On October 18th – 20th osloBIENNALEN FIRST EDITION 2019-2024 will launch several new art and public outreach projects. The autumn programme includes a curated film screening programme in collaboration with Kunstnerens Hus, two artist film premieres, performances, installations, and the launch of both new artist publications and an artist vinyl.

The autumn programme will be launched at Kunstnernes Hus October 18th with a Norwegian and world premiere, and throughout the following week audiences will be able to watch artist films by participants such as Javier Izquierdo, Dora García and Jonas Dahlberg, as well as films selected by the artists to contextualise their own works, in the Kunstnernes Hus cinema. Saturday 25th the film programme at Kunstnernes Hus will culminate in the seminar Where Memories Are Made, from 1-5pm.

On November 21-22nd, a two-day symposium on the biennial headline Art production within a locality will take place.

As well as the new projects launched across the city, a handful of projects launched in May 2019 will continue and evolve throughout the autumn and into 2020, including Mette Edvardsen’s “library of living books”, Benjamin Bardinet’s “map to get lost”, and more!

On Friday October 18th you’re invited to Kunstnernes Hus for the premiere of two new films produced by osloBIENNALEN. Following the screenings there will be conversations with the filmmakers and an launch party. Booking/RSVP essential due to capacity.

Reservation of tickets HERE

All osloBIENNALEN events are free and open to all. All osloBIENNALEN events are free and open to all. Due to limited number of seats at Kunstnernes Hus Cinema, ticket reservation is recommended HERE

12-6pm     Visitor information center open. VENUE: Myntgata 2, 0151 Oslo.

12-6pm     Mette Edvardsen:Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine — a library of living books. Booking and drop-in available.
VENUE: Deichman Tøyen, Hagegata 28, 0653 Oslo

3-5:30pm        Performance 1: Julien Bismuth: Intet er stort, intet er litet (Nothing is big, nothing is small) Duration: 2-3 hrs
VENUE/AREA: Karl Johan, starting at Oslo Central Station ending in front of Nationaltheatret approx. 5:30pm

6pm        Norwegian premiere: Notes on a Memorial by Jonas Dahlberg. Followed by a conversation between Jonas Dahlberg and Ketil Jacobsen.
VENUE: Kunstnernes Hus cinema, Wergelandsveien 17, 0167 Oslo

7:30pm    World premiere: Crimes of the Future by Javier Izquierdo. Followed by a Artist talk, a conversation between Eivind Røssaak and Javier Izquierdo .
VENUE: Kunstnernes Hus cinema, Wergelandsveien 17, 0167 Oslo

9:00pm    Opening party at Kunstnernes Hus Featuring a reading of WHO CARES: Notes on how to address an audience — a performance journal 1992-2017 by Michelangelo Miccolis
VENUE: Kunstnernes Hus café & restaurant, Wergelandsveien 17, 0167 Oslo

12-6pm     Visitor information center open.
VENUE: Myntgata 2, 0151 Oslo.

12-4pm     Mette Edvardsen:Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine — a library of living books. Booking and drop-in available. VENUE: Deichman Tøyen, Hagegata 28, 0653 Oslo

1-3pm      Carole Douillard: The Viewers, performance. VENUE: In front of the ‘Y-block’, Akersgata 44, 0180 Oslo

3pm         Presentation by curator Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk of Oliver Godow’s installation Oslo 2014-2019.
VENUE: Majorstuen station, Valkyriegata, 0366 Oslo Transport: Metro line 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 direction west, and 1 min walk.

4pm        Presentation by curators Eva González-Sancho Bodero and Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk of the new installation by Marcelo Cidade: a round around a round around a round around a round around, 2019.
VENUE: Grønland, Olafiagangen, 0188 Oslo Transport: Metro line 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 direction east, and 1 min walk.

5:30pm   Vernissage, Oslo Collected Works—OSV., 2nd edition by Jan Freuchen, Sigurd Tenningen, Jonas Høgli Major. VENUE: Sculpture pavilion by Økernsenteret, 0580 Oslo Transport: Metro line 5, direction east/Økern, and 3 min walk.

12-6pm     Visitor information center open.
VENUE: Myntgata 2, 0151 Oslo.

