2012/11/29
Morten Krohg at Raw Material Company, Dakar

Morten Krohg, Folkets kunst?, 1972. Courtesy of the artist
OCA ANNOUNCES
Morten Krohg in residency at Raw Material Company, Dakar
December 2012
with a lecture and performance in collaboration with Issa
Samb
Friday, 7 December 2012 / 20:30
Raw Material Company
4074 bis Sicap Amitié 2
Dakar, Senegal
Morten Krohg will participate in a residency in
December 2012 at Raw Material Company in Dakar. During his visit
the artist will conduct research on Senegalese contemporary art and
its historical contexts within the country’s social and political
movements. He will meet with professors at the Institut Supérieur
des Arts et de la Culture and Cheikh Anta Diop University and visit
major museums and cultural sites in Dakar. Throughout the
residency, Krohg will maintain a dialogue with artist Issa
Samb in which they will explore their shared engagement
with radical activist art strategies developed in their respective
practices during the 1960s and 1970s in the seemingly opposing
contexts of Senegal and Norway. On 7 December,
Krohg and Samb will engage in a collaborative lecture and
performance at Issa Samb's studio in Dakar.
The residency is supported by O3–funds* and is part of a series of
programme activities OCA is developing in relation to art,
society and politics in contemporary Africa, leading up to the solo
exhibition by the Senegalese artist Issa Samb, which will open in
winter 2013 in OCA’s public space.
The Raw Residency is part of the residential programme of Raw Material Company in Dakar. It is directed towards artists, architects, academics, curators and critical writers, and facilitates production of new works that provide a visual and critical discourse on social and political issues. The residency programme is strongly attached to community engagement as a mean to reintegrate art practice as a defining part of society. The overall aim of the residency programme is to sustain a continuous presentation of and a confrontation with African and Africa-related artistic practices.
About the artist
Morten Krohg is a Norwegian artist who since the 1960s has
demonstrated a radical political awareness through his art. He was
part of the Norwegian 1960s avant-garde scene, and became an
important figure in the radical leftist movements of the 1970s as a
member of the artists' collective Gras (1969–74). His work
encompasses photography, installation and painting. In addition to
his own artistic practice, Krohg has been vital to the
democratisation of Norwegian art institutions and a champion of
artists’ rights throughout his career. He served as chairman of
Kunstnernes Hus (1966–69), acted as director of Vestlandets
Kunstakademi in Bergen for two terms (1973–79 and 1986–91) and was
professor at the Department of Aesthetics at the Oslo University
College (1997–2007).
*About
O3–funds
Morten Krohg's residency at Raw Material Company is supported by
O3–funds as underwritten by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs for enhancing collaboration in the contemporary art field
with art professionals in countries designated by the MFA. The
purpose of the O3–funds as allocated to OCA is to contribute to the
development of the work of artists, independent cultural producers
and organisations located in designated 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', 'seminars, conferences, art
projects, workshops that focus on the further development of
professional exchange and networking between and among countries',
and 'project development on an international scale'.