The Office for Contemporary Art Norway provides financial support on a quarterly basis for international projects including Norwegian artists and/or cultural producers. This includes extending support to group or single artist exhibitions initiated by international institutions and international curators. International artists who have permanent residence in Norway may also apply for support. The objective is to foster innovative artistic production, expression and the creative process by encouraging and supporting projects that support, exhibit and interpret a broad spectrum of contemporary artistic practices.
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Platform China, Beijing
2007 Residency
Application deadline for residencies in 2007 is 15 November, 2006. The residency is for two months, April–May 2007.
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Grant applicants from September 2006 will be notified 10 October.
The recipients will be listed here.
The Nordic Committee (FRAME The Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, and Moderna Museet International Programme Sweden), have appointed René Block, director of Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, to curate The Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 2007.
The 47th October Art Salon: The Belgrade Biennial
The International Studio Programme Oslo is available for international artists and curators by invitation for a stay from two weeks up to six months, independently or in connection with research in Norway. The programme comprises four studios located in the city centre of Oslo.
Pooja Sood
Curator and director of KHOJ Residency
Lives and works in New Delhi, India
Laura Horelli
Artist
Born in Helsinki, Finland, lives and works in Berlin
Mike Bouchet
Artist
Born 1970, Castro Valley, California, USA, lives and works in New York, USA and Frankfurt, Germany
Sean Snyder
Artist
Born in Virginia Beach, USA, lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine
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The Office for Contemporary Art Norway runs an International Visitor Program to support international curators and cultural producers in their research in Norway for upcoming exhibitions and projects.
John Rasmussen
Director, Midway Contemporary Art
USA
Gerardo Mosquera
Curator and art critic
Havana, Cuba
Adam Szymczyk
Director of the Kunsthalle Basel
Born in Poland, resides in Basel, Switzerland
14 October
The Auditorium
Tate Britain, London
Office for Contemporary Art Norway in cooperation with The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Middlesex University, London, holds its 4th Verksted conference.
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Art of Welfare
Editors: Marta Kuzma, Peter Osborne
Contributors: Claire Bishop, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Marta Kuzma, Victor Norman, Peter Osborne, Jeremy Till
Wednesday, 4 October, 18:00
Speaker: Pooja Sood
Subject: Building New Networks and Curating for Alternative Spaces in South Asia
Tuesday, 10 October, 18:00
Speaker: Mike Bouchet
Subject: To be announced
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Click here for a selected list of upcoming international exhibitions and projects supported and enabled by OCA either through its International Visitor Programme or its International Support Programme.
Other events/exhibitions International
Information is provided on a separate PDF download.
Ole Martin Lund Bø
Artist, Stavanger
September 2006 through August 2007
Geir Haraldseth
Curator, Oslo
September through November 2006
Jannicke Låker
Artist, Drammen
Residency until November 2006
Tom Sandberg
Artist, Oslo
December 2006–December 2007
Trude Iversen
Curator and Critic, Oslo
September and October 2006
Terje Nicolaisen
Artist, Oslo
November and December 2006
Application deadline: 20 October 2006
Organised by the Fundación MARCO, the purpose of this competitionis to offer participants the chance to execute an exhibition project tooccupy the first floor of the MARCO. Entries will focus on the field ofcontemporary artistic creation and contemplate the participation oftwo or more artists.The exhibition project budget will be max. 15.000 €. The exhibition will take place from July to September 2007.
info@marcovigo.com
Pre-qualifying Round Water Project
Submission deadline: 14 October 2006
Complete invitation text
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset received a major commission from the German government for their design of memorial to mark the Nazi's persecution of the homosexuals. The construction of the memorial will begin in 2007 and will be positioned in the Tiergarten city park, across the street from Peter Eisenman's Holocaust memorial. The structure, will stand at an angle to Eisenman's Holocaust memorial. It was accepted because its "very controversial nature in relation to the politics of memorials". The artists will be provided by the German federal government with € 500,000 ($ 614,000) for the memorial proposal, the construction of which will start a full twenty-two years after a memorial of a pink triangle — the symbol the Nazis used to identify homosexual inmates in concentration camps — was added to the camp Mauthausen. "The Berlin memorial comes rather late," concludes the competition's authority, "Actually much too late, just like the government's apology [to victims] in 2003.
Martin Braathen is attending a one year curatorial program at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City.
Knut Henrik Henriksen is invited by FRAC de la Loire, Nantes, France, for a one year residency.
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