Curated by Suman Gopinath and Grant Watson, 'Nasreen Mohamedi: Notes – Reflections on Indian Modernism (Part 1)' is the first solo exhibition in Europe ofNasreen Mohamedi, regarded as one of the most important Indian artists of her generation. Mohamedi's rarely seen paintings, drawings and photographs, produced from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, constitute a key body of work within the modernist canon.

'Nasreen Mohamedi: Notes – Reflections on Indian Modernism (Part 1)' is part of 'Reflections on Indian Modernism', a comprehensive programme of public projects and residencies organised by Gopinath and Watson for OCA and CoLab Art & Architecture, Bangalore, India. This programme aims to revisit recent Indian art history, recuperating legacies of avant-garde practice and archiving lesser-known bodies of work that slip between genres and schools. The collaboration also comprises a residency programme for Norwegian artists at CoLab. The first of these residencies involved the participation of Lene Berg in the round-table discussion in New Delhi.

This programme has been supported by 03–funds*.

OCA provides financial support on a quarterly basis for international projects including Norwegian artists and/or cultural producers. All applications must be sent by post and must be postmarked by 15 May. Applications sent after 15 May will be returned to the respective applicants.

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

For any questions regarding the application, please contact Jørn Mortensen, at jorn.mortensen@oca.no. 

Recipients from the February 2009 grants for International Support are listed here.

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

For any questions regarding the application, please contact Jørn Mortensen, at jorn.mortensen@oca.no. 

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 Platform Garanti Istanbul Residency Program, Istanbul, Turkey  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.

OCA Announces a New Residency between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil

OCA introduces an open call for applications for a four-month residency programme for a Norwegian artist, independent curator, cultural producer or independent art critic at Capacete, a forum and interdisciplinary project operating in Rio de Janeiro since 1997. Directed by Helmut Batista, the residency will devise a programme of meetings and visits together with the selected resident to promote a platform for intercultural debate and to strengthen the dialogue with the Brazilian arts scene. The residency will be divided between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, including two-month stays in each city. During the residency the recipient is expected to take part in workshops and presentations. The first residency will take place from 1 September to 25 December 2009. Former residents include Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Bruno Serralongue, Pierre Huyghe and Eija-Liisa Ahtila.

Application deadline is 15 April 2009 and applicants must be artists, independent curators, cultural producers or independent art critics with Norwegian citizenship. Please note that the residency is not available for BA or MA students.

Click here for information on International Residencies and application processes, or please contact Alexandra Cruz at alexandra.cruz@oca.no.

Closed Session is a short-term residency in NYC offered to individual artists, curators and critics at the invitation of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway. The purpose of Closed Session is to provide invited artists with the opportunity to gain a broader knowledge of other artist practices, to extend one's network of associations, and to enter into a dialogue with other curators, artists and professionals within a one week period

Jonas Ekeberg (b.1967) is a curator and critic living in Oslo. Trained as an artist, he is currently the director of Preus Museum, Norway's national museum for photography. Ekeberg has been a critic for NRK, Dagbladet and the Norwegian Business Daily and has been the editor of Hyperfoto, Siksi and Billedkunst. He was the chief curator of Momentum in 2000, founding director of Oslo Kunsthall the same year and a curator at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway from 2002-04. His exhibitions for Preus museum include Photography's Expanded Field, Skate Culture, Technology & Aesthetics and 80 million pictures – Norwegian vernacular photography 1855-2005. In August 2009 he will take up the position as the editor of the online journal kunstkritikk.no.

Upcoming Residents 2009/2010

Artist residency: Lars Laumann

Lars Laumann (b.1975 in Brønnøysund, Norway) is an artist based in Berlin and Oslo. He draws his inspiration from the outskirts of popular culture in the form of found texts, images and objects. By sampling and re-editing, he creates collages, books or videos. Mixing different media and techniques to create idiosyncratic worlds, the results are, at times, absurd and unsettling revelations of our collective modern mythologies. Recently his work has been shown at White Columns, Foxy Productions and MoMA in New York, USA; 5th Berlin Biennial in Berlin, Germany and in the summer of 2009 he will present new works at Trænafestivalen on the Island of Træna in North of Norway.

