The OCA Semesterplan functions as OCA’s public programme of exhibitions, talks, lectures, seminars, and symposia. All Semesterplan events occur in OCA’s public space unless otherwise noted.

OCA is pleased to announce the 2012 reactivation of its OCA Semesterplan to include the following:

OCA announces a forthcoming project with the artist and author Matias Faldbakken to open in OCA´s public space on Wednesday 28 March. The exhibition will be on view until the end of June. This exhibition project developed for OCA´s public space takes place in anticipation of Faldbakken´s participation in dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel in June and upon release of the artist´s dOCUMENTA (13) notebook within the series 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts. Matias Faldbakken has exhibited widely internationally and within Norway. His most recent exhibitions were held at the Power Station in Dallas, TX, USA, at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany and at the Neue Achener Kunstverein in Aachen, Germany.

OCA is pleased to announce the participation of the film-maker Peter Watkins in OCA's International Studio Programme in May 2012. During Watkins's stay at OCA's Munch residency at Ekely in Oslo, his filmwork will be dedicated a short retrospective to be held at OCA from 7 to 14 May. This will open with his 1973 film Edvard Munch, dedicated to thirty years of the life of the artist. The screenings will be accompanied by two public events discussing, respectively, the history and meaning of his film Edvard Munch, and Watkins's work with critical media. On Monday 14 May his film The Freethinker, a biography of August Strindberg, will be screened on the 100th anniversary of the artist, writer and playwright's death. As part of this residency, Watkins will offer a series of informal, small-group discussions with students and others who share his concerns regarding the role of the mass audiovisual media in contemporary society.

About Peter Watkins
Peter Watkins (b.1935 in Norbiton, Surrey, UK) is a film-maker and television director. He is the author of several landmark films since the 1950s, such as The War Game (1965), Punishment Park (1970), Edvard Munch (1973), The Freethinker (1992–94) and La Commune (de Paris, 1871) (1999) – films that investigate the current political conjuncture through contemporary or historical settings, and that critically address the limits and possibilities of the documentary form. Central to his work is the critical assessment of the mass media, the media crisis and the monoform, as reflected, for example, in his book Media Crisis (2004).

Artistic Director: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Media Conference and press preview: 6 June 2012
Press Preview: 7 June 2012
Exhibition Dates: 9 June–16 September 2012
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For inquiries, please contact OCA's press officer Maria Moseng, or dOCUMENTA (13) press officer Henriette Gallus.

Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia? is an anthology edited by Marta Kuzma and Pablo Lafuente, that reflects upon the juncture of the political and the erotic in the 1960s and 70s, in special relation to the image of Scandinavia as a sexually and politically utopic territory during those decades. The book has 528 pages and contains 282 colour illustrations. It is available for purchase through our website and in selected international bookstores.

Please click here to browse inside the publication.

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. Upcoming visitors include Daniel Baumann, Elvira Dyangani Ose and Ruba Katrib.

Currently living in Basel, Switzerland, Daniel Baumann is one of a three-person team of curators to organise the 56th Carnegie International, which opens in October 2013. A curator of the Adolf Wölfli Foundation at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern, Switzerland, Baumann is also the co-founder of the Shift Festival for Digital Arts, established in 2007, and New Jerseyy, an internationally acclaimed exhibition space in Basel dedicated to contemporary art, film, music, and publishing. Additionally, Baumann is the curator of Nordtangente-Kunsttangente, a Basel-based project for art in public spaces. Highlights of Baumann’s career include the landmark 2003 show on Swiss visionary outsider artist Adolf Wölfli at the American Folk Art Museum in New York, NY, USA. In 1997, he organised the first retrospective of Martin Kippenberger’s work, 'Martin Kippenberger. Respektive 1997–1976', at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Geneva, Switzerland, and, in 1998, together with Peter Pakesch, the first survey of Kippenberger’s self-portraits, 'Martin Kippenberger. Die Selbstporträts', at Kunsthalle Basel. Baumann has published more than 100 articles in catalogues and publications such as Camera Austria, Kunst-Bulletin, Flash Art, Mousse, Pacemaker, Parkett, Piktogram, and Spike Art Quarterly.

