From 5 July to 2 August OCA's office will be closed to the public for Norwegian holidays. In September OCA reopens its public space with the relase of the autumn programme.
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 Third Quarter Application Review, with a deadline of 15 September. The further and final Quarter Application deadline for 2010 will be 1 November. For more information on Application Process, please click here.
Recipients from the 2010 Second 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 and biennials, please address your questions to Paul Brewer, at paul.brewer@oca.no.
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Sheela Gowda, And…, 2007
Installation view
'Postulates of Contiguity
OCA, 2010
Photograph: Vegard Kleven
Until 26 June, the Office for Contemporary Art Norway presents 'Postulates of Contiguity,' the first solo exhibition in Europe by the Bangalore-based artist Sheela Gowda. 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 to intercede the spectator's path and field of vision, and Best Cutting (2008), a display that combines a constructed newspaper, The Chronic Chronicle, overlaid by tailoring patterns. The grouping of both works which share the basic form of a material line, reveals a tension between abstraction and a potential conceptual or narrative element.
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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 Platform Garanti Istanbul Residency Program, Istanbul, Turkey; the International Artist in Residency Programme at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium; and at Capacete, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.
Anne Guro Larsmon
Lonely Wolf (detail), 2010
Courtesy of the artist
September/October 2010: Anne Guro Larsmon
Artist b. 1981 in Finnskogen, lives and works in Oslo
Anne Guro Larsmon was educated at Bergen National Academy of the Arts and Konstfack in Stockholm. A playful exchange of ideas and concepts is at the core of her practice, which involves drawing, painting, collage and sculpture. Larsmon is exploring structure, systems and materiality whilst negotiating these elements with narrative, expressionism and intuition. Her work often deals with traces in some way. They represent the process of remembering, repeating and working through past events, atmospheres and influences. This process is heavily influenced by Larsmon's upbringing in the woods, a place for mythologies, rituals and solitude. Recent group shows includes 'We are the world', Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago; 'Tempo som tanke – byrom som skisse', Telemark Kunstnersenter, Skien; and 'Post Puberty' (in collaboration with Emma Wright), Podium, Oslo. She was recently awarded an artist studio residency by the Arts Council of Oslo at Rådmannsgården.
Kristina Kvalvik, Night Shift, 2010
Courtesy of the artist
November/December 2010: Kristina Kvalvik
Artist b.1980 in Skodje, lives and works in Copehagen; Denmark
Kristina Kvalvik studied film and fine art in Norway, Sweden and Canada, and completed her MFA from Malmö Art Academy (SE) in 2008. Kvalvik's work deals with matters relating to surveillance, the inexplicable, and the threatening. In her video installations, Kvalvik examines the limitations of sight and our ability to interpret what we see. Kvalvik has exhibited her work internationally including Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg; LOOP Film Festival, Barcelona; Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; GalleriBOX, Akureyri; Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos; Galeria Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb; Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; Parkingallery, Tehran; Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås; Høstutstillingen Kuntnernes Hus, Oslo and Abandoned Gallery, Malmö.
Natalie Hope O'Donnell
Of this tale, I cannot
guarantee a
single word, 2008
Courtesy of the curator
January/February 2011: Natalie Hope O'Donnell
Curator b. 1979 in Lørenskog, lives and works in London
Natalie Hope O'Donnell studied Modern History and Politics at Jesus College, Oxford and History of Art at the University of Oslo. She also holds a PGDL/LPC postgraduate degree in Law and graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Curating Contemporary Art in 2008. She has worked for the Norwegian National Touring Exhibitions, the DSV Network in Oslo, and the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. She is currently undertaking a PhD at the London Consortium on institutional curatorial practices since 1989, while working as a freelance writer, curator and translator. Curated projects include: Tris Vonna-Michell performance (London, 2008); 'Of This Tale I Cannot Guarantee a Single Word' (Royal College of Art, London, 2008); Chelpa Ferro performance (SPACE, London, 2007); 'On – Off Poltergeist' (Mezkalito, Hollybush Gardens, London, 2007); 'An A – Z of Doubt' (Serpentine, London, 2007). Curatorial research interests include issues of cross-cultural translation, feminisms, approaches to historiography and contemporary conceptions of 'community'.