12-3pm    Performance 2: Julien Bismuth: Intet er stort, intet er litet (Nothing is big, nothing is small) Duration: 2-3 hrs. VENUE/AREA: Grünerløkka, starting in Birkelunden Park, ending in the Botanical Gardens

12-5pm     Mette Edvardsen:Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine — a library of living books. Booking and drop-in available. VENUE: Deichman Tøyen, Hagegata 28, 0653 Oslo

3-4pm Presentation and launch of Adrián Balseca‘s publication, The Observatory for Progress: Report, and conversation between Adrián Balseca and Petter Bøckman, zoologist from the University of Oslo.
VENUE: Myntgata 2, 0151 Oslo

5pm Film screening 2: Notes on a Memorial by Jonas Dahlberg. VENUE: Kunstnernes Hus cinema, Wergelandsveien 17, 0167 Oslo

6pm Film screening 2: Crimes of the Future by Javier Izquierdo. VENUE: Kunstnernes Hus cinema, Wergelandsveien 17, 0167 Oslo

Crimes of the Future, a film about a film about a book about a city, 2019. Documentary film, part of the film programme “Where Memories Are Made”

Crimes of the Future takes as its point of departure the Danish film adaptation of Knut Hamsun’s novel Hunger. Through conversations with an array of Norwegian writers, filmmakers, psychiatrists, artists and more, Izquierdo investigates the impact of both the film and novel on generations of Norwegian culture and artistic practice.

VENUE: Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17.
TIME: 18 Oct at 7.30pm, 20 Oct at 5 pm, 24 Oct at 6pm

Y-blokka, 2019
Rack of postcards. Placed in public spaces/sites.

Y-blokka is a set of 24 postcards depicting the Y-block, which formed part of the Norwegian Government Quarter, scarred by the terrorist attack carried out on July 22, 2011, addressing the lack of historical awareness in cultural policies allowing the forthcoming demolition of this major monument to the Norwegian welfare state.

The postcards will be distributed in more than 25 locations, such as Kunstnernes Hus, Visit Oslo, Quality Hotel 33, and The National Library.

VENUE: Placed in public institutions, offices etc. across the city.
TIME: From 18 Oct 2019

a round around a round around a round around a round around, 2019
Outdoor sculpture installation.

Placed at the border between downtown Oslo and Grønland, the sculpture installation occurs as a movable gate that partly gives way or blocks access depending on its position. Cidade’s installation evokes conversations on the circulation of citizens, the idea of flux and the concept of individual freedom.

VENUE: Under the Nylandsbrua bridge, Grønland
TIME: From 18 Oct 2019 – 24.04.2020

Oslo, 2019
Episodic film

Oslo is an episodic film, which will evolve over five years. Fragments from the first episode is presented on screens across the city at subway stations and other places of transit. Interested in the urban environment, Åsdam explores physical and psychological reactions to the demands of contemporary society.

VENUE: Presented on screens at Tøyen and Løren metro stations.
TIME: From 18 Oct – 18 Nov 2019

Notes on a Memorial, 2018
Documentary film, part of the film programme “Where Memories Are Made”

In 2014, artist Jonas Dahlberg won the government competition to create the national memorials for the July 22, 2011 massacre. Notes on a Memorial, is a film about the process, debate and politics around the project, resulting in the cancellation of the planned memorials.

VENUE: Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17
TIME: 18 Oct at 6pm, 20 Oct at 4pm, 25 Oct 6pm

Oslo 2014–2019
Billboard.

Oslo 2014–2019 isa photo book, a billboard project and a set of postcards depicting scenes of urban development in Oslo. The images show how unregulated urban environments and spaces provide a rich and fertile ground for intervention by their users. The photo book is co-published by osloBIENNALEN and Hatje Cantz Verlag.

VENUE: Majorstua metro station. (A big billboard by the entrance from Bogstadveien and a small on the stairs in front of the main entrance).
TIME: From 18 Oct 2019 – 31.05.2020.
18 Oct 3pm – a presentation of the work by curator Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverrbakk.

Oslo Collected Works OSV. – part 2
Evolving sculpture pavilion

Oslo Collected Works OSV. consists of an evolving sculpture pavilion and a series of pamphlets. In May, the pavillion presented a series of animal sculptures from the City of Oslo’s public art collections. For the second part, materials from Oslo’s public infrastructure has been added to enforce the pavilion structure.

VENUE: 200 m north of Økern Centre
TIME: FROM 25 May 2019 – 31 Dec 2024

The Observatory of Progress
Artist book, available in osloBIENNALENs headquarters in Myntgata 2. Presentation of project and conversation with Petter Bøckman, well known from countless radio and TV appearances. He’s for all practical purpose a public zoologist and answers all manners of question about the animal world, be it wasps, worms or whales. He studied zoology at the University of Oslo, and works the Natural History Museum at Tøyen.

The Observatory of Progress brings attention to the life of migrant birds in the city, to urban over-development, and global climate change. The project begins with a report by ‘The Observatory’, an artist book presenting material connected to his planned interventions in various parks and public spaces throughout the city – where people and birds must co-exist.

