Recipients 2015

Support is provided to the 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia for the participation of artist Knut Åsdam (b.1968 in Trondheim, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) for his participation in the biennial. Knut Åsdam will contribute with his work Archive (Migration) (2010). Other participating artists include Marianne Muller, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Wenfeng Liao & Bignia Wehrli, Сatherine Biocca, Lu Pingyuan, Ju Anqi, Chris Paul Daniels, Chim Pom and Marianne Heier.
Curator: Li Zhenhua, Curator, 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia

NOK 8 000

Support is provided to the artist group Lloyd Corporation (consisting of Sebastian Lloyd Rees (b.1986, Stavanger, Norway, lives and works in London, UK) and Ali Eisa) for their participation in the exhibition 'Mirror City' at the Hayward Gallery, London, UK with the publication project 'The World For Less'. According to the artist group the publication will be 'gathering and developing a significant body of artistic research that culminated in performance and installation works commissioned by the Hayward Gallery, London for the 2014/5 survey of London artists entitled Mirror City. (…) The free publication will be launched at ARCO Art Fair 2016, Madrid, alongside the artists presentation, made available from Hayward gallery, other London based institutions and independent art bookshops.'
Curator: Stephanie Rosenthal, Chief curator, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

NOK 22 558

Support is provided to artist Karl Ingar Røys (b.1967 in Volda, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) for his exhibition `Nabucco´ in Espacio Trapezio, Madrid, Spain. According to the artist he `will show a two channel HD film and relating photos about the singers in the infamous activist-choir La Solfónica documenting their musical, social and political preparations for the European demo in Brussels. (…) This work is a continuation of my research on the impact of cultural activism towards civil society’s progress.´
Curator: Juan Garcia, curator, Nabucco, Espacio Trapezio, Madrid, Spain

NOK 5 000

Support is provided to the artist group C-LAB (consisting of Håvard Boland (b.1975, Ålesund, Norway, lives and works in London, UK) and Laura Cinti) for their participation in the exhibition GLOBALE Exo-Evolution at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany. According to the artists, 'Living Mirror is an art installation that combines software, electronics and magnetotactic bacteria to produce patterns or images. It was the winning entry for the Artists & Designers for Genomic award (2012-2013) in the Netherlands and was subsequently developed at FOM institute AMOLF in Amsterdam following a six-month residency (2013).' Participating artists include Yuri Ancarani, Hermann Cuntz, Electronic Shadow (Naziha Mestaoui & Yacine Aït Kaci), Agnes Meyer- Brandis, Byron Rich and Where Dogs Run.
Curator: Peter Weibel, Curator, GLOBALE Exo-Evolution, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany

NOK 13 379

Support is provided to artist Inger Wold Lund (b.1983 in Bergen, Norway, lives and works in Berlin, Germany) who is invited to do a reading from her publication Leaving Leaving Behind Behind launched by the Ugly Duckling Presse, New York, USA, earlier this year. The reading is part of their series Lighght Reading which is a bi-monthly reading and performance series held in New York City and beyond. Wold Lund will also meet the press and the artists and poets involved in the Ugly Duckling Presse factory in Brooklyn, New York.
Curator: Emmalea Russo, Editorial collective, Ugly Duckling Presse, New York, USA

NOK 8 717

Support is provided to artist Beate Petersen (b.1962 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo), for the screening of her documentary Nasseredin Shah and his 84 Wives (2011) at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, NY, USA, as a part of the programme connected to the exhibition `The Eye of the Shah: Qajar Court Photography and the Persian Past´. According to the pressrelease, `This major exhibition presents some 180 photographs and four photographic albums — the great majority of which have never been publicly displayed — created at a pivotal time in Iran, when the country was opening itself to the Western world.’ Other participating professionals include Mirjam Brusius, Layla S.Diba and Judith A.Lerner.
Curator: Carmen Perez Gonzalez, Curator, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, USA

NOK 12 140

Support is provided to the artists Lars Cuzner (b.1974 in Södertälje, Sweden, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) and Cassius Fadlabi (b.1975 in Omdurman, Sudan, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) for their participation in Performa 2015, New York, NY, USA. They will give a presentation of `The Congo Village´ (2014) produced under the name European Attraction Limited for Public Art Norway (KORO) within the Performa Institute program. Other participating artists include Brian Fuata, Chimurenga, Eve Sussman, David Gilbert and Paul Pescador and Fabiana Lopes.
Curator: Esa Nickle, curator, Performa 2015, New York, USA

NOK 24 000

Support is provided to artist Lise Bjørne Linnert (b.1964 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) for her participation in the exhibition `The Common Thread – Sexual Violence against Women in Contemporary Art´ at the Foyer of the Regional Justice Court, Munich, Germany. She will contribute with her project ?`Desconocida Unknown Ukjent´, initiated in 2006, utilising an international mass collaboration, embroidering nametags to protest the continuing murder of women in Juárez, Mexico, and in remembrance of similar crimes worldwide. According to the curator, `The aim of "The Common Thread" is to raise awareness through the arts about the global pandemic of sexual violence against women: which is a consequence of false dogmas, inequalities and stereotypes.´ Other participating artists includes Barbara Hartmann, Stephanie Müller & Klaus Erich Dietl and Shari Pierce.
Curator: Dr Alexandra Mackel, Curator, `The Common Thread – Sexual Violence against Women in Contemporary Art´, Foyer of the Regional Justice Court, Munich, Germany

NOK 11 000

Support is provided to curator Thora Dolven Balke (b.1982 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Bøstad, Norway) who is invited by Li Zhenhua to co-curate the exhibition 'Distant Shadow', the first collaboration project between the Jimei district in China and the photo festival ARLES in France, Jimei X Arles: East West Encounters International Photo Festival in Xiamen, China. According to curator and CEO of the festival Li Zhenhua, Jimei X Arles 'emphasizes the issues of artists’ positions and work practices, generating nine special topics, such as audio visual, city navigation, double nostalgia, extended photography, independent photography and local action'. Participating artists include Kamilla Langeland, Zhang Xinjun, Vegard Moen, Jana Winderen, Elodie Pong, Gaby Steiner, Wu Chao, Justin Swinburne, E.B. Itso and Mercedes Müleisen.
Curator: Thora Dolven Balke, Distant Shadow, Jimei X Arles: East West Encounters International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China

NOK 26 100

Support is provided to artist Marthe Ramm Fortun (b.1978 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) for her artist-in-residency Live at LICA, at the Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University, Lancaster, England. According to the invitation the artist is invited `to interact with the collection of gifts donated to the Lancaster University, ranging from prints by Pablo Picasso to autodidact crafts. Fortun's stay will involve a continuous engagement with students and staff at the Lancaster University, traversing boundaries between academic and artistic practice. The residency will conclude with a presentation and exhibition in Live at LICA’s public programme in February 2016.´
Curator: Jamie Eastman, Director, Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University, Lancaster, England

NOK 10 000

Support is provided to Project Art Writing organised by Aarhus Centre for Litterature in Aarhus, Denmark, for the participation of the artist Signe Lidén (b.1981 in Trondheim, Norway, lives and works in Bergen, Norway) in 'Where Were We' - a festival on writing, intimacy and body at Godsbanen in Århus, Denmark. According to the applicant, 'Signe Lidén will make a sound-performance that is called "Wave forms and tunnel vision". The sound performance builds upon recorded material from an iron mine and a necropolis in the area of Cagliari, Sardinia. The work reflects on the subterranean in connection to property relations and histories of absence.' Other participating artists include Gerry Bibby, Gerard Byrne, Guattari Reading Circle, MonoMono and James Wilkes.
Curator: Daniela Cascella, part of the curatorial team, Where Were We, Project Art Writing, Gram, Denmark