Milena Bonilla and Pedro Gémez-Egaña
The Destruction of One Someone, 2009
Courtesy of the artists
and Volt, Bergen
March/April 2011: Marie Nerland
Curator b. 1972 in Molde, lives and works in Bergen
Marie Nerland received a master's degree in theatre science from the University of Bergen and also studied theater at the University of Antwerp and theatre and performance at the State University of New York. She studied at the curating programme at Bergen National Academy of the Arts from 2008 to 2010. In 2008, Nerland founded Volt, a gallery for contemporary art based in Bergen, which presents new art projects by Norwegian and international artists. Volt has presented new projects by, among others, PARFYME (Denmark), aiPotu (Norway), szu szu flying art gallery (Poland), Jan Christensen (Norway), Josefine Lyche and Henrik Pask (Norway), Milena Bonilla (Colombia) and Pedro Gomes-Egana (Colombia/Norway). Nerland is also a curator and producer at BIT Teatergarasjen. She is co-editor of the Norwegian Art Year Book 2010 and editor of the anthology 25 with essays on contemporary art. In addition, she was co-editor of the Norwegian journal for performance and contemporary art 3t from 1997-2007.
For more information on OCA's Residency Programmes, please click here or contact Paul Brewer at paul.brewer@oca.no.
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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Goshka Macuga, Plus Ultra, 2009
Installation view
Fare Mondi/Making Worlds
53rd Venice Biennale
Courtesy of the artist and
Kate Macgarry, London
Photography: Andy Stagg
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 that 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.
Lene Berg
Jean-Paul Sartre Smoking, 2008
Cockatoo Island
Biennale of Sydney
Courtesy of the artist
Lene Berg, Anders Restad and Anders Eiebakke
to exhibit within
Manifesta 8
Curators: Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Chamber of Public Secrets and transit.org
Murcia, Spain
2 October 2010–9 January 2011
Lene Berg , Anders Restad and Anders Eiebakke have been invited to participate in Manifesta 8, taking place in the region of Murcia in Spain from 2 October 2010 to 9 January 2011. Divided in three different sections curated by the collectives Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Chamber of Public Secrets and transit.org the biennial will explore the idea of a 21st-century Europe, its present-day boundaries with Northern Africa and its interrelations with the Maghreb region. Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum has invited Lene Berge and Anders Restad to exhibit within 'Backbench', a project that explores many problems related to what is referred to as 'the art system' and the tangled relational bonds between art and society. Within 'Backbench' Lene Berg will present a new work titled A Small Museum of Exceptions (working title). The work consists of a film and an installation of museum items relating to exceptions of rules. Anders Restad will contribute an article and a performance that will take place at Espacio AV in Murcia. The project is part of a series of works that appropriates the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art's archive. Within the section curated by Chamber of Public Secrets, Anders Eiebakke will develop a new radio-based work that will connect two radio stations, one in Spain other in Morocco, through readings of monologues written at the two locations.
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Lars Laumann to exhibit within
'International 10: Touched'
6th Liverpool Biennial
Curator: Lewis Biggs, Director, Liverpool Biennial K
Liverpool, UK
18 September–28 November 2010
Lars Laumann has been commissioned to produce a new work for 'Touched', the International exhibition for the 6th Liverpool Biennial International Festival of Contemporary Art, taking place from 18 September to 28 November 2010 in Liverpool, UK. According to Lewis Biggs, Artistic Director 'the curatorial team for 'Touched' has investigated materiality, metaphor, duration, embodiment, family, narrative, separation, desire, attachment, craft, compulsion, viscerality, neurosis and, especially, emplacement. We've been touched in the head and in the gut; and we've traced the trajectory of a feeling from a sensation in the hand to an emotion in the heart. We have felt the beauty of proximity'. Laumann's new video-work relates to literary censorship focusing on the short stories by American writer JD Salinger. Among other exhibiting artists are Sachiko Abe, Daniel Bozhkov, Nina Canell, Alfredo Jaar and Franz West.