VENUE: Myntgata 2, 0151 Oslo
TIME: 20 Oct at 3pm

Y (59° 54′ 54,76″ N 10° 44′ 46,03″ Ø)
Double LP, available in osloBIENNALENs headquarters in Myntgata 2

For his project, Y (59° 54’54.76″ N 10° 44′46.03″ Ø), Alexander Rishaug has conducted field recording in the Norwegian Government Quarter. The result is a sonic portrait of the abandoned building’s current state of haunted emptiness, revealing how the absence evoked by this vacancy connects to events of July 22, 2011.

VENUE AND TIME: TBA

A Map to Get Lost 2: A drift through concepts, facts and rumours.
Alternative map to osloBIENNALEN.

Benjamin Bardinets contribution to osloBIENNALEN is a map for getting lost, a map with quotations, facts and rumours related to works exhibited in the biennial. A Map to get Lost 2, is the second issue of the map, a juxtaposition of Bardinet’s original contribution from May, with the addition of new routes, detours and dead ends.

VENUE: available in osloBIENNALENs headquarters in Myntgata 2
TIME: From 18 October 2019

Intet er stort intet er litet (Nothing is Big Nothing is small)
Performance

In Intet er stort intet er litet (Nothing is Big Nothing is small) a group of performers move through the city, voicing the same text in diverse contexts and public spheres. In it’s second iteration, two performers ask questions to passers-by, lending voice to new and puzzling encounters.

VENUE: In the streets of Oslo. See osloBIENNALEN.no for more information.
TIME: 18 Oct 3-5.30 pm, 20 Oct 1-3pm, 2 Nov 2-4pm, 30 Nov 1-3pm, 7 Dec 12-3pm

Seven Works for Seven Locations
Text based work.

Each of Hlynur Hallssons Seven Works for Seven Locations consists of three different texts in three different languages, sprayed on existing structures in the cityscape. Although the theme recurs in each mural, the statements are drawn from different contexts and have slightly different nuances.

VENUES: at Huk on Bygdøy, in Etterstadgata 6 in Vålerenga, on Sørenga Bridge in Bjørvika, on an electricity mast at Bjerke, and at Stovner and Grorud metro stations.
TIME: From 25 May 2019

Time Has Fallen Asleep In The Afternoon Sunshine
Library of living books.

In Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine, a group of performers have each memorized a book they themselves have chosen. Together, they make up a library of living books, which members of the public can experience in one-to-one situations.

VENUE AND TIME: See oslobiennalen.no for information and reservation. Season closing, October 26.

Other Artists
Postcards and renovation of public accessible toilets at Myntgata 2

Lisa Tan’s project for osloBIENNALEN involves refurbishing the old and chilly toilets at Myntgata 2 where about fifty artists have their studios and where the biennial has its headquarters. Tan is making the improvement to reflect on the connections between artists, their practice of creating and their every day working conditions.

VENUE: Myntgata 2, 0151 Oslo
TIME: FROM 25 May 2019

The Viewers
Performances

The Viewers is an outdoor living sculpture. A diverse group of people stand motionless for two hours and stare at passersbys in busy city landscapes. The Viewers is being performed for the last two times in October, after more than twenty performances since May.

VENUE AND TIME:
Saturday 19 October, 13:00-15:00, Y-blokka.
Production: Frida Skinner

Wednesday 23 October, 15:00-17:00, Youngstorget
Production: Suzanne Øfjord

In Public — a living proposal
Monologue performed in various public spaces and spheres.

“WHO CARES: Notes on how to address an audience – a performance journal, 1992–2017” is a monologue about the relatiosnhip between performers and the audience, that is performed in various public spaces and spheres, as well as in unannounced places around the city.

VENUE: in various public spaces and spheres
TIME: 18 October 9pm at Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17, 0167 Oslo
18 – 26 October in various public spaces and spheres.

New projects: Adrián Balseca (EC); Marcelo Cidade (BR); Jonas Dahlberg (SE); Dora García (ES); Oliver Godow (DE); Katja Høst (NO); Javier Izquierdo (EC); Michelangelo Miccolis (IT/MX); Alexander Rishaug (NO), Belén Santillán (EC); Knut Åsdam (NO)

Ongoing: Benjamin Bardinet (FR); Julien Bismuth (FR); Carole Douillard (FR); Mette Edvardsen (NO); Jan Freuchen, Sigurd Tenningen, Jonas Høgli Major (NO); Hlynur Hallsson (IS); Lisa Tan (US/SE)