'Beware of the Holy Whore: Edvard Munch, Lene Berg and the Dilemma of Emancipation' is a project organised by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) and Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice, as the official Norwegian representation at the 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia in 2013.
Background image: Edvard Munch, Samfundslære, årsak og virkning (Social Studies, Cause and Effect) © Munch-museet/Munch-Ellingsen gruppen/ BONO, Oslo 2013
The Office for Contemporary Art Norway is presenting ‘WORD! WORD? WORD! Issa Samb and the Undecipherable Form’, the first solo exhibition in Europe by the seminal Senegalese artist Issa Samb. The exhibition brings together a selection of emblematic works made by Samb over the past 25 years, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, assemblages and installations, as well as objects, artworks made by others and diverse materials he has amassed in his studio in Dakar’s rue Jules Ferry.
Curators Ayatgali Tuleubek and Tiago Bom present the exhibition ‘WINTER’ as the official Central Asian representation at the 55th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, opening 1 June 2013. The title is taken from a poem by Abay Qunanbaiuly, a poet and thinker from the 19th century with a great intellectual and influential legacy on the Central Asian region, through his work dealing with questions of social justice.