Curator residency: Susanne Ø. Sæther

Susanne Ø. Sæther, PhD., (b.1972, in Oslo, Norway) is a researcher and curator based in Oslo. She has curated several exhibitions of camera-based and media art, among them 'Comme au Cinéma: The Cinematic as Method and Metaphor'(2008) at Fotogalleriet, Oslo with Ida Kierulf, and 'Ghost in the Machine'(2008) at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo with Elisabeth Byre. Her most recent publications include Arkivets estetikk in 80 millioner bilder (ed. Ekeberg/Lund, 2008) and Between the Hyperrepresentational and the Hyperreal. A sampling sensibility? in Sutton, Brind and McKenzie (eds.), The State of the Real. Aesthetics in the Digital Age (2007). Her PhD. dissertation The Aesthetics of Sampling: Engaging the Media in Recent Video Art (2009) discusses the repositioning of different media and archival material in contemporary cinema and art. Sæther is a curatorial student from the Whitney Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA, 2005-06.

Upcoming Resident 2009/2010: Ane Mette Hol

Ane Mette Hol (b.1979 in Bodø, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) works with different methods and concepts of drawing. Her work focuses on the relation between drawing and reproduction of various objects, for example Xerox pages, prints or masking papers. A more attentive look discovers that all the traces, every marks and the objects themselves have been reproduced, drawn again by the artist. Her work is not an objet trouvé, or a simple copy of an object; it is a completely new re-production. Ane Mette Hol has participated in numerous group exhibitions, such as 'Lights On' at Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern, Oslo; 'Hardcore' at Sørlandet Art Museum, Kristiansand, Norway. Her latest solo show was 'Reversed Site-Specific' at Galleria Enrico Fornello in Prato, Italy. In 2009 she will be represented at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium in the exhibition 'Nachspiel/Vorspiel'.

Upcoming Resident September/November 2009: Jesper Alvær

Jesper Alvær (b. 1973 in Copenhagen, Denmark, lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic and Oslo, Norway) received his formal training as an artist in Prague, New York and Kitakyushu, Japan. He has for the last decade primarily been working in the Czech Republic and Central Europe. Many of his projects may be characterised as long-term investigations and work takes into account various life worlds and the effects of cultural constructions. His projects often materialise in form of installations, videos or undocumented interpersonal meetings. Recent exhibitions include: 'Sight of Times', CCA, Torun, Poland; 'Representing The Nation', ITCA, NG Prague, the Czech Republic; 'Lights On', Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway; 'World-Ex-Position', Open Space, Vienna, Austria; 'Figure and Ground', Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland; and 'Transkultura: Akt 1', Atrium, MG, Brno, the Czech Republic. The Platform Garanti Istanbul Residency Programme is covered by 03–funding*

Upcoming Resident April/December 2009: Anders Nordby

Anders Nordby (b.1975, in Oslo, Norway) is an artist based in Oslo, Norway. He studied at Central St. Martins in London, UK and The National Academy in Oslo and participated in the alternative art-school MSA^ (Mountain School of Art) in Los Angeles, USA. His work involves both an individual artistic production, as well as a curatorial practice – most recently 'Dear Cockettes' at UKS, Oslo. His process-based art and installations draw inspiration from literature, sub- and countercultures. It investigates a self-chosen 'moral degeneration'; an inverted system of ideals within the borderlines of morality and ethics, the relationship between creativity and crime and the notion of crime as a revolt against established society. Nordby has exhibitied in institutions such as Art in General, New York, USA, The Swiss Institute, New York, White Columns, New York and Rhizome, New Museum, New York. Together with Ida Ekblad, he runs the artist-space Willy Wonka Inc., where shows are organised in their apartements as well as in abandoned buildings and at non-profit venues. Willy Wonka's upcoming exhibition will take place at Kölnisher Kunstverein in Cologne, Germany in April 2009.

Click here for information on International Residencies and application processes, or please contact Alexandra Cruz at OCA atalexandra.cruz@oca.no.

OCA's International Studio Programme Oslo (ISP) is available for international artists and curators by invitation, independently or in connection with research in Norway.

