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[image from a conversation with maike statz by carol stampone]
aerial residency
maike statz
october 2023
every year we have invited at least one artist or a collective to spend time working in a low threshold manner at aerial. finalised outcomes are not prioritised, but rather integration with the local community and conversations around the persons practice. during the residency there is at least one encounter with the public, whether it is an exhibition, dinner, conversation, film screening or talk.
we are very excited to welcome maike statz to be our aerial resident in october 2023!
maike statz (she/hun) is a bergen-based interior architect and artist interested in the relationship between bodies and space. her practice spans curation, design, writing, publishing and installation. through her work she is committed to challenging the inequalities that exist in space and spatial practice. current areas of interest include fictional spaces, situated writing practices, queering architecture, philosophy of furniture, and the connection between emotions, identity and space. maike is engaged in queer and intersectional feminist thinking and practices.
in 2022 maike co-founded the project space and platform NOGOODS and the magazine bias: bodies in architecture and structures. her most recent curatorial and design projects include hosting space (june 2023) at hordaland kunstsenter in bergen and Dissident Publics (may—june 2023) at ROM for kunst og arkitektur in Oslo.
maike enjoys swimming, feminist science fiction and making furniture.
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