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.

The International Support Grants provided for the first quarter – February 2011 are available here.

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

Norway'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.

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' is an exhibition taking as a starting point Guttorm Guttormsgaard's archives of printed materials and art objects. The exhibition considers the process by which the printed form becomes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a universal, egalitarian form of expression. The project explores how artists such as Thomas Bewick, Frans Masereel, Albert Jærn, Hannah Ryggen, Peder Balke and Lars Hertervigemployed specific graphic forms to address the cultural and political conditions of their time.

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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.

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Application deadline: 1 May 2011

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

Artist Resident 2011/2012: Øystein Aasan

Øystein Aasan (b.1977 in Kristiansand, Norway, lives and works in Berlin since 2002) received his education at the National Academy of the Arts, Oslo. He has since exhibited in a number of venues both on a national and international level, such as the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway; Rogaland Art Center, Stavanger, Norway; Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway; Sørlandets Art Museum, Kristiansand, Norway; Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany; Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany and La Vitrine, Paris, France. He has also published texts in magazines such as Spike Art Quarterly, Neue Review, Umelec, Billedkunst and Kunstkritikk.no.

Curator Resident September–November 2011: Peter Amdam

Peter Amdam (b. 1971 in Molde, Norway, lives and work in Oslo, Norway) is an Oslo-based critic, writer and curator. He has written on contemporary art, literature and fashion, with a specific interest in where art intersects with certain poststructuralist and contemporary theories. He is also an occasional collaborator of the artist Matias Faldbakken. Amdam has a diverse background: he has worked in fashion magazines, and is a well-known figure in the hardcore music scene.

Resident August-November 2011: Olga Robayo

Olga Robayo's (b.1972 in Bogotá, Colombia, lives and works in Ås, Norway and Bogotá, Colombia) works and projects deal with issues of migration, appropriation and marginality in the urban space. Robayo was educated at Universidad de Los Andes and Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá and Statens Kunstakademi, Oslo where she completed her MFA. Since 2005 she has worked with the artist group El Parche (with Herman Mbamba and Marius Wang) and has realised diverse installation projects that seek to make room for perceiving and understanding different aesthetic and political experiences. Their work have been presented at W139, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Al-Mahatta Gallery, Ramallah, Palestine; UKS and Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway. Since 2009, Robayo has been running El Parche Artist Residency-Bogotá together with Marius Wang.

Resident 2011/2012: Linn Pedersen

In Linn Pedersen's (b.1982 in Sortland, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) photographic work, the documentary merges with poetry in depictions of discarded consumer goods, landscape sceneries, constructions and human figures demonstratively turned away from the camera. The images are examinations of the unstable border between the common and the idealised, where atmospheric conditions, emotional projections and contemporary cultural phenomena taint the motifs. 'De innbygde' in 2010 at Maria Veie Gallery was her first solo show in Norway, which included photography, sculpture, collage and video/film as well as the artist book Stub (Lord Jim Publishing). Other recent exhibitions include 'Scandinavian Forest', Akershus Kunstnersenter, Lillestrøm, Norway (2011); 'X Artworks in a straight line (Seeking the perfect sphere)', CRISP, London, UK (2010); and 'Weird Science', Waterside project space, London (2010). She holds a BA from the Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Bergen, Norway and an MA from Central Saint Martins in London. Pedersen is currently the curator of 'LIAF 2011' (Lofoten International Art Festival, Lofoten, Norway) together with Thora Dolven Balke.

Resident 2011: Mai Hofstad Gunnes

Through 16mm film, installation and collage, Mai Hofstad Gunnes (b.1977 in Lørenskog, Norway, lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Oslo, Norway) has developed a personal imagery based on a type of associative logic, where different layers of reality are tested against each other. Her artistic point of departure derives from an interest in concrete systems of categorisation and the translation of these into a more non-hierarchical formalist language. Her recent films, as attempts to externalise inner worlds, involve performers to focus on the embodiment and personification of architecture and science. Recent exhibitions include 'Le choix du titre est un faux problème', Cneai de Paris, Paris, France (2011); 'Goddesses', Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway (2010); 'Pyrrhic Fortune', Sils, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2010); and 'A shape of love you can never imagine', Oslo Fine Art Society, Oslo (2009). Upcoming exhibitions include 'Oh how time flies' at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (2011). Gunnes was educated at Universität der Kunste, Berlin, Germany; CCA Kitakyushu, Japan and Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norway, where she received her MFA in 2004.

