuperating Political Radicality in Contemporary Art
I. Constructing the Political in Contemporary Art
The book reflects the seminar, ISMS 1. which, organized by OCA,
took place at the School of Architecture and Design in Oslo in
April, 2006. The seminar addressed the complex and problematic
relationships between artistic movements, political movements, and
individual works. Specific focus was placed on current dilemmas
facing art production, how it is for a work to function
"critically" today, and how this relates to or, in fact, neglects
politics.
The essays in Constructing the Political in
Contemporary Art take a step back from the immediate
institutional context of recent attempts to reconnect contemporary
art to the politics of 1960s and 1970s, in order to reflect upon
some of the theoretical issues at stake: the critical structure of
the artwork as a site of a dialectic of individuality and
collectivity (Peter Osborne), the power of its indexical or
"documentary" aspects (Hito Steyerl and Marius Wulfsberg), its
use-value as an archive of "intensive life" (Eric Alliez), its
"seam with the economic" (David Cunningham), the limits of its
"relational possibilities" (Stewart Martin), and its role in making
visible the 'immaterial' labour of 'cognitive capitalism' (Ina
Blom).
For further information please refer to www.oca.no.
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Annie Anawana Haloba Hobøl participates in
the Sharjah
Biennial 8 (SB8), scheduled to open on 4 April in the United
Arab Emirates. SB8, directed by Jack Persekian and curated by
Mohammed Kazem, Eva Scharrer, and Jonathan Watkins, integrates a
theme that proposes art as a way of creating a better understanding
about our relationship with nature and the environment, whilst
considering its social, political, cultural, and subjective
dimensions in an interdisciplinary way. Among artists included —
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla; Roy Arden; Peter Fend;
Tue Greenfort; Group Tuesday; Leopold Kessler; Joachim Koester,
Cornelia Parker.
Jan Freuchen, Narve Hovdenakk, Lotte Konow Lund,
Torbjørn Rødland, Martin
Skauen, and Bjarne
Melgaard will participate in the
upcoming 1st Athens
Biennial entitled Destroy Athens, taking place
from 9/10 September to 18 November 2007.
Bodil Furu, Anders
Eiebakke, and Talleiv Taro
Manum, are among artists selected to participate
in Don't Worry — Be Curious!: The 4th Ars Baltica
Triennial as curated by Dorothee Bienert, Kati Kivinen,
and Enrico Lunghi. The exhibition which "addresses the problems and
fears resulting from upheavals in present day society" is launched
at the Stadtgalerie
Kiel in Germany on 30 March and continues thereafter with
venues at KUMU —
Estonian Art Museum in Talinn, and the Pori Art
Museum in Pori, Finland.
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Martin Skauen participates in the recently
opened group exhibition entitled Whenever It Starts It Is
The Right Time, curated by Chus Martinez, Director of the
Frankfurter Kunstverein. The exhibition, at the Frankfurter
Kunstverein from 23 March through 6 May, 2007 explores if
imagination is a useful notion for a new way to define the role of
artistic pratcie and its connection to social research. The project
integrates the notion of the enacted imagination as it relates to
the avant-garde project of the early 20thcentury — in
conveying how to relate art to life and how to imagine the world
differently. Skauen is one among other artists that include — Ibon
Aranberri, Thomas Bayrle, Luke Fowler, Ryan Gander, Adrian Piper,
Setareh Shabazi, Sue Tompkins. Skauen participates with a newly
commissioned work made possible with the support of an OCA grant
entitled Felix Culpa — A Handmade Massacre, in
addition to a former work entitled Polarbear
Split.
Silvia Cubina, Director at The Moore Space in Miami and
Scottsdale Center for the Arts Curator Marilou Knode have
invited Torgeir
Husevaag and Andrea
Lange to participate in the group exhibition
entitled Peer in Peer Out that will take place
at The Moore
Space in Miami from 12 May through 2 September, 2007. The
exhibition includes artists Matts Leiderstam, Egill Sæbjörnsson,
and Ragna Robertsdottir. Andrea Lange will participate with a new
work in addition to Countdown for 2000 Broken
Dreams.
