Katja Høst

'Y-blokka' by Katja Høst is a set of 24 black-and-white postcards depicting the iconic modernist building, the Y-block, which formed part of the Norwegian government quarter for over fifty years.

Biography

Katja Høst (b. 1972, Norway) holds a degree in photography from Bergen Academy of Arts and Design. Although her work includes landscaping, relational aesthetics and video, photography remains prominent in her production. Social structures and practices, as well as identity, are recurring themes in her work, posing open ended questions as to how we define ourselves and govern our lives, as individuals or as a community. Høst has exhibited in a wide range of spaces in Norway as well as abroad and produced public commissions and projects for the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NIH), Litteraturhuset in Oslo, Oslo Central station and in the suburban area of Haugerud/ Trosterud (in collaboration with Liva Mork).

Essay

Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen is a Norwegian historian and writer, and specialist in recent French, German and Norwegian culture and history of ideas.

In this essay he situates Erling Viksjø's buildings in the Government Quarter in a Norwegian architectural history characterized by conflict.

Read the essay here:
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