ISBN: 978-8-2933661-1-9
11 x 17,5 cm (softcover; open spine)
112 pages; with handmade bookmark
Published: March 2026
MAIKE STATZ: I am an interior architect and artist with a practice spanning curation, writing, installation, and design. In my work I am interested in the relationship between bodies and space, reflecting on how architecture influences emotions, behavior, identities, and vice versa. Inspired by feminist and queer practices, I aim to open discussions around the inequalities that exist in space and space-making, offering alternate tools or methods. To do this, I often refer to fictional spaces and imaginary architectures built in the genres of science fiction and fantasy.
Between 2022-2024 I co-founded and ran the project space NOGOODS and the magazine bias with Danja Burchard and Francesca Scapinello. In 2023 I curated the artistic and design project Hosting Space at Hordaland Kunstsenter in Bergen and in 2024 I was a writer in residence with Contemporary Art Stavanger, for whom I wrote the article series Building A Better World. In 2025 I presented my solo exhibition A table is a wall, a door, a home at Part Time Gallery in Riga with an accompanying book published by Hverdag Books.
Hosting Space
by Maike Statz
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 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 prioritising accessibility, interdependence, difference, maintenance, and spaces for spontaneous gathering.
Designed by Francesca Lucchitta and edited by Mathijs van Geest, Hosting Space is both an invitation and an active archive, engaging with ongoing discussions on socially engaged practices, institutional critique, and exhibition-making as a method of research.
