Med dette siste nyhetsbrevet for 2010, ønsker OCA sine venner og samarbeidspartenre en god jul og et godt nyttår.

OCA provides financial support on a quarterly basis for international projects involving Norwegian artists and/or cultural producers. Applications are accepted from Norwegian artists, international artists living and working in Norway and non-profit organisations. Priority is given to exhibitions taking place in key international art institutions and project spaces. Support is also extended to solo and group exhibitions organised by international curators, as well as to Norwegian art professionals organising exhibitions and projects abroad. OCA has implemented an online system for applications for the International Support Programme. This system should be used for the 2011 First Quarter application deadline for 2011: 1 February.

The following application deadlines for 2011 will be 1 May, 1 September and 1 November. Please notice that these application deadlines are slightly earlier than those in place in the past.

Click here for more information on International Support and the application process.

For questions regarding applications for International Support, please contact Anne Charlotte Hauen. For international institutional applications and biennials, please address your questions to Paul Brewer.

The International Support Grants provided for the Forth Quarter – November 2010 are available here.

Norway's representation at the 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, will consist of two programmes, running consecutively throughout 2011: 'The State of Things', a series of lectures by internationally renowned intellectuals in various cultural and academic institutions in Venice, and 'Beyond Death: Viral Discontents and Contemporary Notions about AIDS', a teaching programme by artist Bjarne Melgaard at Università Iuav di Venezia.

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Wednesday 15 December will be the last chance for visitors to see 'BIG SIGN – LITTLE BUILDING' on view in OCA's project space. At the occasion of the exhibition closing, curator Marta Kuzma offers a tour of the exhibition at 14.00. After the tour OCA invites visitors to join us for a glass of holiday spirits and cheer.

A selection of slides from the lectures of Steven Izenour from the archive of Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates with works by Allan D'Arcangelo, Claes Oldenburg, Charlotte Posenenske, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Jeff Wall
— curated by Marta Kuzma

Exhibition dates: 15 September – 15 December 2010
Public Hours: Wed, Fri and Sat / 12-16:00 / Thu / 12-18:00

Until 15 December 2010 the Office for Contemporary Art Norway presents 'BIG SIGN – LITTLE BUILDING' which exhibits, for the first time, the original glass lantern slides used by Steven Izenour for his academic lectures together with works by Charlotte Posenenske, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson and Jeff Wall, who challenged traditional notions of space in order to explore new interpretations of landscape within the fields of aesthetics, art and architecture, without succumbing to any one category. Their work transformed drafts, surveys, maps, and manuals into cultural artifacts, creating a new genre for cultural production at the time. 'BIG SIGN – LITTLE BUILDING' looks at how natural beauty — as a concept primarily located within the phenomenon of landscape — was significantly transformed by the process of societal modernisation which took place in the twentieth century. The experience of landscape, consequently, shifted from the Kantian category of the sublime to a space in which the experience of landscape became mediated by a human and technological mastery over nature. Curated by Marta Kuzma, 'BIG SIGN – LITTLE BUILDING' reflects about the expanded temporal and spatial field for cultural production resulting from these shifts. The exhibition departs from and extends beyond a seminal project developed by the architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour, who, in their book Learning from Las Vegas (1972), drew from existing critiques of urban space at the time to explore the role that signs played in providing order to the landscape. Through the work of Allan D'Arcangelo, Claes Oldenburg, Charlotte Posenenske, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, and Jeff Wall, among other archival materials and publications, the exhibition integrates projects that revised interpretations of landscape, building, and monument. The exhibition reflects upon how these artists and architects attempted to dislocate traditional interpretations of these concepts in an effort to generate a critical dialogue around the effects of power inscribed in public information generated by the city and by the hierarchies, standardisations, and space-time relationships effected by corporate development.

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The Office for Contemporary Art Norway is responsible for the Norwegian participation in the Platform China Residency, Beijing, People's Republic of China; the International Studio Program Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; the Residency Berlin Mitte, Berlin, Germany; the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, NY, USA; the International Artist in Residency Programme at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium; Capacete, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.

