Saturday, 18 February 11:00–18:00

The Oslo School of Architecture and Design/AHO, Oslo

RSVP to OCA required for entrance; e-mail Sten Are Sandbeck at sas@oca.no

The seminar will address issues between the artist and society via the issues of form and aesthetics explored by Conceptual artists in the 1960s. In a series of discussions, the seminar will approach the way in which artists such as Dan Graham and Lawrence Weiner view their work in relation to their practice in the 1970s via the light thrown by the exhibition on the post- conceptual character by contemporary art and through the standpoint of other artists who find these practices relevant to their own. Discussions will focus on the use of language as a sculptural device; incompletedness as a project; the investigation of the structural properties of film; and the adop- tion of architectural tropes as political criticism. This exhibition organized by OCA has received the additional support of AHO and the Architectural Association in Oslo.

Introduction: Marta Kuzma, Curator, Draft Deceit 

Platform 1: Contradition and Complexity: The Architectural Trope as Redeemer 

Moderator: Peter Osborne, CRMEP, London 

“Contradition and Complexity: The Architectural Trope as Redeemer”

Dan Graham, Artist, New York 

Carol Bove, Artist, New York 

Corey McCorkle, Artist, New York 

Platform 2: The World Is Now Less Noun Than Verb  

(Lawrence Weiner) 

Moderator: Jörg Heiser, Co-Editor, Frieze, Berlin 

Lawrence Weiner, Artist, New York 

Matias Faldbakken, Artist, Oslo 

Olav Westphalen, Artist, New York 

Platform 3: Cinema Written on Itself 

Moderator: Ina Blom, Dept. of Art History, University of Oslo 

“Cinema Written on Itself”

Torbjørn Rødland, Artist, Oslo 

Kerry Tribe, Artist, Los Angeles 

Screenings: 

John Baldessari’s Baldessari Sings Lewitt, 1972 

Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect, 1975, and Splitting, 1974 

Lawrence Weiner’s Passage to the North, 1981 

Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo

17 February–12 April

Opening: Friday, 17 February, 19:00

Curator: Marta Kuzma

Artists: John Baldessari, Carol Bove, Martin Boyce, Matthew Buckingham, Gordon Matta-Clark, Sam Durant, Matias Faldbakken, Dan Graham, Thomas Hirschhorn, Corey McCorkle, Cady Noland, Mark Manders, Torbjørn Rødland, Kerry Tribe, Olav Westphalen, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner

At the top of the staircase of Kunstnernes Hus, a text work by Lawrence Weiner serves as the point of departure for Draft Deceit, an exhibi- tion that celebrates the artist as an invigorated inventor of illusion, a master craftsperson of delusional effects, as well as a credible political satirist as to the state of things. The exhibition speaks about poesies, about the building of stories and actions that steer us out from the rituals of the everyday into the amorphous, or visa versa, how the things of the everyday, as dry and mediocre as they appear, have been presented to us as a kind of fabricated truth. Draft Deceit is as much about the story and about the anticipation of it’s unfolding, as it is about the ultimate futility in the formulation of a concrete narrative as the conscious means to reveal the scaffolding of intention as a veritable skeleton in conveying truth. Carol Bove, installation view of The Night Sky Over Oslo, March 16, 2006, at 9 PM and Dag Energie, both 2005–2006.

On 27 January, the seminar “Art of Welfare” was held at the Goethe-Insititut in London. “Art of Welfare” is the first of four Verksted seminars organized by OCA in 2006. This seminar was held in connection with the opening of Ingar Dragset and Michael Elmgreen’s exhibition The Welfare Show at the Serpentine Gallery, London. In the seminar, the development of the welfare society was discussed from different profes- sional perspectives; from art, architecture, social anthropology and economy. The semi- nar was attended by 105 participants, and has received much positive attention.