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Kim Hiorthøy, How Blood Works, 2007
Courtesy of the artist and
STANDARD (OSLO)
Kim Hiorthøy and Tor-Magnus Lundeby
to exhibit within 'False Recognition'
14th Vilnius Painting Triennial
Curators: Evaldas Stankeviciusa, CAC curator and Deputy Director and Anders Kreuger, Director Malmö Art Academy
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
18 June–15 August 2010
Kim Hiorthøy and Tor-Magnus Lundeby were invited by CAC curator and Deputy Director Evaldas Stankevicius and Anders Kreuger, Director Malmö Art Academy to exhibit with 'False Recognition', the 14th Vilnius Painting Triennial, taking place at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania. This year's triennial exhibits work by artists who exemplify the tension between tradition and newness and whose work embodies different attitudes towards the image, the gesture, time and subjectivity. 'False Recognition' will take place from 18 June to 15 August 2010 and will also present works by John Baldessari, Koen van der Broe and Inga Meldere.
Verdensteatret to exhibit within the
8th Shanghai Biennale
Curators: Gao Shiming (Executive Curator), Fan Di'An and Li Lei
Shanghai Art Museum in Shanghai, People's Republic of China
23 October 2010–1 January 2011
The artist collective Verdensteatret was selected 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. Curated by Gao Shiming (Executive Curator), Fan Di'An and Li Lei, the 2010 edition of the biennial present the concept of 'Rehearsal', or the discussions around the art exhibition as a phenomenon, concerning how artists connect to the international art world today, how the art world function as its own theatre. 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 shadowplay. The project is supported by 03–funding*.
Audhild Dahlstrøm to exhibit within
'Visual Poetry', as part of
II Baltic Biennale of Contemporary Art
Curator: Tamara Mishina-Bukovskaya
Derzhavin Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia
15 June–15 September 2010
Audhild Dahlstrøm was invited by curator Tamara Mishina-Bukovskaya to exhibit in 'Visual Poetry', one of the component projects of the II Baltic Biennale of Contemporary Art at the Derzhavin Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia from 15 June to 15 September. Dahlstrøm will exhibit The Bear-Hunter, (a melodramatic embroidery), a video-installation exploring the truths and secrets on a small island. Alongside 'Visual Poetry', which will focus in poetic video art, the biennial will present the projects 'Kosmost' and 'As time document', as well as a conference titled 'The Image of Another. Baltic Circle'.
Bjarne Melgaard/Rod Bianco
Untitled, 2010
Courtesy of the artist and
de Appel Arts Centre
Amsterdam
the Netherlands
From 19 June to 5 September, de Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands will present a solo exhibition by Bjarne Melgaard. Curated by Ann Demeester, Director, de Appel and titled 'Super Normal' the project originates in the mental world of Rod Bianco, Melgaard's semi-imaginary character who may simultaneously be regarded as a 'production unit. Besides a series of sculptures, the exhibition includes a new series of photorealistic paintings that are overpainted with Melgaard's hallmark expressionistic iconography and vigorous linear gestures.
In the fall of 2010 Gardar Eide Einarsson will present 'Raid the IceBox: Gardar Eide Einarsson', a solo exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami, FL, USA. Curated by Silvia Karman Cubina, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Bass Museum of Art, the exhibition has as its starting point Andy Warhol's 1969 exhibition 'Raid the Icebox I', which featured works from the collection of the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence alongside his own works of art. 'Raid the IceBox: Gardar Eide Einarsson' will be center around the artist's interpretation of works from the Bass Museum of Art's collection, creating a cultural investigation of how art from the past influences art from the present.
Artist-duo Elmgreen & Dragset will hold a solo exhibition at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, Germany from November 2010 to March 2011. The exhibition curated by Andreas F. Beitin, Director of ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art 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, labyrinthian 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.
From 26 September to 14 November NAK. Neuer Aachener Kunstverein in Aachen, Germany will present a solo exhibition by Matias Faldbakken. Curated by Dorothea Jendricke, Director NAK and titled 'War after Peace (After War)', the exhibition will be characterized by an aggressive, confrontational tone and will present works in different medium such as tiles, newspaper and wall works.
