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Office for Contemporary Art Norway

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Office for Contemporary Art Norway

OCA sparks interest, expands opportunities, and strengthens international activities for contemporary art from Norway.

30/01/2026

✨ International Support was provided to artist Signe Lidén for their participation in the group exhibition ‘The Earth is Thinking All Along: A creative geophilosophical travelogue’ at Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, North Macedonia. Curated by Rick Dolphijn.

The next application deadline for International Support is coming up on 3 February! Find out more through our link in bio.

📷 Ana Lazarevska

28/01/2026

The next application deadline for International Support is coming up on the 3 February! Find out more through our link in bio.

In 2023, Thomas Bremerstent was the OCA-nominated artist at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels. This winter, Bremerstent was granted International Production Support and has returned to WIELS to exhibit his new body of work, ‘Revolt from the Center’.

✨ Thomas Bremerstent ‘Revolt from the Center’
🗓️ closing this Saturday, 31.01.26
📍 AFFILIATE: Rue du Jardin des Olives 3 Olivetenhof, 1000 Brussels

📷 Installation view ‘Revolt from the Center’, Thomas Bremerstent, AFFILIATE (WIELS). Photos: Dan Miller / Useful Art Services

12/12/2025

❺ Part Five: Abirami Logendran

This autumn, Abirami Logendran has been the OCA-nominated curator in residence at ISCP in New York. During her time there, Logendran curated the studio exhibition Just-in-Time with former ISCP artist-in-residence Miklos Andersen; guest-curated a film programme at the Vera List Centre; and presented a film programme at e-flux screening room as part of The African Film Institute.

💬 Read a full interview with Abirami on our website, where she talks about her time at ISCP and building networks in New York.

🏙️ Since our founding in 2001, we have supported Norway-based artists and curators to develop their practices and networks in New York. Through our residency partnership with the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), and our International Support schemes for artists and curators, we have been committed to expanding opportunities in one of the world’s most important arenas for contemporary art.

🍂 This autumn, we are proud to have once again supported a range of incredible projects by talented Norway-based artists and curators.

📷 courtesy of Abirami Logendran 📷 Eriola Pira / Vera List Center

11/12/2025

❹ Part Four: Nikhil Vettukattil

Nikhil Vettukattil’s performance, Timepiece (2022/2025), had its New York premiere at MoMA PS1 this November. The performance is part of the group exhibition ‘Four Dilations’.

Loosely structured by the spherical form of a dial, and presented in the round, the performers develop Timepiece via coincidence, collaboration, and negotiation.

International travel & production support was provided to MoMA PS1 for Vettukattil’s performance and participation in the exhibition.

🏙️ Since our founding in 2001, we have supported Norway-based artists and curators to develop their practices and networks in New York. Through our residency partnership with the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), and our International Support schemes for artists and curators, we have been committed to expanding opportunities in one of the world’s most important arenas for contemporary art.

🍂 This autumn, we are proud to have once again supported a range of incredible projects by talented Norway-based artists and curators.

📷 Ryan Muir / MoMA PS1

10/12/2025

❸ Part Three: Sandra Mujinga

In the second half of November, Sandra Mujinga presented ‘Sunless Mouths’, a new installation and durational performance at Park Avenue Armory / Veterans Room.

Mujinga was the 2023 OCA-nominated artist in residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York and received international travel support for ‘Sunless Mouths’ this autumn – along with support for projects at Kochi Muziris Biennale and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

💬’Sunless Mouths’ explores distance and intimacy through worldbuilding rooted in selective memory. Set in the aftermath of abandonment and estrangement, two siblings confront the silence between them, unsure if what they see is real or merely the shadow cast by grief. – Park Avenue Armory

🏙️ Since our founding in 2001, we have supported Norway-based artists and curators to develop their practices and networks in New York. Through our residency partnership with the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), and our International Support schemes for artists and curators, we have been committed to expanding opportunities in one of the world’s most important arenas for contemporary art.

🍂 This autumn, we are proud to have once again supported a range of incredible projects by talented Norway-based artists and curators.

📷 Alexander Sargent / Park Avenue Armory

08/12/2025

✨❷ Part Two: Camille Norment

In mid-November, Camille Norment’s site-informed work ‘Untitled (heliotrope)’ was unveiled at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Commissioned by the museum, Norment’s work was supported by OCA’s international travel support scheme.

The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally, and internationally.

🏙️ Since our founding in 2001, we have supported Norway-based artists and curators to develop their practices and networks in New York. Through our residency partnership with the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), and our International Support schemes for artists and curators, we have been committed to expanding opportunities in one of the world’s most important arenas for contemporary art.

🍂 This autumn, we are proud to have once again supported a range of incredible projects by talented Norway-based artists and curators.

