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 application system for applications for the International Support Programme. This system should be used for the 2010 First Quarter Application Review, with a deadline of 15 February 2010. 

Click here for more 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, please address your questions to Alexandra Cruz, at alexandra.cruz@oca.no.

The Office for Contemporary Art Norway presents 'The Grammar of Forms', a series public events, workshops and presentations that will take place throughout autumn 2009 at OCA's premises at Nedre gate 7, with the aim to look at language, writing, criticism and publishing in relation to contemporary art, exploring its diverse modes of operation and possibilities within historical and contemporary practices. In these public events writers, artists, critics, publishers and theorists will investigate different experiences of and approaches to writing and language specifically in relation to art. These events will have a pedagogical remit, and be accompanied by a series of projects including presentation of artworks such as the original manuscripts of Sol LeWitt's 'Sentences on Conceptual Art' and libraries of publications, made available to the public for consultation and reading.

For full programme, please click here.

Wednesday, 2 and 9 December/ 11:00–16:00 
Organiser: Stuart Bailey 
Workshop: 'On Library, Archive and 'Service' (Part 1 and Part 2)' 
How do we guarantee preservation and access to published material? How do we construct libraries? What are the different modes of experience that a library can offer? Stuart Bailey, member of collaborative group and event space Dexter Sinister, will lead two public workshops on the nature of the library and its function as an archive, a social space and a pedagogical tool, taking at a starting point 'The Serving Library', a project currently being developed by Dexter Sinister. The idea of 'The Serving Library', a place where both books and alcohol are available, functions as a roundabout way to reflect on the way in which printed and unprinted material can be articulated and preserved within a public place that is both educational and recreational. Participation is open to the public with prior registration. For more information please click here.

As a part of the project 'Columns, Grottos, Niches: The Grammar of Forms – On Art Criticism, Writing, Publishing and Distribution', Bailey's workshops will be held within a prototype version Dexter Sinister's proposed 'Serving Library'. This will contain a selection of books produced by Dexter Sinister, including their house journal Dot Dot Dot; the modest beginning of a reference library based on the books most commonly referred to in Dot Dot Dot; high-end schnapps from Christoph Keller's German distillery Ståhlemühle; and a large wall hang of source material that has appeared at some point in Dot Dot Dot since its conception in 2000.

For full programme, please click here.

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; and at 18 Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

OCA accepts applications for these programmes. Click here for more information.

Upcoming Resident 2009/2010

Ane Mette Hol
Artist, b.1979 in Bodø, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway

Ane Mette Hol's 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 mark 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 Art, 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 partook at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium in the exhibition 'Nachspiel/Vorspiel'.

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.

Stuart Bailey
Graphic designer and Editor
b. 1973 in York, UK, lives and works in New York, NY

Stuart Bailey is a graphic designer and co-editor of Dot Dot Dot, a fanzine/journal concerned with art, design, music, language, literature and architecture, with David Reinfurt (earlier with Peter Bilak). His work circumscribes various aspects of graphic design, writing and editing, most consistently in the form of publications made in close collaboration with artists. Since 2002 he has worked with Will Holder under the compound name Will Stuart on a broader range of projects, including theatre and performance. Since 2006 he has worked together with David Reinfurt as Dexter Sinister, also the name of their basement space on New York City's Lower East Side that operates as a workshop and occasional bookstore.

Bergen Kunsthall, Norway is currently holding a solo exhibition of Rosalind Nashashibi, a resident at OCA's ISP in November and December 2007. Organised by the ICA, London and Bergen Kunsthall, the exhibition is the first major survey exhibition of Nashashibi's work and features her most important films from recent years, photographic prints, and a new commissioned film titled Jack Straw's Castle. The exhibition stays on view until 20 December 2009.

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.

Click here for information on the International Visitor Programme.

Lorenzo Benedetti
b. 1972 in Rome, Italy
Director, Art Center De Vleeshal, Middelburg, the Netherlands

Lorenzo Benedetti studied Art history at the University 'La Sapienza' in Rome and attended the 'Curatorial Training Programme' at De Appel in Amsterdam. Since the late 1990s he has curated several exhibitions with emphasis on architecture and urbanism. In 2005 he founded the Sound Art Museum in Rome, a space dedicated to sound in visual art. Benedetti has been the director of the art centre Volume! in Rome (2002–06) and a curator at the Museum Marta Herford, in Herford, Germany (2006–08). He is guest curator at the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome and La Kunsthalle in Mulhouse, France. His recent projects include 'Eurasia, Geographic Cross-over in Art', Mart, Rovereto, Italy; 'Cabinet of Imagination', Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium; 'Der eigene Weg, Perpektiven Belgischen Kunst', MMK Kuppersmuhle, Duisburg, Germany; 'La Notte and The Garden of the Forking Paths', La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, France.

