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 First Quarter application deadline for 2011: 1 February.

The following application deadlines for 2011 will be 1 May, 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.

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 artistBjarne Melgaard at Università Iuav di Venezia.

The dates and the speakers for the Biennale opening days have been announced. 
Click here to see further details.

Picasso's Guernica Revisited
Thursday, 18 November 2010 / 19:00

T.J. Clark discusses Picasso's painting Guernica (1937), in an effort to understand how a work of such enduring political resonance emerged from Picasso's deeply private and 'autobiographical' artistic universe. The lecture looks at the step-by-step making of Guernica, taking advantage of the set of photographs taken by Dora Maar as the painting progressed. Two central concerns of the lecture are Picasso's gradual progress toward a conception of space appropriate to the new character of modern warfare, and the difficult issue of male and female roles in a moment of panic and pain.

During his participation in OCA's International Studio Programme, art historian and author T.J. Clark presents two public lectures on Pablo Picasso. The first lecture addressed questions about modern art's relation to the century in which Picasso lived and worked. In the second lecture Clark will discuss Picasso's painting Guernica (1937) as an archetype of 'political' art. These are questions that have been central to T.J. Clark's upcoming book Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica.

These lectures are part of OCA's continuing Verksted series.

A selection of slides from the lectures of Steven Izenour from the archive of Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates with works by Allan D'Arcangelo, Claes Oldenburg, Charlotte Posenenske, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Jeff Wall
— curated by Marta Kuzma

Exhibition dates: 15 September – 15 December 2010
Public Hours: Wed, Fri and Sat / 12-16:00 / Thu / 12-18:00

On view at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway until 15 December 2010 'BIG SIGN – LITTLE BUILDING', an exhibition that looks at how natural beauty — as a concept primarily located within the phenomenon of landscape — was significantly transformed by the process of societal modernisation which took place in the twentieth century. The experience of landscape, consequently, shifted from the Kantian category of the sublime to a space in which the experience of landscape became mediated by a human and technological mastery over nature. Curated by Marta Kuzma, 'BIG SIGN – LITTLE BUILDING' reflects about the expanded temporal and spatial field for cultural production resulting from these shifts. The exhibition departs from and extends beyond a seminal project developed by the architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour, who, in their book Learning from Las Vegas (1972), drew from existing critiques of urban space at the time to explore the role that signs played in providing order to the landscape. 'BIG SIGN – LITTLE BUILDING' exhibits, for the first time, the original glass lantern slides used by Steven Izenour for his academic lectures together with works by artists who transformed drafts, surveys, maps, and manuals into cultural artifacts, creating a new genre for cultural production at the time. Through the work of Allan D'Arcangelo, Claes Oldenburg, Charlotte Posenenske, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, and Jeff Wall, among other archival materials and publications, the exhibition integrates projects that revised interpretations of landscape, building, and monument. The exhibition reflects upon how these artists and architects attempted to dislocate traditional interpretations of these concepts in an effort to generate a critical dialogue around the effects of power inscribed in public information generated by the city and by the hierarchies, standardisations, and space-time relationships effected by corporate development.

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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.

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

In 2011-12 OCA offers a twelve-month residency programme for an artist, at the International Studio Programme Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, from 1 December 2011 until 15 November 2012. Applications are accepted from Norwegian artists and international artists residing in Norway. Please notice that the residency is not available for BA or MA students. Applications will be assessed by an International Jury appointed by OCA, together with a representative from Künstlerhaus Bethanien.

Click here for more information.

Stian Ådlandsvik
Artist, b.1981 in Bergen, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway

Through an interplay of historical fact and artistic expression Stian Ådlandsvik maps up unusual connections in international trade and production systems, questioning their organisational forms and examining their infliction on society. He processes historical and contemporary events and objects, which he evaluates and re-contextualises in the form of drawings, photographs and sculptures. Recent exhibitions include 'Unfinished Business', Waterside Project Space, London, UK and 'The Barentz Triennale', shown in Oslo, Tromsø, Rovaniemi, Helsinki, Murmansk and Moscow. His recent collaborative projects with German artist Lutz-Rainer Müller include 'You only tell me you love me you're drunk', Hordaland Art Centre in Bergen, 'Still life with modern guilt', MOT International in London, and 'Still life with hyena, lotus and cave', W17/Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. Ådlandsvik graduated in 2006 and holds a degree from HfBK in Hamburg and the National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo.