Seminar particpants:  

Marta Kuzma, Director, Office for Contemporary  Art Norway, Oslo 

Solveig Øvstebø, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen 

Peter Osbourne, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University London 

Jeremy Till, Architecture Dep. University of Sheffield 

Claire Bishop, Curating Contemporary Art Department, Royal College of Art, London 

Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Cultural Complexity, University of Oslo 

Victor D. Norman, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration Bergen 

Artists Ingar Dragset, Norway, and Michael Elmgreen, Denmark 

A publication will be released by OCA in March 2006 as a reflection of the seminar. This event and publication are part of the continuing series Verksted 2006.

Corey McCorkle, Artist, New York

Corey McCorkle (b. 1969, La Cross, Wisconsin) is inter- ested in the utopian ideas of nature and transcendence which he pursues in many of his installations. McCorkle’s work was recently included in the surveys Make It Now at Sculpture Center, New York and Greater New York 2005 at P.S.1, New York. He was featured in solo exhibitions this year at Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, and at the Marres in Maastricht, Netherlands. McCorkle was also recently included in The Plain of Heaven by Creative Time, New York and in Monopolis at Witte de With, Rotterdam, this past fall.

Carol Bove, Artist, New York

New York-based artist Carol Bove (b. 1971, Geneva) produces work that reflects on social, political, and artistic movements of 1960s and 1970s. Carol Bove has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (2004); Hamburg Kunstverein, Germany (2003); Team Gallery, New York (2003); Art Basel|33, Basel, Switzerland (2002); and Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York (2000). Bove has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions including The Joy of Sex: Carol Bove and Charles Raymond at Cubitt, London (2004); Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude at the List Visual Arts Center, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA (2003); Reproduction II at Georg Kargl, Vienna (2003); and Transformer at La Panaderia, Mexico City (2001).

Dan graham, Artist, New York

Since the mid-1960s, Dan Graham has produced an impor- tant body of art and theory that engages in a highly ana- lytical discourse on the historical, social and ideological functions of contemporary cultural systems. Architecture, popular music, video and television are among the focuses of his investigations, which are translated into essays, performances, installations, videotapes and architectural/ sculptural designs. Graham began using film and video in the 1970s, creating installation and performance works that alawrence weiner, Artist, New York, Amsterdamctively engage the viewer in an inquiry into public and private, audience and performer, objectivity and subjectivity. In installations focusing on the social implications of television, as articulated in private and public viewing spaces, Graham refers to video’s semiotic function in architecture in relation to both window and mirror. Graham has also published numerous critical and theoretical essays that investigate the cultural ideology of such contemporary social phenomena as punk music, suburbia and public architecture. Born in 1942, Graham has published numerous critical essays, and is the author of Video-Architecture-Television (1980). His work is in the collections of major institu- tions in USA and Europe, including Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and The Tate Gallery, London. He has had retrospective exhibitions at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England; The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland; and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. He has been represented internation- ally in institutions such as Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany; Art Institute of Chicago; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; P.S.1, New York; American Film Institute National Video Festival, Los Angeles; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, among other festivals and institutions.

Lawrence weiner, Artist, New York, Amsterdam

Born 10 February 1942 Bronx New York Attended the New York Public School System The late fifties and early sixties were spent travelling throughout North America (USA, Mexico, and Canada) The first presentation of the work was Mill Valley California in 1960. Lawrence Weiner divides his time between his studio in New York City and his boat in Amsterdam. He participates in public and private projects and exhibitions, in both the new and old world, maintaining that ART IS THE EMPIRICAL FACT OF THE RELATIONSHIPS OF OBJECTS TO OBJECTS IN RELATION TO HUMAN BEINGS & NOT DEPENDANT UPON HISTORICAL PRECEDENT FOR EITHER USE OR LEGITIMACY.

Tue Greenfort, Artist

Tue Greenfort (b. 1973, Holbäk, Denmark) discovers the details of city life, which are largely unknown or go unseen due to their normalcy. In his work, Greenfort deals with these kinds of situations in space and in everyday life and reveals the structures behind urbanity through small changes or mechanisms. With the help of artistic intervention, occurrences become visible and their existence questioned.

