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 second quarter application deadline.

The following application deadlines for 2011 will be 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.

Office for Contemporary Art Norway announces
'The State of Things':
A Series of Public Lectures in Venice June–November 2011 

and

'Beyond Death: Viral Discontents and Contemporary Notions about AIDS':
An M.A. Teaching Programme at Iuav led by Bjarne Melgaard February–May 2011

Office for Contemporary Art Norway  announces  'The State of Things': A Series of Public Lectures in Venice June–November 2011  and  'Beyond Death: Viral Discontents and Contemporary Notions about AIDS': An M.A. Teaching Programme at Iuav led by Bjarne Melgaard February–May 2011Norway'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.

The dates and the speakers for the Biennale opening days have been announced.
Click here to see further details.

Exhibition dates: 9 March–25 June 2011
Public Hours: Wed, Fri and Sat 12–16:00,
Thu 12–18:00

'Forms of Modern Life: From the Archives of Guttorm Guttormsgaard' considers the process by which the graphic form becomes, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a universal, egalitarian form of expression, moved by both a development of formal and technical concerns and the intention to communicate and to mobilise. The project explores how artists such as Thomas Bewick, Frans Masereel and Albert Jærn in printed form,Hannah Ryggen through her tapestries, and Peder Balke and Lars Hertervig in their paintings, used graphic forms to address the world in which they lived, picturing their environment and the cultural and political changes of their time with an emphasis on class consciousness and individual agency, and often with a revolutionary impulse, overcoming obstacles both in the making of their work and in the social position assigned to it. Click here for more information.

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; and at 18 Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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

18 Street Arts Center — Application deadline: 1 May 2011

In 2011, OCA introduces an open call for applications for a three-month studio residency from 1 October 2011 through 31 December 2011 at the International Artists in Residency programme at 18th Street Arts Center in the Santa Monica neighbourhood of Los Angeles, CA, USA. Only Norwegian citizens are eligible for this grant. Please note that the programme is not open to current art students. Applications will be assessed by an International Jury appointed by OCA and a representative from 18th Street Arts Center. Click here for more information.

OCA offers four residencies for curators, critics and artists in Berlin in Autumn 2011 and Spring 2012, from September 2011 until the end of April 2012, for 2 months each. Applicants must be Norwegian citizens, or live and work in Norway. The residency period will be allocated in discussion with the selected candidates following the Jury's selection. Curators and critics are especially encouraged to apply and their applications will be given priority. Please notice that the residency is not available for BA or MA students. The applications will be assessed by an International Jury appointed by OCA. More

Marie Nerland Curator, b.1972 in Molde, Norway; lives and works in Bergen, Norway

Marie Nerland received a master's degree in theatre science from the University of Bergen and also studied theater at the University of Antwerp and theatre and performance at the State University of New York. She studied at the curating programme at Bergen National Academy of the Arts from 2008 to 2010. In 2008, Nerland founded Volt, a gallery for contemporary art based in Bergen, which presents new art projects by Norwegian and international artists. Volt has presented new projects by, among others, PARFYME (Denmark), aiPotu (Norway), szu szu flying art gallery (Poland), Jan Christensen (Norway), Josefine Lyche and Henrik Pask (Norway), Milena Bonilla (Colombia) and Pedro Gomes-Egana (Colombia/Norway). Nerland is also a curator and producer at BIT Teatergarasjen. She is co-editor of theNorwegian Art Year Book 2010 and editor of the anthology 25 with essays on contemporary art. In addition, she was co-editor of the Norwegian journal for performance and contemporary art 3t from 1997 to 2007.

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.

Eungie Joo Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum

Eungie Joo spearheaded the Museum as Hub project at the New Museum, New York, NY, USA, a partnership of six international arts organizations that supports art activities and experimentation; explores artistic, curatorial, and institutional practice; and serves as an important resource for the public to learn about contemporary art from around the world. As part of the Museum as Hub, Joo commissioned the yearlong Night School project by Anton Vidokle; a 'Post Living Anti Action Theater' (PoLAAT) residency with My Barbarian; and launched the Propositions seminar series — a public forum that considers contemporary artists's ideas in early development; among other commissions. In 2009, she served as commissioner for the Korean Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, presenting the solo exhibition, 'Condensation: Haegue Yang'. Joo was previously Director and Curator of the Gallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles, from 2003 to 2007. She received the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement in 2006.

Ida Ekblad to exhibit within 'Expanded Painting' Prague Biennale 5 Directors: Giancarlo Politi and Helena Kontova Prague Biennale 5 Prague, Czech Republic  19 May–11 September 2011

Ida Ekblad will be part of 'Expanded Painting', a macro section of the Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic, which will open on 19 May and run until 11 September 2011. The focus of 'Expanded Painting' is abstraction and the current state of this genre through the works of artists based in the US, Portugal and Scandinavia.