Click here for information on the International Studio Programme Oslo.

Babette Mangolte
Artist/film-maker, b.1941 in France, lives and works in New York, USA

The French-born, New York-based experimental film-maker Babette Mangolte was one of the first women accepted into the cinematography programme at L'École Nationale de la Photographie et de la Cinématographie in Paris, France, founded by Louis Lumiére. She discovered cinema with the nouvelle vague and moved to New York City in 1970, where she worked as the cinematographer for Chantal Ackerman and Yvonne Rainer among others. In her work as director from the 1970s, Mangolte focused on performance documentation, working with artists such as Richard Foreman, Robert Whitman, Trisha Brown and Lucinda Childs. Her early film work was a self-examination as to what it means to be a spectator, but also an experiment in narrative film-making. Among the films directed by Mangolte are What Maisie Knew (1976), The Camera: Je or La Camera: I (1977), Four Pieces by Morris (1993) and Seven Easy Pieces (2007). Her films are in the collections of the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Deutsche Kinematek, Berlin and the Cinéathèque Royale de Belgique in Brussels. The first retrospective dedicated to her work took place in 2000 in three German cities – Berlin, Hamburg and Munich – and was organised by Madeleine Bernstorff and Kleus Volkmer from the Munich Film Archives. Her second retrospective was in New York in September 2004 at the Anthology Film Archives.

Ida Ekblad has been invited to exhibit within 'Younger Than Jesus', the first edition of The Generational, the New Museum's new triennial of young artists. Organised by Lauren Cornell, Director of Rhizome and New Museum Adjunct Curator, Massimiliano Gioni, Director of Special Exhibitions, New Museum and Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator, New Museum, the exhibition will present the works of fifty artists from twenty-five countries who are born after 1976, among them, Tauba Auerbach, Cory Arcangel and Patricia Esquivias. Within the exhibition, Ekblad will present the work Untitled(M) (2008) and works from the series On Otherness (2008).'Younger Than Jesus' will take place at the New Museum, New York City, USA from 8 April to 14 June 2009. A press preview will be held on 7 April, from 10:00 to 12:30 pm.

Katerina Gregos has invited Lene Berg to exhibit within Contour 2009: 4th Biennial of Moving Image in Mechelen, Belgium. Under the title Hidden in Remembrance is the Silent Memory of Our Future, the biennial proposes a reconsideration of recent history, as it takes place twenty years after a key historical moment in European history. Contour 2009 takes place in various venues, emphasising the interaction between the location and the works of art on display. Within Contour 2009 Lene Berg will exhibit the project Stalin by Picasso (2008), which has as its point of departure an old dispute about Picasso's portrait of Stalin with a moustache and feminine features. Other artists exhibiting within Contour 2009 are Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Mira Sanders andYael Bartana.

Rubén del Valle Lantarán, Director of the 10th Havana Biennial, has invited Victor Mutelekesha to exhibit within the biennial, which takes place in Havana, Cuba from 27 March to 30 April 2009 and is titled 'Integration and Resistance in the Global Age'. According to Lantarán, the biennial will focus 'on the complexity of a real and active integration to a global order, on one side, and on the capacity of resistance in the face of the homogenising farce that it presupposes, on the other'. Within 'Integration and Resistance in the Global Age', Mutelekesha will exhibit the installation Pangea, which nostalgically refers to the hypothetical landmass that existed when all continents were joined.

Samba Fall has been invited to exhibit within the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece. Curated by Olabisi Silva, Gabriela Salgado and Syrago Tsiara and title 'Praxis', the biennial aims to investigate artistic practises as a privileged space for free expression of ideas and for an alternative view of the world and social environment. Within the biennial, Samba Fall will exhibit Africa Map, an installation built by local people of Thessaloniki which presents the ideas that non-Africans have about the continent.

Until 29 March Fort Worth Contemporary is holding a solo exhibition of Lars Laumann together with Margrét Blöndal. Curated by Gavin Morrison and titled 'Margrét Blöndal & Lars Laumann', the exhibition will present Laumann's filmsMorrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana, Berlinmuren and Swedish Book Store.