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Martin Skauen Felix Culpa, A Handmade Massacre, 2007 Drawing size; 190 x 140 cm Videoversion: 5:10 min
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Curator Mami Kataoka has invited Trine Lise
Nedreaas to participate in All About
Laughterat the Mori
Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan from 27 January–6 May, 2007.
Nedreaas participates with video and photographic workForget 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.
The exhibition Into Me/Out of Me continues to
be shown at MACRO (Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma) from 20
April–30 September. Norwegian participants are Trine
Lise Nedreaas, Knut Åsdam and Elmgreen&Dragset
Frankfurter Kunstverein Director, Chus Martinez, will curate a
major solo exhibition with the works of Gardar Eide
Einarsson, that will open 27 July and run through 16
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.
Chus Martinez has also invited Lene
Berg to participate in the exhibition Pensée
Sauvage that will be shown in the Frankfurter
Kunstverein from 25 May through 8 July, 2007 and parallel
in the Ursula
Blickle Foundation, 20 May–1 July, 2007.
Knut Åsdam was selected as the Artist in
Focus as part of Rotterdam's
International Film Festival. His contribution to the
festival is a particularly versatile one. Not only will he be
showing his own recent short films, he will also produce a large
installation in the Museum
Boijmans Van Beuningen, entitled The Care of the Self
Finally Edit, which will take the form of a dingy little urban
park at sunset. This realistically constructed "hangout" is a
synthesis of various motifs from his oeuvre: architecture, the
urban setting, cinematographic mise-en-scéne and, above all,
attention to mental processes (desire, politics, the everyday). In
addition, Åsdam has integrated two installations — the video
work Abyss and the new series of
slidesSmooth City, Smooth Space in the auditorium and
conference spaces of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi).
In the Bilderberg Park Hotel nearby, Åsdam found the perfect
context within which to integrate a small selection of his early
video work. Finally, he will also participate in the
exhibition Borderline Behaviour at TENT with a
graffiti work. During the festival, Åsdam will not only be
introducing his own work, but also a number of his favourite
films.
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Andrea Lange Stills from Isfahan mon amour, 2007
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The exhibition, This is the First Day of My Life,
by Ingar
Dragset and Michael
Elmgreenopened recently at the Malmö Konsthall as a
comprehensive presentation of the artist duo's sculptural works
from 1997–2007. Several new productions are shown together with
well known works from the artists' production and installed into a
disorienting complex environment of arcades and secret rooms.
Curated by Lars Grambye, the exhibition will be accompanied by an
upcoming publication by the same title with contributions by Brian
O'Doherty, Kristian Kracht, and Dennis Cooper to be published by
Hatje Cantz.
Synne Bull and Dragan
Miletic have been invited to participate in the Video
Exhibition Exchange — a project at the Pasadena Museum of California Art.
Invited by Wesley Jessup, the Museum's Director and Kathleen
Quinlan, Director of Artists' Television Access, the event takes
place on 28 April.
Håvard Boland (c-Lab) participates in a
project entitled The Martin Rose at theAndalusian Centre for Contemporary Art in
Sevilla, Spain from 19 April through 1 July. The project is
curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose.
Line Bergseth participates in a solo
exhibition Fraktaler — nya målningar at
theKonstnärshuset in
Stockholm from 12 April though 13 May.
Anna Gudmundsdottir has been asked to
produce a new work entitled The Leftover Images from the
Theatre Stages After the Suburban Massacre in the Mellich City,
1909, at the Living Art
Museum in Reykjavik. The project is curated by Larus
Vilhjalmsson and will open in June, 2007.
Roddy Bell has been asked to intervene
into the collection of the Museum of the History of
Science in Oxford University in the UK with his
work The Book of the Imaginary Science in
September 2007.