Gardar Eide Einarsson presents the solo exhibition 'Power Has a Fragrance' at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, from 16 February to 12 June 2011. The exhibition is a collaborative project between the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway; the Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; and Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany and is presented at each institution throughout 2010 and 2011. Together with co-curatorCamilla Larsson, director of Bonniers Konsthall Sara Arrhenius has commissioned Gardar Eide Einarsson to create a new piece of work especially for the exhibition in Stockholm. 'Power Has a Fragrance' explores fundamental structures of social conflicts in modern societies, presenting 'a catalogue of images of repression while mixing architectural, urban and art historical references with a specific emphasis on American post war art, from abstract expressionism to pop art'.

The Landesgalerie Linz, Austria, invited Mette Tronvoll to present an exhibition from 17 February to 8 May 2011. Curated by Stefanie Hoch and Martin Hochleitner, curator and head of the Landesgalerie Linz respectively, 'Mette Tronvoll: Photographs 1994-2010' is the artist's first solo exhibition in Austria and a continuation of Landesgalerie's exhibition series on portrait photography, following exhibitions by August Sander and Fiona Tan among others. The photographic portraits on display were taken in the period 1994 to 2010 in Norway, USA, Japan and Mongolia among other locations, and are distinguished by their 'direct, sober and restrained' nature.

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. Elmgreen & Dragset's project, titled 'Celebrity – The One & the Many', 'emphasises the relationship between 'the one and the many,' the one being a prominent personality, an icon, an a-list type, and the mass of "normal" people, and investigates the ways in which the lifestyle of the rich and famous is mediated to a broad public by way of staged and affected realities'. 'Celebrity – The One and the Many' is on view until 27 March 2011. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication edited by Peter Weibel, professor and Chief Executive Officer of ZKM and by Andreas F. Beitin, which will include comprehensive documentation of the presented artworks.

Synnøve G. Wetten holds a solo exhibition at Galleri S:t Gertrud, Malmö, Sweden, from
5 to 26 February 2011. Titled 'Trans Panthers — Today's Labyrinths', the exhibition questions gender, body and identity through constructed narratives from found-footage material melded together through the use of video, photo, sound and text. The two main elements in this exhibition are video sequences of Camilla de Castro, a Brazilian transsexual porn actor who committed suicide in 2005, and material from the artist's background as an androgyne fashion model in the period 1998–2000.

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 byVitor 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 exhibition 'not only questions the traditional gender roles, but goes further in investigating the psychology of suffering and being a victim'. 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. According to Wernø, 'Wrånes's expression is a physical and theatrical one, always incorporating the artist's body and often her voice, usually in combination with visual elements that act as part sculptures and installations, part costumes or props'.

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. On view until 1 May 2011, 'Making is Thinking' raise the questions 'How are we to engage with materiality in our increasingly dematerialised world?', and 'How might thoughtful forms of making relate to our supposedly post-industrial society?' Within the exhibition Guttu will present the work Static Dynamic Tension Force Form Counterform. Other participating artists include Eva Rothschild, Hans Schabus, William J. O'Brien, Edgar Leciejewski and Koki Tanaka.

Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany presents 'MicroScenes', a project curated by Lise Nellemann. Starting 1 February and continuing 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 the periods of March and August 2011 respectively. Within the programme, Marianne Zamecznik will conduct research on exhibiting architecture for a public presentation. Anders Smebye, founder of Bastard project space, Oslo, Norway, will give a talk in Berlin in which he will explore the ethos of Bastard, its profile as a space of performances, screenings, happenings, discussions and other live events.

Ignas Krunglevicius will participate in a series of workshops, talks and an exhibition project titled 'Spheres of Power. Tension & Exchange', at kioskprojects, GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany from 24 to 30 April 2011. Invited by curators Juste Kostikovaite and Viktorija Siaulyte, the workshop invites artists and cultural producers to discuss the characteristics that are attributed to the image of poverty and wealth in the public sphere; examine how concepts of poverty/wealth and power are interpreted, enacted or appropriated in artistic work; discuss the danger of reinforcing cliches when working with these definitions, and to present their works/research that are relevant to the theme.

Mattias Faldbakken and Gardar Eide Einarsson are particiating in 'To the Arts, Citizens!' at Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal. The show focuses on issues pertaining to manifestations of the political in the domain of the arts, as part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Portuguese Republic. Themes and concepts such as archive, community, ideology, monument, activism, frontier and manifesto constitute the working guidelines along which the exhibition will unfold. 'To the Arts, Citizens!' is accompanied by a cycle of films, conferences and debates. Curated by the Fundação de Serralves Museum Director João Fernandes together with curator Óscar Faria, the exhibition also presents works by Carlos Motta, Claire Fontaine, Sam Durantand Hito Steyerl. The exhibition is on view until 13 March 2011.

