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 organizations. Priority is given to exhibitions taking place in key international art institutions and project spaces. Support is also extended to solo and group exhibitions organized by international curators, as well as to Norwegian art professionals organising exhibitions and projects abroad.

OCA has implemented an online application system for applications for the International Support Programme. This system should be used for the 2010 Second Quarter Application Review, with a deadline of 15 May.For more information on Application Process, please click here.

Recipients from the 2010 Second Quarter Application Review for International Support grants are listed here.

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

For any questions regarding the application, please contact Anne Charlotte Hauen at anne.charlotte.hauen@oca.no. For international institutional applications and biennials, please address your questions to Alexandra Cruz, at alexandra.cruz@oca.no.

On view until 26 June
Opening Hours: Wed, Fri and Sat / 12-16:00
Thu / 12-18:00

The Office for Contemporary Art Norway is pleased to present 'Postulates of Contiguity,' the first solo exhibition in Europe by the Bangalore-based artist Sheela Gowda, taking place at OCA's public space at Nedre gate 7 until 26 June 2010. The project takes the form of a dialogue between two works – And… (2007), a languorous serpentine rope produced from individual threads and needles that coils throughout the exhibition space and Best Cutting(2008), a display that combines a constructed newspaper, The Chronic Chronicle, overlaid by tailoring patterns. Both works use lines to formulate a postulate on space that undermines continuity and coherence.

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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 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.

Deadline: 15 May

OCA offers four residencies for curators, critics and artists in Berlin in autumm 2010 and spring 2011. From September 2010 until end of April 2011 for two months each. The residency provides a fully furnished apartment located at Kunst-Werke, Institute for Contemporary Art. In addition, OCA also provides a travel grant of NOK 4 000. 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.

For more information on OCA's Residency Programmes, please click here or contact Alexandra Cruz at alexandra.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.

Peter Friedl
Artist b.1960 in Oberneukirchen, Austria, lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Peter Friedl is a Berlin-based artist. His artistic practice – consistently heterogeneous in terms of medium, style and meaning – emphasises the friction between aesthetic and political awareness in the framework of their respective narratives. His works explore the conditions and genres of representation, employing strategies such as permanent displacement, editing, or over-exposing. Friedl's recent solo exhibitions include Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2010), Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen (2008), 'Working', Kunsthalle Basel (2008), 'OUT OF THE SHADOWS', Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art (2004). In 2006, the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) organized a comprehensive retrospective exhibition 'Peter Friedl: Work 1964-2006,' which was subsequently shown at Miami Art Central/Miami Art Museum (2007) and the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Marseille (2007). Friedl's work has been exhibited worldwide, including at documenta X (1997) and documenta 12, Kassel (2007), the 48th Venice Biennale (1999), the 3rd Berlin Biennale (2004), the 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Seville (2006), Manifesta 7, Trento (2008), the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008), the 28th Bienal de São Paulo (2008), and Tirana International Contemporary Art Biennial, Tirana (2009). Since the 1980s, Friedl has published numerous essays and book projects such as Four or Five Roses (2004) andWorking at Copan (2007). A selection of his 'Writings and Interviews 1981–2009' has been released in 2010.

Goshka Macuga
Artist b. 1967 in Warsaw, Poland, live and works in London, UK

Goshka Macuga attended Wojciech Gerson School of Art in Warsaw, Central Saint Martins School of Art, London and Goldsmiths College, London. She merges the roles of collector, curator and artist, creating carefully staged, mixed-media installations that draw on the conventions of the historical archive and exhibition making. Her installations play with historic objects and documents creating complex networks of reference, they are poignant reminders of the profound relation between aesthetics and politics. Macuga's solo exhibitions include, 'The Nature of The Beast' (2009-10), Whitechapel Gallery, London; 'I Am Become Death' (2009), Kunsthalle Basel; 'Objects in Relation, Art Now' (2007), Tate Britain London; 'Sleep of Ulro' (2006), Liverpool. Group exhibitions include the 53rd Venice Biennale, 'Fare Mondi/Making Words…', Venice; 'The Great Transformation: Art and Tactical Magic', Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin; 'Martian Museum of Terrestial Art', Barbican Art Gallery, London; 'The British Art Show', Baltic. She has also participated in the the 27th São Paulo Biennial (2006) and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2008.