Pooja sood, Curator, New Delhi, India

Pooja Sood is an independent curator and director of KHOJ, the non-for-profit artist resi- dency space in New Delhi. She recently curated From Goddess to Pinup – Icons of Femininity in Indian Calendar Art

Michael sailstorfer, Artist, Berlin

Michael Sailstorfer (b. 1979, Vilsbiburg, Germany) takes interest in everyday objects; materials that sur- round us and the associations they trigger. In inflict- ing transformations, contextual adjustments and spatial appropriation, Sailstorfer deforms the mean- ing and function of the original object – leading to a renewed configuration. His works explore the unstable relationship between form and content, emphasizingthat the function of an object and its material manifestations are subject to change based on historical dynamic.

Solo exhibitions include Attitudes, Geneva, 2004; Welttour, Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin, 2003; D-IBRB, Galerie Transit, Mechelen, Belgien, 2003; Und sie bewegt sich doch!, Städt. Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 2003; and Heimatlied, [basement], Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin, 2002. Group exhibitions include Bewegte Teile, Kunsthaus Graz; Austria and Museum Tinguely, Basel, CH, 2004; Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, 2004; Degree Show 2004, MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London; Sydney Biennial, Sydney, 2004; Manifesta 5, San Sebastian, 2004; Wings of Art, Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen, 2003; Fuori Uso, Ferrotel, Pescara, 2003; At least begin to make an end, W 139, Amsterdam, 2003; Bewegt, Kunstverein Ingolstadt, Germany, 2002; Acht mal anders, Centro de arte joven, Madrid, 2001; and junger westen 2001, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany, 2001. 

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The March–May 2006 residency at Platform Garanti was awarded to artist Marius Engh. A recurrent discussion in Engh’s production is a constant re- negotiation and re-evaluation of what represents the inside and the outside of the art context. 

ISCP NYC Residencies 2006/2007

OCA offers 2 residencies:

• 12 months to a Norwegian artist, 1 Sept 06–31 Aug 07

• 3 months to a Norwegian curator, 1 Sept–30 Nov 06

Current Resident:

Unn Fahlstrøm, artist, until 31 Aug 06. Fahlstrøm’s work borders between abstract structuralism and cinematic narratives.

OCA offers 1 residency:  

• 12 months to a Norwegian artist, 1 Dec 06–30 Nov 07 

Current Resident:

Jannicke Låker, artist, commenced her stay in Dec 05 and will be there until Nov 06. Her video work presents individuals in cruelly manipulated situations, seeking to include viewers in the narratives.

OCA offers 2 residencies for artists and cultural producers at Kunstwerke Berlin: 

• March–April 

• May–June 

Upcoming Residents

Siri Hermansen, artist, April–May 2006.

Anne-Karin Furunes, artist, Sept–Oct 06. Furunes recently participated in the 2nd Beijing Biennial.

Martin Herbert, London correspondent, Art Forum

Martin Herbert is a writer and critic based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK. He is a London cor- respondent for Artforum, and his writings on art have also appeared in magazines including Frieze, Art Monthly, Modern Painters and Flash Art.

Jörg Heiser, Co-Editor, FRIEZE

Jörg Heiser (*1968, lives in Berlin) is co-editor of Frieze Magazine, London, and writes for Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich. Recent curated projects include Funky Lessons, Büro Friedrich, Berlin; and BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, 2004/2005. Heiser is currently preparing a travelling exhibition on Romantic Conceptualism, to be launced in Spring 2007. Recent catalogue and book contributions include essays on Susan Hiller (DAAD Berlin and Compton Verney UK, 2005), Gerwald Rockenschaub (Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna 2004), Chris Cunningham (kestnergesellschaft, Hanover 2004), Thomas Scheibitz (Venice Biennale 2005), and Tal R (CFA, 2005).