From 26 August to 24 October, Ida Ekblad presents a solo exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm, Sweden. Curated by Sara Arrhenius, Director, Bonniers Konsthall, the exhibition will be the first presentation of the Norwegian artist in Sweden. Ekblad will develop her artistic method working on site collecting material for new artworks in Stockholm. The exhibition will include an opening night performance by the Norwegian artist Nils Bech and Bonniers Konsthall will also collaborate with the Royal Art Academy, Professor Olav Westphalen, on a seminar identifying new tendencies in painting where Ida Eklad's artistic practise will be contextualised.
Anne Katrine Dolven, ahead
Installation Shot
LABoral, Spain, 2008
Courtesy of carlier | gebauer, Berlin
and Wilkinson Gallery, London
Anne Katrine Dolven solo exhibition at Platform China in Beijing, People's Republic of China will continue until 11 July. Titled 'Looking for Balance' the exhibition is the artist first solo show in China. It presents works that represent separate but interrelated and fundamental aspects of Dolven's practice in film and video – a concern with the body as the vessel within which human sensibility and emotions are contained and alternatively as substance in a world of form and matter, the existential condition of the individual considered from an essentially humanist position and the potential these philosophical positions have to be realised within an aesthetic canon. 'Looking for Balance' is curated by David Thorp, Associate Curator, Platform China. The project is supported by 03–funding*.
Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel GremanyGermany will present a solo exhibition by Matias Faldbakken from 28 August to 14 November. Titled 'That Death of Which One Does Not Die' and curated by Rein Wolfs, Artistic Director, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, the exhibition will present more than thirty new works of the Garbage Bag Paintings, which will occupy the whole exhibition space. These works, which can be understood as a development of the well-known Tape-series will show abstract abbreviations and acronyms, sketchily drawn with a black marker on large garbage bags.
From 9 October to 21 November, Kunsthalle Winterthur in Winterthur, Switzerland will present a solo exhibition by Lars Laumann. Curated by Oliver Kielmayer, Curator, Kunsthalle Winterthur the exhibition aims to provide the first comprehensive selection of Lars Laumann's work in Switzerland 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 23 July to 12 September Kunstverein Arnsberg in Arnsberg, Germany will present a solo exhibition of Øystein Aasan. Curated by Vlado Velkov, Artistic Director, Kunstverein Arnsberg, the exhibition will present a new site-specific installation work titled Double Trouble (Creep), which presents itself as a barrier between the viewer the physical properties of the work itself and that of the architecture of the historical building of the Kunstverein.
John Hansard Gallery in Southampton, UK will present a solo exhibition by Caroline Bergvall from 7 September to 23 October. Curated by Stephen Foster, Director, the John Hansard Gallery and titled 'Can't Get You Out of My' presents a mixed media installation comprised of an audiophonic piece and visual writings. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication that will include a CD of mixed sound-text materials from the show by a commissioned DJ.
Between 19 October and 19 November, Ståle Stenslie presents a solo exhibition at Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Curated by Jurij Krpan, Director Kapelica Gallery and titled 'The Blind Theatre – Psychoplastic Sculptures', the exhibition presents the installation The Blind Theatre, an interactive and sensorial, computer based work that, using a body suit, completely immerses the viewer in a story told through touch and binaural, three-dimensional sound.
From 2 June to 27 June 2010 Lars-Andreas Tovey Kristiansen presents a solo exhibition at Maumaus Lumiar Cité Gallery in Lisbon, Portugal. Curated by Jürgen Bock, the project, entitled you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, results from a site specific process of intervention in the public space around the gallery area, through which the artist has built a four-meter high home-made wind generator with skills acquired from manuals from the internet. The artist will give a public talk on the occasion of the opening.