Mette Tronvoll and Gardar Eide Einarsson
to exhibit within
'The Beauty of Distance – Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age'
17th Biennale of Sydney
Curator: David Elliott, Artistic Director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
12 May–1 August 2010

David Elliott, artistic director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney, has invited Gardar Eide Einarssonand Mette Tronvoll to exhibit within 'The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age', taking place in Sydney, Australia, from 12 May to 1 August. In 2010 the biennial will explore the connections between the visual arts and other art forms. It aims to bring together work from diverse cultures on the equal playing field of contemporary art, where no culture can assume superiority over any other. Within 'The Beauty of Distance', Gardar Eide Einarsson will exhibit Black Flag With Hole – a group of five black flags, all with their middle cutout, hanging from the old, industrial cranes no longer in use on Cuckattoo Island. The work is inspired by the Romanian revolutionary flag of 1989. Mette Tronvoll will show a selection of works from her series Mongolia(2004) and Rena006 (2006). Mongolia is a series of portraits depicting the Mongolian nomads and their houses, the ger or jurte. Rena006 is a series of portraits taken at the military camp Rena Leir in Østerdalen, Norway.

Lars Laumann to exhibit within
'International 10: Touched'
6th Liverpool Biennial
Curator: Lewis Biggs, Director, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Liverpool, UK
18 September–28 November 2010

Lewis Biggs, director of the Liverpool Biennial in Liverpool, UK has invited Lars Laumann to exhibit within 'International 10: Touched', as part of the 2010 Liverpool Biennial. According to the curator, the 'exhibition presents a series of artworks that affect the viewer through addressing a total context. The artworks will be made with sensitivity to the specifics of the place, time and audience of the exhibition, while originating in the artists' preoccupations with the state of the world and with their own personal obsessions.' For the biennial, Laumann was commissioned to produce a new video-work relating to literary censorship and focusing on the short stories by American writer JD Salinger. The biennial will take place throughout the city of Liverpool from 18 September to 28 November 2010.

Bjørn-Kowalski Hansen to exhibit within
'Meta-Realities'
The Nordic Representation in the
2010 Dak'Art Biennial
Dakar, Senegal
7 May–7 June 2010

Marita Muukkonen and Power Ekroth, curators of the nordic representation within the 2010 Dak'Art Biennial in Dakar, Senegal, have invited Bjørn-Kowalski Hansen to exhibited within the pavillion. Entitled 'Meta-Realities', the exhibition poses a question '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?'. The curators invited 12 artists from the Nordic countries to participate in the exhibition that takes place form 7 May to 7 June, among them Nathalie Djurberg, Parfyme and Jesper Just. The exhibition is supported by 03–funding*

Åsa Sonjasdotter to exhibit within
'Handlung. On Producing Possibilities'
Bucharest Biennale 4
Curatoer: Felix Vogel
Bucharest, Romania
20 May–25 July 2010

Åsa Sonjasdotter has been invited by curator Felix Vogel to exhibit within Bucharest Biennale 4, titled 'Handlung' and taking place from 20 May to 25 July 2010. The 2010 edition of the biennial explores the German word 'Handlung', which according to the curator is 'located between action, activity, agency and participation, but at the same time it could also mean story or even narration'. Within the biennial, Åsa Sonjasdotter will exhibit the long-term project Potato Perspective, in which the artist uses the potato to investigates issues of migration, colonialism, economy, diversity and knowledge. The exhibition is supported by 03–funding*

From 10 April to 22 May, Matias Faldbakken holds a solo exhibition at Objectif Exhibitions in Antwerp, Belgium. According to the press release, the exhibition, titled 'You think you go but you gon't' presents works Faldbakken that mixes a conceptual strategy with trivial gestures, vandalism and appropriation, poetry and pop-culture, often circling around the idea of artistic production as the practice of doing nothing and of negation. He often employs invisible negatives through which to reconsider more ordinary, familiarly assumed constructions of any given situation.

From 11 June to 4 July 2010 the Nomas Foundation in Rome, Italy will host a solo presentation of Bjørn Hegardt//FUKT Magazine. Developed in collaboration with Italian artistMarco Rapparelli and curated by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni, Programme Coordinators, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy, the exhibition will revolve around FUKTmagazine. It will present an installation, selected original works from artists featured in the publication, as well as screening of animations. Hegardt will also present all the previous issues of FUKT with a focus on the latest one, which will be printed in June 2010.

On 11 April Bonner Kunstverein in Bonn, Germany opened a solo show by Marte Eknæs. Curated by Anna Dietz, Curator, Bonner Kunstverein and titled 'Insert', the exhibition will display new sculptures and wall works that examine different architectural structures from Bonn and derive from the notion of consciousness industry as described by Alexander Kluge and Oscar Negt – or the idea that the public sphere excludes substantial life-interests while claiming to represent society as a whole. 'Insert' stays on view until 13 June.