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.

Ida Ekblad to exhibit within
'ILLUMInations' at the 54th
International Art Exhibition
Curator: Bice Curiger
La Biennale di Venezia
4 June–27 November 2011

Ida Ekblad is participating within the 54th International Art Exhibition titled 'ILLUMInations' with an installation of found objects, sculptures and paintings specifically designed for the exhibition. According to the curator, 'the term "nations" in "ILLUMInations" applies metaphorically to recent developments in the arts all over the world, where overlapping groups form collectives of people representing a wide variety of smaller, more local activities and mentalities'.

A K Dolven to participate within 'A Million Miles From Home'
Curator: Andrea Schlieker
2011 Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, UK
25 June–25 September 2011

A K Dolven will participate within the 2011 Folkestone Triennial with the newly commissioned project Out of Order, in which she borrows a 16th-century bell from a church in the English Midlands and suspends it between tall steel beams by the seafront of Folkestone. According to the curator, this exhibition of new public art will explore 'the sense of being between worlds, of displacement and separation, of transience and having to find bearings in an unknown elsewhere', ideas that perfectly fit with the concept of Dolven's work.

Elmgreen & Dragset to participate within 'Rewriting Worlds'
Curator: Peter Weibel
4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
22 September–27 November 2011

Elmgreen & Dragset have been invited to participate within the 4th Moscow Biennale, where they will present a recreation of their project 'Celebrity – The One & The Many' (2010), which was originally produced for an exhibition at ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany. According to the curator, 'Rewriting Worlds' explores the notion that 'art, as a sphere of human activities, gives individual artists the chance to convert their ideas into reality and "re-write" the world by means of their works'.

Elmgreen & Dragset to participate within 'Performa 11'
Curator: RoseLee Goldberg
Performa, New York, NY, USA
1–21 November 2011

Artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset has been invited to participate in 'Performa 11', New York, NY, USA, curated by Performa's founding director and curator RoseLee Goldberg, from 1 to 21 November 2011. Within the Biennial Elmgreen & Dragset will develop and present a theatrical performance titled Happy Days in the Artworld. The play draws references from Samuel Beckett's play Happy Days and Sarah Thorton's book Seven Days in the Art World.

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 a solo 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.

Øystein Aasan has been invited by Vincent Normand, curator at Forde in Geneva, to present a solo exhibition from 18 March to 23 April 2011. Within the exhibition, Aasan will show two works, Double Bind (2004/2011), and All fun and games (until someone looses an eye) (2011). According to the artist, Double Bind, which was presented for the first time in 2004, and re-created especially for this exhibition, is 'a text work mounted on an architectural structure'. All fun and games (until someone looses an eye) deals with what the artist calls 'the confusion of language and space'. In the shape of an 'acoustic platform', built right under the ceiling spanning the area where Double Bind is installed, it reduces the sound from the room underneath, thereby creating a 'confusing understanding of space'.

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'.

Curators Hyejin Jang and Claudia Pestana have invited Jan Christensen for a workshop and installation at the Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea, from 13 April to 31 August 2011. Christensen plans to present his ongoing project N0th1n6 1s f0r Fr€€, M0ther Fuck€r$ (2011), which invites the audience to 'engage in an improvised jam session' within an installation consisting of 'synthesizers, samplers, distorters and equipment that modulates and manipulates audio'.

Stein Rønning will present a solo exhibition at Gallery D.O.R., a new non-profit artist-run space in Brussels, Belgium, in the period 15 April to 15 May 2011. Curated by Sverre Gullesen, Gallery D.O.R. and the artist himself, the exhibitions displays four newly produced photographs. An actor, who will repeat a spoken text to all of the visitors to the gallery, will also be present. Rønning says that the project 'is about formal repetition and situational difference'. The spoken text will also form the basis of a small publication produced for the exhibition.

Yves Bernard, Artistic Director IMAL, has invited Hans Christian Gilje to hold a solo exhibition at IMAL — Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Brussels, Belgium from 29 April to 29 May 2011. The exhibition 'Blink Brussels' is in a direct continuation of Gilje's Blink — a work developed for the artist's solo exhibition at Hordaland kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway in October 2009, and shown at Netherlands Institute of Media Art in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as part of Sonic Acts in March 2010, as well as at ISEA2010, Dortmund, Germany, in August 2010, as part of the exhibition 'Trust'.