Liv Bugge is invited to hold a solo exhibition at We-Project in Brussels, Belgium from20 May to 07 June 2009. Within the exhibition, curated by Gauthier Hubert, Curator We-Project and titled 'You make me want to die in the countryside', the artist will present the sculpture work The Inner Station and three video installations that reflects on the novel Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad.

Agustin Pérez Rubio, Chief Curator at MUSAC (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain) has invited the artists' duo Elmgreen & Dragset for a solo exhibition entitled 'Trying to Remember What We Want to Forget' at MUSAC from 31 January to 3 May 2009. The exhibition will focus in the gap between the personal and the collective, the unbalanced of 'the private' versus the drama of 'the public' in the immediate world. The exhibition will be composed of ten installation art works in a display created specifically for MUSAC – six of them will be new productions and the previous works will be displayed in a new arrangement, according to the curatorial concept.

Vibeke Tandberg has been invited to exhibit within 'Seleccíon de la 28a Bienal de São Paulo' at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Chile, Chile. Curated byFrancisco Brugnoli Bailoni, Director Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, the exhibition will present a selection of artworks and artists that participated in the 28th São Paulo Biennial. Vibeke Tandberg will exhibit the project Albert Camus, L'étranger, Roman, Gallimard 2003, Prémier dépôt légal:juin 1942. ISBN 2-07-021-200-3, in which the artist dissects an edition of the book L'étranger by Albert Camus in cutting out each of the 32 000 words comprising the text and subsequently alphabetizing each onto separate formations divided into individual framed works.

Kjell Bjørgeengen has been invited Paul Lagring, Artistic Director, Netwerk vzw, in Aalst, Belgium to exhibit within 'Fuzzy Electronics', taking place at Netwerk vzw from14 February to 4 April 2009. The exhibition focuses on the importance of accidental change within the filed of 'new media'. For 'Fuzzy Electronics' the artist will produce a new series of video and audio works that incorporate a method of instability. Other artists exhibiting are Frederik De Wilde, Jerry Galle and Doris Kuwert.

Marthe Ramm Fortune has been commissioned to create a new performance work for 'Its All Yours Now', a one-day performance event curated by Sabina Basta and taking place 15 March at the SculptureCenter in New York City, USA. Ranging from a love letter to a song, the six pieces and performances presented use dialogue and travesty as forms of exploration of power, identity politics, and transmission. Other participating artists are Carey Ascenzo, Linda Weiss, Rachel Mason, Petit Mal, Nader Sadek and Kalup Linzy.

Kristina Bræin and Lina Viste-Grønli have been invited to exhibit within 'Les Formes Féminines' at Triangle France, Marseille, France. Curated by Dorothée Dupuis, director of Triangle France and taking place from 3 April to 9 May 2009, the exhibition takes as a starting point the idea of a crude and curious parallel between the history of sculpture and those of women in the twentieth century. For 'Les Formes Féminines', Bræin will produce a new site-specific installation. Other artist exhibiting are Jenny Holzer and Eva Berendes.

Jannicke Låker is currently holding an exhibition together with Julika Rudelius at The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC), New York City, USA. Curated by Ruba Katrib and titled 'Ecstatic truth', the exhibition examines how production and reception is constructed, the boundaries between fiction and truth as well as the differentiations between acting and non-acting. Within 'Ecstatic truth', Jannicke Låker presents Running Woman (2006), a film in which subjects are filmed or recorded participating in a certain activity in which they become completely absorbed. 'Ecstatic truth' is on view until 26 April.

From 16 to 25 April 2009 the 'Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid – Madrid 2009' is taking place in various venues throughout Madrid, Spain. Curated by Jean-Francois Rettig, the festival presents international artist working with film, video and multimedia, including the Norwegian artists Knut Åsdam, Helen Sommer, Anne Lan and Inger Lise Hansen.

Sissel Tolaas has been invited to exhibit within 'sk-interfaces', at Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg from 25 September to 10 January 2010. Curated by Jens Hauser, 'sk-interfaces' features works by artists reflecting on the way current technologies are changing our lives by progressively replacing natural interface in the skin. Within the exhibition, Sissel Tolaas will present the project Fear, in which she collects and displays the smell of different men who have nothing in common but the fear of body contact.