Juan A. Gaitán
Writer, curator and art historian
Senior Curator, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Juan A. Gaitán curated many exhibitions internationally, especially in Canada, Colombia and The Netherlands. Is currently writing on freedom of expression and post-democratic politics, and has written several texts on the contemporary status of the image, and on photography. His art historical interests include Jerusalem in Late Antiquity and Early Middle-Ages, Latin American art of the 1960s and 1970s, anarchism in late 19th century France and Germany; his dissertation is on the utopian hypothesis in the 1960s. Has published monographic texts on several contemporary artists. He is currently senior curator at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, where he is developing five exhibitions under the general theme of Morality. This project runs from October 2009 until September 2010. He is also developing an exhibition titled 'Diary of a Bad Year', in collaboration with Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, Egypt. This exhibition will be held in September 2010.

From 25 September 2009 to 10 January 2010, Marit Følstad exhibits within 'The 21st Century, The Feminine Century, and the Century of Diversity and Hope', one of three curatorial projects that constitute the 2009 International Incheon Women Artists Biennale, Incheon, Korea. Curated by Heng-Gil Han, Curator, Visual Arts Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, the exhibition aims to provide visitors with an opportunity to discuss various subjects related to questions of society seen from a female perspective. Within 'The 21st Century, The Feminine Century, and the Century of Diversity and Hope', Følstad will exhibit a three-channel video work entitled Its All in My Head.

On 27 November Knut Henrik Henriksen's Full Circle will be unveiled at King's Cross St. Pancras Underground Station, London, UK, under the initiative of Art on the Underground. Henriksen's Full Circle been commissioned for King's Cross St. Pancras Underground Station as an integral part of the station upgrade and represents the first in a series of major new permanent commissions to be commissioned by Art on the Underground alongside its award-winning programme of temporary art projects. Full Circle reflects the distinctive architectural style and language of the renovated station.

Curator Mathilde Villeneuve has invited Øystein Aasan to hold a solo exhibition at La Vitrine in Paris, France from November 2009 to January 2010. Titled 'Devics Canyon', the exhibition will present three distinct works, that have in common a content of masculine/feminine dichotomy, passive/active requirements for the viewer and highlighting of the differences between work/producer/viewer.

From 25 November 2009 to 24 January 2010, Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK, will present a survey of Matias Faldbakken's works from the last five years. Curated by Helen Legg, Ikon curator, the exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue produced in collaboration with The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway which presents documentation of works since 2003 and includes newly commissioned texts from theorist Peter Osborne, criticJennifer Allen and curators Øysten Ustvedt and Dr. Andreas Kroksnes.

From 26 November to 20 December 2009, Economy, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, hold a solo exhibition of Fredrik Værslev and Anne Britt Værlslev title 'Swap Paintings # 4 – Fredrik Værslev vs. Anne Britt Værslev'. Curated by Shane Munro and Dana Munro, Directors, Economy, the exhibition will present works from the series 5 Rooftops 4 Frankfurt, as is part of Swap Paintings, an ongoing project in which Fredrik Værslev swaps paintings with colleagues back and forth between each other. 5 Rooftops 4 Frankfurt has as its point of the departure the skyscrapers of Frankfurt and will consist of four paintings on canvas and one wall-painting on the exhibition space's exterior. 'Swap Paintings # 4' takes place.

Lars Laumann has been invited by Ruba Katrib, Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA to exhibit within 'The Reach of Realism' at Museum Of Contemporary Art in North Miami from 1 December 2009 to 14 February 2010. According to the curator, 'the exhibition explores the contradictions inherent in the increasing distrust of images and the impulse to capture a sense of accuracy in contemporary art.'' Within 'The Reach of Realism' Laumann will exhibit Shut up Child, This Ain't Bingo, which tells the true story of the relationship between Norwegian artist Kjersti Andvig and her collaborative partner Carlton Turner, a Texan death row inmate. Other exhibiting artists are Phil Collins, Wolfgang Tillmans and Sara VanDerBeek.

From 19 November 2009 to 20 January 2010, Anne Szefer Karlsen and Heidi Nikolaisen participate in 'On Articulating Works & Places', an exhibition, conference and publication as part of Art in Marrakech Festival, taking place in various venues in Marrakech, Morocco. 'On Articulating Works & Places' is constructed on ideas relating to 'works as artistic projects' and to 'spaces of appearances'. Anne Szefer Karlsen has been invited to contribute with the production of the exhibition, as well as partake in the conference and publication. Heidi Nikolaisen will contribute to the exhibition withSofia, a project with video, photography, text and objects that looks into personal stories as an opposition to the construction of History. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Until 24 January 2010, Marianne Heier and Matias Faldbakken exhibit within 'A Normal Exhibition', at Overgaden. Institute of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Cecilie Høgsbro and Kathrine Bolt Rasmussen the exhibition aims to unfold the concept of 'normal' by looking into in all its complexity, absurdity, irony, actuality, etc. Within 'A Normal Exhibition', Matias Faldbakken will exhibit the video work One of Us and Marianne Heier will present a video documentation of the an action that took place in Paris, titled Jamais Toujours. Other participating artists are Thomas Kvam, Adel Abidin andCatti Brandelius.