OCA accepts applications for these programmes. Click here for more information.

In 2011, OCA offers a twelve-month residency programme for an artist at the International Studio Program Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, from 1 December 2011 to 15 November 2011. Applications are accepted from Norwegian artists and international artists residing in Norway. Please notice that the residency is not available for BA or MA students. Applications will be assessed by an International Jury appointed by OCA, together with a representative from Künstlerhaus Bethanien.

In 2011 OCA offers a residency programme for an artist, an independent curator, a cultural producer or an independent art critic at Capacete, a forum and interdisciplinary project operating in Brazil since 1997. The duration of the programme is four months, from 1 September to 25 December 2011, between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, including two-month stays in each city. Applications are accepted from Norwegian artists and international artists residing in Norway. Please notice that the residency is not available for BA or MA students. Applications will be assessed by an International Jury appointed by OCA, together with a representative from Capacete.

In 2011 OCA offers a residency programme for an artist, at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels. The duration of the programme is nine months, from 1 April until 31 December 2011. 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. Please notice that the residency is not available for BA or MA students. Applications will be assessed by an International Jury appointed by OCA, together with a representative from WIELS Contemporary Art Centre.

In collaboration with the Norwegian Embassy in Beijing, China, OCA offers two studio residencies, for an artist or a curator at Platform China Beijing Residency Programme. The first one takes place from 1 April until 31 May 2011, and the second from 1 September until 31 October 2011. Applicants must be Norwegian citizens, or live and work in Norway. The residency is supported by 03–funding*.

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Torgeir Husevaag
Artist, b.1967 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo

Torgeir Husevaag works with science-based projects in which systematised information and game-like activity generates geographical, mental and social maps, diagrams and educational charts; visualisations of data presented through drawings, artist books and installations. Among his solo exhibitions are 'Fluxroutes', Bærum kulturhus, Sandvika, Norway, 2010; 'Inflations and expirations', Akershus Kunstsenter, Lillestrøm, Norway, 2009; 'SuperSystematic', Trafo Gallery, Asker, Norway, 2008. He has participated in several group exhibitions, 'Swap', SIM Office, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2010; 'Drawing-biennial 2008', Kunstnernes hus, Oslo, 2008; 'Contemporary Scandinavian Art', SMoCA, Scottsdale, USA, 2007; 'Schutz und scham', Gallery COMA, Berlin, Germany, 2006.

Per Bjarne Boym
Curator, b.1946 in Nord-Fron, Norway, lives and works in Oslo

Per Bjarne Boym is a curator and art historian based in Oslo. He served as director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo (1996-2003). Previously, he worked as a curator for the collections of the Bergen (1994-1995) and Oslo (1995-1996) municipalities. Boym has been working as an independent curator since 2003. The exhibitions he curated at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo include 'Illuminations. Art From Two Millenniums' (2000), 'Robert Adams' (2001) and 'Shanghai Assemblage' (2003). More recent curatorial projects include 'Summer Art Bjørvika 2005', Oslo, Norway; '14 + 1 Story. Touching the Practise', Museo das Peregrinacions, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2006); and 'Yang Fudong', KinoKino, Sandnes, Norway (2010).

The Office for Contemporary Art Norway runs an International Visitor Programme to support international curators and cultural producers in their research in Norway for upcoming exhibitions and projects.

For more information on the International Visitor Programme Oslo click here.

Søren Grammel
Artistic Director, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

Søren Grammel, Curator (b.1971), has been responsible for numerous exhibitions in contemporary art venues organised both by himself and in collaboration with others. Selected exhibitions curated by Grammel include 'Telling Histories' and 'Total motiviert' at the Kunstverein München, Germany, 2003; the 'Videonale 9' in Bonn, Germany, 2001; 'Raus hier! Eine Ausstellung und Konferenz zum Thema Weggehen', within 'Germinations Europe', in Białystok, Poland, 2002; the research project 'We invite all' — a contribution to 'Whatever happened to social democracy' — at the Rooseum, Malmø, Sweden, 2005; 'Eine Munition unter anderen' and 'Kino der Dekonstruktion' at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, respectively from 2000 and 1999-2000. In 2005, he published Ausstellungsautorschaft, Frankfurt am Main. He has taught at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany and held seminars at the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts and the Kunstakademie München. Since 2005, he has held the post of Artistic Director of the Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria; among the exhibitions curated at the Grazer Kunstverein 'Eine Person allein in einem Raum mit Coca-Cola-farbenen Wänden', 'Idealismusstudio', 'Never for money, always for love', 'Es ist schwer, das Reale zu berühren' and 'traurig sicher, im Training'.