📷 Camille Norment: Untitled (heliotrope) (installation view), 2025. Photo: Kris Graves

05/12/2025

🏙️ Since our founding in 2001, we have supported Norway-based artists and curators to develop their practices and networks in New York. Through our residency partnership with the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), and our International Support schemes for artists and curators, we have been committed to expanding opportunities in one of the world’s most important arenas for contemporary art.

🍂 This autumn, we are proud to have once again supported a range of incredible projects by talented Norway-based artists and curators…

❶ Part One: Lin Wang
 During September and October, OCA supported Lin Wang’s first solo exhibition at HB381 Gallery in New York.

Her exhibition, True Romance, is a siren song luring us deep into Wang’s complex porcelain storytelling of what she calls ‘exotic dreams and poetic misunderstandings.’

📷: Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy

01/12/2025

Huge congratulations to GRIP! 🎉

For the first time ever, one of the world’s most prestigious museum awards has been awarded to a Norwegian initiative.
GRIP — created by Bergen Kjøtt, AKKS Bergen, Carte Blanche – Norway’s national company for contemporary dance, Bergen International Theatre, and technicians Irene Bjørke and Maja Bergebakken Sundt — has just been honoured with the CIMAM Outstanding Museum Practice Award.
A truly well-deserved recognition of groundbreaking work! 💛👏

21/11/2025

👾 We are pleased to collaborate with Verdensrommet and support their 5th-anniversary festival ‘V Festival: We Are Still Here’!

The launch event ‘Mutual support & artist-powered infrastructures’ presents a conversation on artist-led support structures, shared tools and sustainable ways of working in the arts.

🗓️ 24 November
🕔 17:00–18:30
📍 Oslo Kunstforening
🎟️ Free entry, but space is limited

Moderator: Itzel Esquivel, OCA / Verdensrommet
Esquivel works as a Programme Associate for the Programme & Publishing team at OCA, as well as being part of the Verdensrommet network. In their practice as a researcher and writer, they focus on performance and embodied practices from an intersectional and cuir/queer lens.

Host: Patricia Carolina, Verdensrommet
Artist and organiser working primarily with video, text and textile.

Marie Skeie, Her og Der
Artist-run initiative building accessible platforms through publishing, exhibitions and public events.

Paola Jalili, Feminist Culture House
Cultural worker focused on feminist organising, fair artistic labour and long-term community tools.

Marea Lazzára Vigesaa, Diaspora Kollektiv
Artist and organiser working with diaspora narratives, community care and collaborative resistance.

17/11/2025

International Support is provided to Ignas Krunglevičius for his video work Surrogates (2025), shown as part of the group exhibition ‘Shadows Leave Traces’ at the National Gallery of Art, Vilnius.

✨ Shadows Leave Traces
📍National Gallery of Art, Vilnius
🗓️ 07.11.25 – 08.02.26

📹 About Surrogates: ‘Ignas Krunglevičius’ mother, Emilija, was born in Igarka, into a family of deportees. Based on her ongoing recollections of childhood, the artist’s film explores the nonlinear transmission of memory across generations. Fragmented parental stories often take on new shapes in the imagination of their children, while the gaps between them are filled with symbolic constructions. To underscore this interweaving of real and imagined memories, Krunglevičius situates his narrative in the Norwegian Arctic landscape lying at a similar latitude to Igarka, which serves as a substitute for the sites of memory. Through its visual and sonic composition, the film reveals the multi-layered nature of (post)memory, where absence becomes as meaningful as presence.’

13/11/2025

Following institutional visits in Bergen on Monday and Tuesday, our visiting group of Austrian-based curators and directors arrived in Oslo yesterday. Thanks to UKS, Fotogalleriet, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo Kunstforening and Kunstnernes Hus for hosting us and giving insights into the work they do. To round out the Oslo leg of their programme, the group will visit Ida Ekblad’s Spetaccolo, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Tori Wrånes studio, Rådhus studios, The National Museum and Munch Triennale.

Special thanks to Bergen Assembly and UKS for each programming a day of our week-long itinerary.

10/11/2025

This week, a group of Austria-based curators and directors is visiting Norway as guests of OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway on a five-day research trip, including an individual research day.

This research trip is part of an exchange between Phileas – The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art and OCA – Office for Contemporary Art.

Joining us for this week’s research trip:

Anne Faucheret, Independent curator, Vienna
Monika Georgieva, Independent curator, Vienna
F***y Hauser, Director, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
Tom Engels, Artistic Director, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
Astrid Peterle, Chief Curator, MuseumsQuartier (MQ), Vienna
Pieternel Vermoortel, Senior Curator, steirischer herbst, Graz

Phileas organises an annual curatorial research trip, partnering with organisations that carry out similar work and run a Visitor Programme.

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