Maya Økland / Minutiøs forlag

Worried Landscapes is a photobook and an art project by Maya Økland that consists of 75 analogue landscape photographs from Western Norway. The images are accompanied by a text by Økland on turbulent Western Norwegian family relations. It also contains a conversation between the artist and the curator and art historian Helga Nyman, discussing the project in the light of Norwegian art history, climate crisis and family relations.

Minutiøs Forlag is an artist-run independent art book publisher established in Oslo in 2025 by Maya Økland. Minutiøs Forlag aims to offer artists a transparent platform for the production and distribution of art books. The profile is centered on creating a discursive arena for politically engaged art works within the fields of contemporary art, queer feminist expressions, social criticism and work to increase resilience against violence and discrimination. At the same time Minutiøs Forlag is a place for the development of artistic quality and subversive book design and printing within environmentally friendly production. The publisher sees its publications as art experiences and human rights expressions in book format, with an emphasis on conveying visual expressions. Collective efforts with a playful and open approach form the basis of the result.  

Maya Økland (b.1980, Bergen) is a Norwegian/Brazilian/Icelandic/Swedish artist, curator and writer with an education in art and photography from the National College of Art in Bergen, Norway (2000-2005), the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio (2004), and Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden (2002). Økland also has a background as an editorial member and photo editor of the feminist magazine Fett (2013-23). She has previously published the photobook Stranger in Motherland (Teknisk Industri, 2017) and was co-editor of the artist book Judith Bernstein Rising (Mousse/Kunsthall Stavanger, 2016). Her artworks are in the collections of Kode Bergen Art Museum, Halland Art Museum and KORO – Public Art Norway among others. Maya Økland lives and works in Oslo, Norway.