Verdensteatret to participate within
the 8th Shanghai Biennale
Curatorial team: Gao Shiming, Fan Di'An, Li Lei and Hua Yi
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
24 October 2010–28 February 2011

Verdensteateret has been invited to participate in 'The 8th Shanghai Biennale 2010', Shanghai, Peoples' Republic of China, curated by Gao Shiming, with Fan Di'An, Li Lei and Hua Yi. The biennial presents the concept of 'rehearsal' — a discourse on the art exhibition as a phenomenon: 'The exhibition not only reformulates — represents — everyday life, but also provides a vessel for its own representative polity. In the meantime, the exhibition is also the autonomous region of art, within which artists are also legislators'. Within the biennial, Verdensteatret participates with the work And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing, a hybrid work consisting of a performance, a concert and installation with a multitude of kinetic sculptures-machines, sound, animation, puppetry, music, lights and shadowplay. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Lene Berg and Anders Eiebakke
to exhibit within Manifesta 8
Curators: ACAF, CPS and transit.org
Murcia, Spain
9 October 2010–9 January 2011

For its eight edition the European Biennal of Contemporary Art Manifesta presents projects by three groups of curators,Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (Egypt), Chamber of Public Secrets (Scandinavian countries, Italy, the UK and Lebanon) and tranzit.org (Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia). Anders Eiebakke was invited to take part in the exhibition by Chamber of Public Secrets, working with issues such as migration, mobility and representation. Eiebakke's project consists of three parts, a TV and two radio programme, and an installation built around two drones used to cross the Moroccan-Spanish border. Lene Berg was invited by Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum — which focuses on 'cultivating a deeper awareness of art in relation to all aspects of contemporary life and culture' — to participate in their curatorial research. Within Manifesta 8, Berg presents a new audio-visual work, Shaving the Baroness (After Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp). In the black-and-white film Berg take as subject the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, a Dada artist and poet who starred in the original film made by Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp in 1921. Of the original film by Ray and Duchamp only two frames remain, attached to a letter written by Man Ray. Among the other participating artists The Otolith Group,Willie Doherty, Tanja Widmann and Nikolaus Schletterer. The exhibition is on view until 9 January 2011.

Ida Ekblad 
to exhibit within
'Expanded Painting'
Prague Biennale 5
Directors: Giancarlo Politi and Helena Kontova
Prague Biennale 5
Prague, Czech Republic 
May–September 2011

Ida Ekblad has been invited to participate within 'Expanded Painting' as part of the fifth edition of the Prague Biennale, fromMay to September 2011. Under the directorship of Giancarlo Politi and Helena Kontova, the exhibition will be structured in three sections, 'Expanded Painting', 'Art In General' and 'Focus Italy'. The directors have organised the exhibition 'with a structure reminiscent of a Chinese Box, each macro section is divided into smaller sections, each of them organized by an international curator'. 'Inspired by Rosalind Krauss' text Sculpture in the Expanded Field, 'Expanding Painting' considers the work of artists who do not necessarily work only with painting, but rather with artists whose practices speak about the legacy of the medium'. In this frame Nicola Trezzi, co-curator of 'Expanded Painting' section, states that Ekblad's 'work perfectly embodies the idea of the section 'Expanded Painting' which speaks about the cross-pollination between painting and other mediums such as installation and performance'.