From 14 to 16 May, Torpedo Press participates in 'No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents'taking place in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London, UK. Curators Cecilia Alemani, Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gioni have invited more than seventy independent art spaces, non-profit organisations and artists' collectives to present art events, performances, music and film, to be displayed in an unconventional, do-it-yourself style. Torpedo will showcase its publishing activities and 'work in progress' by exhibiting works related to three forthcoming titles in the series of artist's books published by Torpedo Press. The artists Marius Engh, Liv Bugge and Lina Viste Grønli will each present an artwork which is key to their respective book-projects. Among the other independent arts organisations taking part in 'No Soul For Sale' are: Alternative Space LOOP, Artspeak, Artists Space, Capacete Entertainment, Dispatch, L'appartement 22, Light Industry, New Jerseyy and Para/Site Art Space.

At invitation of Jacob Fabricius, Director, Malmö Konsthall in Malmö, Sweden, Vibeke Slyngstadexhibits within 'Murder at the Savoy,' organized by the Konsthall and taking place in public spaces throughout Malmö. The exhibition brings to perspective the city's social and political history and it is based on Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's crime novel Murder at the Savoy (1970). Within the show, Slyngstad exhits two new large-scale paintings relating to Savoy Hotel and Lindham rifle range – two of the novel's locations. 'Murder at the Savoy' stays on view from 9 to 18 July and also presents works by Matthew Buckingham, Leif Eriksson, Ylva Friberg, Annika von Hauswollf,Saskia Holmqvist, Martin Karlsson, Jakob Kolding, Elisabeth Apelmo/Marit Lindberg, Ann Lislegaard, Elin Lundgren and Gerhard Nordström.

Ida Ekblad and Ann Lislegaard have been invited by curators Laurie De Chiara and Tine Bundgaard Quedenbaum, Director, Sølyst Artist Residence Center, Jyderup, Denmark to exhibit within 'Pastiche… When a tree falls in the forest', the 2010 edition of Pastiche – an annual outdoor exhibition at Sølyst Castle in Jyderup, Denmark. Taking place from 9 to 18 July, the exhibition presents commissioned site-specific works and explores ideas around perception and pre-conceived modes of experience art. Lislegaard and Ekblad will exhibited site-specific outdoor artworks produced during a short residency at Sølyst Castle in April 2010. Other exhibiting artists within 'Pastiche… When a tree falls in the forest' are A Kassen, Benandsebastian, Ultragrøn, Mads Lynnerup, Lone Haugaard Madsen, Elena Bajo, Olaf Breunning, Ellen Harvey, Franz Höfner, Harry Sachs, Stefan Saffer and Wolfgang Karl May.

Baktruppen (Øyvind Berg, Jørgen Knudsen, Worm Winther and Ingvild Holm) andD.O.R (Sverre Gullesen, Steinar Haga Kristensen and Kristian Ø) to partke in 'Let Us Compare Mythologies', taking place at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, the Netherlands from 11 to 13 June. Curated by Renske Janssen, curator at Witte de With, 'Let Us Compare Mythologies' is a three-day cycle of performances for which artists will develop new productions. The programme is part of 'Morality', the leitmotiv of Witte de With's 2009/2010 programme and questions man's relationship to objects and the meaning and the location of the (art)object. Among other artists that participated in 'Morality' are AES+F, Isa Genzken, Goshka Macuga and Luc Tuymans.

As part of his year-long residency at ISCP in Brooklyn, NY, Lars Laumann exhibits within 'Open Studios' at ISCP. As a special 15th anniversary, the ten-day exhibition presents works by the forty artists currently in residence at ISCP. In conjunction with Open Studios, ISCP presents 'Studio B-LAST', a project curated by Sandra Skurvida, comprised of an exhibition by Clifford Owens, an opening-night performance by CHOKRA, and a roundtable discussion. The exhibition stays on view from 7 to 16 May at ISCP and will show case works by Daniel Barrow, Rodrigo Imaz and Claudia Ulisses, among many others.

From 27 June to 7 November, Åsa Sonjasdotter exhibitis within 'EATLACMA' at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art(LACMA) in Los Angeles, CA, USA. The projects exhibited within 'EATLACMA' consider food as a common ground that explores the social role of art and ritual in community and human relationships and consist of artist's gardens planted and harvested on the museum campus, public events and an exhibition. Within 'EATLACMA', Sonjasdotter exhibits Potatofield, a Solution. Inspired by Agnes Denes' Wheatfield, the project presents an average looking potato field developed in collaboration with the farmers' collective The Communities of The Potato Park in Cuzco, Peru. 'EATLACMA' is curated by Fallen Fruit, artist collective, Los Angeles and Michele Urton, Curator LACMA and will also present works by Lauren Bon, Materials and Applications, Fallen Fruit and The National Bitter Melon Council.

