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Applications are accepted from Norwegian artists and curators and international artists and curators residing in Norway. The residency is for one artist and one curator.

By applying for the residency, the applicant confirms that there is nothing to their knowledge that could prevent them from obtaining a residence permit for the period if they are granted the residency. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure that a residence permit is granted if they are awarded the residency.

Any discontinuation of the residency due to such issues or issues related to the residence permit will remain the resident's sole risk, responsibility and cost.

The residency is not eligible for:

• BA or MA students
• Artist groups

All applications that are complete and approved by OCA's administration are assessed by an international jury appointed by OCA. The OCA jury consists of four members appointed by the OCA board.

All applicants are treated equally. Equality means that all persons are equal regardless of their gender, pregnancy, maternity or adoption leave, caring responsibilities, ethnicity, religion, beliefs, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or age.

The OCA jury nominates a shortlist of candidates for the residency, with the final selection being made by the ISCP.

Applicants will receive a reply within four months after the application deadline.

Please note that the jury's decisions are final and cannot be appealed. OCA does not provide reasons for individual grant decisions.

The OCA jury follows the rules on impartiality in the Public Administration Act (chapter 2).

Application deadline
3 October. The application form closes at 23:58 CET on the deadline date.

Application language
English – all information, text and attachments in the application must be submitted in English.

Requirements for the application:

• Motivation letter in English
• Portfolio
• CV

Additional visual material can also be sent to OCA by post. This is, however, limited to artists' publications and artists' book. All other material must be uploaded within the application form. Please specify if you wish for your material to be returned and, if this is the case, please send a pre-paid envelope with the return address. Please send additional visual material by post to:

Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Re: Residency, ISCP
Ref.nr.: [your reference number]
Wergelandsveien 17
0167 Oslo, Norway

Following Norwegian rules for grants, scholarships etc., the Office of the Auditor General of Norway (Riksrevisjonen) is entitled to verify that the grants are used according to the stated conditions. To facilitate this, the grantee must complete the report form and declare how the grant was spent within one month after the completion of the residency.

Reports are submitted through the application platform eApply.

OCA will not accept new applications to the support scheme if a final report from a previous project is missing past its deadline.

Please note that OCA may publish the names and projects of successful applicants, along with images from applications and reports on various non-commercial platforms, including the OCA website, newsletter, and Annual Report.

The grantee agrees to use the residency and grant in an appropriate and responsible manner.

• All information in the application form must be in English.
• Some sections have been made mandatory within the application form. The application cannot be submitted unless the information is filled in.
• If materials are missing after the application deadline, the Grants Officer will contact you via eApply. Your application will then be reopened for 48 hours so you can submit the missing information.
• For questions regarding the application process before the application deadline, please contact the Grants Officer by email.
• After the application deadline, all communication must go through the application portal, eApply.

Registration of personal data, GDPR. Art. 5

To apply for support, it is obligatory for applicants and participants named in the project to register personal data for OCA to check that the application terms are met and the assessment of the application.

The applicant must register all data themself. The applicant may ask for corrections, deletions and limitations of parts of the data they have registered after the assessment of the application.

Archiving of personal data, GDPR. Art. 13

The personal data that applicants provide in the application will be archived in eApply to provide a historical account of the applicants to this support scheme without any time limit. Previously received applications and support from OCA are included in the information that the OCA administration might access within the application assessment process. OCA employees and IT personnel responsible for the technical platform have permanent access to all data stored in eApply.

Applicants can ask for access to and rectification or erasure of parts of this data after the assessment of the application.

Data on all applicants will be used for developing statistics for the evaluation of the support schemes and for other cultural-political purposes, without any links to the names of the applicants.

All have the right to complain to The Norwegian Data Protection Authority if the data controller of Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), Wergelandsveien 17, 0167 Oslo, Norway. Telephone: 23233150, uses personal data stored in eApply in conflict with what has been being stated here.

Publishing of personal data, GDPR. Art. 6, no. 1 letter b

The Office for Contemporary Art Norway’s (OCA) mission from the Norwegian Government is to promote and professionalise Norwegian participation in international collaboration within visual art.

The support is provided by public means, and it is important that the allocation of the support is transparent.

Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) executes a public function and must in retrospect be able to document how the institution has attended to this assignment by audit.