Yaffo 23, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Israel presents 'Happily Ever After'. Within the exhibition, curated by Maria Nicolacopoulou, Be Andr was invited to produce a new site-specific installation. The new work will question 'misconceived notions of happiness and feelings of artificial contentment achieved through superficial means such as social networks'. The exhibition will run from 15 March to 29 April 2011. Other participating artists include Silla Ka Tung,Pablo Ferrer and Angelbert Metoyer.

Maddy Rosenberg, executive director and curator of Central Booking, New York, NY, USA, invited Kristoffer Myskja to participate in the group exhibition 'Measure for Measure', which runs from 10 February to 3 April 2011. The new exhibition-project follows a series of science-based exhibitions that started in November 2010 with 'Attract/Repel', featuring artists whose main research was related to physics. 'Measure for Measure' further explores the 'art of mathematics and the mathematics of art, highlighting 20 mathematical artists and artistic mathematicians, the topology of the three-dimensional and the geometric illusions of three-dimensionality - and occasionally four'. Kristoffer Myskja's work Rule 30 is a machine that is in wood, paper, and metal 'sleekly constructed yet kinetically functional' creating numerical patterns. Other artists participating in the exhibition include Rosaire Appel, Sarah Stengle, Will Ashford, Pablo Heguerra and Julie Shaw Lutts.

Curated by Sol Kjøk, the exhibition 'North Stars: Blue, White and Red' gathers 28 contemporary artists from Norway who present their works at gallery.NO, a non-profit, artist-run gallery in New York City, NY, USA, in the period 4 February to 28 April 2011. Organised in three consecutive series structured around the colors of the Norwegian flag, the exhibitions explore the symbolism and psychological connotations inherent in each of these hues. Following 'The North Stars Series: Blue', 'White' is coming up from 4 to 31 March 2011, featuring the artists Bjørn Hegardt, Lotte Konow Lund, Kristin Skrivervik,Stefan Schröder, Lars Strandh, Anki King, Finn Graff and Agnes Nedregård.

Three one-year curatorial fellowships focusing on contemporary art are available through the The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL, USA. The Fellowships offer emerging curators experience in working in a mid-sized art museum while performing curatorial tasks, working alongside other museum departments and dialoguing with artists, collectors and arts professionals in the Miami arts community. Among other responsibilities, Fellows will conduct studio visits in Miami and gather materials to develop a complete archive on Miami artists. He/she will assist in developing exhibition programming and contemporary artists' projects, and facilitate educational programs for museum members. Application deadline: 1 March. Visit the Bass Museum of Art website for more information.

The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts Ashkal Alwan has launched the Open Call for Applications for the 2011-2012 'Home Workspace Program' with Resident Artist/Professor Emily Jacir. Geared towards developing an interdisciplinary approach to arts education, the 'Home Workspace Program' targets emerging artists and cultural practitioners who want to develop their skills and practice in an artistic environment in Beirut. Application deadline: 5 March 2011. Visit the Ashkal Alwan website for more information.

The Independent Study Program (ISP) consists of three interrelated parts: Studio Program, Curatorial Program, and Critical Studies Program. The ISP provides a setting within which students pursuing art practice, curatorial work, art historical scholarship, and critical writing engage in ongoing discussions and debates that examine the historical, social, and intellectual conditions of artistic production. The program encourages the theoretical and critical study of the practices, institutions, and discourses that constitute the field of culture. Application deadline: 1 April 2011. For more information and application procedures please see the Whitney Museum ISP website.

The Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, New York, NY, USA, currently invites applications for the 2011-2013 Vera List Center Fellowships. Two fellowships will be awarded, each spanning ten months and tied to the Vera List Center's focus theme for 2011-2013. The fellowships provide the opportunity to further develop work drawing from the resources of The New School, to expand on it in collaboration with students and classes, and to bring it to the public through the Vera List Center's interdisciplinary public programs. Journalists, historians, visual and performing artists, critics, curators, and cultural practitioners working in fields where they engage art and politics are eligible to apply. Visit the Vera List Center website for details on fellowship, application form and procedure.

The Helsinki International Curatorial Programme currently offers curatorial residencies in Helsinki, Finland, for international visual arts curators. The aim of the programme is to provide curators with an opportunity to carry out research on Finnish fine art, to build contacts with Finnish art practitioners and cultural organisations and to develop international curatorial projects involving Finnish participants. Application deadline: 1 May. Click here for more information.

*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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