Elmgreen & Dragset
to participate in
'Performa 11'
Curator: RoseLee Goldberg
Performa
New York, NY, USA
1–21 November 2011

Artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset has been invited to participate in 'Performa 11', fourth biennial of new visual art performance, New York, NY, USA, curated by RoseLee Goldberg, founding director and curator, Performa, from 1 to 21 November 2011. Within the Biennial Elmgreen & Dragset will present 'Happy Days in the Artworld', a project that according to Goldberg, 'expands upon the artists' use of theatre as a platform to highlight the art world's intrigue with celebrity'. Co-commissioned with Dublin Contemporary, Dublin, Ireland, 'Happy Days in the Artworld' will be an approximately one-hour performance with two performers. Rachael Thomas, founding and artistic director, Dublin Contemporary, will host the project 'Happy Days in the Artworld' for two nights during 'Dublin Contemporary 2011' Dublin, Ireland, from 6 September to31 October 2011.

Michael Rade, Founding Director STYX Projects in Berlin, Germany, has invited Anne Guro Larsmon to present her first solo exhibition at STYX Projects, which is on view from 3 to 22 December 2010. Within the exhibition 'Girl, Interrupted!' Larsmon 'investigates the concept of domestic space and the symbolic interpretation of objects through a deeply personal selection of materials, processed in a systematic and analytic manner'. Larsmon has invited artist Marthe Ramm Fortun to perform a spoken-word text 'where she responds to the environment — which consists of smells, obstructions and noise'. A catalogue published by STYX Press featuring Marthe Ramm Fortuns performance texts and documentation of Larsmons works accompanies the exhibition.

Olav Christopher Jenssen's solo exhibition 'Olav Christopher Jenssen – Paintings and Sculptures' is currently on view atVästerås Konstmuseum, Västerås, Sweden. The exhibition presents new works by the artist from the past two years. 'Olav Christopher Jenssen – Paintings and Sculptures' is the first solo exhibition to be presented within Västerås Konstmuseum's new museum space — which opened in a former industrial building in the city centre of in early September 2010. The exhibition, which is curated by Eva Borgegård, will be on on view until 30 January 2011.

ZKM – Museum of Contemporary Art hosts Elmgreen & Dragset's first major solo exhibition in Germany. Organised byAndreas F. Beitin, head of ZKM – Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe, Germany, the exhibition takes place in the two atriums of the museum, with two installation pieces especially produced for the venue. Titled 'Celebrity – The One and the Many', the exhibition investigates how 'celebrity' works on a relational level between 'one' and 'many', and how an 'icon is mediated to a general public through staged and artificial realities'. 'Celebrity – The One and the Many' is on view until 27 March 2011. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication — to be published in early 2011, edited by Peter Weibel, professor and Chief Executive Officer ZKM and by Andreas F. Beitin — which will include comprehensive documentation of the presented artworks, in addition to 'The Collectors' — the exhibition that they curated for the Nordic and the Danish Pavillion in the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, in 2009.

Olga Robayo, Artistic Director El Parche Artist Residency, Bogotá, Colombia has invited Leander Djønne for an exhibition project, from 1 December 2010 to 1 January 2011. Within the exhibition curated by Olga Robayo and Marius Wang, Curator El Parche, it will be presented a further investigation of Djønne, started with the piece 'Live and Let Die', 2010, an outdoor installation based on the slave-ship Fredensborg. Titled 'The Bark Bogota. The Disappearance of a Summit' the upcoming installation piece will illustrate the shipwreck of The Bark Bogota, a slave-ship from 1859 used in the passage across the Atlantic Ocean. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

From 14 to 22 January 2011 the Berlin-based Sommer & Kohl Gallery will present 'This Spectacle', a solo exhibition by artist Victor Boullet, as part of the Berlin-Paris Gallery Exchange. An exhibition project affiliated with Boullet's ongoing project The Institute of Social Hypocrisy, 'This Spectacle' will explore the 'relation between hypocritical and purely visual entertainment'. A publication titled 'The Sound of Downloading Makes Me want to Upload', anthologised by Boullet with contributions by thinkers and artists such as Matias Faldbakken, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Keren Cytter, Merlin Carpenter,Marte Johnslien, between others will accompany the exhibition.