Fredrik Raddum has been invited by Marie Nipper, curator at the Aarhus Kunstmuseum ARoS, Århus, Denmark, to present a solo exhibition from 2 April to 24 July 2011. The exhibition, located inside and outside the museum space, and titled 'GET LOST...', will present a selection of Raddum's work produced over the last decade, including sculptures, installations and neon works. An artist book documenting processes, sketches and presentations of the artworks will accompany the exhibition.

Independent writer and curator Pelin Tan has invited Knut Åsdam to present a solo exhibition at DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey, from 17 June to 31 July 2011. According to the curator, the exhibition will focus on Åsdam's works that deal with 'the phenomena of architecture and urban planning, and an analysis of the relationship between subjects, identities and the politics of space'. Works that will be presented in the exhibition include Blissed (2005), Finally (2006), Abyss (2010), Tripoli(2010), Oblique (2008) and Istanbul (produced for the Istanbul Biennial, 2003), along with photographic works. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman are presenting a solo exhibition at Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Titled 'Rogue Economics', the exhibition will combine a selection of existing works along with new projects that, according to the artists, 'elaborate on the aesthetic of value transference and its social process that towers far above ethics'. The layout of the exhibition will be completed in consultation with a New York-based Feng Shui master. 'Rogue Economics' is curated by Dumbo Arts Center executive director Karl Erickson, and will be displayed in the period 3 September to 14 November 2011.

The Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France, has commissioned Lars Laumann to create a major new project that will be presented in the period 23 September to 13 November 2011. Co-commissioned with Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, Norway, the work, titled W. Carlos, will consist of a laser-video and sound installation along with an accompanying publication. According to the organisers, the project will take the form of a documentary relating to the 'life and work of the US musician, composer and solar eclipse photographer Wendy Carlos'. Newly filmed footage will be combined with archival images and stills from the films for which Carlos drafted musical scores, along with extracts from her writings.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Rome MACRO has invited Marian Heyerdahl to present her installation The Terracotta Woman from 1 November 2011 to 6 January 2012. The artist describes the installation as an interpretation of 'the famous Terracotta Warriors from Xian as women, linking the cultural heritage of China' to the context of contemporary art. Curator Lorella Scacco goes further by claiming Heyerdahl's subjects the original warrior figures to a '"role reversal", affirming their gender difference as a positive power' – a conceptual approach 'influenced by the emancipation of women in the 1960s'.

Per-Oskar Leu has been invited to present a solo exhibition at Triple Canopy, a magazine, workspace and curatorial platform in Brooklyn, NY, USA, in the period 1 to 30 September 2011. According to curator Peter Russo, Triple Canopy editor and programme director, Leu's project will 'unfold in two distinct forms: his exhibition at Triple Canopy's venue will feature several sound sculptures dramatising Brecht's appearance in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947; his project for the magazine will draw together research on the playwright's dramatic and political work, archival recordings of courtroom proceedings, and original writing, in an online art-book presentation'.

Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany presents 'MicroScenes', a project curated by Lise Nellemann. Starting on 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.

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' raises 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.

Curated by Sol Kjøk, the exhibition 'North Stars: Blue, White and Red' gathers 28 contemporary artists from Norway to 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 colours of the Norwegian flag, the exhibitions series explores the symbolism and psychological connotations inherent in each of these hues. Following 'The North Stars Series: Blue' and 'White', the final round, 'The North Stars Series: Red' is opening 1 April, featuring the artists Marit Victoria Wulff Andreassen, Marianne Darlén Solhaugstrand, Hanne Lydia Opøien Kristoffersen, Eli Skomsø, Sol Kjøk, Kurt Johannessen, Rune Olsen, Tone Gellein and Anne Marte Eidseth Rygh.

Maddy Rosenberg, executive director and curator of Central Booking, New York, NY, USA, has 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 made of 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.

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.

Curator Sverre Gullesen at Gallery D.O.R., Brussels, Belgium, has invited the artist collective Institutt for Degenerert Kunst (Anders Nordby, Eirik Sæther and Arild Tveito) to organise the exhibition 'Give it all up again' in collaboration with the gallery staff itself, who assist with 'unforeseen problematics', in the period 19 March to 2 April 2011. The Institutt describes as a 'dubious auto-destructive entity' developing projects that often result in public actions and exhibitions 'against the Institutt's own inner will'.