Helge Sten (aka Deathprod) has been
invited by Daniella Cascella to participate
in Inaudito at the National Gallery of Modern
Art in Rome. The project is scheduled to be realized in
Spring 2008.
Tom Sandberg's exhibition as curated by Bob
Nickas continues at P.S.1
MoMA in New York City through to 7 May. The exhibition
includes 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."
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John Rasmussen, selected Lene
Berg's Gentlemen and Arseholes to be
shown at Midway
Contemporary in Minneapolis from 17 March to 5 May. The
work shows together with Carey
Young's Consideration.
Lene Berg has also been selected to
present a new work entitled The Weimar
Conspiracy at the ACC Galerie, a not for profit space
in Weimar, Germany. The project which opens on 30 March will use
Weimar as an image, or example of established ways of presenting
and remembering European history and culture.
Independent Curator Hanne
Mugaas curates Paris Was Yesterday — Stories
of Art and Culture at La Vitrine in Paris.
According to Mugaas' statement, the project includes "artists
working on and intervening with stories and histories of culture,
while keeping a conscious look at their own role as artist. Placed
within a system of art, and in the world at large, the artists draw
connections as well as disassemble systems of media, technology,
commercialism, and art, to create comments or new narratives. The
exhibition takes its title from the book, Paris was
Yesterday by Genet, an early gossip columnist, reporting
from the social life of Paris to the magazine New Yorker in New
York." The artists included in the exhibition are: Charles
Broskoski, Marcel Dionne, Marius Engh, Ida
Ekblad, Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby, and Jane
Veeder.
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Martin Braathen, a resident of
the Whitney
Independent Study Program in NYC, has
invited Marianne Heier to participate in
the exhibition, The Price of Everything ... /Perspectives
on the ArtMarket, a project organized by the Whitney
Independent Study Program and scheduled at the Art Gallery of the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 17
May through 24 June, 2007.
Kalle Runeson participates in the group
exhibition, This Is Not A Fairy Tale, curated by Edi
Muka and Joa Ljungberg at the Tirana Institute for Contemporary
Art through 30 April. The project "features a diversity of
narratives that tell stories of "anti-heroes", pointing to the
sometimes destructive consequences of inherent legends and tales."
Runeson participates with the installation "Wizard Equals Wisdom
and is Measured by the Length of a Beard."
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 was open through 8
April
Leif Magne Tangen has also
curated Synthetische Natur with works
by Kjersti Berg, Sveinn Fannar Johannsson, Einar
Horsberg, Marte Johnslien, Mikkel McAlinden, Eline Mugaas, Jenny
Rydhagen, Børre Sæthre, Per Christian
Brown and Anders Valde. The
exhibition will open at Kunstraum D21 19 April, run through 10
June, and will then be open from 20 June through 24 June.
Tilman Heopfi, Curator, at the Nieuwe Vide in Haarlem, Netherlands
has selected Kjell Bjørgeengen to produce a new work for the
exhibition My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble, scheduled to
open on 15 April and to run through 6 May, 2007.
Jan Christensen is invited to participate
in the group exhibition, Vorstellen, formulieren — Sprache
als Modell der Wirklichkeit, at K3 Project Room in
Zurich. Curated by Susanne Sauter, the project opens 5 May and will
run through 20 June, 2007.
Kalle Runeson and Marlene
Lindmark (as Kultivator) have
been invited by Gijs Frieling to have a solo exhibition
at W139in
Amsterdam in November 2007.
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.
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Kjetil Thorsen and Olafur Eliasson to Design 2007
Serpentine Pavilion in London
According to Artforum.com, it was announced in
mid March that artist Olafur
Eliasson and Norwegian architect Kjetil
Thorsen, of the architectural firm Snøhetta, will
collaborate to create the 2007 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.
