Ruben (he/him) is the Director of Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA). As director, he represents the foundation and leads OCA's work to strengthen international activity for contemporary art from Norway.
E-mail: ruben.steinum(a)oca.no
Team & Board
Staff
Mike (he/him) is responsible for OCA's public programmes and publications, as well as overseeing and managing OCA's participation at the Venice Biennale.
E-mail: mike.sperlinger(a)oca.no
Itzel (they/them) works with organizing, coordinating, developing, and producing OCA's public programmes and projects, ensuring their successful execution.
E-mail: itzel.esquivel(a)oca.no
Kari Ane (she/her) has the responsibility for overseeing, implementing and developing the communication of OCA's activities.
E-mail: kari.ane.golf(a)oca.no
Anna (she/her) works to communicate OCA's activities through developing, publishing and producing content about OCA's activities.
E-mail: anna.penkova(a)oca.no
Aurora Aspen (she/her) is responsible for the development, coordination and execution OCA's international visitors and network development programmes.
E-mail: aurora.aspen(a)oca.no
Eirik Zeiner-Henriksen (he/him) is temporary Grants Administrator responsible for administering and developing OCA's grant schemes, organising the jury meetings and is the contact person for applicants and grant recipients.
E-mail: eirik.zeiner-henriksen(a)oca.no
Anne Charlotte Hauen (she/her) is on leave from her role Grants Administration Manager and is currently working on a project updating OCA's archive and developing OCA's grant schemes.
E-mail: anne.charlotte.hauen(a)oca.no
Michael(he/him) works to communicate OCA's activities through developing, publishing and producing content about OCA's activities.
Board Members
Trude Gomnæs Ugelstad is the Director of the Queen Sonja Print Award, the world’s leading award for graphic art.She was previously Artistic Director at Sørlandets kunstmuseum / Kunstsilo and has over 20 years of senior management roles at several national arts institutions in Norway. She has initiated and produced visual art and design projects in close collaboration with embassies in New York, Paris, Milan, London and Stockholm. She is working closely with the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and the Arts Council in Norway as chair for State Artist Grants. She served at the international and European board of World Crafts Council for six years.
Kristoffer Dolmen is Senior Curator at Nordlandmuseet in Bodø for their Bodø2024 program. He has worked at various art institutions in Northern Norway since 2001. He has also served on various boards and sat on a number of juries within the wider field of culture. Dolmen’s education includes master’s degree in curating and a cand. mag. degree in art history and cultural studies, both from the University of Bergen, and studies in museology and cultural management at Stockholm University. He has been part of a one year Post-Master program at The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.
Sille Storihle is an artist and educator working with moving images and printed matter. From 2012 to 2020 they ran the queer-feminist platform FRANK, together with Liv Bugge. Storihle holds a BFA from Trondheim Academy of Fine Art and an MA in Aesthetics and Politics from California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, and is currently an Assistant Professor in Moving Images at Nordland School of Arts and Film. They have exhibited at M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Kunsthall Oslo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, GiBCA – Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art and Performa, New York, among others. From 2016 to 2020 they were on the board of UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund/Young Artists' Society).
Stina Högkvist has since 2018 been the Director for Collections in the National Museum of art, architecture and design in Oslo. She has worked as a curator at the National Museum since 2006 and is among others behind exhibitions like Tori Wrånes’ "Hot Pocket", "Like før. Sidsel Paaske" and "Kjartan Slettemark. Kunsten å være kunst". Högkvist is an art historian from the University in Uppsala and holds an MA of the curatorial programme at Konstfack in Stockholm. In addition she has many years of experience as an art critic and a writer.
Hans Marius Graasvold is an Oslo based attorney. He works mainly as legal counsel and adviser for a number of culture and artists´ organizations as well as for individual creative artists. He specializes in copyright, contract, privacy and organizational law. He is formal legal director of the Norwegian Consumer Council, and has extensive experience with representation in various boards and dispute resolution committees.