Curator Maria Lind presents 'Abstract Possible', a research project which aims at exploring 'notions of abstraction in contemporary artistic practice' at the Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, from 26 March to 14 July 2011. Within 'Abstract Possible' Matias Faldbakken has been invited to present his work Double Cover Xerox 03 (2008) and to contribute with the text The The Situation Situation that will be part of the anthology accompanying the exhibition. The artist will also participate in the related discursive events, with a public talk on 'Economic Abstraction' on 8 April. Other artists in the exhibition include Doug Ashford, Claire Barclay, Goldin+Senneby, Wade Guyton and Mai-Thu Perret, Claudia Fernández and Jose León Cerrillo. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Torpedo Press (Elin Maria Olaussen, Karen Tandberg and Eivind Slettemeås) will be represented at the PA/PER VIEW Art Book Fair at Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium. Organised by Dirk Snauwaert, Director, Wiels andFrances Horn, curator, MER Paper Kunsthalle, Ghent, Belgium, PA/PER VIEW Art Book Fair is held in the period 31 March to 3 April 2011, bringing together 32 leading artist book publishers to present their work. In conjunction with the fair, Torpedo Press will organise a satellite presentation at Gallery D.O.R. in Brussels to launch their latest publications such as Liv Bugge'sYou make me want to Die in the Countryside and Marius Engh's An Aggregation of Adversary.

Munan Øvrelid and Randi Nygård are participating in the exhibition series 'Kommunikation der Liebe', organised by Tokyo Wonder Site and the Tokyo Arts Council in the old Bethanien, building in Berlin, Germany. The participants in each of the exhibitions in the series will collaborate with a partner to produce a project about communication and love. According to Øvrelid and Nygård, their project will deal with 'the necessity of trust before an open communication potentially containing love can arise' by creating works that function 'as arguments in a conversation'. The exhibition is curated by Aisuke Kondo and Nobuhiko Murayama, Tokyo Wonder Site, Art Berlin, Germany, and can be seen in the period 2 to 22 April 2011. Other artists include Izumi Taro, Toshihiko Mitsuya, Nobukazu Takemura and Murai Keitetsu.

Robert Leonard, director, Institute of Modern Art (IMA) in Brisbane, Australia, has invited Greg Pope to stage a performance and video screening on 14 April 2011. According to the artist, the performance Cipher Screen, which is created in collaboration with sound artist Mike Cooper, 'harnesses the mechanisms of film and cinema; the projector, the film material, the darkened room and synchronised sound – creating a live score and a visual and sonic interaction'. Pope will also organise a retrospective screening of his single-channel moving image works, including Whirlwind (1998), Incidence Room (2003) and Correspondences (2011), among others.

Samba Fall is exhibiting within ARS 11 at the Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA in Helsinki, Finland, from 15 April to 27 November 2011. According to the curators Pirkko Siitari, director, KIASMA, Arja Miller, chief curator, KIASMA and Jari-Pekka Vanhala, curator, ARS 11 attempts to 'shatter the narrow perception of African contemporary visual art as mere modern reiterations of ancient traditions'. Other artists participating in the exhibition include Georges Adeagbo, Sammy Baloji and Ursula Biemann, among others.

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. Curated by 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.

Åsa Sonjasdotter is participating in 'Other Possible Worlds' at the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany. According to the curators, the exhibition 'aims at opening a space for multiple projects suggesting and testing other realities of life from small-scale artistic tryouts to larger social experiments'. Sonjasdotter will present the project 'A Potato Perspective on the Relation Between Matter and Content; Part I; The Research', which she says 'looks into power and knowledge structures in relation to breeding' by focusing 'on the potato plant, since it has played a major role for the demographic and economic development in Europe since The Enlightenment'. 'Other Possible Worlds' is curated by Franziska Lesak, Berit Fischer, Moira Zoitl and Dorothee Albrecht, and is on view from 30 April to 13 June 2011.

