The Office for Contemporary Art Norway runs an International Visitor Programme to support international curators and cultural producers in their research in Norway for upcoming exhibitions and projects. Participation in the programme is by invitation although requests for visits are considered based on availability when addressed to OCA.
Mihnea Mircan is the artistic director of Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, where he has recently curated the exhibitions 'A Slowdown at the Museum' and '1:1. Hans van Houweligen and Jonas Staal'. His forthcoming projects are a project with Jean-Luc Moulène and the group exhibition 'Allegory of the Cave Painting'. From 2005 to 2006 he was curator of Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. At the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, he curated exhibitions such as 'Under Destruction', a series of site-specific interventions, 'Sublime Objects' and surveys of the artists Sean Snyder and Jaan Toomik. Other recent curatorial projects include: ‘History of Art, the’, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, 2010; ‘Since we last spoke about monuments’, Stroom Den Haag, 2008; ‘Low-Budget Monuments’, 52nd Venice Biennial, Romanian Pavilion, Venice, 2007. Mircan has recently contributed texts to monographs of Pavel Buchler and Nina Beier, as well as to magazines such as Mousse and Manifesta Journal.
Koyo Kouoh
Koyo Kouoh is a Cameroonian-born curator and cultural producer educated in banking administration, cultural management, and curatorial practice in Switzerland, France, and the United States. She is the founding director of RAW MATERIAL COMPANY, a mobile site for art practice and critical exchange. She was the coordinator of cultural programs at the Gorée Institute in Senegal from 1998 to 2002; collaborated with the Dakar Biennale from 2000 to 2004; and cocurated Les Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie in Bamako in 2001 and 2003. Specialising in photography, video, and public interventions, Kouoh has curated exhibitions in Senegal, Brazil, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and the U.S., and written on contemporary African art. She served as advisor to the artistic director for documenta 12 and was a member of the Golden Lion Jury at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. She co-curated 'Hypocrisy: The Site Specificity of Morality,' National Museum for Art, Architecture, and Design, Oslo (2009); the contemporary section of 'GEO-graphics: A Map of Art Practices in Africa, Past and Present,' BOZAR, Brussels (2010); and 'Make Yourself at Home,' Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2010). Kouoh is associate curator of SUD 2010, Salon Urbain de Douala. She lives and works in Dakar.
