In 2007/2008 Office for Contemporary Art Norway offers two different studio grants for a Norwegian artist and a Norwegian curator at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York City. The artist/curator will be selected by the host institution, ISCP NYC, in collaboration with Office for Contemporary Art Norway Jury.

Application deadline 15 February 2007

In 2007/2008 Office for Contemporary Art Norway offers a studio grant for a Norwegian artist at the International Studio Program Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. The artist will be selected by the host institution, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, in collaboration with Office for Contemporary Art Norway Jury 2007.

Application deadline 15 February 2007

Helene Sommer (born 1978) has been invited to the Platform Garanti Istanbul residency programme. Sommer is interested in the rhetoric of representation and narrativity, where different structures create and influence conveyance as well as perception. Several of her works are concerned with representations and perceptions regarding the notion of nature and its interaction with science, politics as well as cultural fields such as media.

Sommer will reside in Istanbul from March through May 2007.

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 recipients of the final grant period for 2006 is listed here.

Next Grant Application deadline is 15 February 2007

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.

Rosalind Nashashibi
Artist
Born in Croydon, England
Lives and works in London, England

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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.

Evdoxia Kalpaktsoglou and Polydoros Karyofyllis
Curators, 1^st Athens Biennial 2007, Destroy Athens

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The OCA Semesterplan for winter/spring 2007 will be announced 15 January

Annie Anawana Haloba Hobøl has been invited to participate in the8^th Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates from 4 April–4 June. The Sharjah Biennial curated by Jack Persekian will present various attempts in visual art and film that "address the growing social, political, and environmental challenges the world is facings due to excessive urban development, pollution, political ambitions, and thoughtless misuse, abuse and exhaustion of our natural resources".

Dreamlands Burn opened at the Mücsarnok in Budapest on 7 December. The curator, Lívia Páldi, selected works by Vibeke Tandberg, Torbjørn Rødland, Maia Urstad, and Jana Winderen to be included in the exhibition. An thematic film programme running in association with the exhibition features the works of Andrea Lange and Bodil Furu. The project 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. Among the works of over 50 artists, Páldi "attempts to offer a contemporary reading of the complex artistic reality of Northern Europe with the help of various concepts — identity, nation, statehood, personal versus public, questions of community". 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.

Matthew Higgs will present the video work of Lars Laumann entitled Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana at White Columns in NYC on 21 February. The video, which "borrows from already established style and language of films supporting conspiracy theories circulating the internet" will be shown at the space through 21 March.

OCA resident at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin Jannicke Låker's exhibition Withered is shown at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin until 23 December.

Kjersti Andvig and Lars Laumann participate in a project at the not for profit space Le Commisariat in Paris through early December.

The curator Marilou Knode has included Torgeir Husevaag andAndrea Lange to participate in a group exhibition co-organized bySilvia Cubina, Director of The Moore Space in Miami. The project which will also include works by Matts Leiderstam, Egill Saebjornsson, and Ragna Robertsdottir will open at The Moore Space on 12 May and run through 2 September.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

Harald Medboe will participate with his photographic project Rrom — Gypsy Trips at the non for profit space BWA Awangarda in Wroclaw, Poland. The project is curated by Pawel Jarodzki will open 7 January and run through 11 February.

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.

Kjersti Sundland has been selected to participate in the Netmage Festival in Bologna from 18 – 27 January. She has been asked to participate with her work Monstrous little Women — a collaboration between the artist and Anne Bang Steinsvik.

Yokoland (founded by Aslak Gurholt Rønsen and Espen Friberg) has been invited by Robert Blackson, the curator at theReg Vardy Gallery at the University of Sunderland to exhibit their print based work from 23 January–23 February 2007.

The Marienborg Artist Community from Trondheim will participate in a non-for-profit event SuperMarked to be held in conjunction with Marked the international art fair in Stockholm. Their participation will include a symposium containing talks, discussions, performances, group work and individual work to be located throughout the city.

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 11 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."

ISSUE Project Room, an indepedent space in NYC, has invited Leif Inge Xi to present a 24 hour performance/installation entitled Beet Stretch on 23 January. ISSUE provides an open environment where both established and emerging artists can conduct, exhibit, and perform site specific work according to their respective visions.

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 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.

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.

Karl Ingar Røys participates in an exhibition Line of Play at Fabric-Berlin from 11 February. The artist participates with his work, Erna's Video from 2006, a work which "contains a series of interviews with people from the former Yugoslavia where social and structural implications of the Norwegian government's strategies to stop asylum seekers from wanting to go to Norway, are questioned". The video is filmed in Sarajevo, Mostar, Belgrade, Prishtina, Oslo and Volda.

Lene Berg has 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.

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 withThe Polarbear Split.

