self/edge/site combines a presentation with a hands-on workshop for ROM Studio.

Maike Statz will begin by presenting selected projects from her practice as an interior architect and artist that explore processes of collective space making, hosting, and the relationship between emotions, identities and furniture. Next, as a group we will engage in a series of exercises engaging with the boundaries between our selves and the site, culminating in furniture prototypes/interventions.

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. In 2025, she presented her solo exhibition A table is a wall, a door, a home at Part Time Gallery in Riga, alongside a book of the same name published by Hverdag Books.