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 2010. For more information on Application Process, please click here.
Recipients from the Fourth Quarter Application Review for International Support grants are listed here.
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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.
Public Opening: Thursday, 29 April / 19:00
Press Preview: Tuesday, 27 April / 16:00
Exhibition: 30 April – 26 June 2010
Opening Hours: Wed, Fri and Sat / 12-16:00 / Thu / 12-18:00
Sheela Gowda, And…, 2007
Installation view, documenta 12
Kassel, Germany
Photograph: Roman März
OCA is pleased to announce 'Postulates of Contiguity,' the first solo exhibition in Europe by the Bangalore-based artist Sheela Gowda, scheduled at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway from 29 April through 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.
Sheela Gowda (b. 1957, Bhadravati, India, lives and works in Bangalore, India) was a former resident of OCA's ISP Programme in autumn 2009. She studied in Santiniketan – a crucible of Modernism in India – as well as in London at the Royal College of Arts. Her exposure to different traditions has resulted in a practice that articulates in complex ways the relationship between diverse art historical genealogies as well as between avant-garde practices and the everyday. Gowda's work has been included in documenta 12 , Kassel, 2007; 'Fare Mondi//Making Worlds…', the 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009; 'Indian Highway' at The Serpentine Gallery, London, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway, 2009 and HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denamark, 2010; the 2009 Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates; 'Textiles: Art and Social Fabric', Contemporary Art, Antwerp; 'Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture', MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium, 2008; and 'HORN PLEASE: Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art', Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland, 2007-08 among others.
17 April 2010 OCA concludes with the project 'Columns, Grottos, Niches: The Grammar of Forms – On Art Criticism, Writing, Publishing and Distribution', a series public events, workshops and presentations that looks 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 investigate different experiences of and approaches to writing and language, specifically in relation to art.
Upcoming Project:
Bendik Giske and Nils Bech
Photographer: Håkon Borg
'Sounds and Measures': Nils Bech in Concert with Bendik Giske, Ole-Henrik Moe, Kari Rønnekleiv and Daniel Herskedal
Accompanied by works of Anders Nordby and Arild Tveito
Singer and performer Nils Bech and saxophone player Bendik Giske, together with Daniel Herskedal, Ole-Henrik Moe and Kari Rønnekleiv, inaugurate OCA's public platform as a music performance space, and officially close the programme 'Columns, Grottos, Niches: The Grammar of Forms – On Art Criticism, Writing, Publishing and Distribution'. Bech's performance practice combines sparse a capella versions of contemporary and classical music with songs of his own writing and electronica sounds, which are often extended into informal performances in cooperation with other musicians and artists in contemporary art events both internationally and throughout Norway. With a sculpture by Anders Nordby and Arild Tveito as backdrop, this performance marks the release of Bech's album Look Back by the label Fysisk Format 19 April, and will feature acoustic versions of the album track.
The Office for Contemporary Art Norway is responsible for the Norwegian participation in the Platform China Residency in 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, in Brussels, Belgium; and at Capacete, in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.
Artist residency 2010/2011: Eline Mugaas
b.1969 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo
Eline Mugaas
Lightbox, 2009
Courtesy the artist
Eline Mugaas works primarily with the media of photography and video to examine urban spaces and vernacular architecture. Mugaas brings forth a web of connections between different images that combine the private and subjective with topographic depictions of urban environments and architecture. Recently, her work has been shown at Bergen Kunsthall and Preus Museum, Horten, Norway. Her film Skin Flick will be screened at MoCAV Novi Sad, Serbia in July 2010. Mugaas is also participates in the zine Album, produced with with Elise Storsveen.