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

For more information on the International Studio Programme Oslo click here.

T.J. Clark
Art historian and author

T.J. Clark (b.1943 in Bristol, UK, lives and works in London, UK) was for over 20 years a Professor of Art History at UC Berkeley in California. His writings on art history throughout the 1970s and 80s single-handedly redefined the history of modernism internationally. His books include The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-51 and Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution (both 1973); The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers (1985); Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism(1999); Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (co-written with Iain Boal, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts under the name Retort, 2005) and The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (2006). In a world increasingly invaded by regimes of high-speed visualisation, Clark has described his art history as 'more and more directed to keeping alive — and trying to describe more fully — past paradigms of complexity and depth in visual communication'.

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.

For more information on the International Visitor Programme Oslo click here.

What, How & for Whom/WHW (Ana Dević and Sabina Sabolović)
Curatorial collective based in Zagreb, Croatia

What, How & for Whom/WHW is a curatorial collective formed in 1999 and based in Zagreb, Croatia. Its members are curators Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović, and designer and publicist Dejan Kršić. WHW organizes a range of production, exhibition and publishing projects and since 2003 directs Gallery Nova in Zagreb. What, how and for whom, the three basic questions of every economic organisation, concern the planning, concept and realisation of exhibitions as well as the production and distribution of artworks and the artist's position in the labor market. These questions formed the title of WHW's first project dedicated to the 152nd anniversary of the Communist Manifesto, in 2000 in Zagreb, and became the motto of WHW's work and the title of the collective. Among WHW's exhibitions are 'Looking Awry' Apexart, New York, 2003; 'Side-effects', Salon of Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, 2004; 'Collective Creativity', Kunsthalle Fridericianum, 2005; 'Here and Now Real, Not Yet Concrete', Mala Galerija, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, 2006; 'All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go', Gallery TranzitDisplay, Prague, 2007; 'Vojin Bakić', Gallery Nova & Grazer Kunstverein, 2007-08; 'What keeps Mankind Alive?', 11th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, 2009; 'Hungry Man, Reach for the Book. It Is a Weapon', Printed Matter, New York, 2010; 'Ground Floor America', Lakeside – Klagenfurt and Den Frie – Copenhagen, 2010. Currently, WHW is curating the Croatian pavillion for 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia.

Søren Grammel
Artistic Director, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

As a curator Søren Grammel (b.1971) has been responsible for numerous exhibitions in contemporary art spaces, which he prepared alone or with others, among them 'Telling Histories' (2003) and 'Total motiviert' (2003) at the Kunstverein München, the 'Videonale 9' in Bonn (2001), 'Raus hier! Eine Ausstellung und Konferenz zum Thema Weggehen' (2002) for Germinations Europe in Białystok (Poland), the research project 'We invite all' as a contribution to 'Whatever happened to social democracy' (2005) at the Rooseum in Malmø, or the shows 'Eine Munition unter anderen' (2000) and 'Kino der Dekonstruktion' (1999-2000) at the Frankfurter Kunstverein. In 2005, he published the theory book Ausstellungsautorschaft, Frankfurt am Main. He taught at the Kunsthochschule Kassel (lecture series 'Working as a curator') and held seminars at the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts and the Kunstakademie München. Since 2005, he has held the post of Artistic Director of the Grazer Kunstverein; the exhibitions there include 'Eine Person allein in einem Raum mit Coca-Cola-farbenen Wänden', 'Idealismusstudio', 'Never for money, always for love', 'Es ist schwer, das Reale zu berühren', or 'traurig sicher, im Training'.

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

Lars Laumann has been invited to participate within the exhibition 'International 10: Touched' — as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2010 — by Lewis Biggs, artistic director of the Liverpool Biennial 2010, Liverpool, UK. For 'Touched', Open Eye Gallery — exhibition venue of Laumann's artworks — and the New Museum in New York have co-commissioned the artist to create a new work. Titled Helen Keller (and the great purging bonfire of books and unpublished manuscripts illuminating the dark) the video essay is divided in two parts, which through the use of a range of techniques and approaches, discuss 'filmic and literary adaptation, multiple narratives, censorship and the burning of books'. Alongside Helen Keller, Laumann will also be exhibiting two existing video works, Duett, from 2010 and Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana, from 2006. The exhibition is on view until 28 November 2010 Other participating artists include Alfredo Jaar, Otto Muehl, NS Harsha and Raymond Pettibon.

