Katja Høst
Oslo
Katja Høst (based in Oslo) got her degree from Bergen Academy of Arts and Design. Her work has been commissioned by osloBIENNALEN, the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NIH), as well as Litteraturhuset in Oslo. Public art projects by Høst have also been produced for public spaces like the Central station and suburban areas of Haugerud in Oslo. She is currently working on her fifth artist book; commissioned by LANDART Gjerdrum. The project will be exhibited at Fotografiens hus in Oslo the same year.
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Månesyk (Moonstruck) (2023)
ISBN–978-82-693309-0-8
In the artist book "Månesyk", photography, collage and text create a personal story about loss and reconciliation. The book address photography's role in memory and the role of art as a space for processing grief more generally. Cutting the deceased father out of the photographs in the collages highlights the story of loss that can be found in the book, and the new compositions tell the story of an artist searching for her father, for traces of the relationship as well as an expression for her grief - not only for what was lost, but also all that never was.
Y-blokka (2020)
ISBN–9788293140689
The modernist Y-block in the Governmental Quarter is history. Photographer Katja Høst followed the buildings last four year and documented it. In the book, we are presented with around 70 photographs of the Y block's decay after the terror in 2011.
The book also contains four essays discussing the architecture, the art, and the historical backdrop for this iconic building. The book contains texts in Norwegian and English.
The book is published by Orfeus Punlishing with financial support from Fritt Ord, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Oslobiennalen, Bergesenstiftelsen
Foreword: Tone Hansen
Contributors: Jan Digerud, Kjetil A. Jakobsen, Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk, Line Ulekleiv