Serpentine Gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones said, "The
Serpentine Gallery architectural commission is taking a step into
the future by expanding the design team to include a visual artist,
a format that began last year with the collaboration of Rem
Koolhaas, Cecil Balmond, and artist Thomas Demand. This will bring
an extra dimension to the project." Eliasson is currently involved
in numerous architectural projects, including the Icelandic
National Concert and Conference Centre in Reykjavik (design of the
building envelope) and a rooftop extension for the ARoS Aarhus
Kunstmuseum in Denmark. Thorsen is cofounder of Snøhetta, with
offices in Oslo and New York, and is responsible for the design of
award-winning public buildings around the world. He has
collaborated with Eliasson several times, including on the New
National Opera House, Oslo, currently under
construction.
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Oslo Open takes place from 3–13 May as a city wide effort to
make artists studios open for visitation by the public and
professionals for the period of ten days. For more information on
the programme, please refer to www.osloopen.no.
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Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) has hired Rickard
Borgström as its director. Borgström will commence his duties at
LIAF in April. Since its inception, Lofoten International Art
Festival has been run on a project basis with the festivals as its
main focus. Rickard Borgström who presently lives in Trondheim is a
curator with a diverse educational background from the University
College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre in Stockholm,
Stockholm University, and Bergen National Academy of the Arts. In
recent years Borgström has primarily worked in Finland, Norway, and
Sweden, where he has presented a wide variety of exhibitions,
performance art shows, workshops, seminars, and publications.
Through the exhibition Perform 06 — What is
performance? he presented unique documentary material on
performance art in the Baltic and Nordic countries from the 1960s
to the present, in collaboration with a variety of Nordic
institutions. In connection with the Mid-Nordic group
exhibition More Than This Borgström brought
prominent British and Nordic artists together in an ART &
ECOLOGY conference. He has regularly taught the subject of
performance and relational art at Malmö University and the
University College of Dance in Sweden and at the University of
Applied Sciences — Fine Art Program in Finland. For more
information on LIAF, please refer to www.liaf.no.
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Recent IVP curator Clive Kellner, Director, of the Johannesburg
Art Gallery, has been invited by TEKS (Trondheim Electronic Arts
Centre) to join an international advisory board together with
Professor Jeremy Welsh, Solvor Amdal, Director of Midtnorsk
Filmsenter, Barbara London, Associate Curator, MoMA, Christiane
Paul, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, Alex Adriaansen,
DEAF Netherlands, among others. The advisory board is part of an
upcoming project for 2010 in the form of a
biennale/triennale/platform slated for Tronheim in 2010 and
initiated by TEKS as a competence platform for electronic arts and
new technology. For further developments on the project, refer
to TEKS (Trondheim Electronic
Arts Centre).
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Norwegian curator Leif Magne Tangen has contributed to a
catalogue edited by Heman Chong. Other contributers are Hu Fang,
Astrid Mania, Binna Choi, Rodney Latourelle, Joselina Cruz, Russell
Storer, and Cosmin Costinas. The catalogue was launched on the
occasion Heman Chong's solo project at Vitamin Creative Space,
entitled The Sole Proprietor and Other Stories.
Read more on www.vitamincreativespace.com.
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At the School of Visual Arts in New York September 2007–June
2008: This intensive one-year residency offers international
participants the opportunity to work in technologically advanced
facilities with renowned photographers to bring critical rigor to
the advanced photographer. The function of the program is to
advance the content of individual work through critique, lectures,
museum and gallery visits and dialogue with other participants.
Application Deadline: 1 May 2007
For more information click here.
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Ersta Konsthall is looking for artists from all over the world
to participate with their sound based work. All recorded work
without borders of genre — sound experiments, experimental sound,
electro, speech, noise, solence, soundtracks — are qualified to
participate in the project. If you want to contribute, please send
two CD-copies of your album along with contact information to:
Sofia Curman
Östgötagatan 18
SE –116 26 Stockholm
Sweden
paola@erstakonsthall.se
+46 734 399 760
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Sten Are Sandbeck leaves his position as Programme Coordinator
for the International Studio Programme. We wish Sten Are the best
of luck with his future endeavours!
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