NOK 3 165

Support is provided to artist Per William Kilde (b.1932 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Grimstad, Norway) for his participation in Salon Des Beaux Arts 2015 i Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France, with his painting Demain? (2014). The Salon Des Beaux Arts 2015 is under the Highest Patron of the Arts, the President of France Francois Hollande, and is organised by the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts. The salon has existed for more than 150 years.
Curator: Michel King, President, Salon Des Beaux Arts 2015, Paris, France

NOK 6 500

Support is provided to artist Cassius Fadlabi (b.1975 in Omdurman, Sudan, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) for his solo exhibition at the Nile Sunset Annex in Cairo, Egypt. Fadlabi plans to present the result of his research over the last five years, amongst other works the painting installation The Prediction Machine (2013) shown at the Sharjah Biennial 11. According to the curator, 'An exhibition of Fadlabi’s work at Nile Sunset Annex in Cairo would produce a much-needed discussion about contemporary art practice in Africa and the African diaspora.'
Curator: Maxa Zoller, Independent Curator, Cairo, Egypt

NOK 20 000

Support is provided to artist Kaia Hugin (b.1975, Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Kolbotn, Norway) for her solo exhibition titled `Motholic Mobbles at Fotogalleriet Format´ in Malmö, Sweden. Kaia Hugin’s series of short video performances called Motholic Mobbles is produced from 2008, and so far counting nine parts. According to the project description with text by art critic Arve Rød, `The mobbles’ unreal, but nevertheless highly physical and evidently painful, strictly choreographic patterns of movement, seem to want to melt the physical and real—the body, nature and gravity—with the logic of dreams and abstract experiences.´
Curator: Anna-Karin Andersson, Director, Fotogalleriet Format, Malmö, Sweden

NOK 9 437

Support is provided to the curator Hilde Methi (b.1970 in Kirkenes, Norway, lives and works in Kirkenes) who is curating a double solo exhibition titled 'Improvement of Market Facilities' together with Ulrike Solbrig at the ZUKUNFT am Ostkreuz, Bildersaal Zukunft in Berlin, Germany. According to Methi, 'they will present their last Mobile Kultur Byrå (MKB) intervention in Kirkenes on the Russian Market titled 'Improvement of Market Facilities', where they equipped the fourteen commuting Russian Market traders with tents. Each backside is designed by an artist. The exhibition invites all artists who contributed to feature their 'original' behind their design. Furthermore, they will do a book-launch related to 'Improvement of Market Facilities'. Ulrike Solbrig will also contribute an artistic comment to MKB's work.
Curators: Hilde Methi (cutator) and Ulrike Solbrig (artist and curator), 'Improvement of Market Facilities', ZUKUNFT am Ostkreuz, Bildersaal Zukunft, Berlin, Germany.

NOK 18 000

Support is provided to the SculptureCenter, Long Island, USA, for the participation of artist Tori Wrånes (b.1978 in Kristiansand, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) in the 'The Eccentrics', an upcoming New York international group exhibition. According to the SculptureCenter, 'The Eccentrics' will feature two new sculptures by Wrånes, who will also create a single performance event that will be free and open to the public on the exhibition opening day taking place on Saturday, January 23, 2016, (…) and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated publication.' Other participating artists include Sanya Kantarovsky, Adriana Lara, Ieva Misevičiūtė, Eduardo Navarro, Jeanine Oleson, Georgia Sagri and Zhou Tao.
Curator: Ruba Katrib, Curator, SculptureCenter, Long Island, USA

NOK 29 892

Support is provided to the institution Stiftelsen 3,14 in Bergen, Norway, for the participation of artists Gitte Sætre (b.1975 in Bergen, Norway, lives and works in Bergen) and Adriana Alves (b.1976 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, lives and works in Bergen, Norway) in the Cultural Dialogue Workshop in the Kooshk Residency, in Teheran, Iran, through the exchange programme they have initiated. According to the applicant in addition 'two Iranian artists will come to Bergen and the programme will result in an art exhibition at 3,14 and the Gallery Mohsen in Tehran.'
Curator: Ceemin Golshan, curator, Cultural Dialogue Workshop, the Kooshk Residency, Teheran, Iran

NOK 20 000

Support is provided to Temporary Gallery, Centre for contemporary art, Cologne, Germany for the participation of artist Mohammed Ali Fadlabi (b.1975 in Omdurman, Sudan, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) in the exhibition titled 'Handsome Ali, Maji Maji, and the Brother from Another Planet'. According to the curator, 'The exhibition and programme form a collection of stories told and histories untold through alien encounters, local heroes, hybrid genders and African astronomy.' Other participating artists include Kapwani Kiwanga and Rana Hamadeh.
Curator: Jens Maier-Rothe, curator, 'Handsome Ali, Maji Maji, and the Brother from Another Planet', Temporary Gallery. Centre for contemporary art, Cologne, Germany

NOK 21 256

Support is provided to artist Emma Brack (b.1982 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) for the participation in the parallel programme MB6 of the Marrakech Biennale 2016 in Marrakech, Morocco.
Brack will contribute with the multimedia installation Catching the Wind, thematising the nearly extinct whistling language known as Silbo Gomero. According to the artist, 'the work explores Silbo Gomero as a form of cultural adaptation in which the indigenous population maintained a sense of community, agency and preservation; and how the language functioned as a revolt against colonisation and as sonic public poetry. Catching the Wind considers the potential of oral traditions as systems of resistance existing as alternatives to the conventions of knowledge of written language and how this may offer ruptures in our perception of time'.
Curator: Reem FADDA, Curator, Marrakech Biennale 2016, Marrakech, Morocco.

NOK 10 000

Support is provided to artist Jumana Manna (b.1987 in New Jersey, USA, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) for her participation in the Marrakech Biennale 2016, Marrakech, Morocco, titled 'Not New Now'. The biennale will investigate cultural authenticity, tradition, and craft across the Middle East and Africa as well as the lineage of modernity as applied to 20th century art by deconstructing its concepts of newness, originality, and advancement in the context of modern and contemporary art form the region. According to the artist, she 'will be collaborating with the local craftsmen to construe an outdoor sculpture installation on a given number of lots through an archaeological site. (…) the actual material will be provided and shaped by local craftsmen, to include mosaic, metalwork and stonemasonry. In some cases, the craftsmen.'
Curator: Reem FADDA, Curator, Marrakech Biennale 2016, Marrakech, Morocco.

NOK 10 000

Support is provided to the artist group Daisuke Kosugi (b.1984 in Tokyo, Japan, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) and Ina Hagen (b.1989 in Ringerike, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) for their solo exhibition at INCA (Institute for New Connotative Action) Seattle, Seattle, USA. According to the artist group, `we will produce a new work following our ongoing exploration of contemporary gender expressions. The work mainly consists of installation and sculpture, which forms the stage for performances. We aim to collaborate with local groups for the performances, like the contemporary dance center, the University of Washington and local activist groups.´
Curator: Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas, Founders and Directors, INCA, Seattle and Detroit, USA

NOK 14 000

Support is provided to Triple Canopy in New York, NY, USA for the participation of artist Per-Oskar Leu (b.1980 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) in the symposium 'Deferred Consumption: A Symposium on the Economies of Art'. According to the applicant, '"Deferred Consumption" will benefit greatly from Leu’s past research concerning historical myth and the role that archival materials can play in lending credibility and value to such stories.' Other participating artists include Cameron Rowland, Anne Boyer, and Marvin Taylor.
Curator: Molly Kleiman, Deputy Editor, Triple Canopy, New York, USA

NOK 17 692

Support is provided to the 20th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia titled 'The Future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed', for the participation of artist Mette Edvardsen (b.1970 in Lørenskog, Norway, lives and works in Brussels, Norway). According to the applicant, 'Edvardsen will present new iterations of two works No Title (2014), and Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine (2010). (…) Edvardsen will be invited to Sydney to perform her work, and to participate in the Biennale’s Opening Week programmes and events. Other participating artist Samuel Beckett, Cevdet Erek, Yannick Dauby and Wan-Shuen Tsai, Keg de Souza, Chiharu Shiota and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Curator: Dr Stephanie Rosenthal, Artistic Director, 20th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

