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 Fourth Quarter and final application deadline for 2010: deadline 1 November.

Application deadlines for 2011 will be 1 February, 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 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 Paul Brewer atpaul.brewer@oca.no.

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

The Office for Contemporary Art Norway presents 'BIG SIGN – LITTLE BUILDING', an exhibition that looks at the expanded temporal and spatial field for cultural production resulting from the modern shift in the notion of landscape from the Kantian sublime to the space of leisure time. 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 Charlotte Posenenske, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson and Jeff Wall, who further challenged traditional notions of space in order to explore new interpretations of landscape within the fields of aesthetics, art and architecture, without succumbing to any one category. Other artists in the exhibition are Claes Oldenburgand Allan D'Arcangelo, cited as inspiration by the three architects, and responsible for contesting the sign system altogether, which increasingly reflected an attempt on the part of capital to claim nature, landscape and public space as commodities. Curated by Marta Kuzma and on view at OCA until 15 December 2010, 'BIG SIGN – LITTLE BUILDING' integrates artists' work, archival materials and publications that revise interpretations of landscape, building and monument and reflect upon how artists and architects attempted to dislocate traditional interpretations of these concepts in an effort to generate a critical dialogue around the effects of power as it inscribed in public information systems generated by the city and by the hierarchies, standardisations and space-time relationships effected by corporate development.

Click here for more information.

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.

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

Upcoming deadline: 1 November 2010

In collaboration with the Norwegian Embassy in Beijing, China, OCA offers two studio residencies, for an artist or a curator at Platform China Beijing Residency Programme. The first one takes place from 1 April until 31 May 2011, and the second from 1 September until 31 October 2011. Applicants must be Norwegian citizens, or live and work in Norway. Please notice that residency is not available for BA or MA students. The residency is supported by 03–funding*.

Lars Laumann to exhibit within
'International 10: Touched'
6th Liverpool Biennial
Curator: Lewis Biggs
Director, Liverpool Biennial
Liverpool, UK
18 September–28 November 2010
Press Opening: 16 September
Press and Professional Preview: 17 September

Lars Laumann has been invited to participate in 'Touched, International 10', as part of the 2010 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK, curated by Director Lewis Biggs. 'Touched' will present artworks that, according to its curator, will 'affect the viewer through addressing a total context (mind, body and place: relatedness in space and time); artworks whose investment and inscription in the particular and the personal affects the general and the social.' For 'Touched', Open Eye Gallery and the New Museum in New York have co-commissioned Lars Laumann to create a new work titled Helen Keller (and the great purging bonfire of books and unpublished manuscripts illuminating the dark) — a video essay in two parts using a range of techniques and approaches to 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. Other participating artists include Allan Kapow, Alfredo Jaar, Otto Muehl, NS Harsha and Raymond Pettibon.

For related press enquiries, please contact Catharine Braithwaite.
For professional accrediation please click here.

Lene Berg and Anders Eiebakke
to exhibit within Manifesta 8
Curators: ACAF, CPS and transit.org
Murcia, Spain
9 October 2010–9 January 2011
Press Days: 7 and 8 October
Opening Date: 9 October

Lene Berg and Anders Eiebakke have been invited to participate in Manifesta 8, taking place in the region of Murcia in Spain from 9 October 2010 to 9 January 2011. For its eight edition, Manifesta proposes 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 Lene Berg to exhibit in their project, 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), based on a film shot in the 20s, 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 Eiebakketo take part in the exhibition. Eiebakke's project consists of three parts: a TV and two radio programs, and an installation built around two drones used to cross the Moroccan-Spanish border.

For press enquiries related to the project, please contact Manifesta 8 Press Office.
For accrediation please click here. Please notice last day for accreditation: 24 September

Verdensteatret to exhibit within the
8th Shanghai Biennale
Curators: Gao Shiming, with Fan Di'An and Li Lei
Shanghai Art Museum in Shanghai, People's Republic of China
23 October 2010–1 January 2011

Curators Gao Shiming, Fan Di'An and Li Lei have invited the artist collective Verdensteatret to participate in the 8th Shanghai Biennale, taking place from 23 October 2010 to 1 January 2011 at the Shanghai Art Museum in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. According to its curators, the exhibition raises the question 'How can we get out of the dilemma of artistic creation in the current milieu of an artistic system seamlessly and endlessly constituted by international discourse, mega exhibitions, art fairs and transnational capital? How do we identify the internal frontiers of the 'art world' hijacked by global capitalism while we are ourselves part of it? Is contemporary artistic practice capable of generating a newProduktionsverhältnisse beyond the throttles of institutional critique and social participation?'. Within the biennial, Verdensteatret exhibits And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing, an installation consisting of a multitude of kinetic sculptures/machines and sound featuring a landscape of highly original sculptures, pre-cinematic animation, puppetry, music, lights and shadow play. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