Geir M. Brungot has been invited to hold a solo exhibition at Meetfactory — International Center of Contemporary Art in Prague, Czech Republic. Titled 'Fragile Memories Recycled' and organised by Dušan Zahoranský, curator of Cube Gallery, Meetfactory, the exhibition will present the artist's new photographic prints series 'Campingvogner' and 'Inside-Outside'. Both series show 'human behaviours without human beings, recording remains of human activities in already abandoned countryside'. Brungot's solo exhibition, which will take place in early February 2011, is going to open a series of projects dealing with contemporary photography to be held at Meetfactory — International Center of Contemporary Art throughout the entire 2011.

Synnøve G. Wetten holds a solo exhibition at Galleri S:t Gertrud, Malmö, Sweden, from 5 to 26 February 2011. Titled 'Trans Panthers — Abstract labyrinths', the exhibition presents 'constructed narratives from found-footage material' melded together through the use of video, photo, sound and the text. Primarily based on Camilla de Castro's life, and by taking out the materials from the original contexts, 'the images are combined with sound productions, depicting psychoanalytic studies of erotic, uncanny and poetic undertows of the actress vicissitudes'.

The Pinacoteca Municipal Miguel Angelo Pucci, in Franca, São Paulo, Brazil, will present a solo exhibition by Ane Lan — a pseudonym used by the performance artist Eivind Reierstad — from 5 to 27 March 2011. The exhibition, curated by Vitor Monico Truzzi and titled 'Pacto Femininum', presents the photographic installation-piece first shown at Fotogalleriet in Oslo during the spring of 2009, in a solo exhibition which was part of a programme concerning 'photographic expressions based on performativity'. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Haninge konsthall, Haninge, Sweden, will present the solo exhibition 'Tori Wrånes: Height Operation', from 2 April through 8 May 2011. Curated by Johanne Nordby Wernø in collaboration with Åsa Mårtensson the exhibition will present a new video, photographs and sculpture produced by Wrånes in the last year. Johanne Nordby Wernøe say, 'Wrånes's visual output is an eccentric flow of new juxtapositions and disturbing yet humorous variations of the human body'.

Yves Bernard, Artistic Director IMAL, has invited Hans Christian Gilje to hold a solo exhibition at IMAL — Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Brussels, Belgium from 29 April to 29 May 2011. The exhibition 'Blink Brussels' is in a direct continuation of Gilje's Blink — a work developed for the artist's solo exhibition at Hordaland kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway in October 2009, and shown at Netherlands Institute of Media Art in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as part of Sonic Acts in March 2010, as well as at ISEA2010, Dortmund, Germany, in August 2010, as part of the exhibition 'Trust'.

Toril Johannessen participates in the exhibition 'Smooth Structures' at the SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 'Smooth Structures' is on view until 19 December 2010. Within the exhibition Johannessen is presentingExpansion in Finance and Physics (2009), a work that addresses 'the subject of scientific modeling and how scientific theories are visualised and interpreted by way of analogies'. 'Smooth Structures' is developed in collaboration with Enough Room for Space (ERforS), an artist-run organisation based in Rotterdam, starting from a new theory on dark matter and dark energy developed by NASA scientist Martin Lo.

The Zambia National Visual Arts Council and Insakartists Trust, Lusaka, Zambia, invited Anawana Haloba, Milumbe Haimbe and Gabi Ngcobo, to facilitate a workshop and seminar to be held from 3 to 16 January 2011 at Henry Tayali Visual Arts Centre in Lusaka, Zambia. The workshop and seminar aims to investigate the artistic practice in relation to a 'development of critical and self-reflexive thinking about the making'. Within the project Anawana Haloba, Milumbe Haimbe, Gabi Ngcobo will present a research investigation on 'Zambian artists that were part of the discussion of the cultural development during the 60s and 70s in Zambia — of whom there is not today any fully written history attaching them to that context'. Other artists involved in the project are Dineo Bopae and Victor Mutelekesha. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Maya Økland, Hilde Jørgensen and Kristin Tårnesvik have been invited to paticipate in the exhibition 'Blackout' at Galleri Huuto in Helsinki, Finland. Curated by Juhanna Moisander and Minna Suoniemi, 'Blackout' explores 'the intersections of the functional and the dysfunctional, the sane and the insane, the rigid and the promiscuous'. 'Blackout' will open on 5 January and stay on view until 23 January 2011

Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany presents 'MicroScenes', a project curated by Lise Nellemann. Opening 1 February and on view through 1 September 2011 the project presents a series of 'surveys of different artist communities based in Berlin'. Nellemann has invited Marianne Zamecznik and Anders Smebye to act as 'scouts' for the project in relation to the Norwegian Berlin-based community. They will be provided with studios in Bethanien, Kreuzberg in the period February-March and June-July 2011 respectively. Within the project, Marianne Zamecznik will set up an introductory programme of artist talks related to her research on exhibiting architecture and a corresponding series of presentations and concepts of exhibition design. Anders Smebye, founder of Bastard project space, Oslo, Norway, will organise a re-enactment of Bastard project space in Berlin, which will explore 'the ethos of the space, by developing a temporary programme of performances, screenings, happenings, discussions and other live events'.

From 13 to 20 February 2011 curator Camila Marambio organises a workshop titled 'Essay No 1' at the Parque Natural Karukinka, Punta Arenas, Tierra del Fuego, Chile. 'Essay No 1' — as part of a research programme and residency initiated by Marambio in collaboration with Karukinka Natural Park — will involve a number of professionals from the art-field, humanities and science, who will come together to work through a series of topics such as 'the use and management of the land, use value and uselessness, the history, politics and recent trends in conservation, representation and image making in relation to preservation and the tourist industry'. Camila Marambio has invited Karolin Tampere, Søssa Jørgensen, Geir Tore Holmand Stefan Mitterer to take part in the research project. Since 2006 Holm, Jørgensen, Mitterer and Tampere have worked together on a regular basis, in connection to Sørfinnset skole — the Nordlåd, 'with an overall focus on ecology in art-work and life'. From their collaboration they 'benefit from being experienced and sensitive professionals on the subjects of artistic creation, local culture and scientific research'. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Ignas Krunglevicius will participate in the series of workshop, talks and an exhibition project 'Spheres. Poverty and Power', at Uqbar, Berlin, Germany from 1 February to 11 June 2011. Invited by curatorJuste Kostikovaite, the panel series examines 'the role of artistic production in the process of interpretation, reinterpretation, appropriation or fixation of concepts such as poverty and power'. Other participating artists include Arturas Bumsteinas and Elva Olafsdottir, between others.

The artist-run initiative Small Projects and the artist-group Entrée have been invited by Supermarket organisers' Pontus Raud, Andreas Ribbung and Meggi Sandell to participate in Supermarket 2011, Stockholm, Sweden, from 17 to 20 February 2011. Founder of Small Projects, Tromsø, Norway, Jet Pascua, has invited Laurent Fauconnier, Karen Skog, Sigmund Skard and Margarida Paiva to participate in 'Supermarket 2011'. Curators at Entrée, Bergen, Norway, Cato Løland andRandi Grov Berger have invited Gabriel Kvendseth to present a project in 'Supermarket 2011'. Within the exhibition Kvendseth will present 'Omnivm-Finis-Imminet', an ongoing started in 2010 from 'textual and sculptural objects, prints, and a series of handmade weapons produced from ordinary tools'.

Anne Hjort Guttu has been invited to take part in the exhibition 'Making is Thinking', organised by Zoë Gray, curator at the Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art , Rotterdam, the Nederlands. Opening on 22 January and on view until 1 May 2011, 'Making is Thinking' presents a range of work in diverse media exploring 'the making process, formalism, conceptual craftsmanship, tacit knowledge, and the complex relationship between the handmade and the industrially produced'. Within the exhibition Guttu will present Static Dynamic Tension Force Form Counterform. A comprehensive publication will be produced with essays and contributions of Solveig Øvstbø, director of Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, Sandra Patron, director of Parc Saint Leger, Centre d'art contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, France, Gavin Delahunty, Head of Exhibitions & Displays Tate, Liverpool, UK, among others. Other participating artists include Eva Rothschild, Hans Schabus, William J. O'Brien,Edgar Leciejewski and Koki Tanaka, among others.