Kaja Haugen Leijon has been selected to partake in Videonale 12, a biennial festival for video art. Curated Georg Elbenby, Videonale 12 will take place from 26 March to 26 April 2009 at Kunstmuseum in Bonn, Germany. Within the festival, Kaja Haugen Leijon will exhibit Turning Trick (2008), a film inspired by Truffaut and film genres, such as western. Other participating artists are Charlotte Ginsborg, Reynold Reynolds and Pia Greschner.

Janine Magelssen has been invited to exhibit within 'Apparently Invisible – Spring Selections Show 2009', taking place at The Drawing Center, New York City, USA, from20 February to 28 March 2009. The exhibition aims to promote emerging artists selected from the Viewing Program. Within 'Apparently Invisible', the artist will exhibit a 'wall construction' – an installation that bridges the disciplines of drawing and sculpture to investigates the poetic possibilities in the meeting of space and form. 'Apparently Invisible' is curated by Nina Katchadourian, Viewing Program Curator, The Drawing Center; Joanna Kleinberg, Assistant Curator, The Drawing Center and Rachel Liebowitz, Curatorial Assistant, The Drawing Center.

Curators Anna Martine Nilsen, Kalle Brolin and Graciela Taquinu, professor University of Buenos Aires have invited Sabina Jacobsson, Birgitte Sigmundstad, Astrid Johannessen and Lotte Konow Lund to participate in 'Paralelos y Meridianos' at theCentro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 'Paralelos y Meridianos' consist of two platforms – a screening of video works from Argentina, Sweden and Norway – and takes place from 20 to 25 July 2009.

Peter Zorn, EMAN Coordinator and Chairman of Werkleitz – Centre for Media Art in Halle (Saale), Germany has invited Helene Sommer to exhibit within '.move' at the European Media Art Network in Halle (Saale), Germany. The artist will exhibit the video installation The Memory of the People Narrates. A Tale of Stone and Wood and also present a talk. Helene Sommer's participation within the exhibition is linked to her residency at InterSpace in Sofia, Bulgaria.

From 14 to 30 April 2009, Serina Erfijorn, Kristoffer Myskja, Frode Halvorsen and Øystein Wyller Odden will be exhibiting within 'Northern Sound' – a show of sound art from Norway curated by Petr Svarovsky. 'Northern Sound' will take place at CIANT Gallery, Prague, the Czech Republic, as part of 'Enter 4', a festival that aims to bridge cultural production with science and new technology.

In September 2009, Jumana Manna will be presenting the project The Arab Men Go Public throughout the stress of Al-Bireh-Ramallah, Palestine. Developed in collaboration with International Academy of Art Palestine, Al-Bireh-Ramallah, Palestine, the project consists of the placement of photographs in billboards. These images present man in private moments in their home, challenging common perceptions of Arabic man.

Samba Fall has been invited to participate in the seminar 'Animation Breakdown – Study Day', taking place at Tate Modern, London, UK from 20 to 23 March 2009. 'Animation Breakdown – Study Day' is part of 'Animation Breakdown – Computer Baroque', a weekend programme that provides an opportunity for broader discussions about the relationship between the moving image, drawing, and the digital.

Four Corners is seeking proposals from artists for a volume in their Four Corners Familiars series. The series present's artists responses to classic novels and short stories and participants are encourage to come up with innovative ways of complementing the text. The closing date for the Open Submission is 10 April. For more information, visit the Four Corners Books website:www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk/OpenSub,

Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit research and production proposals to become a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie. Candidates can either apply with a topic of their own or for a project formulated by the institute itself. In order to realise these projects, the Jan van Eyck offers the necessary made-to-measure artistic, technical and auxiliary preconditions. Candidates applying for Fine Art, Design or Theory are asked to propose an individual research project. They can also indicate their interest in participating in one of the projects that are offered by the department of their choice or other departments. The academic year runs from 1 January to 31 December. Research candidates can apply for a one-year or two-year research period starting annually on 1 January. It is also possible to apply to do research for a different period and with a different starting date. More information about the application procedure can be found at here.

*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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