Fredrik Liew, Assistant Curator, Moderna Museet, Stockholm 

Peter Elley, Curator and Producer, Creative Time, New York

John Rasmussen, Director, Midway Contemporary Art

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 their permanent residency in Norway may also apply for support. The objective is to foster innovative artistic produc- tion, expression and the creative process by encouraging and supporting projects that support, exhibit and interpret a broad spectrum of contem- porary artistic practices. OCA is primarily focused on supporting work of a challenging and often experimental nature, while noting that interpreta- tion of those terms may vary according to context. In this regard, OCA also supports projects that reflect artist and curatorial research leading to new scholarship in the field of contemporary art.

Please note OCA’s updated staff structure: 

Marta Kuzma, Director, marta.kuzma@oca.no 

Velaug Bollingmo, Head of External Relations, velaug.bollingmo@oca.no 

Ida Lykken Ghosh, Head of Internal Relations, ida@oca.no  

Heidi Nilsen, Programme Associate, heidi.nilsen@oca.no 

Sten Are Sandbeck, Programme Coordinator for International Studio and International Visitor Programme, sten.are.sandbeck@oca.no 

Claudia C. Sandor, Newsletter Editor, claudia.c.sandor@oca.no 

Fleur van Muiswinkel, Intern, fleur@oca.no 

Birgitte Lie, Project Coordinator, birgitte.lie@oca.no 

Ole Slyngstadli left his position as Head of Information at OCA, as of 21 January 2006. Slyngstadli joined Momentum as Manager in February. We wish Ole the best of luck in his new position!

Please direct press or info-related inquiries to Heidi Nilsen, heidi.nilsen@oca.no or info@oca.no.

Kristjan Gudmundsson Blue Transmission and other drawings Galleri Riis, Oslo. 12 Jan–12 Feb

Marius Engh All Items Must Fit In Basket, STANDARD (OSLO) 12 Jan–12 Feb

Tom Sachs: Survey. America – Modernism – Fashion, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo. 14 Jan–23 May Curators: Gunnar B. Kvaran, Grete Årbu, Hanne Beate Ueland

Siri Hermansen Bipolar Horizon, Stenersen Museum, Oslo. 13 Jan–26 Mar

Palestine Artists from Ramallah Oslo Kunstforening. 19 Jan–19 Feb Exchange between The Oslo Academy of Fine Art KHIO and the Art Academy in Ramallah. 

Ernst Schwitters in Norway Photographs 1930-1960, Preus Museum, Horten. 21 Jan–12 March

Ernst Schwitters (b. 1918) was a self-taught photographer, influenced by Man Ray og László Moholy-Nagy and others in the circle surrounding his father Kurt Schwitters. Schwitters sought refuge in Norway at the age of 18 and was to become the most prominent photographer in Norwegian modernism.

10X Galleri Seilduken, 27 Jan–5 Feb Artists: Tobias Arnell, Sivert Bjørnerem, Pål Steinar Gumpen, Jørgen Craig Lello, Per-Oskar Leu, Frode Markhus, Michal Nygren, Sten Are Sandbeck, Sindre Foss Skancke, Sten Ove Toft.

Desire-Deconstruction – Unni Askeland Gallery BQ, Blomqvist Auction House, Oslo. 28 Jan–12 Feb

Modern dreams and mythologies portrayed through the icons of pop and litterature.

Siste avgang/Last Departure KHiO/Graduate Exhibition 2006 Seilduksfabrikken, Oslo. 29 Jan–12 Feb 

22 Graduating students show their research and re-definitions of conceptual practises and different formal traditions, in metal, textile, paint, plaster, pencil, graphics and clay.