From 24 September to 10 October 2010, Ane Mette Hol holds a solo exhibition as part of her year-long residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. Within the exhibition, curated by Christoph Tannert, Director of Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Hol's animation film After Day and Night (2010) will be screened. The film is composed of drawings taken from a webcam that records, over the course of 24 hours, an anonymous section of landscape with tunnel and railway tracks, and a road crossing above. The individual drawings come together to produce the animation film, giving shape to two different parallel cycles of twelve hours, each running simultaneously. The drawing process registers as well the changing light and weather conditions. The lack of action and the long duration of the film — which is in fact impossible to experience in full given the gallery's opening hours — set the work in relation to the history of experimental film, such as Andy Warhol'sEmpire (1964). In addition, a selection of drawings on paper will be exhibited.

Throughout 24 October, Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm, Sweden presents 'Ida Ekblad: Digging. Treasure', a solo exhibition by Ida Ekblad. Curated by Sara Arrhenius, Director and Camilla Larsson, Curator of Bonniers Konsthall. The exhibition presents new works crafted from found elements collected in the streets of Stockholm, and ranging from expressionist painting and poems to metal sculptures and large concrete reliefs. The exhibition is the first presentation of the Norwegian artist in Sweden, and, according to its curator, 'make public the young but multifaceted artistic production of Ekblad, infusing traditional techniques as painting and sculpture with new vigour'.

Until 14 November, Matias Faldbakken has a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany. Curated byRein Wolfs, the institution's Artistic Director, and titled 'That Death of Which One Does Not Die', the exhibition presents newly commissioned works by the artist from the series Garbage Bag Drawings. Comprised of abstract renderings of abbreviations and acronyms on large garbage bags, the works are installed throughout the main wing of the institution to present a counterpoint to prevailing concepts of the exhibition space. The exhibition will also present an installation work created in collaboration with Anders Nordby.

From 9 October to 21 November, Kunsthalle Winterthur in Winterthur, Switzerland will present a solo exhibition by Lars Laumann. Curated by Oliver Kielmayer, Curator of Kunsthalle Winterthur. The exhibition aims to provide the first comprehensive selection of Lars Laumann's work in Switzerland, with the presentation of at least four video-works:Swedish Book Store, Berlinmuren/, Shut Up Child, This Ain't Bingo and Kari & Knut.

From 7 November 2010 to March 2011, artist-duo Elmgreen & Dragset will hold a solo exhibition at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, Germany. The exhibition, curated by Andreas F. Beitin, Director of ZKM, and titled 'Celebrity – The One and the Many', will be the duo's largest solo museum exhibition to date. 'Celebrity' will be comprised of two large installations: an open, labyrinthine structure and a four-story apartment building, which will be visible mostly from the outside of the museum. The building will work as a stage for various scenes and dramas, visible for the audience through its windows.

John Hansard Gallery in Southampton, UK is currently presenting a solo exhibition byCaroline Bergvall. Curated by Stephen Foster, Director, the John Hansard Gallery, and titled 'Middling English', the show investigates modes of writing, from the printed letter to a loose realm of visual, audio, kinetic and perceptual writing by bringing together multi-sensory elements presented in a mixed media installation. Developed with a range of collaborators, including the architectural team DvsN, sound artists Zahra Mani and Adam Parkinson, designer Alex Prokop and actor Nicholas Rowe the exhibition will be accompanied by a publication and an animated web piece.

Curator Win Van den Abbeele has invited Marte Johnslien to participate in 'Lonely at the Top: Modern Dialectic', an exhibition opening 7 October that celebrates the centenary of the birth of Renaat Braem, one of Belgium's best-known architects. 'Modern Dialectic' brings Braem's modernist formal idiom face to face with work by contemporary artists that also exposes a number of paradoxes and creates a view of modernism and the social utopia of that movement. For the exhibition, Johnslien has produced a new series of small-scale sculptures titled Monument to the Right Angle, produced from certain parameters derived from Braem's work and his connection to Le Corbusier. 'Modern Dialect' stays on view until 14 November at the top floors of the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA) and at CO Nova, both in Antwerp. Other participating artists are Corey McCorkle, Tim Etchells andSuzanne Krieman.

Continuing through 7 November, Åsa Sonjasdotter exhibits within 'EATLACMA' at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles, CA. The projects exhibited within 'EATLACMA' explore food as a common ground that reflects the social role of art and ritual in community and human relationships. The exhibiton includes artist's gardens planted and harvested on the museum grounds, public events and an exhibition. In 'EATLACMA', Sonjasdotter exhibits Potatofield, a Solution. Inspired by Agnes Denes's 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 and Michele Urton, Curator at LACMA, and includes works by Lauren Bon, Materials and Applications, Fallen Fruit and The National Bitter Melon Council.