Lars Laumann, Kari & Knut, 2009
Courtesy of the Artist
From 1 August 2010 to 1 February 2011 the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA will present 'Free', an exhibition featuring works by fifteen international artists that illustrate the increasingly connected and participatory society and advocate for a future culture that is both open and participatory. Within 'Free', Lars Laumann will present The Evil Apartment, a new video-work co-commissioned by the Liverpool Biennial and the New Museum. The Evil Apartment is a follow-up to Laumann's previous work Kari & Knut in which the artist appropriated video from Darius Mehrjui's Pari, an Iranian film adaptation of the J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey. 'Free' is curated by Lauren Cornell, Executive Director of Rhizome and Adjunct Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
Morten Norbye Halvorsen was invited by curator Raimundas Malasauskas to participate in the public programme 'Repetition Island' from 7 to 14 July at the Center Pompidou in Paris, a series of successive and overlapping conferences, screenings, performances, lectures, concerts that will be given in a space transformed by the visual artist Pierre Bismuth. Halvorsen's project, titled Re and Un, is a synchronized recording from four separate vantage points in a space over a one week period, which results in a seven-layer, ten-hour, four-channel recording. Is recording the day, everyday. From four vantage points in space. The day is synchronized at the beginning with a signal/gesture so to synchronize the separate points in space and post recording the event, to synchronize the separate days. During the week the recordings will be stacked, rerecorded, replayed and unrecorded in a number of ways.
Lars Laumann's film The Berlin Wall is currently being exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery in London UK, within the exhibition 'Lars Laumann & Aida Ruilova'. The exhibition is part of 'Art in the Auditorium', a collaborative project organised by the Whitechapel Gallery with institutions from Europe, Asia, South America and the US to provide a showcase for the work of some of young artists working with film, video and animation. Lars Laumann was selected by Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway. The Berlin Wall is a documentary of Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer, a Swedish woman who describes herself as 'objectum-sexual, emotionally and sexually attracted to objects, things'. The film follows her story as she narrates her ongoing relationship with the Berlin Wall. 'Lars Laumann & Aida Ruilova', which also presents the film Two Timers by Aida Ruilova, stays on view until 5 July 2010.
In the context of the artist collective Henry VIII's Wives, Rachel Dagnall is currently exhibiting the photo series Iconic Moments of the 20th Century within 'Rude Britannia: British Comic Art' on view at Tate Britain in London, UK until 5 September. Iconic Moments of the 20th Century is composed of photos of elderly people recreating famous or iconic 20th century moment and was first exhibited within 'Evolution Isn't over Yet' at the Market Gallery in 2000. Curated by Martin Myrone, Curator, Tate, 'Rude Britannia' aims to offer a dynamic, surprising and challenging overview of the role of humour in British culture over the centuries. Other exhibiting artists are Donald McGill, Aubrey Beardsley and Sarah Lucas among others.
Book & Hedén, from the series
Bexell's Stones, 2005
Courtesy of the artists
From 12 October 2010 to 9 January 2011 Moderna Museet in Stockholm presents 'The Moderna Exhibition 2010'. Curated by Fredrik Liew, Curator, Swedish & Nordic Art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm the exhibition aims to be a contribution to the debate 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 specificities of being an artist in Sweden and the notion of local production in an increasingly globalised world. Within 'The Moderna Exhibition 2010', the artist duo Book & Hedén presents Bexell's Stones, a Monument out of Sight, an installation 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.
Marte Johnslien was invited by curator Win Van den Abbeele to participate in 'Modern Dialectic' an exhibition that looks into architect Renaat Braem as a case study of works that are representative of a specific place in a specific period. 'Modern Dialectic' will take place at Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA) and other sites throughout Antwerp from September to November 2010. For the exhibition Johnslien produced a new series of small-scale sculptures titled Monument to the Right Angle produced from certain parameters deriving from Braem's work, and his connection to Le Corbusier. Other participating artists are Corey McCorkle, Tim Etchells and Suzanne Krieman.