Lotte Konow Lund has been invited to participate within the project 'Azerbaijan Art Stations' in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 2 to14 May 2011. 'Azerbaijan Art Stations' was initiated by Jahangir Selimkhanov, Arts & Culture Program Director of theOpen Society Institute –AF, Azerbaijan, to create artworks dealing with communities in chosen locations across suburbs and villages around the city of Baku, Azerbaijan. Four cultural centres around Baku have invited international cultural producers to contribute to 'Azerbaijan Art Stations'. Lotte Konow Lund has been invited by Catrin Lundquist, Curator, Art & Learning Department, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, to create a site-specific work for the Qala Cultural Centre. The project, titled 'The natural meeting point: Quala', will consist of two parts, an 'English Course', on a short term, as a way to understand Qala's people dream of becoming English interpretors, and 'Stage Carpet', on a long term, an item sewn with the women of the village'. Other participating artists in the project include Eva Koch, Anna Lindal and Johanna Hyrkas. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Curator Geir Haraldseth will take part in a three-day international symposium from 4 May to 6 May 2011 at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami, FL, USA. The symposium will examine, according to MOCA associate curator Ruba Katrib, 'the boom of independent artistic activity in Latin America' by focusing 'on artist-run organisations from throughout the region that have emerged from the need for independent education for working artists'.

Martin Schibli, director of exhibitions, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden, has invited Kjersti Andvig, Ivan Galuzin,Jumana Manna and Kristian Skylstad to participate in the group exhibition 'The Return of the Losers'. According to the curator many of the artists in the exhibition can be 'seen as provocative', but 'they have not taken the role of the victim; on the contrary, they are embracing the new world and its possibilities, and at the same time take a critical stand towards the old ideologies'. Other participating artists include Dahn Vo, Sören Thilo Funder, Klas Eriksson, Theis Wendt, Elin Magnusson and Tamar Guimaraes, among others. 'The Return of the Losers' is on view from 7 May to 28 August 2011.

Victor Mutelekesha and Samuel Ghitui are organising the project 'A Thin Line Between Art and Activism' at the Kuona Trust art space, Nairobi, Kenya, together with Danda Jaroljmek, director of the same institution. According to the artists, in this two-week festival, lasting from 8 to 23 May 2011, 'unhindered expression' will articulate 'more progressive, positive and fair approaches to social, political and economical issues that affect the voiceless and marginalised groups in society who are ironically the majority in numbers alone'. In addition to using the art space as a base of operations, the artists will produce public interventions in the streets and parks of Nairobi as a means to 'retrace the hotspots of violence' during the contested elections of 2008. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Gardar Eide Einarsson, Tor Børresen, Snorre Ytterstad and Monica Wintherare exhibiting within 'Nordic Darkness' at Kristinehamns Konstmuseum, Kristinehamn, Sweden in the period 14 May to 28 August 2011. According to the curators Staffan Boije af Gennäs and Johan Zetterquist, the exhibition looks at the development of 'music genres such as Drone and Black Metal' over the last decade as 'significant cultural exports from Norway and Sweden' as a means to investigate the 'common denominators' between the art and music scenes. Other participating artists include Daniel Andersson, Roger Andersson,Veronica Brovall, Stiina Saaristo and Banks Violette, among others.

Toril Johannessen is participating in the exhibition 'The End of Money' at Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. According to curator Juan Gaitán, the exhibition is a 'reflection on the different fears, hopes and expectations associated with the end of money as the primary standard of value', which also investigates 'the limits that the contemporary economic structure imposes on the imagination, and on the imagination as the cause of the present conception of the economy'. Other participating artists include Pierre Bismuth, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Vishal Jugdeo Agnieszka Kurant and Lawrence Weiner, among others. 'The End of Money' is on view from 22 May to 7 August 2011.

The artist duo Book & Hedén (Carina Hedén and Ingrid Book) will participate in the group exhibition 'Extreme Crafts' (working title) at the Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany, from May to June 2011. According to curator Ulrike Solbrig , the exhibition investigates 'current approaches in art that deal with the ethical and aesthetic dimension of craft and its potency as an idea in art'. Book & Hedén plan to develop a photo-based project around the new E6 highway between Oslo and Gothenburg, which will explore what they term 'mobile vision' or a new experience of landscape from a mobile viewpoint.