Elvira Dyangani Ose was recently appointed curator of international art at Tate Modern, London, UK. She is currently a Ph.D candidate in the History of Art and Visual Studies programme at Cornell University, New York. She holds a graduate degree in the Theory and History of Architecture from Universtat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain. She is a founding member of the Laboratory for Oral Resources in Equatorial Guinea, an independent research group on Equatorial Guinea oral tradition studies and also member of the research group Afroeuropeans at the University of León, Spain. As a freelance curator she developed several interdisciplinary projects, focusing on recovering collective memories, interventions in public space or urban ethnography, most significantly, ‘Memoria i Desconcert: Art a Guinea Ecuatorial’, ‘Urban Emotion o Authentic Fiction’. As a specialist in contemporary African art she has been a guest professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and has taken part in lecture cycles addressing African artistic production and contemporary culture. In the last two years she curated an exhibition of contemporary South African artists called ‘Olvida quién soy / Erase me from who I am’ in collaboration with Tracy Murinik, Khwezi Gule and Gabi Ngcobo and ‘Tres scenarios/Three scenarios’, both of which took place while she was curator at Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. She will also serve as the curator for the next edition of PICHA, a biennial of photography and video scheduled for the autumn of 2012 in Lubumbashi, Congo.

Ruba Katrib is the Curator at the SculptureCenter in Long Island City, New York, NY, USA. Previously Katrib was the Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami, CA, USA. There she organised the first comprehensive solo museum exhibitions of Cory Arcangel (2010) and Claire Fontaine (2010), and several acclaimed group exhibitions including 'The Possibility of an Island' (2008), 'Convention' (2009), 'The Reach of Realism' (2009), and 'Modify, as needed' (2011). She initiated performance and workshop programs at MOCA and organised the three-day 'New Methods symposium', which focused on independent artist initiatives throughout Latin America. A follow-up book project is forthcoming. Katrib has contributed texts to a number of publications and written for periodicals such at Artforum, ArtPapers, and Mousse Magazine. Katrib is co-organising an in-depth conference about curatorial practice today, scheduled for the summer of 2012 on the occasion of 20th anniversary of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY, USA.

Artists Erik Pirolt and Tori Wrånes will be part of the 2012 Colombo Art Biennale in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 15 to 19 February 2012. According to curator Roman Berka, the upcoming biennale’s theme of ‘Becoming’ investigates ‘the idea of potentiality within transformation or movement, a transformation that is initiated and in progress’. Pirolt and Wrånes plan to develop a site-specific installation and performance project for their contribution to the biennale. Other participating artists include Vimukthi Jayasundara, Anomaa Rajakaruna and Pala Pothupitiye. Curator: Roman Berka, Curator, Colombo Art Biennial 2012. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Bjørn-Kowalski Hansen is exhibiting within the Nordic Pavilion at the Dak’Art Biennial in Dakar, Senegal, from 10 May to 12 June 2012. According to curators Power Ekroth and Marita Muukonen, the exhibition, titled META-REALITIES, ‘poses in a playful way the question of whether or not can art function as a meta-structure of the realities we live in, and is that the only meta-structure we have despite of geo-cultural etc. differences?’ Hansen, the curators write, is a part of a group of artists who are ‘shaking realities more directly by creating alternative cultures driven by dreams, by expanding, questioning and re-creating boundaries between economy, corporate ideas, utopia, society and art’. Other participating artists include Nathalie Djurberg, Matti Kallioinen, Parfyme, Jesper Just, Teemu Mäki and Egill Säbjörnsson. Curators: Power Ekroth and Marita Muukkonen, curators, Dak'Art Biennial 2012, Dakar, Senegal. The project is supported by 03–funding*

Mai Hofstad Gunnes will hold a solo exhibition project at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, Belgium. A result of her nine-month residency at WIELS, the project, titled Bike and Bolex, will consist of a 16mm film. According to the artist, the film will feature 'five women operating professional Bolex 16mm film cameras while bicycling in a park—an action which seems almost impossible'. The project echoes Gunnes' ongoing reflection on the construction of identity. A group of five women bicycle in circular paths while filming each other with Bolex cameras. The revolving movements captured by the five subjective cameras draw a molecular structure without a fixed center and convey an idea of a non-hierarchical multiple subjectivity. An artist-book will be launched and French art historian Benoît Lamy de La Chapelle will write an essay to accompany the exhibition. Bike and Bolex will be on view from 17 February to 11 March 2012, and is curated by Devrim Bayar, Residency Curator, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, Belgium.