From 16 November 2010 to 6 March 2011, Mattias Faldbakken and Gardar Eide Einarsson particiate in 'To the Arts, Citizens!' at Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporênea in Porto, Portugal. The show will focus on issues pertaining to manifestations of the political in the domain of the arts, as part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Portuguese Republic. Themes and concepts such as archive, community, ideology, monument, activism, frontier and manifesto constitute the working guidelines along which the exhibition will unfold. 'To the Arts, Citizens!' will be accompanied by a cycle of films, conferences and debates. Curated by João Fernandes, Museum Director, Fundação de Serralves and Òscar Faria, the exhibition also presents works by Carlos Motta, Claire Fontaine, Sam Durant and Hito Steyerl.
On 18, 19 and 20 June 2010, the Norwegian collectives Baktruppen (Øyvind Berg, Jørgen Knudsen, Worm Winther and Ingvild Holm) and D.O.R participate within 'Let Us Compare Mythologies' at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Curated by Renske Janssen, curator at Witte de With, 'Let Us Compare Mythologies' is a three-day cycle of staged events presenting international artists exploring the nature of performance. The programme is part of 'Morality', the leitmotiv of Witte de With's 2009/2010 programme.
At invitation of Helmut Batista, Director, Capacete Entretenimientos, curator Geir Haraldseth will present a workshop and a lecture at Teatro Arena, in São Paulo, Brazil on October 2010, as part of the São Paulo Biennial. Capacete is responsible for a series of lectures and workshops that function as a discursive platform for the biennial. For his participation, Haraldseth will focus on formal and informal settings for distributing and reproducing information and the mechanisms of power involved in such operations, especially within the field of art. The project is supported by 03–funding*.
Jan Christensen
and Kristian Skylstad
Watch Me Fly, 2009
Courtesy of the artists
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, were each room will be dedicated to one artist and the spaces will be realized in close collaboration with the artists, either showing an installation or a series of works. Within 'Intensif Station' Jan Christensen will exhibit his recent work that combines the sketchiness of notebook scribbles with the decorative monumentality of mural painting. Among other exhibiting artists are Thomas Hirschhorn, Jeff Wall and Nathalie Djurberg.
Matias Faldbakken will exhibit within 'The Second Today's Documents' taking place at the Beijing Today Art Museum in Beijing, China from 18 September to 24 October. Curated by Huang Du and Jonathan Watkins, Director of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK, the exhibition presents works by approximately sixty Chinese and international artists based on the notion of 'negotiations'. Within 'The Second Today's Documents' Faldbakken presents the installation work Tarp Piece. The project is supported by 03–funding*
Between 3 and 31 July, Marius Engh will exhibit within 'Urban Narration', the second exhibition of the Project 'Urban Installation – Urban Narration – Urban Orientation' curated by Simone Zaugg and Pfelder in cooperation with world echo / Oscar eV in Chemnitz, Germany. The aim of the project is to temporarily regain the space of the city as a stage, as a space for experiments and as a reflection of an analysis that is contextual and relevant to society. Marius Engh will produce a new site-specific work dealing with the theme of the exhibition. Among other exhibiting artists are Janet Cardiff, Bruno Nagel and Hanns-Jochen Weyland.
Lene Berg was invited by to participate in 'Waiting for the Political Moment', a conference organized by Prof. Dr. Frans-Willem Korsten and Dr. Bram Ieven taking place in different venues in Rotterdam and Utrecht from 17 to 19 June. 'Waiting for the Political Moment' examines the cultural state of politics today focusing on the interrelations of politics, capitalism and aesthetics from the late Middle Ages to the present day. Within the artistic program of the conference, curated by artist Katarina Zdjelarto, Lene Berg will exhibit the work Stalin by Picasso or Portrait of Woman with Moustache, which departs from the old dispute about Picasso's portrait of Stalin with a moustache and feminine features to speaks about how two icons from the 20th century, Stalin and Picasso, once were perceived and how much their public personae have changed since then and the ways of reading and using images, particularly images of so-called great men'. Other artists participating in 'Waiting for the Political Moment' are Petra Bauer & Dan Kidner and Ine Lamers.
