Katja Høst’s project about Y-blokka concludes with a poster (free of charge)
From October 2019, 24 of Katja Høst’s photographs have been distributed around the city in the shape of free postcards. The public could find them, and still can, on various locations in Oslo, and take them home, send them, hang them on the wall, or do whatever they wanted to do with them. In this way, the postcard was in circulation in different public spheres and fostered new relations between the public and Y-blokka.
In the fall of 2020, Orfeus Publishing published more than 70 of Høst’s photographs in the book Y-blokka. At that time, the building was already history.
In the preface, Tone Hansen, director of Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, states:
- This book contains both a pamphlet on one of the major culture-historical, political issues of our age and an artistic examination of urban trauma.
As a conclusion of the project, Katja Høst has made a poster from a photograph of the building a short time before the demolition started.
- The posters are presented at the National Museum – Architecture in Oslo as a footnote to the exhibition “Concrete in Transition. The architect Erling Viksjø and his artist collaborators”. The posters are free for the public to take home.
The poster is free and will be available at the National Museum – Architecture.
* The National Museum – Architecture is currently closed due to Covid-19 restrictions. Learn more at www.nasjonalmuseet.no
** osloBIENNALEN is following the Norwegian government and health authorities’ rules and recommendations and has closed the office in Myntgata 2 until further notice. The visitor center is unmanned, but employees can open up for members of the public who wishes to obtain copies of posters, postcards, publications and similar.
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