NOK 53 038

Support is provided to the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, for the participation of artist Camille Norment (b.1970 in Maryland, USA, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) in a collaboration with the LaSaM Music’s ensemble Experimental Music Unit (EMU) based in Victoria, British Columbia, and the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. According to the applicant' 'The idea to bring Norment to the province stems from her use of a glass armonica — a legendary 18th-century instrument that creates ethereal music from glass and water — and her recent installation 'Rapture' for the Venice Biennale, a work that resonates with local history in that Vancouver was proposed as the site in 1969 where US visual artist Robert Smithson (1938- 1973) attempted to create an earthwork which was never realized: Island of Broken Glass.'
Curator: Nigel Prince, Executive Director, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

NOK 40 000

Support is provided to artist Greg Pope (b.1960 in London, UK, lives and works at Nesodden, Norway) for his participation in the The Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (BIM), Buenos Aires, Argentina, with his projector performance `Cipher Green´, and a new slide projector piece. He will also show a programme of film work including Shot Film, Shadow Trap and Incidence Room. According to the curator the BIM is a biennial dedicated to the experimental cinema and video. In addition to the works there are workshops, lectures, seminars, artist meetings and roundtable debates. Curator: Andrés Denegri and Gabriela Golder, Directors, BIM, Buenos Aires, Argentina

NOK 14 500

Support is provided to the Asia Art Archive for the presentation of artist Brandon LaBelle (b.1969 in USA, lives and works in Bergen, Norway) within the workshop series ‘Property, Protest, Commons and the Alternative Economies of Art’ at the Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong, China. According to AAA, ‘each workshop will be anchored by significant voices in the field alongside invited regional participants/guest respondents. Contributors will draw from their own practice to interrogate the links between the three topics and formulate new questions arising from their specific methodologies and concerns’. Other participating artists include Antony Hudek, Maria Lind, Esther Liu, Ingrid Chu, Hammad Nasar and Phoebe Wong.
Curator: Marysia Lewandowska, AAA resident artist, and Ingrid Chu, Curator of Public Programme, AAA, Hong Kong, China

NOK 9 000

Support is provided to artist Anne-Lise Stenseth (b.1959 in Florø, Norway, lives and works in Dalsåsen, Norway) for the exhibition 'Anne Lise Stenseth - Selected video works 2008-2014' at the Exhibition hall Titanikas at the Vilnius Academy of Arts Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. Stenseth will show excerpts from The Kiss and Waste Project (2007–11) ­– a multichannel video installation made in Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and United Kingdom; Qvela peri - Ara peri (2013–14), – a film project dealing with circumstances and incidents connected to the relationship between Georgia and Russia, their troubled past and present, and the myth that has evolved around the Norwegian writer, musician and cultural agent Dagny Juel (1867-1901) that was shot in a hotel room in the former Grand Hotel in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1901; the film Suspended Dust (2014) – a portrait of Dagny Juel speaking from the grave and trying to confront things from the past which leads to the development of a strong desire to go back to Norway; and Notes On Political Economy (2014) – a film in which the script is developed from an old notebook found in ruins in Tbilisi.
Curator: Viktoras Liutkus, Director, Vilnius Academy of Arts Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania

NOK 6 000

Support is provided to artist Marius Engh (b.1974 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) for the solo exhibition 'Nec Plus Ultra' at Taylor Macklin in Zürich, Austria. According to the artist, the exhibition consists of 'objects and photographs based on ideas concerning the significance of the Strait of Gibraltar to the Western world. It is defined by the "Pillars of Hercules" – two opposite rock formations which in antiquity made the outermost point of what was separating the known from the unknown. "Nec Plus Ultra" means that there is "nothing further beyond" (…) The dollar sign is said to derive from a symbolic rendering referring to the pillars and a curling banner curling upon them which was used to mark the Spanish dollar and was brought to America and adopted as a sign and name of several monetary systems. Now the world is coming to Europe as refugees and migrating workers, through the same gate.'
Curator: Thomas Julier, Curator, Taylor Macklin, Zürich, Austria

NOK 12 000

Support is provided to ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Aarhus, Denmark, for the presentation of a solo exhibition by artist Gardar Eide Einarsson (b.1976 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Tokyo, Japan, and New York, NY, USA) titled ‘A madman, a patient, a condemned man, a worker or a schoolboy’. According to the curator, ‘the show is conceived as a large installation, consisting of ten to fifteen large-scale black gestural paintings. Each painting has images of large tarps silkscreened directly over the painting itself, creating a big black square on top of the canvas and over the motif which obscures everything but the edges of the painted area masking (or redacting) the painting. In addition to this there will be a large-scale scatter installation made of fabric covering much of the floor’. In addition to the exhibition ARoS is going to publish a catalogue with a peer-reviewed text by the Norwegian curator, author and museum director Åsmund Thorkildsen and with an introduction by curator Lise Pennington. ‘A madman, a patient, a condemned man, a worker or a schoolboy’ is the first project in the new exhibition series ‘FOCUS // NEW NORDIC’, showing nine Nordic artist over a three-year span. Other solo artists in the series will be Marten Damgaard and artist duo Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg.
Curator: Lise Pennington, Chief curator, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark

NOK 25 000

Support is provided to artist Signe Lidén (b.1981 in Trondheim, Norway, lives and works in Bergen, Norway) for the participation in the Hong Kong edition of Papay Gyro Nights organised by Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival in Papay Westray, Orkney Islands, UK. Lidén has been invited to produce a new realisation of the sound installation ’Beyond’ and do a screening of krysning/(...)/interflux, as well as contribute to the Transdisciplinary University sessions lead by the Hong Kong University. In 2013 Lidén was an artist in residence at the Orkney Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival, and she has now been invited to come back for the Hong Kong edition. Other participating artists include Grace Schmidt, Verena Kuselka, Deniz Üster, Juha van Ingen, Jarkko Räsänen and Seppo Renvall.
Curator: Tsz Man Chan & Ivanov, Directors and Curators, Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival, Papay Westray, Orkney Islands, UK

NOK 10 870

Support is provided to Elida Brenna Linge (b.1982 in Valldal, Norway, lives and works in Valldal) for the participation in BAiR Late Winter Intensive at The Banff Centre in Banff, Canada. Linge is running the artist residency project the Winterstudio/Hansplassen together with fellow artist Andreas Siqueland, and she states that ‘I see the meeting of arts professionals in Banff as an opportunity not only to present myself and my art work, but also Linge and it’s surrounding landscape, for potential future artist residents. At the same time, my stay at Banff will give me a chance to observe and learn how a residency of that scale is being run.’
Curator: Kristy Trinier, Curator, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada

NOK 8 000

Support is provided to curator David Thorp for including Joar Nango (b.1979 in Alta, Norway, lives and works in Tromsø, Norway) in ‘Potential Architecture at Ambika P3 in London, UK. According to the curator, ‘Sami-Norwegian Jaor Nango studied architecture and also works as an artist doing site specific installations in galleries and public spaces as well as producing buildings that are inspired by the creative simplicity and DIY mentality that exists within rural environments in Northern Norway. As part of ‘Potential Architecture’, Nango has been commissioned to develop a work that deals with transition from nomad life to urban life in Ulaanbaatar/Mongolia, which he visited during an OCA International Residency in Beijing in 2014’. ‘Potential Architecture’ will travel to Tromsø Kunstforening in Tromsø, Norway in 2016. Other participating artists include Alexander Brodsky, Sean Griffiths and Apolonija Sustersi.
Curator: David Thorp, Curator, ‘Potential Architecture, Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London, UK