Drawing for Eline McGeorge's
Installation, '27 Senses'
Chisenhale Gallery, London
Eline McGeorge to participate in '27 Senses' an exhibition organized by the contemporary art agency Electra, London, UK and taking place at Chisenhale Gallery in London from 17 July to 26 August. Curated by Lina Dzuverovic, co-founder and Director of Electra, the show investigates how certain ideas central to Kurt Schwitters' work are manifesting themselves today across the visual arts, performance and sound based practices. Within '27 Senses', Eline McGeorge presents Travelling Double Interventions II, an ambitious installation work. Other exhibiting artists are Kenneth Goldsmith/UbuWeb, Carl Michael von Hausswolff/Selmer Nilsen, Karl Homqvist and Jutta Koether.
At invitation of curators Sergio Allessandro and Abdellah Karroum, Heidi Nikolaisen will exhibit within 'Marrakech a Palermo – A proposal for articulating works and places (part2)', an exhibition taking place at Palazzo Riso/Gam, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia in Palermo, Italy from 10 July to 28 November. The exhibition is part of the project 'OTHERS – Le Biennali d'arte di Marrakech, Istanbul, Atene a Palermo e Catania' which presents a selection of works from recent biennials in Istanbul, Athens, and Marrakech. Within 'Marrakech a Palermo,' Nikolaisen exhibits the work We Belong to the Same Tree which incorporates elements from letters, passports and photographs to depict the meaning of a single persons value in history.
Matias Faldbakken and Gardar Eide Einarsson were invited by curator Shamim M. Momin, LAND Director/Curator and a guest of OCA's International Visitors Programme in October 2007, to exhibit within 'The Secret Knows' at the Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), California, USA. Featuring over fifty artists, this project asks each participant to use Robert Frost's poem The Secret Sits as the inspiration for their work. 'The Secret Knows' was exhibited in a different form at LAND in Austin, Texas will take place in July 2010. Other exhibiting artists are Pierre Bismuth, Terence Koh and Melanie Schiff.
Arild Tveito was invited by artist/curator Oliver Laric to exhibit within 'Turbo Props', taking place at the Institute of Social Hypocrisy in Paris, France. The exhibition reflects the performative and collaborative nature of the Institute. Arild Tveito will exhibit Trophy (From the Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin), a sculptural work. Other exhibiting artists are Gert Jan Kocken, Aleksandra Domanovic and Tobias Madison.
Gabriella Göransson, detail of
Out of Darkness, 2009
Courtesy of the artist
From 22 June to 22 August the Rugby Art Gallery and Museum in Rugby, UK presents 'CULTEX', a collaborative project between six artists from Japan and Norway curated by Lealey Miller, Professor of Textile Culture, University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury in the UK. Norwegian artists Anniken Amundsen, Gabriella Göransson, and Eva Schølberg have worked in three trans-national partnerships with Japanese artists Machiko Agano, Yuka Kawai and Kiyonori Shimada over a period of 12 months, either in Norway or Japan. The result is an exhibition of new work, much of which is conceived as sculptural textiles and site-sensitive installations that reflect the artists' individual and collaborative experience during this period. The exhibition was previously shown at Gallery F15 in Moss, Norway and Hub National Centre for Craft & Design in Lincolnshire, UK.
At the invitation of its director, Edward Balassaninan, the Armenian Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art in Yerevan presents a collaborative project by Unni Gjertsen and Swedish artist Liv Strand. Gjertsen will present Looking/Walking Back/Forward (working title), a video-installation made of a three-channel video projection and text stickers. The work is based on a research trip to Armenia in June 2009. Gjertsen and Strand will collaborate on a publication that includes discussions around formative texts and contributions by Armenian writers. The project is supported by 03–funding*
Leander Djønne was invited by independent curator Sinziana Ravini to exhibit within 'Nordic Delight', an exhibition that plays with the image of the north, both past and present, which takes place at the L'institut Suedois à Paris, France from 8 September to 24 October. Within 'Nordic Delight', Djønne will exhibit Live and Let Die: Colonial Sovereignties and the Death Worlds of Necrocapitalism (working title), a new installation work based on a slave-ship called Fredensborg. According to the artist, the work draw upon the concept of necrocapitalism by discussing contemporary forms of organizational accumulation that involve dispossession and the subjugation of life to the power of death. Other exhibiting artists are Patrik Bengtsson,, Martin Formgren and Martin Jacobson.