Curator residency 2010: Elisabeth Byre
b.1971 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo
Elisabeth Byre is an independent curator based in Oslo, Norway. Byre has been the curator of the independent gallery spaces Projekt 0047 in Berlin (2005-06) and 0047, Oslo. Recent exhibitions include 'Lessons in the Art of Falling – Photographs of Norwegian Performance and Process Art 1966-2009', co-curated with Jonas Ekeberg at Preus Museum, Horten; 'Storyteller – Organizing Time and Space', at 0047, Oslo; and 'Ghost in the Machine', curated with Susanne Ø. Sæther at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. Together, they established the curatorial platform Sæther&Byre. Byre is an alumna from CuratorLab, a postgraduate curatorial program at Konstfack, Stockholm, and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, and holds an MA in Film Studies from the University of Copenhagen. Byre is is the director of the BFA program at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, and is a consultant for KORO/Public Art Norway.
Stian Ådlandsvik
Laissez-faire unit #1, 2009
Courtesy of Galleri Erik Steen, Oslo
Resident 2010/2011: 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 form and examining their infliction on society. He processes historical and contemporary events and objects, which he evaluates and re-contextualise in the form of drawings, photographs and sculptures. Recent exhibitions include 'Unfinished Business', Waterside Project Space, London, UK and 'The Barentz Triennale', exhibited in Oslo, Tromsø, Rovaniemi, Helsinki, Murmansk and Moscow. Some upcoming exhibitions include The Drawing Biennale 2010, Moss, Norway, and 'W17', Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo with Lutz-Rainer Müller. Ådlandsvik graduated in 2006 and holds a degree from HfBK in Hamburg and the National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo.
Lina Viste Grønli,
Square the Circle, 2009
Courtesy of the artist and
Gaudel de Stampa, Paris
Lina Viste Grønli
b.1976 in Bergen, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway
Lina Viste Grønli combines sculptural and collage techniques that deconstruct language as a narrative form. Her work draws from popular culture and imagery proposing alternative strategies and redefinitions. Although varying widely in scale and orientation, her work manifests a sense of displacement, suggesting a subversive orientation and a defying of convention. Grønli is currently working on several public sculpture proposals and a publication on the work Grace Jones on Sculpture (Torpedo Press). Latest projects include a solo show at Gaudel de Stampa, Paris, France (upcoming), Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Performa09, New York, NY, USA, Art Since the Summer of 69, New York, and Galerie de la Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille. Grønli was recently a resident in Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Dag Nordbrenden
Rub with Ashes, 2008
Courtesy of the artist
Resident September/November 2010
Dag Nordbrenden
b.1971 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo
Dag Nordbrenden is an Oslo-based artist working with photography. His work demonstrate an interplay between different genres of the medium. Lately he has been working with singular images that are less pre-contextualized. Many of these can be viewed in relation to personal experience; photographs that vary between snapshot-observations and still life-oriented scenes. The regaining of interest in the more autonomous image is evident. So is the playing around with how these photographs influence each other in combination. His latest exhibitions include the solo show 'Rub with Ashes' at Galerie Opdahl in Berlin and 'A Member of the Wedding' a show curated by Susanne Winterling at Daniel Reich Gallery in New York. He is currently working on a book project that will be published towards the end of 2010. This exhibition is supported by 03–funding*
Resident September/December 2010: Anders Smebye
b.1975 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo
Anders Smebye's work involves satire, regressions and misreadings to comment on cultural decay and decadence. Oddities and deities are scrutinized, often ending up as dysfunctional representations with a discharged symbolism. Smebye is educated at Chelsea College of Art, London; Universität der Kunste, Berlin and the Royal Academy of Art, Oslo, where he graduated in 2004. In the last years he directed the project space Bastard and curated 'Provins - Ulf Aminde and Bruno Nagel' at UKS, 'Robert Smithson' at Fotogalleriet (co-curated with Lina Viste Grønli), and 'Monumento Mori' at Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo. Recent exhibitions include 'Devolution', UKS, Oslo; 'The White on the Summit Is Not Snow, but Volcanic Ash or Dust', Landings Projectspace, Vestfossen; 'Excavations', Sure Shore, Malibu State Beach, California, USA; 'Exfiltration I – XII', Snowball Editions, Market, Stockholm, Sweden; 'The Agony and the Exstacy' (with Martin Skauen), GrimMuseum, Berlin, Germany; 'Strips and Steel', Office of Contemporary Anarchy, Podium, Oslo and 'Fulgura Frango', Høvikodden Live, (with Nils Bech), Henie Onstad, Oslo. He is working on the project, Mission Creep, for NoInput Books (ed. James Hoff).