Joar Nango and Åsa Sonjasdotter are currently exhibiting within 'Home Sweet Home', at Konsthall C in Stockholm, Sweden. Curated by Kim Einarsson, Director Konstall C, the exhibition is on view until 30 March 2011. 'Home Sweet Home' is a research-based project directed towards a group exhibition. The project 'investigates the tension between individuals' desire to shape their lives and the overall concepts and structures that govern planning and housing policy', and emphasises 'the ideological shifts around dwelling, based on economic and political changes over the last thirty years, as reflected in the use of words such as investment and security'.

Matias Faldbakken and Gardar Eide Einarsson have been invited to participate in 'To the Arts, Citizens!' by João Fernandes, Director of the Serralves Museum and by Óscar Faria, journalist and art critic at Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal . On view through 13 March 2011 the exhibition explores 'the intersections between art and politics, through concepts such as activism, citizenship, archive, emigration, exile, ideology, iconoclasm, crisis'. 'To the Arts, Citizens!' brings together works produced by artists born after 1961, the year of the construction of the Berlin Wall, as 'an object that materialises an ideological divide which marked the twentieth century, and whose shadow still impinges upon political and cultural thought at the beginning of the twenty-first century'. Other exhibiting artists are Carlos Motta, Claire Fontaine, Sam Durant and Hito Steyerl.

The artists duo Book & Hedén participates in 'The Moderna Exhibition 2010' at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. 'The Moderna Exhibition 2010', curated by Fredrik Liew with Gertrud Sandqvist and Lisa Rosendahl, is on view until 9 January 2011. The exhibition aims at contributing to the ongoing debate on Swedish contemporary art acting as 'a forum for discussion of recent developments in studios, offices, workshops, art institutions and different places where artists are active today'. Within 'The Moderna Exhibition 2010' Ingrid Book & Carina Hedén presents the work Bexell's Stones, a Monument out of Sight, depicting the story of Alfred Bexell, who ordered hundreds of proverbs and names to be chiseled into rocks and boulders in the forests within his property in Sweden.

Until 30 January 2011, at Ystad Art Museum, Ystad, Sweden, Serina Erfjord participates in the exhibition 'Electrohype 2010'. Within the exhibition, curated by Anna Kindvall and Lars Gustav Midbøe, co-directors of Electrohype, Erfjord presents Normal. Blue (2010). According to Kindvall and Midbøe, Erfjord's works are 'unique in the way she implements them into the existing building structure and at the same time draws the viewer's attention in an almost magnetic way'. Other participating artists include Vicky Isley and Paul Smith, Sion Jeong, Nikki Koole and Diane Landry.

Yaffo 23, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Israel presents 'Happily Ever After'. Within the exhibition, curated by Maria Nicolacopoulou, Be Andr has been invited to produce a new site-specific installation. The new work will question 'the misconceived happiness and the artificial contentment achieved through superficial means, with which social networks affect people's way of perceiving their happiness and the one of the others'. The exhibition will run from 15 Marchto 29 April 2011. Other participating artists include Silla Ka Tung, Pablo Ferrer and Angelbert Metoyer.

