International support September 2007

• G: Grantee
• PS: Project Support

Grants allocated for International Biennials and Major Solo Exhibitions

• G: 5^th berlin biennale for contemporary art, Berlin, Germany
• PS: Participation of Pushwagner (born 1940, Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) in the 5^th Berlin biennale.
• Curators: Adam Szymczyk, Director, Kunsthalle Basel, and Elena Filipovic
• 5 April–15 June 2008

• G: Centre D'Art Contemporain Geneve, Switzerland
• PS: Solo exhibition of Gardar Eide Einarsson (b. 1976 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in New York City, NY, USA) co-produced with the Frankfurter Kunstverein. This represents the first solo exhibition of the artist in Switzerland. Catalogue in production (by Revolver Verlag).
• Curator: Katya García-Antón
• 24 January–16 March 2008

Grants allocated for International Bienniale May 2007

• G: Biennale of Sydney
• PS: Participation in the Biennale of Sydney for aiPotu (Anders Kjellevik: b. 1980 in Norway, Andreas Siqueland b. 1973 in Norway, both live and work in Oslo, Norway), Lene Berg (b. 1965, Oslo, lives and works in Berlin, Germany), Matias Faldbakken (b. 1973 in Hobro, Denmark, lives and works in Oslo, Norway), Annie Anawana Haloba Hobøl (b.1978, Zambia. Lives and works in Oslo, Norway), Hariton Pushwagner (b. 1940, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) and Vibeke Tandberg (b. 1967 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway).
• Curator: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
• A portion of this grant is provided by 03-Funding
• 18 June–7 September 2008

Grants allocated for Major Exhibitions with 03–Funding

• G: Verdensteatret
• PS: Participation of Verdensteatret with a large-scale installation Fortellerorkesteret — The Telling Orchestra in Synthetic Times — Media Art China 2008 at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, China. The exhibition is organized around 4 distinctive yet interrelated themes that testify to the incessant and obsessive pursuit of an ideal world through artistic intervention into media and communications technologies as well as bio-cultural spheres. The 4 themes are: Beyond Body, Emotive Digital, Blur: The Recombinant Reality, and Here, There and Everywhere.
• Curator: Zhang Ga
• 5 June–5 July 2008

Grants allocated for International Support

• G: Kjell Bjørgeengen
• b. 1951 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Stabekk, Norway
• PS: Travel to participate in a live video performance with the cellist Okkyung Lee at The Stone, and with composer Marc Ribot at Issue Space Room, New York, NY, USA.
• 25 November–6 December 2007

• G: Kjell Bjørgeengen
• b. 1951 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Stabekk, Norway
• PS: Participation in Project 33 at Sydney Non Objective (SNO Contemporary Art Projects) as a collaboration between Salvatore Panatteri (SNO) and the artist in Sydney, Australia.
• 2 November–7 December 2007

• G: transmediale: festival for art and digital culture Berlin
• PS: Participation of the work of Lene Berg (b. 1965, Oslo, Norway, lives and works in New York, NY, USA and Oslo, Norway) entitled The Man in the Background within the exhibition Conspire! during transmediale 08 at the House of World Cultures in Berlin, Germany.
• Curator: Natasa Petresin
• 29 January–3 February 2008

• G: Liv Bugge
• b. 1974, Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway
• PS: Participation in a group exhibition at Error One, a nomadic initiative for contemporary art, and also at LLS 387, both spaces located in Antwerp, Belgium. The artist participates with the works Canary Creeper and with Cremation of Care.
• Curators: Ria Van Landeghem (Error One) and Ulrike Lindmayr (LLS 387)
• 6 September–1 December 2007

• G: Rachel Dagnall
• b. 1972, UK, lives and works in Oslo, Norway
• PS: Participation in Spike Island's Autumn Exhibitions, Bristol, UK, within the context of the collaboration of Henry the 8th Wives. Other artists included are Can Altay and Andre Sousa.
• Artistic Director: Lucy Byatt
• 6–25 October 2007

• G: Unni Gjertsen
• b. 1966, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway
• PS: Participation in the final episode of the second edition of If I Can't Dance focusing on "Feminist Legacies and Potentials in Contemporary Art Practice" within a large scale exhibition at the MuHKA — (Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium). Other artists include Sanja Ivekovic, Lili Dujourie, Jef Geys, Jutta Koether, Hito Steyerl, Cathy Wilkes, Karl Holmqvist, Frances Stark.
• Curators: Frédérique Bergholtz, Annie Fletcher, Grant Watson
• 27 October 2007–6 January 2008

