International support February 2010 — Firts Quarter
- G: Grantee
- PS: Project Support
Grants allocated for International Biennials and Institutional Grants for Solo Exhibitions
- G: Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
- PS: Grant towards travel and accommodation in relation to the participation of Lars Laumann (b. 1975 in Brønnøysund, Norway,
lives and works in Oslo, Norway and New York, NY, USA) 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
are 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 has been commissioned to produce a new video-work relating to
literary censorship and focusing on the short stories of writer JD Salinger.
- Curator: Lewis Biggs, Director, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
- 18 September–28 November 2010
Grants allocated for International Support
- G: Magnus Bjerk
- b. 1980 in Sarpsborg, Norway, lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Sarpsborg, Norway
- PS: Grant towards the participation of Magnus Bjerk within 'Mediators' at the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland. The exhibition will be presented
in specially constructed containers placed in front of the National Museum and, according to its curator, the exhibition is 'a mediation between the real
life outside and the 'internal life' of the museum. Within the exhibition, Magnus Bjerk will present The Inside of the Outside of the Inside, a series
of photographs portraying trailers, which according to the artist have abandoned their function as mere transport vehicles to act as borders between
the inside/outside and the tangible/non-tangible.
- Curator: Dr Tomasz Wendland, Director Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland
- 20 May–September 2010
- G: Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas
- Bergman b. 1971 in Detroit, MI, USA and Salinas b. 1977 in La Rioja, Spain, both live and work in Oslo, Norway
- PS: Travel grant towards the participation of Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas within the exhibition 'Always Moving (A Performance Laboratory in
Several Parts)' at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces in Melbourne, Australia. Within the show, the artist duo will present a series of performances,
including 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.
- Curator: Jared Davis, freelance curator
- 18 June–17 July 2010
- G: Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
- Grant towards a solo exhibition of Marte Eknæs (b. 1978 in Elverum, Norway, lives and works in Berlin, Germany) at Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany.
The exhibition, titled 'Insert', will display new sculptures and wall works that examine architecture structures from Bonn to derive from the notion
of consciousness industry as described by Alexander Kluge and Oscar Negt – or 'the idea that public sphere excludes substantial life-interests while claiming
to represent society as a whole'.
- Curators: Anna Dietz, Curator, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
- 13 April–13 June 2010
- G: Morten Norbye Halvorsen
- b. 1980 in Stavanger, Norway, lives and works in Hundvåg, Norway
- PS: Grant towards the participation of Morten Norbye Halvorsen within the exhibition 'Ballad of the Green Hoop' at
South London Gallery, London, UK. 'Ballad of the Green Hoop' exhibits Jessica Warboys' new presentation of her theatrical film work.
Using film, painting, sound and props, the exhibition space is transformed in a stage
for performance combining various elements from her films. Within the exhibition Morten Norbye Halvorsen presents a musical accompaniment made in collaboration
with Warboys.
- Curators: Anne-Sophie Dinant, Associate Curator, South London Gallery, London, UK
- 8–11 April 2010
- G: Bjørn Hegardt
- b. 1974 in Ørebro, Sweden, lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Oslo, Norway
- PS: Grant towards the solo presentation of Bjørn Hegardt/FUKT Magazine at Nomas Foundation in Rome, Italy. The exhibition is a collaboration with Italian
artist Marco Rapparelli and will present an installation around FUKT magazine, selected original works from artists featured in the publication, as well
as screening of animations. Hegardt will present all the previous issues of FUKT with a focus on the latest one, which will be printed in June 2010.
- Residency Curator: Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni, Programme, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy
- 11 June–4 July 2010
- G: Kurt Johannessen
- b. 1960 in Bergen, Norway, lives and works in Bergen
- PS: Travel grant towards the participation of Kurt Johannessen within 2010 edition of the International Festival of Performance Art Navinki – an annual
international performance festival in Minsk, Russia. Within the festival, Johannessen will present new performative-work. Among other exhibiting
artists are Anna Syczewska, Elisa Andessner and Katnira Bello.
- Curator: Victor Petrov, Curator, Navinki 2010 Performance Festival, Minsk, Belarus
- 26–31 August 2010
- G: Haraldur Karlsson
- b. 1967 in Reykjavik, Iceland, lives and works in Oslo, Norway
- PS: Grant towards transport/shipping in relation to the participation of Haraldur Karlsson within the 2010 edition of RAFLOST festival in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Organised 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?' Other
participating artists are Pall Thayer, Rasa Smite and Linda Vebere, RIXC, Linda Hilfling and Martin Howse.
- Curator: Àki Àsgeirsson, curator RAFLOST, Reykjavik, Iceland
- 14–22 May 2010
- G: The National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
- b. 1975 in Brønnøysund, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway and New York, NY, USA
- PS: Grant towards travel and accommodation costs in relation to the participation of Lars Laumann within 'Mediators' at the
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland. 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.