Trilogy: Amar Kanwar The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Oslo 4 Feb–26 Mar In collaboration with OCA

Curator: Gavin Jantjes

Amar Kanwar (b. 1964, India) was the first winner of the Edvard Munch Award for Contemporary Art in 2005. The National Museum shows a trilogy of Kanwar’s films that together provide a personal and spiritual insight to issues of violence, political conflict and a desire for peaceful resolution.

Screenings of: A Season Outside, 1998; A Night of Prophecy, 2002; and To Remember, 2003. 

“Art, Public Space and Urban Aesthetics” Seminar, ROM – Space for Art and Architecture, Oslo Wed, 8 Feb, 18:00–21:00

Trans:it. Moving Culture Through Europe (2003–2005) is a multilateral project researching contemporary artistic practices and creative prosesses in public spaces in Europe. The semi- nar presents the results and seeks to stimulate consciousness and reflection concerning the theme of artistic creativity “in the field”.

Participants: Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Artistic Director, the Adriano Olivetti Foundation, Rome. Presentation of the project TRANS:IT Moving Culture through Europe. Norman M. Klein, Professor, California Institute of the Arts; Adjunct, UCLA and Art Center College of Design; author of numerous books and essays on mass culture, media and urban studies.

Screening, 3 documentary films, 9–19 Feb 

Trans:it consisted of field research and result synthesis conducted in 3 phases, developed and translated into a cycle of documentaries intended as tools for critical analysis and as a means of enlightening the curatorial process.

The Invisible Community, 2003. Filmed in France, Italy, the Netherlands Ruins for the Future, 2004. Filmed in Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia Fluid Cities, 2004. Filmed in Greece, Cyprus, Turkey

Trans:it is promoted and organized by The Adriano Olivetti Foundation, Rome in cooperation with other European foundations. Seminar presented by the Italian Institute of Culture, Oslo, in collabo- ration with The Adriano Olivetti Foundation, Rome; and ROM – Space for Art and Architecture, Oslo.

Mari Slaattelid Loud and Close, Kisses and Dust, Galleri K, Oslo. 10 Feb–19 March Opening: Fri, 9 Feb, 19–21

Galleri MGM

Galleri MGM has relocated to Haxthausensgate 3, Oslo. They open on 11 Feb with a group exhibition with Norwegian and international artists.

With Angela Bulloch, AK Dolven, Olafur Eliasson, Ceal Floyer, Liam Gillick, Lothar Hempel, Rirkrit Tiravanija

Eline Mugaas New Photographs, Galleri Riis, Oslo. 16 Feb–26 March. Opening: Thurs, 16 Feb, 19-21

Bjarne Melgaard, participating in Superstars, The Celebrity Factor. From Warhol to Madonna, Kunsthalle Wien, Hall 1. Until 22 Feb

Maja Urstad* and Jana Winderen*, participation in The Idea of North – An Exhibition about Sound and Site, Halifax, Canada, 13 Jan–26 Feb. Locations/schedule

An exhibition in 3 parts, of contemporary art from Canada, Iceland and Norway addressing the concept of the locality of sound. A collaboration between curators in Canada (Rhonda Corvese), Iceland (Sólveig Alda Halldórsdóttir, Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir) and Norway (Yngvild Faerøy, Søssa Jørgensen).

Kjell Bjørgeengen, participating in Auflösung (I) – High Definition, NGBK/ Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. 14 Jan–12 Feb

Artists: Jim Campbell, Armin Häberle, Thorsten Hallscheidt, Günther Selichar, Kjell Bjorgeengen, Shelly Silver, M+M, Franz Wamhof a.o.

Øystein Aasan* and Mladen Bizumik, exhibition at Korridor Exhibition Space, Berlin. 14 Jan–20 Feb

Part of exhibition series problematizing the concept of style.

Built Language*, Murmansk Art Museum, Murmansk, 15 Jan–15 Feb

Curators: Rakett (artist/curatorial cooperation, Oslo), Pikene på Broen (artist/ curatorial cooperation, Kirkenes).

