The OCA office and project space will be closed for summer holidays in the period 4 July to 1 August. The next newsletter, announcing our autumn activities, will be released in mid-August.

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.

OCA provides International Residencies for Norwegian artists, curators and critics in a number of venues. Click here for details and deadlines.

UPCOMING RESIDENTS:
Berlin Mitte, Berlin, Germany:
- Victoria Pihl Lind - artist / 1 September – 31 October 2011
- Marit K. Flåtter - art critic and curator / 1 November – 31 December 2011
- Hans Kristian Borchgrevink Hansen - artist / 1 January – 29 February 2012
- KNIPSU (Hilde Jørgensen - artist and curator, Maya Økland - artist and curator, Kristin Tårnesvik - artist) / 1 March - 31 April

18th Street Art Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA:
- Terje Nicolaisen - artist / 1 October - 31 December 2011

The lectures as part of Norway’s official representation at the 54^th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2011, are now available in our Audiovisual Archive.

Upcoming lecture:
Thursday, 30 June / 17:30
Eyal Weizman – Forensic Aesthetics *
*This lecture will be streamed. Information will be available on www.oca.no soon.

The teaching programme 'Beyond Death: Viral Discontents and Contemporary Notions about AIDS' led by artist Bjarne Melgaard at Università Iuav di Venezia, which was laso part of Norway's representation at the Venice biennial 2011, is closing with the exhibition 'Baton Sinister'. From 6 to 31 June visits are possible by appointment. To enquire about appointments, please call +39 342 13 48 017. More

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.

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 printed form becomes a universal, egalitarian form of expression in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring how artists such as Thomas Bewick, Frans Masereel, Albert Jærn, Hannah Ryggen, Peder Balke and Lars Hertervig employed specific graphic forms to address the cultural and political conditions of their time.

The video of the recital of 'Vevnad', Arne Nordheim's tribute to Hannah Ryggen performed at OCA on 15 June 2001, has been added to the audiovisual archive.

The list of the 2011B round of grants allocated for International Support - 02 funding has been published.

Below is a selection of three events by Norwegian artists abroad, taken from the projects that have received International Support from OCA in the final round. A complete list of all the projects can be found in OCA's website. In addition, an up-to-date list of ongoing projects receiving International Support ca be found in the recipients page.

D.O.R. artist collective participate in the Danish Pavilion at the 54^th Biennale di Venezia
Curator: Katerina Gregos
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1 June-27 November 2011

As an extension of the Danish Pavilion in the Giardini, D.O.R. (Kristian Øverland Dahl, Sverre Gullesen and Steinar Haga Kristensen) have constructed a mini-pavilion titled 'Osloo'. Docked at the island of San Servolo, this floating pavilion comprises a bar, a daily event programme and a radio station. 'Osloo' is described by the artists as 'an architectonic structure that comes to life through the exchange between a range of events in the programme and its public viewers'.

Mette Tronvoll has been invited to present a solo exhibition at the Haus am Waldsee in Berlin, Germany, from 26 June to 28 August 2011. Titled 'Mette Tronvoll - At Eye Level', the exhibition will show unpublished portraits from the last eight years. According to Haus am Waldsee director and curator Dr. Katja Blomberg, Tronvoll's practice 'is based on a great respect for her sitters and brings out traces of pure joie de vivre which shine forth in the moment of isolation and distance to modern event culture'.

Jan Freuchen presents his project (Works from) the Capgras Collection as part of the group exhibition 'Rehearsal' at Gallery NON in Istanbul, Turkey. On view until 15 July 2011, curator Nazli Gurlek states that ''Rehearsal' speaks to our psyche and urges us to reflect upon relationships between imaginary realities and real fictions, loss and appearance, obscurity and emergence'. Freuchen's project was initiated in 2007 for the exhibition 'Come Into the Open' at 0047, Oslo, Norway. For the exhibition at Gallery NON, the artist has developed several new works under the same title and concept.

Artistic Director: Carolyn Christov-Barkagiev
Media Conference for accredited press: June 6, 2012
Professional Preview (by invitation): June 7 and 8, 2012
Opening: 6 June 2012, throughout
 
dOCUMENTA is regarded as one of the most important international exhibitions of contemporary art, taking place in Kassel, Germany, every five years. It was initiated in 1955 by the artist and art educator Arnold Bode in Kassel. OCA's director Marta Kuzma is part of the team for dOCUMENTA (13), headed by Artistic Director Carolyn Christov-Barkagiev.

Critical Information at the School of Visual Arts, NY, USA, is an interdisciplinary graduate student conference, which provides a platform to assess current scholarship and research at the intersection of art, media, and society. Application deadline: 30 June 2011. More

Institute for Neo Connotative Action (INCA), Detroit, MI, USA, and Young Artists Association (UKS), Oslo, Norway, announce an new collaborative artist/scholar/poet in residency program in Detroit. The first application deadline is 1 July 2011. Visit the INCA and UKS websites for further information.

The Franchise competition is an opportunity for anyone from anywhere in the world to curate an exhibition as an apexart franchise outside of New York City. The submitters of the two winning proposals will be the directors, curators and/or staff of their own month-long apexart shows with a budget provided by apexart. Application deadline: 30 June 2011. Visit the apexart website for more information.

The ARThinkSouthAsia Fellowship, New Dehli, India, is designed to help develop skills, knowledge, networks and experience of potential leaders in the cultural sector of South Asia which include museums, the visual and performing arts and digital media. Fifteen fellows will be selected from across South Asia for the Fellowship which includes a two week residential course in early April 2012 led by experienced international and Indian tutors, a secondment/internship in Germany over the fellowship year 2012-13, and a concluding seminar in March the following year. Application deadline: 15 November 2011. Visit the ARThinkSouthAsia website for details.

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