NOK 15 000

Support is provided to RAKE visningsrom in Trondheim, artist Per Kristian Nygård (b.1979 in Trondheim, Norway, lives and works in Trondheim) and artist A K Dolven (b.1953 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Lofoten, Norway, and London, UK) for the participation in the exhibition ‘Prophetia’ at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, Spain. In the autumn of 2014 RAKE visningsrom in Trondheim produced two new cinematographic works together with the Spanish artist Jordi Colomer. One of the works, the ‘Sjøbadet Alphabeth’ will now appear in the Prophetia exhibition at the Miró center. In a wish to further expand the Norwegian-Spanish cooperation and network, the curator has invited A K Dolven with the audiopice ‘Seven Voices’ and the Trondheim-based artist Per Kristian Nygård to attend the exhibition with a series of prints, titled ‘Repetition as a Form of Change’, also produced by RAKE. Other participating artists include Anri Sala, Jimmie Durham, Núria Güell, Luiz Simoes and Sabina Simón.
Curator: Imma Prieto, Curator, Prophetia’, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain

NOK 16 000

Support is provided to artist Marthe Ramm Fortun (b.1978 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) for the site-specific performance 'I Saw My Future in Your Eyes' at Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts Brussels within Performatik in Brussels, Belgium. According to the artist, she plans to invite a general audience to 're-interpret selected portraits from the Bozar-exhibitions “The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art” and “Renaissance Portraiture in the Low Countries”. Other participating artists include Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Bára Sigfúsdóttir & Noémie Goudal, Beatrice Balcou, Benoît Félix, Heine Avdal & Yukiko Shinozaki/fieldworks and Xavier Le Roy.
Curator: Gerd Van Looy, Artistic Manager; and Katleen Van Langendonck, Co-Artistic director and Curator of Performatik, Brussels, Belgium

NOK 7 000

Support is provided to artist Lene Berg (b.1965 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Berlin, Germany) for her participation in the seminar 'Revoir Picasso' at the Picasso Museum in Paris, France. Berg is going to screen excerpts from her film Stalin by Picasso or Portrait of Woman with Moustache" (2008) and to have a public dialogue with the curator Elena Sorokina. Other participants include John Richardson, Hiromi Matsui, Elizabeth Cowling, Ann Hoenigswal, Philippe Dagen and Adel Abdessemed.
Curator: Elena Sorokina, Curator, ‘Revoir Picasso’, Picasso Museum, Paris, France

NOK 4 500

Support is provided to artist Regina Maria Möller (b.1962 in Munich, Germany, lives and works in Trondheim, Norway) for her participation in the exhibition research project 'Place. Labour. Capital' by invitation by the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore. According to the artist her 'contribution develops step-by-step within the exhibition time-period and takes on the form of an extending and transformable curtain(s) (…) The curtains are based on clothing, textiles, and patterns referring to the New Silk Road.'
Curator: Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore, Singapore

NOK 20 000

Support is provided to artist Nina Torp (b.1970 in Sandefjord, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway and Berlin, Germany) for the presentation of the solo exhibition 'In Between Images' at the Galerie im Turm in Berlin, Germany. The artist plans to present a new site specific work in which she intends 'to study the monumental architecture in Karl-Marx-Allee as a scenography for the former political governance'. The exhibition will be made up a video piece blending analogue and digital imagery in a collage technique projected inside of an installation; a large-scale Leporello made of prints on fibre-boards mounted together in a sequence of folds; and a wallpaper made of two sets of black and white analogue photocopies mounted on two walls.
Curator: Naomi Hennig, Curator, Galerie im Turm, Berlin, Germany

NOK 6 566

Support is provided to artist Cathrine Maclennan Kramer (b.1982 in Bergen, Norway lives and works in Harfsfjord, Norway) for a residency and the development of an art project within the programme 'The Politics of Food – Season 2: Sex Diet and Disaster' at the Delfina Foundation in London, UK. Kramer plans to spend the time doing research for a feature length hybrid film between a documentary and an artist film with the working title We Have Always Been BioHackers. The film will, according to the artist, 'depict some of the ways humans have and are manipulating the planet from the perspective of food production and especially consumption'. Other participating artists include Taus Makhacheva, Matheus Rocha Pitta, Daniel Salomon and Lantian Xie.
Curator: Nat Muller, Curator, The Politics of Food – Season 2: Sex Diet and Disaster’, Delfina Foundation, London, UK

NOK 20 000

Support is provided to the artist group B-Open bokkunstgruppe consisting of Sarah Jost (b.1979 in Sweden, lives and works in Bergen, Norway), Imi Maufe (b.1974 in Norfolk, UK, lives and works in Bergen, Norway), Randi Annie Strand (b.1962 in Ytre Namdal, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) and Rita Marhaug (b.1965 in Bergen, Norway, lives and works in Bergen) for the participation of Norske bøker (‘Norwegian books’) in the Bristol Artists Book Event (BABE), at Arnolfini in Bristol, UK. According to the artists, ‘Norske bøker is a collection of 45 artists books made by 25 artists, based mainly in Bergen or with a connection to Bergen. The collection has been put together by B-Open bokkunstgruppe, an informal group of artists with special interest in artists books in Bergen. The collection was commissioned to represent Norway at '3 Nordic Exhibitions' at Doverodde Book Art Centre, Denmark in 2014 and has been shown at Bergen Art Book Fair 2014’. Other participants include ABPress, AMBruno, Aidan Moesby , Alembic Books, Ambeck Design, Amber Hsu , Andrew Law, Angela Thames, Annwyn Dean, Antic-Ham, Antonio Freiles / Spazio Libro d'Artista, Artist Book Club and Artistsbooksonline.com.
Curator: Sarah Bodman, Bristol Artists Book Event (BABE), Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

NOK 12 000

Support is provided to Brynhild Bye-Tiller (b.1968 in Levanger, Norway, lives and works in Trondheim, Norway) for the presentation of the 'Ramallah–Trondheim Series' within The Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival (RCDF) at Sareyyet Ramallah in Al-Tireh Street, Ramallah, Palestine. According to the artist, the project is a 'cooperative effort between a Norwegian visual artist, a Palestinian women's football team, a Norwegian women's football team, artists and art students in Palestine along with local partners in Norway and Palestine'. The collaboration included a ten-day stay in Norway for the Palestinian soccer team Sareyyet Ramallah, and a lecture and workshop in Ramallah as well as an exhibition in Ramallah and Trondheim, Norway.
Curator: Khaled Elayyan, Festival Director, The Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival, Ramallah, Palestine

NOK 15 000

Support is provided to artist Marit Følstad (b.1969 in Tromsø, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) for a portfolio presentation within the Grosses Treffen in Berlin, Germany. Grosses Treffen is a professional networking event between artist and curators organised by the Nordic Embassies in Berlin to strengthen the network between Nordic artists and the Berlin art scene. In 2015 this event expands with art professionals and institutions from Frankfurt am Main. Participating reviewers include Nico Anklam, Ellen Blumenstein, Katharina Dohm, Power Ekroth, Anne Goetz, Bonaventure Ndikung and Amelie Wedel.
Curator: Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Curator, Grosses Treffen, Berlin, Germany

NOK 3 000

Support is provided to artist Victoria Durnak (b.1989 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) for a portfolio presentation within the Grosses Treffen in Berlin, Germany. Grosses Treffen is a professional networking event between artist and curators organised by the Nordic Embassies in Berlin to strengthen the network between Nordic artists and the Berlin art scene. In 2015 this event expands with art professionals and institutions from Frankfurt am Main. Participating reviewers include Nico Anklam, Ellen Blumenstein, Katharina Dohm, Power Ekroth, Anne Goetz, Bonaventure Ndikung and Amelie Wedel.
Curator: Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Curator, Grosses Treffen, Berlin, Germany

