Promoting artist cooperation across borders

The Cultural Exchange Fund of the EEA and Norway Grants supports artist exchanges between Poland and Norway. With funds from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, a contemporary sculpture exhibition consisting of works from Norwegian and Polish artists was recently opened in Oroñsko, Poland.

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On 18 September 2010, an exhibition consisting of art works by Norwegian and Polish artists was opened at the state-owned Museum of Contemporary Sculpture in Oroñsko, a town about 120 kilometres south of Warszawa.

9 Polish and 8 Norwegian artists participate in the exhibition, which is open until 10 October.

The exhibition is located outdoors, in order to be experienced by the visitors both as a social place, and as a natural part of the surroundings.

Polish-Norwegian cooperation project

The exhibition is the result of the Polish-Norwegian art project “Outside in/Inside out”, which has been implemented by the Norwegian municipality of Oppland in cooperation with the state-owned Polish sculpture centre in Oroñsko.

The project ‘Outside in/Inside out’ was started in autumn 2009, and is a continuation of 2 former projects: the Polish-Norwegian workshop Art-Nature in 1987 and the UT-21 project at Lillehammer in Norway in 2008. At the latter one, 14 works by 7 Norwegian and 7 Polish artists were presented. 13 of these artists, in addition to 1 new artist from Poland and 2 from Norway, are now presenting their works at the exhibition in Poland.

More information: http://www.sculpture.art.pl/

Photo credit: Oppland Fylkeskommune