Office for Contemporary Art Norway appoints Mike Sperlinger as Head of Programme
OCA is thrilled to announce the appointment of Mike Sperlinger as Head of Programme. Sperlinger will be leading OCA’s public programme, maintaining the organisation’s position as a prominent contemporary arts institution and identifying new opportunities for development.
10 November 2023
Aliens Network, an Open Conversation at OCA
Three-party artist residency exchange between Japan and Norway
Office for Contemporary Art Norway has collaborated with Kyoto Art Center (Japan) and Nordic Artist’s Centre Dale (Norway) to form a three-party artist residency exchange between Japan and Norway.
19 October 2023
Public Talk with Evagoras Vanezis & Marie-Nour Hechaime
Four reflections from OCA’s curator residency at ISCP, New York
Since its inception, OCA’s curator residency at ISCP has been an opportunity for Norwegian and Norway based curators to expand their networks and develop their practices in one of the global hubs of the world-wide contemporary art scene.
OCA partners with Coast Contemporary for the 2023 edition ‘Ocean Eyes’
OCA is pleased to be a supporting partner of Coast Contemporary’s seventh edition titled ‘Ocean Eyes’, taking place in Lofuotta/Láfot/Lofoten Islands from 18th – 22nd September 2023.
23 August 2023
Curatorial Exchange with Zippora Elders
22 August 2023
Meet and greet CPR fellows of 2023
13 June 2023
Public talk with curator Xenia Benivolski
Norwegian Artists and Galleries at Art Week in Basel, Switzerland
Art Basel is the worlds’s leading art fair in the international art market where over 200 selected galleries from around the world presented modern and contemporary works of high quality. Simultaneously in Basel there were three other art fairs (Liste Art Fair Basel, June Art Fair and VOLTA Art Fair) museums and galleries presenting works by modern masters and emerging talents from all over the world.
OCA Supported Residency at WIELS with Are Blytt
Since 2009, OCA has been sponsoring an artist residency programme at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels. In 2018, Are Blytt undertook a residency stay at WIELS where he found creative support, inspiration, and a kick-start that took his artistic practice abroad.
25 Nov – 26 Nov 2022
A Seminar on Cuir/Queer Approaches to Knowledge Sharing Through Performance
17 November 2022
Launch Event: Art and Solidarity Reader — Radical Actions, Politics and Friendships
27 September 2022
Public Talk with Chief Curator of MUAC, Cuauhtémoc Medina
aabaakwad to celebrate 'The Sámi Pavilion' at the Venice Biennale 2022
Indigenous-led program to feature performances, talks, poetry and music by artists Rebecca Belmore, Stan Douglas, Jeremy Dutcher, Jeffrey Gibson, New World Order, Lávre, Hildá Länsman, Emil Karlsen and Laura Ortman alongside ‘The Sámi Pavilion’ artists Pauliina Feodoroff, Máret Ánne Sara and Anders Sunna
OCA appoints Ruben Steinum as new director
The Board of OCA is proud to announce the appointment of Ruben Steinum as new director. Steinum will lead the institution for the next four years.
Interview with Artica resident Jessica MacMillan
In this video by Artica Svalbard, MacMillan presents 'Time Line', a one-of-a-kind short term public project happening for the first time in Longyearbyen during her residency.
