Podcast: Kunst og litteratur #5

Visual artist Elise Storsveen is known for her large-scale textile works, but she is also a book collector and curator, with broad knowledge of many different types of books. In the fifth edition of the conversation series Kunst og litteratur, Storsveen speaks with Lotte Konow Lund about the books she is engaged with — and how she incorporates them into her practice as both artist and curator.

The recording was made at Oslo Kunstforening on March 27 2025, and the conversation is now available as a podcast at Kunstpodden.no.

For the talk, Storsveen selected a number of titles from her rich personal library and generously shared her fascination with the analog world that books offer us.

The selection was wide-ranging — from Donald Judds texts on his own and others’ art, to Positioning in Radiography, En ny bevissthet – Norsk kunsthåndverk 1970-1990, American Denim – A New Folk Art, Elskov og teknikk i tekst og bilder and much more.

If you’d like to check out the books they talk about, this is the list to keep an eye out for at flea markets and secondhand bookstores.

Donald Judd Writings
Judd Foundation / David Zwirner Books
2016

Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor
BGC Yale
2006

American Denim – A New Folk Art
Warner Books
1975

En ny bevissthet – Norsk kunsthåndverk 1970-1990
Jan-Lauritz Opstad
C.Huitfeldt Forlag as
1989

KOKS
Trondhjems Kunstforening / Haugen & Maning
1983

Henny Lie
Preus eller Kunstnernes Hus?
1983?

Positioning in Radiography
Ilford Limited, Wm. Heinemann Medical Books
1964

Piero Della Francesca
SKIRA
1954

Saul Steinberg – The Discovery of America
Alfred A Knopf
1992

Fischli und Weiss - Plötzlich diese Übersicht
Edition Stähli
1982

Elskov og teknikk i tekst og bilder
Atlas Forlag
1957

Et ældre ægtepars reiseoplevelser til, i og fra Paris vaaren 1914 - skrevet af hende, tilegnet ham
Kristiania
1914

Frans Masereel – Byen
Den norske Bokklubben
1979

Albert Jærn – Og så kom befrierne
Ekko Forlag
1945

The Witch on the Wall
Medieval Erotic Sculpture in the British Isles by Jørgen Andersen
Rosenkilde and Bagger
1977

André Breton - Manifeste du Suréalisme 
Aux edition du sagittaire

The conversation series Kunst og litteratur at Oslo Kunstforening is hosted by visual artist and writer Lotte Konow Lund, and documented by Kunstpodden. The project is supported by Kulturrådet, Oslo kommune, and Norske Kunstforeninger.