OCA's International Studio Programme Oslo (ISP) is available for international artists and curators by invitation, independently or in connection with research in Norway.
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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) and Working at Copan (2007). A selection of his 'Writings and Interviews 1981–2009' has been released in 2010.
Goshka Macuga
Photograph: Hugo Tillman
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 which 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. She uses techniques and styles common in archiving and museum display. 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 and touring the UK. 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 Elliot, artistic director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney, has invited Gardar Eide Einarsson and Mette Tronvoll to exhibit within the 17th Biennale of Sydney, titled 'The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age' and taking place in Sydney, Australia, from 12 May to 1 August. Within 'The Beauty of Distance', Gardar Eide Einarsson will exhibit Black Flag With Hole, a work inspired by the Romanian revolutionary and consisting of a group of five black flags, all with their middle cutout, hanging from the old, industrial cranes no longer in use on Cuckattoo Island. In addition to Black Flag With Hole, Eide Einarsson will exhibit the work Liberty or Death. 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, Liverpool, UK
18 September–28 November 2010
Lars Laumann has been invited to exhibite within 'International 10: Touched', as part of the 2010 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK. 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 prodece a new video-work relating to literary censorship and focusing on the short stories written 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
Yesterday Is Large,2008
Courtesy of the artist
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, Dakar, Senegal, have invited Bjørn-Kowalski Hansen to 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 in total 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 19 March to 18 April 2010, Verdensteatret, a Norwegian collective founded in 1986, will hold a solo exhibition at Guangdong Art Museum, Guangdong, People's Republic of China. The exhibition, titled 'Telling Orchestras and Funeral Machines' will occupy 800 square meters and present a new work titled Funeral Machines. The work features a landscape of original sculptures, pre-cinematic animation, puppetry, music, lights and shadow played by Verdensteatret. The exhibition will also present the electro-mechanic installation The Telling Orchestra, which, Zhang Ga, a New York-based media curator and curator of the exhibition described as 'the Greenlandic voodoo ritual performed in an utterly unlikely fashion with circuit fabricated instruments, phantom shadows dance a electrified folklore'. The exhibition is supported by 03–funding*
Marte Eknæs
Skizzen für Bonn, 2010
Courtesy of the artist
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.
Torbjørn Rødland has been invited by Naoko Sumi, Curator, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan to hold a solo exhibition at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibition, taking place from 13 March to 9 May 2010, will present Rødland's video work 132 BPM as part of the museum's video programme titled 'A Window to the World'. According to the artist, 132 BPM combines the notion of machines making dance music and the experience of breathing in a living forest.
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 artist Marco Rapparelli and curated by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni, Programme Coordinators, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy the exhibition will revolve around FUKT magazine. 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.
Vibeke Slyngstad
The Nordic Pavilion II, 2009
Courtesy of Galleri MGM, Oslo
At invitation of Jacob Fabricius, Director, Malmö Konsthall in Malmö, Sweden, Vibeke Slyngstad exhibits 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 'Murder at the Savoy,' 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.
From 10 April 10 to May 22, Matias Faldbakken holds a solo exhibition at Objectif Exhibitions in Antwerp, Belgium. According to the press release, the exhibition 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 14 to 16 May,Torpedo Press participates in 'No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents' at Tate Modern in London, UK. The festival, curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni invites over 70 independent art spaces, non-profit organisations and artists' collectives to present art events, performances, music and film, displayed in an unconventional, do-it-yourself style. The event celebrates Tate Modern's 10th anniversary. Among the independent arts organisations taking part in 'No Soul For Sale' include: Alternative Space LOOP, Artspeak, Artists Space, Capacete Entertainment, Dispatch, L'appartement 22, Light Industry, New Jerseyy and Para/Site Art Space.
