“A table is a wall, a door, a home” considers kitchen and dining tables as tools for reimagining domesticity. In the home, tables have historically served as sites of reproductive labour, often reinforcing normative gender roles and heteronormative family structures. At the same time, they have also been spaces of political engagement, resistance, and liberation. The project continues Maikes’ sustained interest in tables as key sites within feminist and queer communities, practices, and theories. The installation explores moments of rupture and deviance, focusing on the thresholds, or edges, between self and space.
Here, tables are treated as layered, moving objects—an experimental tabula rasa capable of infinite mutation.
About the artist:
Maike Statz (AUS) is an Oslo-based interior architect and artist working across curation, writing, installation, and design. Her practice explores the relationship between bodies and space, reflecting on how architecture shapes emotions, behaviours, and identities—and how these, in turn, shape architecture. Maike is interested in the practical, political, and philosophical dimensions of furniture and other interior elements. Informed by feminist and queer theory, she investigates spatial inequality and seeks alternative tools and methods for space-making. Fictional spaces and the imagined architectures of science fiction and fantasy often serve as references in her work.
From 2022 to 2024, Maike co-founded and ran the project space NOGOODS in Bergen and the magazine bias: bodies in architecture and structures with Danja Burchard and Francesca Scapinello. In 2023, she curated Hosting Space at Hordaland Kunstsenter in Bergen, a combined artistic and design project. In 2024, she was writer-in-residence with Contemporary Art Stavanger, where she wrote the article series Building A Better World.
Exhibition Producer: Liene Pavlovska
Technical Support: Oskars Pavlovskis
Artist’s Assistant: Renāte Liepniece
Gallery Curatorial Work: Liene and Oskars Pavlovskis
The exhibition is supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, the Office of Contemporary Art Norway, and the Association Persistence.
“A Table Is a Wall, a Door, a Home”
Maike Statz
Part Time Gallery
31.07.2025 – 30.08.2025
Photography: Pauls Rietums