Artists' duo Book & Hedén have been invited by Fredrik Liew, Curator of Swedish & Nordic Art at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm to partake in 'The Moderna Exhibition 2010'. The exhibition presents a survey on Swedish contemporary art, and although it does not present any specific, overall theme or common denominator, the selection was based on a few fundamental questions around the specificities of being an artist in Sweden and the notion of local production in an increasingly globalised world. Within 'The Moderna Exhibition 2010', Book & Hedèn presents Bexell's Stones, a Monument Out of Sight, an installation depicting the story of Alfred Bexell, who had hundreds of proverbs and names chiseled into rocks and boulders in the forests within his property in Sweden. Other exhibiting artists are Matthew Buckingham, Fia Backström andOlav Westphalen.

Cuators João Fernandes, Director of Museu Fundação de Serralves, Óscar Faria, journalist and art critic and Guy Schraenen have invited Mattias Faldbakken and Gardar Eide Einarsson to exhibit within 'To the Arts, Citizens!'. Taking place at FundaÇão de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporênea in Porto, Portugal from 19 November 2010 to 13 March 2011, the exhibition will focus on some of the intersections between art and politics. 'To the Arts, Citizens!' will exhibit works by artists born after 1961 — the year of the construction of the Berlin Wall — alongside an historical section where posters, magazines and artists' publications will demonstrate how previous generations of artists dealt with political issues throughout art history. 'To the Arts, Citizens!' will be accompanied by a cycle of films, conferences and debates. Other exhibiting artists are Carlos Motta, Claire Fontaine, Sam Durant and Hito Steyerl.

During October 2010, Geir Haraldseth, a former participant OCA's Residency Capacete Programme, Brasil, will take part in Capacete's discoursive programme as part of the 29th edition of the Bienal de São Paulo, Brasil. Haraldseth will do a presentation starting from his own curatorial practice, examining where and when the notion of 'in-between' is located in relation to the artist, the curator and the exhibition, and how they might dispute or agree with preconceived notions of those three flexible entities. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

From 7 October 2010 to 4 September Jan Christensen will exhibit within 'Intensif Station' at the Künstlerräume im K21 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Curated by Susanne Meyer-Büser the show introduces a new display concept, where each room will be dedicated to one artist and the spaces will be realised in close collaboration with the artists, either showing an installation or a series of works. Within 'Intensif Station', Jan Christensen will exhibit recent work combining the sketchiness of notebook scribbles with the decorative monumentality of mural painting. Among other exhibiting artists are Thomas Hirschhorn, Jeff Wall and Nathalie Djurberg.

The Exhibition 'Stir Heart', curated by Andrea Kroksnes and Randi Godø and presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo from 23 January to 23 May 2010 is now on view at Kunsthallen Brandts in Odense, Denmark. 'Stir Heart' is the first part of a presentation of contemporary women artists from the National Museum's collection, and includes works by Vanessa Baird, Nathalie Djurberg, Unn Fahlstrøm, Lotte Konow Lund, Josefine Lyche, Vibeke Tandberg and Gerd Tinglum. 'Stir Heart' stays on view until 9 January 2011.

On 24 and 25 September, University of Oslo (UiO) presents the THE FORART Lecture 2010, with Mark B.N. Hansen, Professor, Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University. On Friday, 24 September Hansen will present 'Recording (for) the Emergent Future, or Data and Experience in 21st Century Media', a post-phenomenological account of sensation as the correlate of a new paradigm of media or recording for the emergent future. Additionally, on 25 September, Hansen presents 'Creativity and Mediation from Husserl two Whitehead and Back', a presentation and panel discussion withEivind Røssaak and Asbjørn Grønstad focussing on the issue of creativity at the crossroads between phenomenological/post-phenomenological accounts of experience and 21st century media. For more information please click here.

In the spirit of the broad reach of 'Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936', on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1 October 2010–9 January 2011, the Sackler Center for Arts Education issues a call for papers to any scholar working at the graduate level or recent PhD recipient from within the last year. The Sackler Center for Arts Education seeks proposals for innovative scholarship situated in the period between the world wars; however, papers may address any geographic or cultural region, including but not limited to Asia, the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Australia. Topics exploring a range of mediums, including film, photography, design, architecture, fashion, painting, sculpture, printmaking, books, and textiles are encouraged. Selected papers will participate in 'Is Returning to the Past Modern?. Symposium for Emerging Scholars' on 5 January 2011. For more information click here.

OCA's cherished employee Suzana Martins, a Programme Associate at the Office for Contemporary Art, where she has been working since 2007, has accepted a position as Project Coordinator at 0047, Oslo, effective on 17 September 2010. Martins has been a key member of the OCA team, and we wish her the best in her future career development. We are also delighted to still have her in the neighbourhood.

*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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