- Curator: Dr Tomasz Wendland, Director Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland
- 20 May–September 2010
- G: Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
- b. 1974 in Ørebro, Sweden, lives and works in Oslo, Norway and Berlin, Germany
- PS: Travel grant towards the participation of Øyvind Aspen (b. 1983 in Molde, Norway, lives and works in Gjemnes, Norway and Oslo, Norway),
Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas (Bergman b. 1971 in Detroit, MI, USA and Salinas b. 1977 in La Rioja, Spain, both live and work in Oslo, Norway),
Bull.Miletic (Synne Bull b. 1973 in Oslo and Dragan Miletic b. 1970 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, both live and work in
Oslo), Mai Hofstad Gunnes (b. 1977 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Berlin, Germany), Farhad Kalantary (b. 1962 in Tabriz, Iran,
lives and works in Oslo), Eline Mugaas (b. 1969 in Oslo, lives and works in Oslo), Nina Toft (b. 1974 in Asker,
Norway, lives and works in Oslo), Jeremy Welsh (b. 1954, Gateshead, UK, lives and works in Bergen, Norway) and Knut Åsdam
(b. 1968 in Trondheim, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) within 'Cities Re-imagined' at the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia.
'Cities Re-imagined' focuses on Norwegian film and video-works related to architecture and urban space.
- Curator: Sanja Kojic Mladenov, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
- July–September 2010
- G: Natalie Hope O'Donnell
- b. 1979 in Lørenskog, Norway, lives and works in Sande, Norway
- PS: Travel grant towards the participation of curator Natalie Hope O'Donnell within the two-days symposium 'Institution as Medium. Curating as Institutional Critique?'
at Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. Organised by Kunsthalle and the Postgraduate Program in Curating, zhdk Zürich, Switzerland, the symposium exams the
possibilities and opportunities as well as the limitations of current critical curating based on the presentation of exemplary projects, curatorial programmes, theoretical
analyses and artists talks. O'Donnell will participate on 'Panel 2, Educational Critique: How to Swot Curating' that presents and discuss curatorial study programmes.
- Symposium Concept: Irene Grillo, Jennifer Johns, Damian Jurt, Andrea Linnenkohl, Siri Peyer, Dorothee Richter and Rein Wolfs
- 26 and 27 March 2010
- G: Øyvind Renberg and Miho Shimizu
- Renberg b. 1976 in Oslo, Norway and Shimizu b.1976 in Tokyo, Japan, both live and work in Oslo
- PS: Travel grant towards the participation of Øyvind Renberg and Miho Shimizu within the exhibition 'Bodies of Dispersion: Mechanisms of Distention' at
Galeria Arsenal in Bialystok, Poland. According to its curator, the exhibition 'examines the relationship between the singular body and its mechanisms of multiplicity in everyday life.
Within 'Bodies of Dispersion' Renberg and Shimizu exhibit the projects Art of Cheese and Rio Porcelain. According to the artists, 'Art of Cheese is
part of a series of works that investigates the translation of social codes and culture between communities' and Rio Porcelain is an extension of the project that
takes shape in a series o porcelain tableware with motives produced as part of Art of Cheese. Other artists exhibiting within 'Bodies of Dispersion: Mechanisms of
Distention' are Alex Villar, Spurse, Xurban Collective, Elin Wikström and Artur Zmijewski.
- Curator: Denise Carvalho, curator
- 21 May–20 June 2010
- G: Vibeke Slyngstad
- b. 1968 in Ålesund, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway
- PS: Grant towards the participation of Vibeke Slyngstad within the exhibition 'Murder at the Savoy', organised by
Malmö Konsthall and taking place in public spaces throughout
Malmö, Sweden. The show brings to perspective Malmö's social and political history and it is based on Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's crime novel Murder at the
Savoy (1970). Slyngstad will exhibit two new large-scale paintings relating to Savoy Hotel and Lindham rifle range – two of the novel's locations. Other exhibiting
artists are 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.
- Curator: Jacob Fabricius, Director, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
- 9–18 July 2010
- G: Åsa Sonjasdotter
- b. 1966 in Helsingborg, Sweden, lives and works in Tromsø, Norway
- PS: Grant towards the participation of Åsa Sonjasdotter within the exhibition 'EATLACMA' at the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA. The projects exhibited within 'EATLACMA'
considers 'food as a common ground that explores the social role of art and ritual in community and human relationships'. The project consists 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'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. Other participating artists are
Lauren Bon, Materials and Applications, Fallen Fruit, and The National Bitter Melon Council.
- Curator: Fallen Fruit, artist collective, Los Angeles, CA, USA and Michele Urton, Curator, Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
- 27 June–7 November 2010
- G: Sølyst Artist in Residence Center, Jyderup, Denmark
- Grant towards travel and accommodation in relation to the participation of Ida Ekblad (b. 1980 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) and
Ann Lislegaard (b. 1962 in Norway,
lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark and New York, NY, USA) within 'Pastiche… When a tree falls in the forest'. The exhibition – the 2010 edition of the annual
outdoor show at Sølyst Castle in Jyderup, Denmark – presents commissioned site-specific works and explores ideas around perception and pre-conceived modes of
experience art. Lislegaard and Ekblad will exhibited outdoor artworks produced during a short residency at Sølyst Castle in April 2010. Other exhibiting
artists 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.
