Mellom kunst og gravsteiner

– En fortelling om SA Steinskulptur

Between the Tube tracks and Østensjøveien, opposite Østre Gravlund in Oslo, lies a small firm with a big story to tell. Since 1948, Steinskulptur has been the place where artists and stonemasons meet – to shape sorrow into remembrance and ideas into sculpture. From here, memorials have risen across the whole country, and works in Norwegian stone have found their way as far as Cleveland and Philadelphia.

Espen Hauglid offers a vivid account of the artists’ own enterprise: from the post-war collective need for monuments, via radical gravestones exhibited at Kunstnernes Hus, to conflicts and restructuring for a new era.

We meet the people, the craft and the politics behind the monoliths – and follow the business from Helsfyr to the plans for a new centre of knowledge for sculpture. Between art and gravestones, the book finds an unexpected tension: the struggle for the material, for the memories – and for ensuring that art can still be carved here at home.

© Orfeus Publishing
Author: Espen Hauglid
Publishing editor: Birgitte M. Siem
The publication was produced in collaboration with SA Steinskulptur.

Design/repro: Halvor Bodin

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2025
190 x 230 mm
160 pages
ISBN: 978-82-93959-30-4
Livonia Print SIA, 2025, Latvia
Paper: Amber Graphic 150 g/m²
Book jacket: Geltex 11 LS
Typography: Bradford LL
Language: Norwegian