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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.

Norway's official representation at the 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, consists 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.

The programme for 'The State of Things' opening days is as following:

Wednesday, 1 June / 17:00
Jacques Rancière – In What Time Do We Live?
Thursday, 2 June / 11:00
Leo Bersani – Illegitimacy
Friday, 3 June / 10:00
Vandana Shiva – The War Against the Earth
Friday, 3 June / 11:00
Jan Egeland – Ten Lessons from Ten Peace Processes
Saturday, 4 June / 11:00
Fawaz A. Gerges – A Perfect Storm: An Arab Revolution in the Making?

The 'State of Things' is running until 17 November. Click here to see further details including the rest of the programme.

'Beyond Death: Viral Discontents and Contemporary Notions about AIDS' is closing with the exhibition 'Baton Sinister', an exhibition organised by Melgaard in collaboration with the students that attended his lectures in Venice. 'Baton Sinister' is open from 2 to 5 June, from 10am to 6pm. From 6 to 31 June visits are possible by appointment. To enquire about appointments, please call +39 342 13 48 017. More

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

Exhibition dates: 9 March–25 June 2011 
Public Hours: Wed, Fri and Sat 12–16:00, 
Thu 12–18:00

’Forms of Modern Life: From the Archives of Guttorm Guttormsgaard' 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 a universal, egalitarian form of expression in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The project explores how artists such as Thomas Bewick, Frans Masereel, Albert Jærn, Hannah Ryggen, Peder Balke and Lars Hertervig employed specific graphic forms to address the cultural and political conditions of their time.

The Office for Contemporary Art Norway runs an International Visitor Programme to support international curators and cultural producers in their research in Norway for upcoming exhibitions and projects.

26-30 May:

Aram Moshayedi
Curator, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, USA
PhD, department of art history, University of Southern California, CA, USA

Since joining REDCAT in October 2010, Aram Moshayedi has organized the west coast premier of A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner’s Community Action Center and curated the first major installation in the United States by Vancouver-based artist Geoffrey Farmer. Between 2005 and 2010, Moshayedi was a curator at LAXART, where he produced exhibitions and public projects with such artists as William Leavitt, Uri Nir, Vishal Jugdeo, Susan Silton, and caraballo-farman. More

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

Ida Ekblad exhibits within 'Expanded Painting'
Directors: Giancarlo Politi and Helena Kontova
Prague Biennale 5
Prague, Czech Republic 
19 May–11 September 2011

Ida Ekblad is part of 'Expanded Painting', a macro section of the Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic, running 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. The three macro sections are 'Expanded Painting', 'Art In General' and 'Focus Italy'. With a structure reminiscent of a Chinese Box, each macro section is divided into smaller sections, each of them organised by an international curator appointed by Politi and Kontova.

Curators Hyejin Jang and Claudia Pestana have invited Jan Christensen together with Anders Fjøsne to present 'The Seoul Sessions 2011' at the Artsonje Lounge Project, Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea, from 6 May to 31 August 2011. 'The Seoul Sessions 2011' consists of a workshop and Christensen's participatory audio installation 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'.

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, the participating artists are members of the 'lost generation', but they have in common that they don’t see themselves as victims. On the contrary, they create instead their own conditions for survival in a global world. 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 4 September 2011.

For the year 2012 the Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Foundation for Culture Rhineland-Palatinate, awards six 6-month residential scholarships to international visual artists and one 6-month project scholarship to allow one selected national visual artist to realise a project elsewhere. The application period runs until 4 July 2011. Information about all scholarships can be found on the Balmoral homepage.

Nominations of artists are now invited for Artes Mundi 5, the international exhibition and prize held in 2012 at the National Museum of Art in Cardiff. One artist will receive the 40,000 GBP prize and the other five shortlisted artists will receive a new award of 4,000 GBP each. In addition to being one of the largest prizes in the visual arts, Artes Mundi has established a new long-term partnership with Mostyn in North Wales to develop a solo exhibition with one of the shortlisted artists in the year after the prize. Nominations close on 26 June 2011.

Akiyoshidai International Art Village has supported cultural and philosophical exchange among international artists through the artists in residence program since its inauguration in 1998. The aim of the Residence Support Program is to support young artists' experimental artistic activities, crossing the borders of art disciplines and nationalities. The artists will be selected by the Selection Committee of the Residence Program of Akiyoshidai International Art Village. Application deadline: 1 August 2011. For more information and to download application forms, click here.

Banff Artist in Residence offers a variety of study programmes where artists, curators, and other arts professionals are free to experiment and explore. Participants are provided with an individual studio accessible 24 hours a day, as well as use of Visual Arts facilities including printmaking, papermaking, ceramics, sculpture, and photography. Visit the Banff Centre website for details and deadlines.

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