- Curator: Laurie De Chiara, independent curator and Tine Bundgaard Quedenbaum, Director of Sølyst Artist Residence Center, Jyderup, Denmark
- 9–18 July 2010
- G: Torpedo Press, Oslo, Norway
- PS: Grant towards travel and accommodation in relation to the participation of Torpedo Press within the second edition of 'PAPER/VIEW Art Book Fair'
at Wiels Contemporary Arts Centre in Brussels, Belgium. 'PAPER/VIEW' will bring together Europian leading artist book publishers. 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, Roma Publications, among others.
- Curator: Frances Horn, curator, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Ghent, Belgium
- 22–25 April 2010
- G: Kjell Varvin
- b. 1939 in Bærum, Norway, lives and Høvik, Norway
- PS: Grant towards travel and accommodation in connection to Varvin's participation within a two-month residency at
The Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy.
During his stay, the artist will study geometrical patterns in the mosaic pavements of churches in the Veneto-region with the aim of further developing the use of
geometrical patterns within his work.
- Invitation: Henry Martin, Board of Directors, The Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy
- 30 April–30 June 2010
- G: Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- PS: Travel grant towards the participation of Baktruppen (Øyvind Berg b. in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Lillehammer, Norway; Jørgen Knudsen b. 1961
in Bergen, Norway, lives and works in Bergen; Worm Winther b. 1955 in Bergen, lives and works in Oslo; Ingvild Holm b. 1965 in Levanger, Norway, lives and works in Oslo;
Bo Krister Wallström b. 1962 in Stockholm, Sweden, lives and works in Oslo and Berlin, Germany and Per Henrik Svalastog b. 1969 in Oslo, lives and works in Oslo) and
D.O.R (Sverre Gullesen b. 1980 in Mo i Rana, Norway, lives and works in Oslo; Steinar Haga Kristensen b. 1980 in Oslo, lives and works in Oslo and Kristian Ø. Dahl
b. 1968 in Asker, Norway, lives and works in Asker) within 'Let Us Compare Mythologies' at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. '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 Witt the
Wiit's 2009/2010 programme and questions man's relationship to objects and the meaning and the location of the (art) object.
- Curator: Renske Janssen, curator, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- 11–13 June 2010
Grant allocated for International Biennials and Institutional Grant for Solo Exhibitions with 03–funding
- G: Marita Muukkonen and Power Ekroth
- PS: Travel grant towards the participation of Bjørn-Kowalski Hansen (b. 1979 in Nesttun, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) within 'Meta-Realities', the
first Nordic Pavilion at the Dak'Art Biennial, Dakar, Senegal. According to the curators, the exhibition poses the 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 differences?' Other artists exhibiting within 'Meta-Realities' are
Nathalie Djurberg, Parfyme and Jesper Just.
- Curators: Marita Muukkonen and Power Ekroth, curators of the Nordic Pavilion, Dak'Art Biennial, Dakar, Senegal. Viye Diba, curator, Dak'Art 2010
- 7 May–7 June 2010
Grants allocated for International Support with 03–funding
- G: Kjersti G. Andvig
- b. 1978 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo
- PS: Travel grant towards a project development in to Ramallah, Palestine in relation to the projects The Violin Player and Read. The projects are a continuation of the
artist's work with objects that produce sounds or 'speak' and have as point of departure the Black Stone – a secret object within the Muslim tradition. The
project will be exhibited at The Forgotten Bar Project in February 2010, curated by Marcus Knupp and Gallery MGM, Oslo in June and July 2010, curated by Kristian Skylstad.
- Invitation by: Nisreen Naffa', Programme Coordinator, A. M. Qattan Foundation, London, UK and Ramallah, Palestine
- 20 March–1 May 2009
- G: Pernille Leggat Ramfelt
- b. 1976 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Stabekk, Norway
- PS: Travel grant towards the participation of Pernille Leggat Ramfelt within a group exhibition at
1918 Art Space, Shanghai, People's Republic of China. 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.
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 expends 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.
- Curators: Zhao Yonggang, director, 1918 Art Space, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
- June 2010
- G: TOK, St Petersburg, Russia
- PS: Travel grant towards the participation of curator Kari Brandtzæg (b. 1966 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) within the project 'Nordic Art Today'.
The project, comprising of a curatorial research, public/educational programme, a publication and an exhibition, considers curatorial and artistic reflections on challenging
contemporary social issues, such as nationalism, business oriented political agenda, class division, migration, racism and human inequality and social isolation. The exhibition
is planned to take place at Loft Project ETAGI in St. Petersburg, Russia in spring 2011.
- Curator: Anna Bitkina, Programme Manager, CEC ArtsLink, St. Petersburg, Russia
- March–May 2010