Vanna Bowles and Robert Johanson*, performance/installation Kroppens tunna skal at ARS 06, Kiasma, Helsinki. 21 Jan–5 Mar

AK Dolven – amazon and madonna, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin. 24 Jan–26 Feb

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, The Welfare Show, Serpentine Gallery, London. 26 Jan–26 Feb

Rachel Dagnall*, Kristina Bræin, Gardar Eide Einarsson and Marius Engh* participate in VILLA JELMINI – The Complex of Respect, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, 28 Jan–27 Mar

Other artists: Balthasar Burckhardt, Ivan Grubanov, Boy Stappaerts, Tommy Simoens, Wim Delvoye/ArtFarm, Stammerstudio, Roberto Cuoghi, Michael S. Riedel, Tonico Lemos Auad, Armen Eloyan, Sung Huan Kim, Henry VIII’s wives. Curator: Philippe Pirotte

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Mai Gunnes Hofstad* participates in Temporary Art Museum Soi Sabak, Bangkok, 11–17 Feb

Jan Freuchen* – Pimp My Ride, at non- commercial space West Germany, Kreutzberg, Berlin. 15 Feb–8 Mar

Torbjørn Rødland, P.S.1, New York. 26 Feb–31 April

The solo show presents Rødland’s latest film, 132 BPM, shot in Croatia in 2005, and coincides with Wolfgang Tillmans, Freedom From The Known. Both shows curated by Bob Nickas.

Jan Braar Christensen*, Exit Basel, solo show, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, 24 Mar–07 May

Gardar Eide Einarsson and Matias Faldbakken participate in Down by Law, a project sub- curated by The Wrong Gallery (Maurizio Cattalan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick) for the Whitney Biennial, New York. Location: Sondra Gilman Gallery. 21 Jan–21 May

In line with the main exhibition its attempt at dealing with the theme “Uncertain Identities and Unfi xed Images”, The Wrong Gallery’s contribution focuses on the American Outlaw. Down by Law brings together works by over 40 artists who in differ- ent ways address a general sense of fear or uneasiness in and with America. While its own exhibition spaces are closed, The Wrong Gallery stages interventions, manifesting itself within other organizations. Gardar Eide Einarsson (with Oscar Tuazon), Scanlan’s; Suppressed Issue, 2002.

The Manifesta 6 School is the central project of Manifesta 6, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, which will take place in Nicosia, Cyprus 23 Sept–17 Dec 2006. The School is both the site and the content of the Biennial, and is its sole activity. Conceived and developed by the curators of Manifesta 6, Mai Abu ElDahab, Anton Vidokle and Florian Waldvogel, the School will offer 3 thematic transdisciplinary departments comprising lec- ture series, publications, screenings, performances, exhibitions, radio and TV programmes, workshops and other activities. The Manifesta 6 School is now accepting applications from cultural produc- ers across the whole spectrum, including visual artists, architects, writers, filmmakers, journalists, curators, composers, performers and others, who are interested in participating full-time in the School programme. Invited participants will be expected to reside in Nicosia for the duration of the semester. Manifesta 6 will take place in Nicosia, Cyprus, 23 Sept–17 Dec 2006. 

Connection Barents – A Cross Art Collaboration in Everyday Life is a 2- week interdisciplinary laboratory and symposium 17 June–2 July 2006. Artistic expeditions through the Barents region comprising the border- lands of Norway, Finland, Sweden and Russia. Ong Keng Sen, leader of TheatreWorks, Singapore will act as Artistic Pilot. Professional artists from North-West Russia and the Nordic and Baltic countries within the fields of visual arts, music, literature, and performing arts are invited to apply. Org.: NIFCA, NordBok, Nomus, NordScen, Pikene på Broen

Fondazione Ratti in Como, Italy is currently accepting applications and port- folios for next July’s artist residency workshops. 20 young artists will be selected and visiting artist Marjetica Potrc will lead the 3-week session, the focus of which engages with the urban dynamic in the region.

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