NOK 3 000

Support is provided to artist Endre Tveitan (b.1979 in Porsgrunn, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) for a portfolio presentation within the Grosses Treffen in Berlin, Germany. Grosses Treffen is a professional networking event between artist and curators organised by the Nordic Embassies in Berlin to strengthen the network between Nordic artists and the Berlin art scene. In 2015 this event expands with art professionals and institutions from Frankfurt am Main. Participating reviewers include Nico Anklam, Ellen Blumenstein, Katharina Dohm, Power Ekroth, Anne Goetz, Bonaventure Ndikung and Amelie Wedel.
Curator: Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Curator, Grosses Treffen, Berlin, Germany

NOK 3 000

Support is provided to artist Tone Berg Størseth (b.1985 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) for a portfolio presentation within the Grosses Treffen in Berlin, Germany. Grosses Treffen is a professional networking event between artist and curators organised by the Nordic Embassies in Berlin to strengthen the network between Nordic artists and the Berlin art scene. In 2015 this event expands with art professionals and institutions from Frankfurt am Main. Participating reviewers include Nico Anklam, Ellen Blumenstein, Katharina Dohm, Power Ekroth, Anne Goetz, Bonaventure Ndikung and Amelie Wedel.
Curator: Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Curator, Grosses Treffen, Berlin, Germany

NOK 3 000

Support is provided to artist Magnus Bjerk (b.1980 in Sarpsborg, Norway, lives and works in Sarpsborg) for a portfolio presentation within the Grosses Treffen in Berlin, Germany. Grosses Treffen is a professional networking event between artist and curators organised by the Nordic Embassies in Berlin to strengthen the network between Nordic artists and the Berlin art scene. In 2015 this event expands with art professionals and institutions from Frankfurt am Main. Participating reviewers include Nico Anklam, Ellen Blumenstein, Katharina Dohm, Power Ekroth, Anne Goetz, Bonaventure Ndikung and Amelie Wedel.
Curator: Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Curator, Grosses Treffen, Berlin, Germany

NOK 3 000

Support is provided to artist Marit Roland (b.1981 in Kristiansand, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) for a portfolio presentation within the Grosses Treffen in Berlin, Germany. Grosses Treffen is a professional networking event between artist and curators organised by the Nordic Embassies in Berlin to strengthen the network between Nordic artists and the Berlin art scene. In 2015 this event expands with art professionals and institutions from Frankfurt am Main. Participating reviewers include Nico Anklam, Ellen Blumenstein, Katharina Dohm, Power Ekroth, Anne Goetz, Bonaventure Ndikung and Amelie Wedel.
Curator: Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Curator, Grosses Treffen, Berlin, Germany

NOK 3 000

Support is provided to the artist group Aurora Sander consisting of Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard (b.1991 in Kristiansand, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) and Bror Sander Berg Størseth (b.1987 in Bærum, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway, and Berlin, Germany) for a portfolio presentation within the Grosses Treffen in Berlin, Germany. Grosses Treffen is a professional networking event between artist and curators organised by the Nordic Embassies in Berlin to strengthen the network between Nordic artists and the Berlin art scene. In 2015 this event expands with art professionals and institutions from Frankfurt am Main. Participating reviewers include Nico Anklam, Ellen Blumenstein, Katharina Dohm, Power Ekroth, Anne Goetz, Bonaventure Ndikung and Amelie Wedel.
Curator: Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Curator, Grosses Treffen, Berlin, Germany

NOK 3 000

Support is provided to artist Pedro Gomez-Egana (b.1976 in Bucaramanga, Colombia, lives and works in Bergen, Norway) for the presentation of 'The Tristan Chord' within 'THEOREM. You Simply Destroy the Image I Always Had of Myself' at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ, USA. According to the artist, 'The Tristan Chord' is 'a sculptural performance comprising of a paper dinosaur skeleton hanging from a ceiling, as it would in a natural history museum. It is suspended by a system of strings and weights. Every day at a certain time, a gallery attendant enters the room and activates it. A small motor releases the supports according to a predetermined rhythm, making the dinosaur skeleton fall slowly to the ground. When the paper skeleton falls, its fragile body accumulates injuries and decay'. Other participating artists include Miguel Andrade Valdez, Julieta Aranda, Kader Attia, Milagros de la Torre, Sergio Vega, Antonio Vega Macotela and Zoé T. Vizcaíno.
Curator: Octavio Zaya, Curator, ‘THEOREM. You Simply Destroy the Image I Always Had of Myself’, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, USA

NOK 15 000

Support is provided to artist Dora Garcia (b.1965 in Valladolid, Spain, lives and works in Barcelona, Spain and Oslo, Norway) for the presentation of 'The Sinthome Score' within 'All the World’s Futures' at the 56^th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy. 'The Sinthome Score' is a performance and installation, consisting of two essential elements: the score and two performers. The text for the score is one of the transcriptions of the seminar XXIII of Jacques Lacan, "Le Sinthome", "unofficially" translated into English. This text is divided into ten chapters for which Garcia has drawn a set of movements. Other participating artists include Jumana Emil Abboud, Cao Fei, Petra Bauer, Marlene Dumas, Peter Friedl, Carsten Höller and K Hiwa.
Curator: Okwui Enwezor, Curator, 'All the World’s Futures', the 56^th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.

NOK 17 578

Support is provided to artist Jumana Manna (b.1987 in Princeton, NJ, USA, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) for the solo exhibition 'After Cinema' at the Beirut Art Center in Beirut, Lebanon. The artist plans to create a major new installation with existing and new works, related to the two films Blessed Blessed Oblivion (2010) – examining macho culture in East Jerusalem, as seen in auto shops, barbershops, and gyms; and The Dream (in progress) – a film about the collective unconscious of Syrian refugees in Turkey and Lebanon, expressed through what they see in their sleep. According to the artist, 'the sculptures in the installation will examine the subject matters in a more condensed and abstract manner, through the notion of relics'. Manna also plans to build a room sized body fragment/chamber that will house a series of smaller works on site in collaboration with casting expert Bo Bisgaard.
Curator: Marie Muracciole, Director, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon

NOK 25 000

Support is provided to the artist Sara Eliassen (b.1977 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) for the screening of the film A Blank Slate and the participation in a dialogue on the discourse of feminism in visual arts within Parmer, a space for presenting and developing feminist work through exhibitions, programmes and events, hosted by the Abrons Art Center in New York, NY, USA. According to the artist, 'the starting point for the film is a text by Murakami on a man re-telling a fantasy told him by a woman; of an incident/ dream where the woman sees herself having sex with a stranger (man) through the window of her own hotel room. The project emerged from conversations on how to subvert the male gaze in cinema, conversations had with Laura Mulvey and other feminist thinkers during my time as a studio fellow at The Whitney ISP'. Other participating artists include Cassandra Guan, Sian Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, Flora Katz and Mikaela Assolent.
Curator: Amanda Parmer, Curator, Parmer, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY, USA.