Renske Janssen, curator at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has invited Baktruppen (Øyvind Berg, Jørgen Knudsen, Worm Winther and Ingvild Holm) and D.O.R (Sverre Gullesen, Steinar Haga Kristensen and Kristian Ø) to partke in 'Let Us Compare Mythologies', taking place at Witte de With from 11 to 13 June. '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.
Ida Ekblad
Crackers, 2010
Courtesy the artist and
Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
Photographer: Bernd Borchardt
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.
From July to September 2010 the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Novi Sad, Serbia will be hosting a exhibition of Norgian video-art. Entitled 'Cities Re-imagined', the project presents works by Øyvind Aspen, Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas, Bull.Mileti (Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic), Mai Hofstad Gunnes, Farhad Kalantary, Eline Mugaas, Nina Toft, Jeremy Welsh and Knut Åsdam that related to architecture and urban space. 'Cities Re-imagined' is curated by Sanja Kojic Mladenov, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina.
Lars Morell and Gardar Eide Einarsson are exhibiting within 'Fiction', at the Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard in Paris, France from 10 May to 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.
Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas
Still from Wildflowers, 2007
Courtesy of Gthe artists
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.
As part of his year-long residency at ISCP in Brooklyn, NY, Lars Laumann exhibits within 'An Act of Mischievous Misreading', curated by Anna Gritz. The exhibition presents a selection of artworks that reveal the creative potential of making someone else's work one's own. Based on the concept of the trope in literature, a strategy in which words are used in a sense different from their literal meaning, the works in 'An Act of Mischievous Misreading' have plundered the canon of cultural history, using works against their original intention for the sake of giving emphasis to a new idea. The exhibition stays on view from 16 to 18 April at ISCP and will show case works by John Baldessari, Mario García Torres and Terence Gower, among others.
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 between 26 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.
Åsa Sonjasdotter,
Installation view 'The Order of Potatoes'
Den Frie Udstillingsbygning
Copenhagen, 2009
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.
Torpedo Press to participate in 'PAPER/VIEW', an art-book fair organized by MER. Paper Kunsthalle in Ghent, Belgium and taking place at WIELS Contemporary Arts Centre in Brussels, Belgium from 22 to 25 April. 'PAPER/VIEW' brings together 33 artist book publishers during Belgium's most intense contemporary art weekend. It will also hold a panel discussion titled 'The Artist Book as Exhibition' with Elaine Sturtevant, Joost Smiers, Seth Siegelaub, Daniel McClean and Luc Derycke. Participating publishers are A Prior, Afterall, Book Works, Mousse Magazine, Onomatopée and Roma Publications, 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*
Installation view
'Nasreen Mohamedi: Notes'
Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Oslo, 2009
'Nasreen Mohamedi: Notes – Reflections on Indian Modernism (Part 1)', an exhibition organized and initiated by OCA, guest curated by Suman Gopinath and Grant Watson in spring 2009 with funds from 03–funding*, is touring internationally. Shown at the Milton Keynes Gallery in the UK, Lunds Konsthall in Sweden and Kunsthalle Basel, the exhibition opens on 29 May at its fourth venue since opening at OCA in March 2009 at Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos – Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal. 'Nasreen Mohamedi: Notes' was the first solo exhibition of Nasreen Mohamedi's work in Europe, in an effort to trace the modernist history in India and also to present the work of one of the most influential artists of her generation. The original exhibition included rarely exhibited paintings, drawings and photographs, produced from the 1960s through to the late 1980s. 'Nasreen Mohamedi: Notes' is on display at Culturgest until 29 August.
The École nationale superieure des beaux-arts invites emerging artists who have completed a Master degree (European Standard), or equivalent to apply for its Research Program La Seine. The two-years programme offers its students the opportunity to develop artistic projects, that they have already begun working on, in a professional context. The programme offers technical and critical support, theoretical approach, in addition, in the end of the programme, each student propose an exhibition in a professional site, accompanied by a publication. For more information please visit http://www.beauxartsparis.fr/laseine/indexenglish.htm.
*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.