Maike Statz: Hosting Space

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 publication reflects on an exhibition and event program 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. Through these contributions, the book considers how art institutions and spatial practitioners might operate differently by prioritizing accessibility, interdependence, difference, maintenance, and spaces for spontaneous gathering.