OCA supported Norwegian curator Leif Magne Tangen in curating a project entitled I will never make it at Kunstraum D21in 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.

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 artistStefan Schröder to participate in a public project entitled Plagwitzer Sand in Summer 2007 in Leipzig.

OCA has provided a special research grant for the artist Annie Anawana Haloba Hobøl in conjunction with her acceptance to the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Holland, for the year 2007. Hobøl was selected into the highly competitive programme by an independent international committee among 24 other international artists to participate in the Rijkakademie in 2007. These 24 artists were selected out of over 1100 applications submitted internationally.

Kristina Bræin has been invited by the independent art initiative based in Mexico City, Aldaba Arte, to participate within the residency programme from February through March 2007. Her participation is made possible with 03-funds. Aldaba Arte is present as a space dedicated to intellectual debate and idea exchange within the Mexican art community and the international scene.

Geir Haraldseth, the recent graduate from Bard Center for Curatorial Studies in New York, and the most recent curatorial participant in ISCP in New York, will participate in a panel and research project in Mexico City invited by Montserrat Albores Gleason in the project Petra. This has been made available from 03-funds.

Recently the platform PERFORM in Trondheim received support from the Art Council in Norway. It aims to stimulate artistic development among emerging Nordic artists on the performance field. The platform will primarily offer workshop and seminars. Next year the curator Rickard Borgström will develop and shape the platform in dialog with local, national, international institutions and artists. A preview of the platform will be presented in 2007. To follow the development of the platform see www.perform-perform.blogspot.com

Knut Åsdam is selected as the artist in focus in the 36^th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) which opens in Rotterdam 24 January. Åsdam's participation involves a solo show at one of the city's museums and a screening of a number of his short films throughout the city. IFFR is one of the most profiled film festivals in Europe, reknown for creating a dialogue between film and other contemporary art forms. The selection of Knut Åsdam as artist in focus the organizers emphasize "Knut Åsdam's powerful portrayal of the relationship between urban architecture and humanity". He will be the fifth international artist to be profiled in this category, following former recipients Isaac Julien, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Anri Sala and Sarah Morris.

The curator Hanne Mugaas will in January start working as a research assistant at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. She will assist Associate Curator Barbara London in the Department of Media, and help organizing the MediaScope Events.

The UNESCO Digital Art Award 2007 is organized in association with the Sharjah Biennial 8 (4 April–4 June 2007, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) on the theme of STILL LIFE - Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change.

Young artists are invited to reflect on how urban spaces and city environments could be transformed into creative outlets cultivating artistic innovation and new form of expression. Potential applicants to the award are asked to conceive and design their creative projects that are integral to the theme of sustainable urban development. The total award money is US $10.000, which could be divided and delivered to more than one laureate.

Deadline: 31 December 2006

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The Cartier Award for emerging artists living outside the UK is a major initiative by Frieze Projects, the curatorial programme of Frieze Art Fair, in collaboration with Gasworks and sponsored by Cartier.

Artists are invited to propose a new work to be realised at Frieze Art Fair 2007 which will be produced under the auspices of Frieze Projects.

The Cartier Award includes:

- A 3 month residency at Gasworks from mid September to mid December 2007, including accommodation,  per diems and travel expenses

- Project production costs of up to £10,000

- An artist's fee of £1,000

The Cartier Award is open to non UK based artists within 5 years of graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree. We welcome submissions from all international artists who meet these criteria.

Deadline: 5 January 2007

Please visit www.frieze.com for more details.

Belluard Bollwerk International is an event that produces and presents artistic projects in Fribourg (Switzerland) since 1983. The next edition of the festival will be held from 28 June through 7 July, 2007. Belluard is looking for innovative and amazing projects.

Each winning project shall be financed up to CHF 10 000.- (6000.- Euros). The projects will be evaluated by an international jury. The winning projects will be presented in the festival programme, time permitting.

Deadline: 8 january 2007

Additional informations are available on www.belluard.ch

ComPeung is the first non-governmental artist-in-residence program in Thailand.

Located just outside of Chiang Mai (Doi Saket) with its ever growing vibrant art scene and many facets of alternative lifestyles, ComPeung, a nonprofit organization, invites interested artists and content providers to submit their proposals for a residency at ComPeung. They also welcome collaborative ideas, suggestions and proposals for future collaborations as well as constructive feedback and comments.

Click here for more information about ComPeung.

Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency Program on Toronto Island, Toronto, Canada: Artscape is currently accepting applications for the Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency Program taking place 1–30 June, 2007.

Deadline: 21 February, 2007

For further information please visit Artscape's website at www.torontoartscape.on.ca/gpiarp

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.

The OCA office at Wergelandsveien will be closed for holidays from 23 December to 2 January, 2007.

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