Sissel Tolaas has been invited to exhibit within 'sk-interfaces', at Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg from 25 September to10 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. Other exhibiting artists are ORLAN, Critical Art Ensemble and Yann Marussich.

Ane Graff has been invited by Sara Arrhenius, Director of the Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm, Sweden to exhibit within 'Life Forms', a project consisting of an exhibition, a publication and a series of seminars that displays works of artists who depict nature, the universe and the broader ecological contexts. Within the exhibition, Graff will present drawings from the series Silver Structure I-III, Leaky Abstractions, Structural Analysis (Dragonfly) I-III, the work Diffuse Nebula, together with new works. 'Life Form' is on view until 10 January 2010 and also presents works by Micol Assaël, Charles Avery, Rosa Barba, Andreas Eriksson, Tue Greenfort, Henrik Håkansson, Helen Mirra, Katie Paterson, Jani Ruscica and Tomas Saraceno.

Until 14 March 2010 the artist duo Bull.Miletic (Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic) partake in the exhibition 'TV Towers – 8,559 Meters of Politics and Architecture' at the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The exhibition, curated by Friedrich von Borries, Matthias Böttger and Florian Heilmeye,presents a collection of objects from everyday culture documenting the variety of individual ways (state) architecture is adopted. Within 'TV Towers' Bull.Miletic exhibit the ongoing video project Haven Can Wait, which explores the idea of panoramic spectatorship through the phenomenon of revolving restaurants.

Jumana Manna and Ayman Alazraq have invited Arild Tveito, Richard Alexanderson, Aida Dukic, artist group EL PARCHE (Herman Mbamba, Olga Robayo and Marius Wang) and Iselin Linstad Hauge to partake within 'The Ramallah Show', a exhibition and short residency project taking place at Al Mahatta Gallery, Ramallah, Palestinian State from 21 December 2009 to 5 January 2010. 'The Ramallah Show' aims on questioning the notion of travel as a mean of artistic investigation, having as a starting point the contrast between the global transit for Norwegian and Palestinian artists. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Hordaland Art Centre's residency programme is currently accepting applications for 2010, deadline is 15 December. The programme, open to artists, curators, contemporary art writers, critics and researchers is focused on research as well as production. Hordaland Art Centre covers travel, rent, studio rent, electricity and a small stipend to cover living costs in Norway. For more information please visit /www.kunstsenter.no/en/utlysning-for-201

The MIT Visual Arts Program / Program in Art, Culture and Technology seeks students for the 2010-2011 academic year. This selective two-year program grants successful participants a Master of Science in Visual Studies (SMVisS) degree. The program focuses on researched-based artistic practice, advanced visual studies and experimentation, and offers opportunities for transdisciplinary relationships with other programs and labs at MIT. Faculty includes Ute Meta Bauer, Program Director, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Joan Jonas, Gediminas Urbonas and Antoni Muntadas. Applications are accepted through the Admissions Office of the MIT Department of Architecture. The application deadline is 15 December 2009. Portfolios should be submitted on CD or DVD before 4 January 2010, please consult website for details.

Iniciated by Frieze Projects in collaboration with Gasworks and sponsored by Cartier, the Cartier Award invits emerging artists living outside the UK to propose a new work to be realised at Frieze Art Fair 2010, which will be produced under the auspices of Frieze Projects. Proposed works may take the form of site-specific installation; performance; film; video or print work. The Cartier Award is open to non-UK-based artists within five years of graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree, or under 30 years of age. The prize will cover production costs of up to 10 000GBP, an artist's fee, per diems, travel expenses and a studio residency at Gasworks in London from August to October 2010. The selection committee for 2010 is Roger Hiorns (Artist); Grazia Quaroni (Curator, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art); Catalina Lozano (Residencies Co-Ordinator, Gasworks) and Sarah McCrory (Curator, Frieze Projects). For full details of the award and an application form please see: friezefoundation.org/cartier.

La Galerie, a contemporary art centre located in the suburbs of Paris, hosts each year a foreign curator in residence for a period of three months. First organised in 2006, the aim of the residency is to put on an exhibition at La Galerie within the context of an art centre, and to meet artists and professionals working in the contemporary art field in France. In 2010, the residency period is 6 April to 5 July and the exhibition dates are 25 September to 28 November 2010 (tbc). For more information please visit www.noisylesec.net.

*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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