• G: Anna Sigmund Gudmundsdottir
• b. 1974, Reykjavik, Iceland, lives and works in Oslo, Norway
• PS: Solo exhibition entitled DoWillMean, consisting of a theatre performance, wall paintings and installation objects at the non-profit space Galleri 54 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Curators: Anita Paakonen and Paula Wallmark-Nilsson
• 23 November–16 December 2007

• G: Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris
• PS: Participation for Knut Åsdam (b. 1968 in Trondheim, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway), Jorunn Myklebost Syversen (b. 1978 in Oslo, Norway lives and works in Oslo, Norway), Ane Lan (b. 1972 Kløfta, Norway, lives and works in Kløfta, Norway) and Annette Stav Johanssen (b. 1979 in Kristiansand, Norway, lives and works in Malmö, Sweden) in a citywide film and video project to be held at Centre Pompidou, Jeu de Paume, and I'Entrepôt, Paris, France.
• Curators: Jean-Francois Rettig, Nathalie Hénon
• 22 November–1 December 2007

• G: Are Mokkelbost
• b. 1976 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway
• PS: Participation in the group exhibition Antidrom, with participating artists Kim Hiorthøy (b. 1973 in Trondheim, Norway, lives and works in Berlin, Germany), Helen Cho, Maverick, Jan Rohlf and Markus Fiedler, to explore the field of tension between graphical abstraction and figurative symbolism. The exhibition is held at General Public, an independent project space based in Berlin, Germany.
• 21 September–4 October 2007

• G: Agnes Nedregård
• b. 1975 in Bergen, Norway, lives and works in Bergen, Norway
• PS: Participation in the festival TulcaLive in Galway, Ireland.
• Curator: Aine Philips
• 9–30 November 2007

• G: Greg Pope
• b. 1960 in London, UK, lives and works in Oslo, Norway
• PS: Participation in The Images Festival, Toronto, Canada, with the film performance Light Trap and with screenings of short films at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC, NY, USA.
• Curator: Pablo de Ocampo, The Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
• 3—12 April 2008
• Curator: Andrew Lampert, Anthology Film Archives, NYC, NY, USA
• 5 April 2008

• G: Marius Watz
• b. 1973 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo
• PS: For curating the second edition of Generator.x within the framework of club transmediale — international festival for adventurous music and related visual arts in Berlin to take place under the theme "Unpredictable". Generator.x 2.0 will be produced in partnership with Universität der Künste Berlin, Fachhochschule Potsdam, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst — Institut HyperWerk (Basel) and The Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
• 24 January–3 February 2008

• G: Øystein Aasan
• b. 1977 in Kristiansand, Norway, lives and works in Berlin, Germany
• PS: Participation in the group exhibition Representation of the artist as an Intellectual at D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany.
• Curator: Leif Magne Tangen
• 24 May–14 June 2008

Grants allocated for 03–Funding

• G: Tone Hansen
• b: 1970 in Trondheim, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway
• PS: Research residency to New Delhi and Mumbai as coordinated by the Kohj Collective in New Delhi, India.
• Curator: Pooja Sood
• January 2008

• G: Kurt Johannessen
• b. 1960 in Bergen, Norway, lives and works in Bergen, Norway
• PS: Participation in the Performance Art Laboratory Project (PALP Project), an intercultural lab for international and national performance artists at the Padepokan Lemah Putih and Cilimas Centre, Tejakula, Bali, Indonesia.
• Curator: Boris Nieslony
• 1–13 April 2008

• G: Olga Robayo
• b. 1972 in Bogotá, Colombia, lives and works in Oslo and Bogotá, Colmbia
• PS: Participation of the artist group El Parche (Herman Mbamba, Marius Wang and Olga Robayo) for the exhibition entitled Supermodel, as organized by Kultivator at W139 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands with a project that integrates consideration of agriculture, ecology, and food production.
• Curator: Gijs Frieling, Director, W139
• 12 October–11 November 2007

• G: Pontus Kyander
• PS: Participation of Sten Are Sandbeck (b. 1969 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) with the artist's work entitled No Show in the project entitled Super Structures — an international project presented by A Little Blah Blah Blah (ALBBB) in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.
• Curators: Pontus Kyander and Sue Hajdu
• 25 August–7 September 2008

• G: Stiftelsen 3,14
• PS: Participation of Regina Jose Galindo (b. 1974, Guatemala, lives and works in Guatemala) in a performance and seminar held at ACT in Bergen. Among participating artists are included Ana Rewakowicz (PL/UA) and Eglè Raukauskaite (LT).
• Curators: Pia Torgersen/Malin Barth
• Spring 2008