Verdensteatret to participate within
the 8th Shanghai Biennale
Curatorial team: Gao Shiming, Fan Di'An, Li Lei and Hua Yi
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
24 October 2010–28 February 2011

Verdensteateret has been invited to participate in 'The 8th Shanghai Biennale 2010', Shanghai, Peoples' Republic of China, curated by Gao Shiming, with Fan Di'An, Li Lei and Hua Yi. The biennial presents the concept of 'rehearsal' — a discourse on the art exhibition as a phenomenon: 'The exhibition not only reformulates — represents — everyday life, but also provides a vessel for its own representative polity. In the meantime, the exhibition is also the autonomous region of art, within which artists are also legislators', according to the curatorial statement. Within the biennial, Verdensteatret participates with the work And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing, a hybrid work consisting of a performance, a concert and installation with a multitude of kinetic sculptures-machines, sound, animation, puppetry, music, lights and shadowplay. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Lene Berg and Anders Eiebakke
to exhibit within Manifesta 8
Curators: ACAF, CPS and transit.org
Murcia, Spain
9 October 2010–9 January 2011

For its eight edition, the European Biennal of Contemporary Art Manifesta has proposed a concept of collective curating, presenting projects by three groups of curators –Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (Egypt), Chamber of Public Secrets(Scandinavian countries, Italy, the UK and Lebanon) and tranzit.org (Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia). Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum has invited filmmaker and artist Lene Berg to exhibit in their curatorial project for Manifesta 8, which focuses on 'cultivating a deeper awareness of art in relation to all aspects of contemporary life and culture'. Within the exhibition, Berg will present her new work, Shaving the Baroness (After Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp). The subject of the black-and-white film is Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, the Dada artist and poet who starred in the original film made by Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp in 1921, of which only two frames remain, attached to a letter written by Man Ray. The curatorial group Chamber of Public Secrets, working with issues such as migration, mobility and representation has invited Anders Eiebakke to take part in the exhibition. Eiebakke's project consists of three parts: a TV and two radio programme, and an installation built around two drones used to cross the Moroccan-Spanish border. Other participating artists include The Otolith Group, Willie Doherty, Tanja Widmann and Nikolaus Schletterer among others. The exhibition is on view until 9 January 2011.

Olav Christopher Jenssen has been invited to present a solo exhibition, titled 'Olav Christopher Jenssen – Paintings and Sculptures', at the Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås, Sweden. The museum — that reopened in a former industrial building in the city centre of Västerås in early September 2010 — will present paintings and sculptures Jenssen has produced within the last two years. 'Olav Christopher Jenssen – Paintings and Sculptures' is the first solo exhibition to be held in the new museum space. Curated by Eva Borgegård, the exhibition will be on view from 27 November 2010 to 30 January 2011.

Marius Watz and Eno Henze have organised the exhibition 'abstrakt Abstrakt: The Systemized World', at NODE10 Forum for Digital Arts, in association with the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from 15 to 20 November 2010. Reflecting upon abstract systems produced by devices and media, Watz and Henze aim to investigate how 'the extensive and powerful autonomy of such systems becomes obvious only in the moments of their dysfunction, like during the interruption of air traffic due to a scientific simulation of a vulcano cloud, or by the drop of the stock market due to automated computer trade'. 'abstrakt Abstrakt' collects works by several international artitsts that reflect these condtitions of artistic production 'under a regime of rationality in which scientists and engineers become performing agents that bring ever new abstraction system'. Participating artists include Ralf Baecker, Ben Fry, Leander Herzog, Robert Hodgin, Thilo Kraft, Brandon Morse, Louise Naunton Morgan and John Powers, among others.

Ståle Stenslie holds a solo exhibition titled 'Psychoplastics — sculpting yourself' at Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 11 to 26 November 2010. Curated by Jurij Krpan, director of Kapelica Gallery, the exhibition explores 'how we can virtually sculpt and manipulate our personality' through 'a combination of advanced sound and haptic stimulus' that affect our perception, 'moulding, shaping and sculpting it'. The users are dressed in electronic, computer-controlled bodysuits which become a 'new skin, slipping into the corpus of a story told through touch and binaural, three-dimensional sound'. The interactive performative experience will take place both inside and outside the gallery space.

Artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset has been invited by Andreas F. Beitin, head of ZKM – Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe, Germany, to present the duo's first major solo exhibition in Germany. Titled 'Celebrity – The One and the Many', the exhibition will be presented in the two atriums of the ZKM – Museum of Contemporary Art, from 7 November 2010 to 27 March 2011. The artists have produced two installation pieces especially for the museum. The exhibition investigates how 'celebrity' works on a relational level between 'one' and 'many', and how an 'icon is mediated to a general public through staged and artificial realities'. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication — to be published in early 2011, edited by Peter Weibel, professor and Chief Executive Officer ZKM and by Andreas F. Beitin — which will include comprehensive documentation of the presented artworks, in addition to 'The Collectors' — the exhibition that they curated for the Nordic and the Danish Pavillion in the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, in 2009.

Annette Hans, Curator, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany, Anne Szefer Karlsen, Director, Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen and Jamie Kenyon, Associate Curator, SWG3, Glasgow, Scotland, will present a collaborative project between Kunstverein Hamburg, Hordaland Art Center, SMART Project Space, and SWG3, Glasgow that reflect on an exhibition format 'as a site of production and framework for collaboration'. The 'Zwischenraum: Space Between' is constituted by a residency, an exhibition and a public program, and sets out to 'reflect on production, its means and its necessities', investigating 'the processual, dialogical and social situations in the evolution of a process that renders the production of the artworks tangible'.Ingrid Lønningdal, Cato Løland and the artist collective Institute for Colour(Ingrid Lønningdal, Steffen Håndlykken, Silje R. Hogstad, Elisabeth Schei) have been invited to participate within the exhibition 'Zwischenraum: Space Between' at the Kunstverein Hamburg, from 16 October to 28 November 2010. Other artists in the exhibition include Oliver Bulas, Nick Evans, Julia Horstmann, Alon Levin andCiara Phillips.

The exhibition 'Free' is on view until 23 January 2011 at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, NY, USA. Lars Laumann and Hanne Mugaas have been invited by Lauren Cornell, Executive Director of Rhizome and New Museum Adjunct Curator to participate within the exhibition. 'Free' presents a reflection 'on artistic strategies that have emerged in a radically democratised cultural terrain redefined by the impact of the web'. Laumann presents his latest work, Helen Keller (and the great purging bonfire of books and unpublished manuscripts illuminating the dark) (2010), co-commissioned by the Liverpool Biennial and the New Museum. Hanne Mugaas exhibits Secondary Market, an assemblage of items sourced from an online auction site. The exhibition will present works by Lisa Oppenheim, Lizzie Fitch, Seth Price, Clunie Reid and Amanda Ross-Ho, among others.

Toril Johannessen participates in the exhibition 'Smooth Structures' at the SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 'Smooth Structures' is on view until 19 December 2010. Within the exhibition Johannessen is presentingExpansion in Finance and Physics (2009), a work that addresses 'the subject of scientific modeling and how scientific theories are visualised and interpreted by way of analogies'. 'Smooth Structures' is developed in collaboration with Enough Room for Space (ERforS), an artist-run organisation based in Rotterdam, starting from a new theory on dark matter and dark energy developed by NASA scientist Martin Lo.

Joar Nango and Åsa Sonjasdotter participate in the exhibition 'Home Sweet Home', at Konsthall C in Stockholm, Sweden. Curated by Kim Einarsson, Director Konstall C, the exhibition is on view until 30 March 2011. 'Home Sweet Home' is a research-based project directed towards a group exhibition. The project 'investigates the tension between individuals' desire to shape their lives and the overall concepts and structures that govern planning and housing policy', and emphasises 'the ideological shifts around dwelling, based on economic and political changes over the last thirty years, as reflected in the use of words such as investment and security'.

Matias Faldbakken and Gardar Eide Einarsson have been invited to participate in the exhibition 'To the Arts, Citizens!' atFundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal. 'To the Arts, Citizens!', curated by João Fernandes, Director of the Serralves Museum and by Óscar Faria, journalist and art critic, opens on 19 November 2010and will stay on view until 13 March 2011. 'To the Arts, Citizens!' explores 'the intersections between art and politics, through concepts such as activism, citizenship, archive, emigration, exile, ideology, iconoclasm, crisis'. The exhibition brings together works produced by artists born after 1961, the year of the construction of the Berlin Wall, as 'an object that materialises an ideological divide which marked the twentieth century, and whose shadow still impinges upon political and cultural thought at the beginning of the twenty-first century'. Other exhibiting artists are Carlos Motta, Claire Fontaine, Sam Durant and Hito Steyerl.