Tori Wrånes and Jana Winderen have been invited by curators Sanne Kofod Olsen, director, and Mette Truberg Jensen, curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark to participate within the ACTS – Festival for Performative Arts on 28 and 29 May 2011. The two-day festival with an international programme that takes place in and around the museum as well as the city centre of Roskilde. Wrånes and Winderen will each develop new performances specifically for

Artists Jørund Aase Falkenberg, Maja Nilsen, Tommy Johansson and Randi Nygård have been invited to participate within the group exhibition 'Project 0' at Norræna Husid, Reykjavik, Iceland, curated by Þuríður Helga Kristjánsdóttir, project manager, Norræna Husid. In 'Project 0', works in a variety of media explore themes such as 'degradation and development, tradition and change, and the possibility for alternative structuring of society and new perspectives inside the mental and material framework that defines a culture'. The exhibition will be on view from 4 June to 26 June 2011.

Be Andr will exhibit within the group exhibition 'Nominator & Denominator' at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel. According to curator Tal Bechler, the exhibition investigates the notion of a simple numerical fraction 'as an act of division' capable of describing 'concepts of hierarchy, power and repression'. Andr will produce a site-specific text-based installation for the exhibition. 'Nominator & Denominator' is curated by Dalia Levin, director, and Tal Bechler, Tsibi Geva, Zali Gurevich, curatorial team, Herliya Museum of Contemporary Art, and can be seen in the period
18 June to September 2011.

Morten Norbye Halvorsen is exhibiting within 'MORE OR LESS, A FEW POCKET UNIVERSES' at Gallery Augusta (in conjunction with the Helsinki International Artist-in-Residence Programme (HIAP)) on the island of Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland from 16 June to 30 August 2011. According to curator Valentinas Klimasauskas, the exhibition is 'researching the possibility of the functioning of artworks and exhibitions as universes within another universe' by focusing 'on collaborations and networking by artists from across the Nordic and Baltic region'. Halvorsen plans to present a new series of photographs of the moon as well as a yet-to-be-determined installation.

Ignas Krunglevicius and Snorre Hvamen are participating in 'MORE OR LESS, A FEW POCKET UNIVERSES' at Gallery Augusta (in conjunction with the Helsinki International Artist-in-Residence Programme (HIAP)) on the island of Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland from 16 June to 30 August 2011. Within the exhibition Krunglevicius and Hvamen will produce a public work that will function as 'an audio guide based upon a text by the artist Douglas Gordon', which 'is heavily contextualised and inspired by literature, immateriality and the use of language in contemporary art'.

Marte Aas is exhibiting within 'North by New York: New Nordic Art' at the Scandinavia House, New York, NY, USA, from 16 June to 30 August 2011. According to curators Robert Storr and Francesca Pietropaolo, the exhibition 'draws on many of these themes and elements of expression, introducing a primarily American audience to groundbreaking art from each of the five Nordic countries'. Aas will present Torshovtoppen (2008), a multimedia installation that she says 'raises questions about urban spheres that are made accessible to local residents'. Other participating artists include Per Kirkeby, Marja Mikkonen and Saana Wang, among others.

Nils Bech and Ane Lan have been invited to participate in the group exhibition 'View on Art Now' at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, in the period 2 July to 7 August 2011. Initiated and curated by the artistsLilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Dahn Vo and Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, the intention of the exhibition is to 'create the frame for a returning summer exhibition, giving both a Danish and international audience the possibility to gain insight to selected current tendencies on the Scandinavian art scene'. Other participating artists include Maiken Bent, Thi Trinh Nguyen, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Olof Olsson, among others.

Marieke Verbiesen will participate in the exhibition 'Bounce, Twist' at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR, USA in the period7 August to 31 August 2011. According to curators Rose Bond, chair of contemporary animated arts at PICA, Norman Klein, professor of critical studies at the California Institute of the Arts, and Mack McFarland, curator, PICA, 'Bounce, Twist' 'embraces the hybrid-moving image by combining critical thought, fine art practice and digital technologies'. Verbiesen plans to develop a site-specific installation of several time-lapsed animations visible from both inside and outside of the gallery space. Other participating artists include Greg Barsamian, Cassandra C. Jones and Duncan Malashock.

Kurt Johannessen will participate within the LIVE Performance Art Biennale, Vancouver, Canada, in the period 15 September to 25 September 2011. The artist has also been invited to develop a performance at the Open Space Gallery at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, also located in Vancouver. The festival occurs at galleries, museums and other institutions across the city with local, national and international artists invited to perform in an open format that the curators Randy Gledhill, executive director and Jon Tupper, curator, LIVE Performance Biennial, describe as 'precisely undefined'.