From 18 June to 17 July 2010 Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas will partake in 'Always Moving (A performance laboratory in several parts)' at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces in Melbourne, Australia. Within the project – a presentation of international perfiormance artists – the artist duo will present various works, among them I Am a Communist,45 Revolutions Per Minute, The Invisible Dog and the Invisible Cat (After Alfred Hitchcock) and I Am Traveling Through Time. I Am Traveling Through Time. Other participating artists are Otherfilm, Rosalind Hall, Scott Foust and Dale Gorfinkel.

Lars Morell and Gardar Eide Einarsson are exhibiting within 'Fiction', taking place at the Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard in Paris, France until 5 June. The exhibition – curated by Agnes Violeau and Christian Alandete, directors/editors of J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites... – investigates the border between image and text exploring possible ways of interpreting the visual in text-based works. Within 'Fiction' Morell exhibits Food for Thought, a sill-life work presented on plinths and composed of various media such as photographs, drawings and text, produced for the exhibition. Among other exhibiting artists are Jean-Baptiste Bernardet and Jorge Pedro Nunez.

Dr Tomasz Wendland, Director of the Mediations Biennale in Poznan, Poland has invited Lars Laumann and Magnus Bjerk to exhibit within 'Mediators', taking place at the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland from May to September 2010. The exhibition will be presented in specially constructed containers placed in front of the National Museum and, according to its curator, aims to be a mediation between the real life outside and the 'internal life' of the museum. Within the exhibition, Laumann will present the video-work Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana, a video montage that suggests that Morrissey, the former lead singer of The Smiths, somehow anticipated the death of Princess Diana. Magnus Bjerk will present The Inside of the Outside of the Inside, a series of photographs portraying trailers, which have abandoned their role as mere transport vehicles to act as border between the inside/outside and the tangible/non-tangible.

Øyvind Renberg and Miho Shimizu are exhibiting withing 'Bodies of Dispersion: Mechanisms of Distention' at Galeria Arsenal in Bialystok, Poland. The exhibition, curated by Denise Carvalho, examines the relationship between the singular body and its mechanisms of multiplicity in everyday life. Within 'Bodies of Dispersion' Renberg and Shimizu exhibit the series Art of Cheese and Rio Porcelain, projects that look into the translation of social codes and culture, between communities'. 'Bodies of Dispersion' that takes place from 21 May to 20 June and will also present works by Alex Villar, Spurse and Xurban Collective.

Kurt Johannessen has been invited by curator Victor Petrov to participate in the 2010 edition of the International Festival of Performance Art Navinki, taking place between26 and 31 August 2010 in Minsk, Belarus. The festival plays an important role in contemporary cultural life in Belarus as well as it represents an opportunity for international networking of performance artists. Within the festival Johannessen will present new performative-work. Among other exhibiting artists are Anna Syczewska,Elisa Andessner and Katnira Bello. The exhibition is supported by 03–funding*

At invitation of curator Àki Àsgeirsson, Haraldur Karlsson participates in the 2010 edition of RAFLOST festival in Reykjavik, Iceland. Organized by the Iceland Electronic Art Association, the annual festival is dedicated to artists who are using electricity or electronic equipment at any stage in their work process. Within RAFLOST Karlsson will present a lecture and a performance on the concept of 'creating the now, or does it add something?.' The festival takes place between 14 and 22 May and will also present works by Pall Thayer, Rasa Smite and Linda Vebere and RIXC, among others.

Pernille Leggat Ramfelt has been invited by Zhao Yonggang, director of 1918 Art Space in Shanghai, People's Republic of China to exhibit within 'Henji', taking place in June 2010 at 1918 Art Space. The exhibition, developed in collaboration with Hangzhou International Art Studio, will present new works by thirty artists recently graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, among them Alexander Bates, Alexandra Hughes and Andrew Ranville. The works will be developed during a short residency in Shanghai. Within the exhibition Ramfelt will present Live Cinema (working title), a new work that expands on ideas of cinematic by looking into Long Jing, Dragon Well – one of China's most renowned tea-farms – and how its own cultural specificities can influence cinema. The exhibition is supported by 03–funding*

Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral calls for applications for the Balmoral Scholarships and the Foreign and Exchange Scholarships for 2011. Six residence scholarships will be awarded to international visual artists, each scholarship lasts 6 months starting April 2011. The resipients are endowed with 1 200 euros per month and include free accommodation at the Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral. International artists of any age from the disciplines painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, printmaking, design, photography, video, new media and landscape art are eligible to apply. The International Curator Scholarship at the Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral aims to foster dialog between research and art, it awards a residence scholarship to a young scholar for a curatorial project to be developed by the scholarship holder and the Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral. The resipients are endowed 1,200 € per month and includes free accommodation lasting six 6 months begining in April 2011. For more information please contact info@balmoral.de.

*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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