Application Submission: September 1, 2013
Language: English or Norwegian
Location: Oslo, Norway
Prizes: NOK 100.000 (€ 12.600) for each selected team.
Type: Restricted projects competition for architects with 8 teams selected.
Competition organized by the the Norwegian Government that following the July 22 attacks decided to have memorials erected in the Government Administration Complex in Oslo and on the mainland facing the Utøya island in the municipality of Hole.
The Norwegian Ministry of Culture initiated a process that culminated in the Government’s decision that two memorial sites should be established after the bombing in Oslo, which killed 8 people, and the massacre at Utøya, which killed 69 people. All together 158 people were wounded in these terrorist attacks.
The Art Selection Committee hereby issues an open call to a pre-qualification stage, which will lead to a closed competition between up to eight artists, arts and crafts practitioners, architects, landscape architects or collectives. The plan is that the participants for the closed competition will be announced on 20 September 2013, with the winner being announced on 15 February 2014.
NOK 27 million have been allocated for the realization of the projects. This includes both art-related and administrative costs. Project facilitation expenses will be in addition to said amount.
