Double Launch: Norwegian Art Yearbook 2025 and Maia Urstad's Selected Stereo Works

Welcome to the launch of the Norwegian Art Yearbook 2025 and Maia Urstad's Selected Stereo Works on Thursday 19 November, 7–9 pm, at Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall!

The evening features a conversation between curator Steinar Sekkingstad and artist Maia Urstad, who also meet in conversation in this year's edition of the book. Urstad will then perform a live listening session from her new release.

Selected Stereo Works is Maia Urstad's first solo release, published by Bloxham Tapes. Founded in Peckham, South London, in 2016 and now based between Bergen and Glossop, UK, the predominantly cassette-based label takes its name from the past-life regression experiments of Welsh hypnotherapist Arnall Bloxham. Since the mid-1980s, Urstad has worked at the intersection of sound and visual art, with radio as both a central material and a recurring theme. As the title suggests, the album brings together a selection of her stereo works. Through radio waves, transport networks and drifting voices, they create spaces where memory, movement and imagination intersect, carrying listeners somewhere both familiar and unknown.

Published since 1992, the Norwegian Art Yearbook is the only annual publication devoted to the Norwegian art scene. Through commissioned essays, art reviews and presentations of selected artists and exhibitions, the book offers a broad picture of contemporary art in Norway. The book is published by Uten tittel in collaboration with Stiftelsen Norsk Kunstårbok and edited by Abirami Logendran.