Research Catalogue

Merete RØSTAD is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and artistic researcher whose work examines collective memory, memory work, and archival practices within the public sphere. Through research-driven, process-based projects, Røstad investigates the social and political meanings embedded in sites, exploring how people interact with the narratives inscribed in their environments and how such traces shape our understandings of place, history, and identity.

Her artistic research centres on how spatial and temporal constructions can operate as catalysts for engagement with questions of memory, relationality, and belonging. Røstad holds a doctorate in artistic research from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO), with the project The Participatory Monument – Remembrance and Forgetting as Art Practice in the Public Sphere (2018).

She is Associate Professor and Head of the Master’s Programme in Art and Public Space (MFA) at KHiO. She currently leads two international and interdisciplinary artistic research projects, MEMORYWORK and ARcTic South, both of which explore the role of memory, participation, and situated knowledge production within public space practices.