From 8 to 14 December, Kurt Johannessen participates in Guangzhou Live 010, a new international action art event that besides presenting works of action art, will feature discussions, lectures and workshops at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. The artist will also participate in Shenzhen Action. For both events Johannessen will develop new works.
From 30 July to 5 September, Hans Christian Gilje will participate in ISEA RUHR.2010, 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art being held at several venues in the cities of Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg in Germany. Organised by Hartware MedienKunstVerein, ISEA presents current works and debates in digital and electronic art. Within the festival, Hans Christian Gilje exhibits the installation Blink, a work exploring the qualities of an empty space by the use of rojections and sound.
From 7 to 10 July, Leif Magne Tangen will participate in FIDMarseille, a documentary film festival in Marseille, France. Leif Magne Tangen will present the film the film A Spell to Ward off the Darkness, a project by Ben Rivers and Ben Russell, produced and curated by Tangen. The film, shot in Super-16mm presents possibilities of existence in an increasingly secular Western culture.
Karolin Tampere and artist duo Sex Tags were invited to participate in the concert series 'Sonic Zones' at Secession in Vienna, Austria. Curated by Anna Ceeh and Franz Pomassl since 2008 'Sonic Zones' presents monthly concerts focusing on developments and trends in advanced electronic and experimental music in the Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. Karolin Tampere and Sex Tags' presentation will be held 9 July and is titled 'Norwegian Special – Lytte og'.
From September 2010 to June 2011, Sara Eliassen will participate in the Whitney Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA. During her stay in New York, the artist will further develop the project The Screen Is Not Neutral exploring how moving images can be used when not dominated by artificially constructed values aimed at enhancing our lives as consumers. The study program will result in a Studio Program exhibition, held in May.
From 30 June 2010, Alexandra Cruz, Coordinator for International Relations at OCA will be away from the Office on maternity leave. During her absence she will be replaced by Paul Brewer. A graduate of Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies, Paul Brewer is a curator and administrator who has worked with institutions such as the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, DC, the State University of New York, and the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, among others. For any matters concerning the International Residencies or Institutional Relations please contact Paul Brewer through paul.brewer@oca.no.
The Banff Centre in Banff, Canada is currently accepting applications for the Leighton Artists Colony at The Banff Centre. The self-directed Arts Residency Programme offers nine unique studios, each designed by a distinguished Canadian architect, located in a secluded wooded area of The Banff Centre. The studios offer a concentrated, retreat environment to professional artists engaged in the creation of new work. Applications are accepted from artists of a variety of disciplines: writers, composers, singer-songwriters, visual artists, screenwriters, playwrights, literary translators, curators, art theorists, and professionals working in theatre, dance and film at the conceptualization or research stage of a project. Acceptance is based on an application/adjudication process. For more information click here.
Frieze Writer's Prize was established in 2006 by frieze magazine to promote and encourage new critics from across the world. Entrants must be over 18 years old and must submit one previously unpublished review of a recent contemporary art exhibition, approximately 700 words in length in English (translations are accepted but it must be acknowledged). To qualify, entrants may only previously have had a maximum of three pieces of writing on art published in any national or regional newspaper or magazine. Previous online publication is permitted. The winning entrant will be commissioned to write a review for the October issue of frieze and be awarded 2 000GBP. Entries should be emailed no later then 25 June as a word attachment to writersprize@frieze.com. Click here for more information.
BAC, Baltic Art Center in Visby, Sweden; The Factory of Art and Design (FFKD) in Copenhagen, Denmark and Hordaland Art Centre in Bergen, Norway jointly invite professionals within the field of visual art to apply to a new Collaborative Research Residency. The Collaborative Research Residency offers one-month residencies in autumn 2010 for research groups of three collaborators where at least one has a contemporary visual arts background (artist/curator/art critic). The programme encourages new and welcome applications from research groups based in the Nordic and Baltic countries. In 2010 the programme offer residencies to three groups of three people each to stay for one month in one of the three host institutions. Please see www.crresidency.net for detailed information.
*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.