NOK 10 000

Support is provided to artist Ignas Krunglevicius (b.1979 in Kaunas, Lithuania, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) for the presentation of Interrogation at the Wifredo Lam Center of Contemporary Art within the 12th Havana Biennial 'Between Idea and Experience' in Havana, Cuba. Interrogation is a video installation for multiple projections taken from a real interrogation transcript from a murder case. The soundtrack was composed using multiple techno drum machines, accentuating every word from the police and the suspect statements. Throughout the piece a psychological attack where police methodically extracts the confession form the suspect, is experienced. Other participating artists include Aman Mojadidi, Nelson González, Jean Mukendi Katambayi, Reinier Nande, Yornel Martínez, 3stado Sólido and Héctor Zamora.
Curator: Jorge Fernandez Torres, Director, 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

NOK 20 000

Support is provided to artist Marte Johnslien (b.1977 in Lillehammer, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) for the participation in the 12th Havana Biennale in Havanna, Cuba. Johnslien has been designated the area of Casa Blanca to produce a site- specific work for the biennial. According to the artist, she plans to create a project which ‘will consist of sculptural interventions which aim to create contemplative spaces addressing the idea of interconnectedness’. Other participating artists include Aman Mojadidi, Nelson González, Jean Mukendi Katambayi, Reinier Nande, Yornel Martínez, 3stado Sólido and Héctor Zamora.
Curator: Jorge Fernandez Torres, Director, 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

NOK 20 000

Support is provided to the artist group consisting of Sami Rintala (b.1969 in Helsinki, Finland, lives and works in Bodø, Norway) and Dagur Eggertsson (b.1965 in Reykjavik, Iceland, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) for the presentation of a site specific installation a park in Casablanca within the 12th Havana Biennial titled ‘Between Idea and Experience’ in Havana, Cuba. According to the artists, ‘the work will be commenting on the theme of the biennial, and will be built by the artists with tools that are brought along and materials available/ found/ recycled.
Other participating artists include Aman Mojadidi, Nelson González, Jean Mukendi Katambayi, Reinier Nande, Yornel Martínez, 3stado Sólido and Héctor Zamora.
Curator: Jorge Fernandez Torres, Director, 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

NOK 20 000

Support is provided to Artistic Director Andreas Hoffmann (B.1966 in Karlsruhe, lives and works in Kirkenes, Norway) for the participation of Pikene på Broen, a collective of curators and producers based in Kirkenes, in the 12th Havana Biennale in Havanna, Cuba. Pikene På Broen will organise their event Transborder Café (TC), titled ’Grense Jakobselv meets Malecón’, ‘an informal art concept which facilitates dialogue and people to people contact. TC is a theme based think tank which brings together experts and involvs the audience in an open discussion related to current political and cultural issues connected to the borderland, enriched with contributions by artists, politicians and researchers’. Other participating artists include Aman Mojadidi, Nelson González, Jean Mukendi Katambayi, Reinier Nande, Yornel Martínez, 3stado Sólido and Héctor Zamora.
Curator: Jorge Fernandez Torres, Director, 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

NOK 20 000

Support is provided to artist Tori Wrånes (b.1978 in Kristiansand, Norway, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA) for the participation in the fourth annual Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival at the Defibrillator Gallery in Chicago, IL, USA. Wrånes plans to make a solo version of her recent performance ‘Your next vacation is calling’ (YNVIC). According to the artist, ‘in YNVIC, I painted the whole room into a three-dimensional explosive abstract painting. A sofa was thrown up on the wall and bean bags hovered inside the space like painted planets (or grapes if you like). Each performer was painted as the wall, colouring hair, face and clothes. It was some sort of floating chaos without words and logical censorship determined by rhythm and moods, aiming for an atmosphere in between sport and funeral’. For her performance as part of the Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival she plans to 'develop an alternate language using my voice only. I experience a lot of hierarchy in language, and I want to create a form of communication where everyone can meet at the same level. The language is abstract and based on rhythm, moods and various combinations of consonants and vowels. It refers to Kurt Schwitters; Ursonate or Sidsel Endresen way of singing. Also Wu-Tang Clan's own slang master Raekwon makes his own language inspired by Kung Fu, cartoons or street slap.’ Other participating artists include Marilyn Arsem, Jelili Atiku, Yolanda Benalba, Ayana Evans and Marcel Sparmann.
Curator: Joseph Raven, Director, Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival and Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

NOK 16 600

Support is provided to artist Ingrid Furre (b.1983 in Stavanger, Norway, lives and works in Hafrsfjord, Norway) for the participation in 'Kilometre of sculpture' in Voru, Estonia. 'Kilometre of sculpture' is an international outdoor art exhibition organised every second year in Estonia. According to the artist, 'I plan to create a new work reflecting on dwelling and belonging as movement. I build sculptures that are intended to disappear into and become part of the street and vice versa; the street becoming part of a sculptural composition'. Other participating artists include Karolina Erlingsson, Henning Lundkvist, Luca Frei and Essi Kausalainen.
Curator: Andreas Nilsson, Curator, Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden

NOK 9 000

Support is provided to the institution Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst in Delmenhorst, Germany, for the presentation of artist Ane Mette Hol within ‘Zustandsbericht’ (‘Condition Report’). The exhibition will present a dialogue between groups of works by Ane Mette Hol and German artist Jan Schmidt. According to the organisers, ‘the presentation will feature drawings, sculptures, installations, as well as videos and sound works by the two young talents on just less than 500 square meters of floor space. It will draw on loans from high-calibre private collections and furthermore introduce some of their most recent works’.
Curator: Annett Reckert, Director, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst, Germany

NOK 10 000

Support is provided to artist Steinar Haga Kristensen (b.1980 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) for the presentation of ‘The Fundamental Part of any Act’ at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning within Trust – The Copenhagen Exhibition 2015 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Haga Kristensen has been invited to participate with an installation variation of his recently developed work 'The Fundamental Part of any Act'. According to the artist, 'the installation will contain a two channel cinematic filmatisation of the opera "The Loneliness of the Index Finger (Part II): The Specialisation of Sensibility in the Raw Conceptual State into Stabilised Theatrical Sensibility (Consensus Image)", and numerous related large scale fresco objects'. Other participating artists include Martin Erik Andersen, Félicia Atkinson, Jakup Auce, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Adriana Lara and Atalay Yavuz.
Curator: Sonia Dermience, Curator, Trust – The Copenhagen Exhibition 2015, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning / Kunstforeningen GL STRAND / Kunsthal Charlottenborg / Nikolaj Kunsthal / Overgaden – Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

NOK 20 000

Support is provided to the Inter Arts Center in Malmö, Sweden, for the inclusion of Steinar Haga Kristensen (b.1980 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo), Ignas Krunglevicius (b.1979 in Kaunas, Lithuania, lives and works in Oslo, Norway), Sandra Mujinga (b.1989 in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, lives and works in Ås, Norway), Greg pope (b.1960 in London, UK, lives and works in Oslo, Norway), Guro Moe (b.1983 in Lillehammer, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) and Håvard Skaset (b.1978 in Trondheim, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) in ‘Soft City in Malmö’ at the Inter Arts Center in Malmö, Sweden. ‘Soft City’ was first presented by Kunsthall Oslo in September 2014 as a three-day programme of performances, concerts and screenings around the city of Oslo. For ‘Soft City in Malmö’, Inter Arts Center initiated a collaboration with Kunsthall Oslo to bring an adaption of the programme to Malmö. Other participating artists include Keren Cytter, Chto Delat, Maria Hassabi, Leif Holmstrand and Jennifer Walshe.
Curator: Christian Skovbjerg Jensen, Director, Inter Arts Center, Malmö, Sweden

NOK 15 000

Support is provided to the Istanbul Biennial for including Thale Elisabeth Sørlie and Arne Langleite from The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology’s presentation of Carl Størmer in the 14th Istanbul Biennial titled ‘SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms’ in Istanbul, Turkey. According to Sørlie and Langleite, the presentation is the result of ‘a rigorous artistic and historical research into the photographs of aurora borealis recorded by Carl Størmer, and will include original materials by him from the collections of the Museum of Science and Technology in Oslo. In photographing the northern lights for the first time, Størmer not only captured a natural phenomenon that had thus far not been seen in photographs, but he also acted as a creator of the same. His observations made manifest the fleeting, and started us towards understanding instead of believing’. Other participating artists include Etel Adnan, Vernon Ah Kee, Haig Aivazian, Ali Akay, Meriç Algün Ringborg and Alternatif Üretim.
Curator: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Curator, 14th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey

NOK 53 202

Support is provided to artist and professor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) Dag Erik Elgin (b.1962 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) for the participation in 'Performing the Black Mountain Archive', an autonomous art project part of the exhibition 'Black Mountain – Explorations of Creativity' at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum fur Gegenwart in Berlin, Germany. During the exhibition period of 'Black Mountain – Explorations of Creativity', a group of ten artists will stay in Berlin for a period of two weeks together with their selected group of students. During these two weeks the students will be present in the exhibition, engaging in a series of performances, readings and happenings during museum opening hours. Other participants and the institutions they represent are Monika Brandmeier (HfBK Dresden), Bogomir Ecker and Raimund Kummer (HBK Braunschweig), Sabine Sielke and Thomas Fechner-Smarsly (HZT Berlin), Hans Peter Kuhn (UdK Berlin), Andi Schoon and Valerian Maly (HKB Bern), Maria Schwaegermann (NTA Fredrikstad) and Ingo Reulecke (HZT Berlin).
Curators: Eugen Blume, Head of Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany; Gabriele Knapstein, Curator at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin; and Arnold Dreyblatt, Professor of Media Art at the Muthesius Academy of Art and Design, Kiel, Germany.

