HOSTING SPACE by Maike Statz

PRESENTATION AND CAKE BY MAIKE STATZ AT 6.30PM

Hosting Space explores how processes of hosting, such as access, support, and gathering, operate within the context of an art institution. It invites readers to reconsider how these activities are embedded in the spaces we inhabit and how they shape spatial practices.

The book reflects on an exhibition curated by Maike Statz at Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, in 2023, bringing together visual documentation, new writing, and interviews with Staci Bu Shea, Océane Vé-Réveillac, and César Reyes Nájera. Hosting Space asks how art institutions and spatial practitioners might operate differently by prioritizing accessibility, interdependence and difference.

Published by Hordaland Kunstsenter and Errant Bodies Press, edited by Mathijs van Geest and designed by Francesca Lucchitta.

Maike Statz (born 1992) is an Australian interior architect, artist and writer living in Oslo and Amsterdam. In her work she explores the relationship between bodies, emotion, behaviour, identity and space. Informed by feminist and queer practices, Maike Statz investigates spatial inequalities and seeks alternative tools and methods for space-making.