Artists duo Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén participate in 'The Moderna Exhibition 2010' at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. 'The Moderna Exhibition 2010', curated by Fredrik Liew with Gertrud Sandqvist and Lisa Rosendahl, is on view until 9 January 2011. The exhibition aims at contributing to the ongoing debate on Swedish contemporary art acting as 'a forum for discussion of recent developments in studios, offices, workshops, art institutions and different places where artists are active today'. Within 'The Moderna Exhibition 2010' Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén are presenting the work Bexell's Stones, a Monument out of Sight, depicting the story of Alfred Bexell, who ordered hundreds of proverbs and names to be chiseled into rocks and boulders in the forests within his property in Sweden.

Gisle Frøysland, Director, Piksel Produksjoner invited Alejandra Pérez, Jorge Crowe and Christiano Rosa to take part in the Piksel10 festival, in Bergen, Norway. Pérez will present her work Cartografia Sonora Antarctica, which uses sound recordings and footage from an expedition to Antarctica in December 2009. Crow will present the piece A/V (2010), an audiovisual performance with found, hacked and handmade hardware. Rosa will present Faça-Você-Mesmo + Hágalo Usted Mismo + DIY (2010), an audiovisual performance that uses unique electronic instruments built by a combination of assorted materials found in electronic debris. Piksel Produksjoner Festival will run from 18 to 21 November 2010. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Knut Åsdam participates in a programme of screenings in association with the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid festival at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. The programme has been organised by Nathalie Hénonand Jena-François Rettig, directors, Rencontres Internationales and will take place from 25 November to 4 December 2010. In addition, a number of arts professionals, including Gavin Jantjes, Helga-Marie Nordby and Per Platou are invited to lecture and participate in the discussions taking place during the festival.

Serina Erfjord has been invited to participate in the exhibition 'Electrohype 2010', at Ystad Art Museum, Ystad, Sweden, from27 November 2010 to 30 January 2011. Within the exhibition, curated by Anna Kindvall and Lars Gustav Midbøe, co-directors of Electrohype, Erfjord will present Normal. Blue (2010). As stated by the curators, Erfjord's works are 'unique in the way she implements them into the existing building structure and at the same time draws the viewer's attention in an almost magnetic way'. Other participating artists include Vicky Isley and Paul Smith, Sion Jeong, Nikki Koole and Diane Landry.

Unni Gjertsen has been invited by Donatella Bernardi, founder of The Eternal Tour Association, to participate in 'The Eternal Tour 2010', a festival that reflects 'on the question of cosmopolitanism in the context of the 21st century by experimenting with tourism in order to learn and re-evaluate current interpretations and conceptions of the world'. In 2010, the festival takes place in Jerusalem and Ramallah. Within the festival Gjertsen will present 'The Armenia Project', a collaborative research project born out of a journey to Armenia in 2009 and consisting of video installations and text. The festival run from 4 to 10 December 2010. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

On the occasion of the German region of Ruhr being the European Capital of Culture 2010, the Norwegian Goethe-Institutoffers a one-week visit to Ruhr for exhibition organisers, curators or leaders of art and cultural institutions, to take place from 1 to 7 May 2011. The weeklong trip will include visits to art institutions and cultural venues of the region and meetings with regional curators and exhibition organisers with an aim to expand networks and exchange ideas. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the Goethe-Institut. Application deadline: 15 January 2011. For questions or applications, please contact the Goethe-Institut.

Tonja Boos has joined OCA as 'Associate Researcher'. Boos studied product design at Høgskolen i Akershus (HiAk) and graphic design and art at the Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (KHiO), and worked as a graphic designer in Oslo for several years. She was 'Project Manager' for the research and exhibition project 'Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?', curated by OCA's Director Marta Kuzma and organised by OCA in 2008-09. Boos is currently the Managing Editor of a publication on 'Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?' that will appear in spring 2011.

Asle Olsen has joined OCA as 'Production Coordinator'. Olsen holds a BA of photography from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and has studied Communication at the Norwegian School of Management, Oslo. Olsen has been working for the last four years as a 'Project Coordinator' for the National Annual Exhibition of the Visual Arts at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. He has experience in installation work from various indipendent art venues. In addition to be working as an indipendent photographer, he has organised and promoted concerts as well as photographing for musicians and bands.

*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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