NOK 7 000

Support is provided to the Kyiv Biennale of Contemporary Art for the presentation of ’The School of Kyiv’ within the 2nd Kyiv Biennale of Contemporary Art at Kunsthall Trondheim in Trondheim, Norway. According to the organisers, ‘one of the essential building blocks of “The School of Kyiv” is the ambition to broaden the scope of the Biennale beyond Ukraine and out into Europe. This is why ‘departments’ of the Biennale will be inaugurated in a number of European institutions in Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Moscow, Prague, Sofia and others. For the department of “The School of Kyiv“ in Trondheim we are going to invite three Ukrainian artists from different generations and cultural backgrounds that will be exhibiting in Kyiv too: Alevtina Kakhidze (born 1973), Juri Leiderman (born 1963) and Lada Nakonechna (born 1981), all of them internationally renowned for their artistic stance’. Other participating artists include Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Larissa Babij, Graciela Carnevale, Josef Dabernig, Galit Eilat and Harun Farocki.
Curators: Hedwig Saxenhuber and Georg Schellhammer, Curators, 2nd Kyiv Biennale of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine and various locations

NOK 30 000

Support is provided to curator Dimitri Lurie (b.1970 in St Petersburg, Russia, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) for presenting artists Stig Martin Andersen (b.1973 in Askim, Norway, lives and works in Rjukan, Norway) and Kaia Hugin (b.1975 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Kolbotn, Norway) in the exhibition 'Through Walls and Rocks' at LUDA gallery project in St. Petersburg, Russia. According to the organisers, 'the exhibition includes works by four Norwegian artists, each of whom explores his or her unique personal space while leaning on common cultural paradigms. The curator has brought together works by artists who have never exhibited together before based on principles less related to their aesthetic interchange and more on how they correspond to a single theme expressed as "overcoming". The premise of the curator's choice was the thesis expressed by the writer and thinker and local genius Daniil Kharms that the artist, as a subject of art, is destined to constantly overcome: the resistance of materials, of social stereotypes, of previous historical failure, everyday challenges… At the same time real "art has to act in such a way as to pass through walls"'. Other particpating artists are Janne Kruse and Daniel Paida Larsen.
Curator: Dimitri Lurie, Curator, ‘Through Walls and Rocks’, LUDA gallery project, St. Petersburg, Russia

NOK 15 000

Support is provided to artist collective Verdensteatret for the presentation of ‘Broen over Gjørme’ (Bridge Over Mud) at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) in Moscow, Russia. The performance will be presented within the festival ‘To see the Sound’. Verdensteatret first met with NCCA Curator Daria Pyrkina when she visited Norway as part of OCA’s International Visitor Programme (IVP) in spring 2014. When ‘Broen over Gjørme’ later premiered at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, the NCCA sent curator Aliya Berdigalieva to see the finished work and to have meetings with Verdensteatret concerning their interest in bringing the work to Moscow. Other participating artists include Andrey Zhelezniakov, Alexander Kotenko, Anastasia Somova, Viktoria Lamshina, Sergey Levchenko, Grigory Zatsman, Natalia Strugatskaya, TERMINALBEACH (Erich Berger & Peter Votava) and Scenocosme: Grégory Lasserre et Anaïs met den Ancxt.
Curator: Vitaly Patsyukov, Head of Interdisciplinary Programs Department of National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow, Russia

NOK 36 000

Support is provided to artist Bodil Furu (b.1976 in Askim, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) for organising a documentary film workshop at the Centre d'Art Picha in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo. According to the host institution, 'our intention is to create a platform where artists, journalists and documentary filmmakers can meet and discuss different documentary film practices in Lubumbashi. We want to focus on the conditions of freedom of expression and the different aspects of documentary film production, to develop a reflected visual language in a contemporary media and art world'. The workshop was held in Lubumbashi 7–19 October 2015, and was structured as an open forum where the needs and focuses where defined. At the end they organised two public events as work in progress presentations and discussions. The participants of the workshop named this project Ateliers d’Echanges d’Expériences Documentaires (AEED), which aims to be an open space for the production and discussion of documentary practices for the following three years. Other participating artists, filmmakers and journalists include: Carloe Maloba, Denise Maheho, FM Osimbi Oziki, Tambwe Ray, Patrick Ken Kalala and Gulda Magambo.
Curators: Bodil Furu, Douglas Ntimasiemi and Centre d'Art Picha - Patrick Mudekereza, Lubumbashi, DR Congo.

NOK 30 000

Support is provided to artist Sille Storihle (b.1985 in Tromsø, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway and Berlin, Germany) for the solo exhibition 'ONE Man Show' at Human Resources in Los Angeles, CA, USA. After finishing her OCA residency at the 18th Street Art Center in December 2014, Storihle was invited to return to LA for a solo exhibition at Human Resources. According to the artist, 'the exhibition will constitute of the first public showing of the two short films, The Stonewall Nation (2014) and The Happy Hustler (2015), both made in collaboration with actor Michael Kearns. The Happy Hustler was made partly while being at the OCA residency. The show will also constitute of an exhibition of archival material from ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives provided by the curator at ONE David Evans Frantz. The exhibition will also be accompanied by public programming co-organised with the queer critic and art historian Mathias Danbolt, currently a Visiting Researcher at University of Southern California.
Curator: Shoghig Halajian, Curator and Programming Board Member, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA, USA

NOK 17 000

Book project and release at the finissage for the exhibition 'Proportio', on 22 November 2015, as an hommage to Mariano Fortuny based upon the two exhibitions 'Shadows', 2014 and 'Proportio', 2015.
Curator: Daniela Feretti, Director, Palazzo Fortuny and Axel Vervoordt, curator, Venice, Italy

NOK 50 000

Participation in Entrée's exhibition 'After the Masters' at NADA New York 2015, NY, USA.
Curator: Randi Grov Berger, Director and curator, Entrée, Bergen, Norway

NOK 20 000

Support for the participation of Andreas Angelidakis at the XII Baltic Triennial, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Curator: Virginija Januškevi, curator, Šiuolaikinio meno centras, Vilnius, Lithuania

NOK 12 000

'Archive Development', residency at Projekt Space Kurt – Kurt, Berlin, Germany.
Curator: Pfelder and Simone Zaugg, curatora, Projekt Space Kurt – Kurt, Berlin, Germany

NOK 11 000

Support for Fotogalleriet and Forbundet Frie Fotografer to present Norwegian photo books at the 7th Fotobookfestival Kassel, Germany.
Curator: Dieter Neubert, Director, Fotobookfestival Kassel, Germany

NOK 18 100

Matias Faldbakken within 'Future Light', MAK — Austrian Museum of Applied Vienna Biennale 2015, Vienna, Austria
Curator: Maria Lind, Director, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, guest curator for the Vienna Biennial 2015 at MAK

NOK 20 000

Support to Rencontres Internationales for the participation of Knut Åsdam, Sara Eliassen and Jorunn Myklebust Syversen. Les Rencontres Internationales at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
Curator: Nathalie Hénon and Jean-François Rettig, Directors and curators, Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris, France