Hariton Pushwagner will present his first international institutional solo exhibition at the Milton Keynes Gallery in Milton Keynes, UK in June 2012. According to curator Natalie T. Hope O’Donnell, the exhibition ‘will be a focused presentation of early work, arranged in three groupings: “Soft City” provides the narrative content of much of the artist's work; the “Family of Man” section focuses on his prints, sketches and process; and the “Apokalypse Frieze” demonstrates the zenith of his technical and imaginative accomplishments’. The exhibition will travel to the Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and the Vestfold Haugar Kunstmuseum in Tønsberg, Norway.

For an up-to-date list of ongoing projects that have received International Support from OCA, please visit OCA's website.

Randi Nygård (b.1977 in Bergen, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) and Munan Øvrelid (b.1978 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) participate in the group exhibition ‘New Horizons, Landscape and the Contemporary Romantic’ at Kunstraum T27 in Berlin, Germany. According to the curator Rebecca Partridge, the exhibition brings together artists who ‘look to the natural sciences, literature and art history to underline and explore the impact ideas about nature on contemporary life’. Nygård developed ‘an installation where still images from films about biology and scenes from fiction films are mixed’. Øvrelid developed a video project using ‘monuments/statues representing figures from Romanticism,’ which will ‘break down and open the static image they represent’. ‘New Horizons, Landscape and the Contemporary Romantic’ is on view until 19 February 2012. Other participating artists include Jane Hughes, Bjarte Alvestad, Sarah Jane Gorlitz, Wojciech Olejnik and Katie Paterson. Curator: Rebecca Partridge, independent artist and curator, based in Berlin, Germany and London, UK.

*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.

The Future Generation Art Prize established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation is a worldwide contemporary art prize to discover, recognise and give long-term support to a future generation of artists. Following its launch in 2009 with more than 6,000 applicants from all continents, the PinchukArtCentre has established partnerships with more than 50 international non-profit art organisations for the second edition of the Future Generation Art Prize. An exhibition of 21 shortlisted artists will open at the PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine, in October 2012, and in December 2012 the winner of the Main Prize will be announced by the international jury. The prize is open to applications from artists below 35 years of age. The application period is 6 February-6 May.

For the 15th year, apexart is accepting submissions for exhibition ideas where the winners will receive the funding and administrative support from apexart to mount a show in their Manhattan space. apexart's Unsolicited Proposal Program asks for 500 word idea-based proposals for a group exhibition that will be evaluated by an international jury. Submissions are reviewed solely on the strength of the idea; no previous curatorial experience necessary. Applications are accepted until 17 February 2012. Visit apexart's website for more.

The Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Production Programme seeks to broaden the possibilities for the production of art in the MENASA region through a commitment to support, innovation and excellence in artistic practice by encouraging risk and experimentation. This commitment places artists at the core of the Foundation's mission by offering grants and professional support for the realisation of projects selected from an open call for proposals. Application deadline: 24 February 2012. Please visit The Sharjah Art Foundation website for more information.

Titled 'Melancholy in Progress', the 3rd Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition 2012 seeks 'to examine the pursuit of progress and its various manifestations in modern life, including medicine, sanitation, technology, speed, mobility and growth. Has progress become a desire of modern society that has no destination and no end? What is the truth of progress? The never satisfied pursuit of progress has developed the syndromes of compulsive disorders and resulted in melancholy.' Application deadline: 29 February 2012. More

The Center for the Study of Modern Art offers an annual prize for an unpublished manuscript presenting new research in modern or contemporary art from 1780 to the present. Preference is given to applicants whose research focuses on subjects related to the Phillips's areas of collecting. The winning manuscript will be published by the University of California Press as part of a series of first books sponsored by the Center. Scholars who received their PhDs within the past five years are strongly encouraged to apply. Application deadline: 14 April 2012. More

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