In the period 23 September to 13 November 2011 The Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, will present 'Magical Consciousness'. Within the exhibition, which is curated by Arnolfini exhibitions curator Nav Haq and independent artist-curator Runa Islam, Matias Faldbakken will present his work Untitled (Outline) (2009), which is described as 'an unknown word sprayed onto the wall, layered over and over again, until the paint runs out from the can, and the word is obliterated because of the amount of paint'. According to Runa Islam, the exhibition revolves around her own 'research interests into the act of looking and reflexive forms of lens-based representation' as a means to approach other artists' work 'for the potential that comes out of denying or obscuring images'. Other participating artists include Rosângela Rennó, Ellen Harvey and Helena Almeida, among others.

The Creative Association of Curators TOK, St. Petersburg, Russia, have invited artists Lene Berg, Leander Djønne, Bodil Furu, Ivan Galuzin,Goksøyr & Martens (Toril Goksøyr and Camilla Martens) and Siri Hermansento take part in an exhibition focusing on Norwegian artists as part of the ongoing series 'Nordic Art Today'. According to the curator Kari Brandtzaeg, the exhibition develops a 'frame for exploring the close connections between Norway and Russia – cultural, historical and political'. Looking into the history of cultural exchange between the states, Brandtzaeg seeks 'new potential for connections between aesthetics and politics' in the work of contemporary Norwegian artists. The exhibition will be on view from 4 November to 3 December 2011.

Jan Christensen will participate in the group exhibition 'You Are Free' at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria, from 6 October to 5 November 2011. According to curators Daniel Kingery and Julie McKim, the exhibition revolves around 'the intangible notion of freedom', which is 'most often made manifest through the visceral experience of music'. Christensen's project for the exhibition, N0th1n6 1s f0r Fr€€, M0ther Fuck€r$ (2011), invites the audience to 'engage in an improvised jam session' within an installation consisting of 'synthesizers, samplers, distorters and equipment that modulates and manipulates audio'. Other participating artists include Alejandro Almanza, Marc Bijl, Piot Brehmer, Erik Bünger and Kate Gilmore, among others.

Inger Johanne Rasmussen is to participate within 'Retold Stories', a collaborative project at Spiral Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, inNovember 2011. Organised by Hiroko Wakai, independent curator and journalist based in Tokyo, the project deals with various aspects of migration, comprising an exhibition of Rasmussen's textile works with accompanying texts written by Terje Nordby and photographic documentation by Kiyoshi Sakasai.

Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit research and production proposals to become a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands. 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. Application deadline: 15 April 2011. Visit the JVE website for more information.

SOMA Summer is a six-week summer program for international artists, curators, critics, and art historians in Mexico City. SOMA Summer offers a series of short seminars and workshops led by a selection of renowned Mexican and international artists and curators. A number of guided visits to museums and artists studios are scheduled. Participants also have the possibility of meeting weekly with a variety of artists and curators for individual critiques and conversations. This six-week intensive program culminates with an open studio/lecture event, where participants will show the development of their work. Application deadline: 13 May 2011. Visit the SOMA Summer website for a complete list of activities, workshops and seminars description.

In support of young scholars conducting innovative research in contemporary art, Art&Education is announcing a Call for Papers for its inaugural Papers Prize, which includes a research sum of 2000 USD and the opportunity to present a paper at a conference, organized by Artforum & e-flux co-sponsored by Society of Contemporary Art Historians, on the subject of the deregulation in art practice and history. Applicants should submit pieces from 2,000 to 6,000 words with a 100 word abstract and full contact information by midnight of 30 May 2011. More

0047 have invited Turkish artist Can Altay to participate in one of five thirty-six hour residencies as part of the project 'Space Station' implemented in the period 25 March to5 June 2011. Conceived in collaboration with nOffice (based in Berlin, Germany and London, UK), 'Space Station' invites artists to work within a specifically designed 'Space Enabler' that incorporates different functional elements and reconfigures 0047's gallery space. Istanbul-based artist Can Altay is interested in unorthodox appropriations of the built environment. The curators of 'Space Station' are Markus Miessen, Ralf Pflugfelder and Magnus Nilsson for nOffice and Suzana Martins for 0047. 
The project is supported by 03–funding*.

*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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