NOK 18 168

Support to the South London Gallery, London, UK, for the presentation of the solo exhbition 'Time Passes' by artist Ane Hjort Guttu.
Curator: Margot Heller, Director, South London Gallery, London, UK

NOK 35 669

Exhibition 'Out of Place', at the Disseny Hub Barcelona, FAD – Fostering Arts and Design, Barcelona, Spain.
Curator: Rosa Pera, curator, 'The Iron Ring', FAD – Fostering Arts and Design, Barcelona, Spain

NOK 11 100

Support is provided to the MediaArtLab Center for art and culture, Moscow, Russia, for the participation of artist Camille Norment (b.1970, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA lives and works in Oslo, Norway) in the festival Media Forum 2015 taking place at MEH Manege, Moscow.
Curator: Olga Shishko, Director, MediaArtLab, Moscow, Russia

NOK 25 684

Tejal Shah at Røst AiR artist in Residence and at the Queer Ecologies seminar, Røst AiR
Working group, Røst, Norway.
Curator: Røst AiR Working group, Røst, Norway

NOK 17 150

Exhibition 'Distant Moods in a Blue Evening', Cesis Art Festival, Riga, Latvia.
Curator: Inga Steimane, curator for 'Distant Moods in a Blue Evening', Cesis Art Festival, Riga, Latvia

NOK 16 000

Support is provided to artist Anne Senstad (b.1967 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in New York, NY, USA) for her participation in the project CULTURUNNERS/Edge of Arabia, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
Curator: Stephen Stapleton, Founder, CULTURUNNERS, /Edge of Arabia, Abha, Saudi Arabia

NOK 7 500

Participation in SOMA summer 2015.
Curator: Carla Herrera-Prats, Director, SOMA summer, Mexico City, Mexico

NOK 8 000

Support for Lina Viste Grønli at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Curator: Alise Upitis, assistant curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

NOK 19 650

Sigrid Espelien and Farid Rakun, EQUANORTH at SKALA: reproducing reproductions, '125.660 Spesimen Sejarah Alam', Komunitas Salihara, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Curator: Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin, guest curators, Komunitas Salihara, Jakarta, Indonesia

NOK 8 350

James Webb solo exhibition 'Imaginary Appetites', Hordaland Kunstsenter.
Curator: Anthea Buys, Director and curator, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway

NOK 11 500

Solo exhibition 'Polymers', CAC – Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Curator: Neringa Bumblien, curator, CAC – Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania

NOK 20 000

Winner of Sonotopia 2015, Bonn Hoeren/Beethovenstiftung, Bonn, Germany.
Curator: Carsten Seiffarth, curator, Bonn Hoeren/Beethovenstiftung, Bonn, Germany

NOK 7 500

Solo exhibition '2,45,' Galleri 54/Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art Extended, Göteborg, Sweden.
Curator: Elvira Dyangani Ose, curator, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art Extended, Göteborg, Sweden

NOK 10 000

Exhibition 'Chronic Tableau', What Pipeline, Detroit, USA.
Curator: Alivia Zivich, Director, What Pipeline, Detroit MI, USA

NOK 10 126

The double symposium: 'Playbour: Work – Play. On Art and Immaterial Labour. Bergen Public Library', Norway, 5 September 2015, Karl Marx Memorial Library, 11 September 2015, London, UK.
Curator: Veronica Diesen, curator, Døgnmuseum, Bergen, Norway

NOK 25 000

Participation of artists Guttorm Guttormsgaard (b.1938 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Blaker, Norway) and Ellef Prestsæter (b.1982 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) in 'A story within a story...' at Roda Sten Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden.
Curator: Elvira Dyangani Ose, curator, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden

NOK 37 000

Videoshop (tour Russia), Center of Cultural Initiatives, Petrozavodsk, Russia.
Curator: Andreas Hoffmann, Director and curator, Pikene på Broen, Kirkenes, Norway

NOK 32 000

Trollkrem at New York Art Book Fair 2015, MoMA PS1, New York, USA.
Curator: Printed Matter/Jordan Nassar, curator, New York Art Book Fair 2015, New York, USA

NOK 13 000

Support is provided to the 6th Moscow Bienniale, Moscow, Russia, for the participation of artist Hanne Lippard (b.1984 in Milton Keynes, UK, lives and works in Berlin, Germany) in the 6th edition of the biennale.
Curator: Bart De Baere, Director of M HKA, Antwerp; Defne Ayas, Director of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; Nicolaus Schafhaussen, Director of Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, curators of the 6th Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia

NOK 7 500

'All the Instruments Agree: An Exhibition or a Concert', Hammer Museum, Los Angeles LA, USA.
Curator: Aram Moshayedi, curator, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles LA, USA

NOK 19 000

Performance event, A Midsummer Nights Scream, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Curator: Lorenzo Benedetti, Director, De Appel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

NOK 7 400

Performance event, 'A Midsummer Nights Scream', De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Curator: Lorenzo Benedetti, Director, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

NOK 7 400

Performance event, 'A Midsummer Nights Scream', De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Curator: Lorenzo Benedetti, Director, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

NOK 7 400

Performance event, 'A Midsummer Nights Scream', De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Curator: Lorenzo Benedetti, Director, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

NOK 7 400

Steinar Haga Kristensen solo exhibition at TONUS, Paris, France.
Curator: Benoît Lamy de La Chapelle, curator for Steinar Haga Kristensen solo exhibition, TONUS, Paris, France

NOK 31 000

Exhibition 'Dingum Kyoto'. Various locations and public spaces.
Curator: Hannes Schmidt & Dennis Oliver Schroer (Dingum), 'Dingum Kyoto', HAPS, Kyoto, Japan.

NOK 20 000

Radio Kamina, Kamina Artist in Residency 2015, Ewole, Lome, Togo.
Curator: Kossi Assou, Curator, Founder and Artistic Director, Ewole, Lome, Togo

NOK 10 000

'Tennis Cat' by Tori Wrånes at Project Space 1646, The Hague (Den Haag), The Netherlands.
Curator: Stichting Project Space 1646' curatorial board, Den Haag, The Netherlands

NOK 13 987

Solo exhibition 'Not Making Sense As Something Else IV', P/////AKT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Curator: P/////AKT, curator, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

NOK 10 000

The Museum of Longing and Failure at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Curator: Melanie Trojkovic, Programs and Exhibitor Coordinator, Vancouver Art/Book Fair, Vancouver, Canada

NOK 20 000

First Supper Symposium, 'MediaImpact', International Festival of Activist Art, Moscow, Russia.
Curator: Tania Volkova, Director and curator, MediaImpact, International Festival of Activist Art, Moscow, Russia

NOK 25 500

'ENSAYO#4' in Karukinka Natural Park, Tierra del Fuego, Wildlife Conservation Society, Tierra del Fuego, Chile.
Curator: Camila Marambio, Creative Director, ENSAYO, Tierra del Fuego, Chile

NOK 30 000

Support to artist Jana Winderen for the site-specific installation 'Surface Interruptions' at the Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU) in Zagreb, Croatia.
Curator: Nina Thorstensen, curator, 'Out of North', Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU), Zagreb, Croatia

NOK 15 000

Support was granted to Emilija Skarnulyte (b.1987 in Vinius, Lithuania, lives and works in Tromsø, Norway), Hendrik Sørlid (b.1989 in Lørenskog, Norway, lives and works in Tromsø, Norway), Tanya Busse (b.1982 in Moncton-New Brunswic, Canada, lives and works in Tromsø, Norway) and Matti Aiko (b.1980 in Sodankyla, Finland, lives and works in Tromsø, Norway) for the participation in the exhibition 'Archeology of Desire' at Lugar UMA de Arte, Manaus, Brazil.
Curator: Francisco Rider, Artistic Director, Lugar UMA de Arte, Manaus, Brazil

NOK 15 000

Anna Ihle participation in 'Open House', Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden.
Curator: Jenny Richards & Jens Strandberg, Directors, Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden

NOK 17 200