At the Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, from 26 March to 14 July 2011, Maria Lind presents 'Abstract Possible', a research project which aims at exploring 'notions of abstraction in contemporary artistic practice'. The first exhibition within 'Abstract Possible' was presented in the Autumn 2010 at the Malmø Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden. 'Abstract Possible' will be part of the Museo Tamayo's exhibition series 'Minor Histories, Larger Worlds', which looks at 'how artists investigate history, and how their work reconsiders and reshapes the past, articulates the present and imagines the future'. Within 'Abstract Possible' Matias Faldbakken has been invited to present his work and to contribute with a new text that will be part of the volume accompanying the exhibition. This will be the third volume of the publication series, planned to be released in March 2011 in conjunction with 'Abstract Possible' exhibition opening. Other artists in the exhibition include Doug Ashford, Claire Barclay,Goldin+Senneby, Wade Guyton and Mai-Thu Perret, Claudia Fernández and Jose León Cerrillo. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Maddy Rosenberg, executive director and curator of Central Booking, New York, NY, USA, has invited Kristoffer Myskja for the upcoming exhibition at Gallery II, Central Booking, which will open on 10 February and will be on view until 3 April 2011. The new exhibition-project follows a series of science-based exhibitions, started in November 2010 with 'Attract/Repel', featuring artists whose main research was related to physics. Within the exhibition Myskja presents Rule 30, a mechanical machine whose patterns are produced by 'a rule-set designated from a simulation system called 'cellular automata'. This rule-set creates random information nevertheless controlled on a roll of paper'.

Lotte Konow Lund has been invited to participate within the project 'Azerbaijan Art Stations' in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 2 to14 May 2011. 'Azerbaijan Art Stations' was initiated by Jahangir Selimkhanov, Arts & Culture Program Director of the Open Society Institute –AF, Azerbaijan, to create artworks dealing with communities in chosen locations across suburbs and villages around the city of Baku, Azerbaijan. Four cultural centres around Baku have invited international cultural producers to contribute to 'Azerbaijan Art Stations'. Lotte Konow Lund has been invited by Catrin Lundquist, Curator, Art & Learning Department, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, to create a site-specific work for the Qala Cultural Centre. The project titled 'The natural meeting point: Quala', will consist of two parts, 'an 'English Course', on a short term, as a way to understand Qala's people dream of becoming English interpretators, and 'Stage Carpet', on a long term, an item sewed with the women of the village'. Other participating artists in the project include Eva Koch, Anna Lindal and Johanna Hyrkas, among others. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Within the framework of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, curated by Artur Żmijewski, artists are invited to send in their artistic material for a research investigation related to the upoming Biennale in 2012 which enquires 'artists' political standpoints'. For details on the application please visit the Berlin Biennale website. For any further questions and applications please send a mail to the Berlin Biennale.

'The Spring Exhibition' is an open submission exhibition held annually at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, Denmark, since 1857. Previously the exhibition has presented early works by renowned international figures such as Vilhelm Hammershøi, Alvar Aalto, Per Kirkeby, Olafur Eliasson, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, among others. Submissions for the 'Spring Exhibition 2011' can be made from 10 to 16 January 2011. Submitted artwork may fall into a wide range of genres associated with art and design, including painting, sculpture, installation, video, photography, performance, film, architecture, design and craft. For further information and details please visit 'The Spring Exhibition' website or contact Helle Westergård, Exhibition Coordinator Charlottenborg Fonden, Copenhagen, Denmark

On the occasion of the German region of Ruhr being the European Capital of Culture 2010, the Norwegian Goethe-Institutoffers a one-week visit to Ruhr for exhibition organisers, curators or leaders of art and cultural institutions, to take place from 1 to 7 May 2011. The weeklong trip will include visits to art institutions and cultural venues of the region and meetings with regional curators and exhibition organisers with an aim to expand networks and exchange ideas. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the Goethe-Institut. Application deadline: 15 January 2011. For questions or applications, please contact the Goethe-Institut.

Joselina Cruz will present a screening programme of video and film at SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum in Kristiansand, Norway from 15 January to 12 March 2011. Organised by Pontus Kyander, director, SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, 'Roving Eye: A Survey of South East Asian Film and Video Art' is a programme that Cruz, a Manila-based curator will present with a public lecture in relation to the projects included in the exhibition programme. The exhibition, according to Cruz, 'assumes the position of the 'roving eye' as it scours the landscape of concerns that currently occupy artists from the region'. This project is supported by 03–funding*.

*03–funding: The purpose of the 03–funds, as allocated by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs 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 or associated with 03–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, and the development of seminars, conferences, art projects, workshops, etc. that focus on the further development of professional exchange and networking between and among countries, project development and pilot projects on an international scale.

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