Published irregularly, Astoria offers space for artists to reflect on life, practice, and the conditions under which art is made. A discursive field more than a magazine.

Astoria is the editorial branch of Sæter Jørgensen Contemporary, named after a modest hotel in Hamar once run by the founder’s father. The hotel still stands, unchanged in name, and remains a marker of provincial permanence and inherited ambiguity. Growing up there meant long, unsupervised hours watching films, ordering room service, and drifting among strangers whose presence was always temporary. That early exposure to narrative, image, and fleeting intimacy shaped a sensibility attuned to the fragmentary and the unresolved. Astoria extends this into the realm of publishing and curatorial thought, privileging minor forms, fugitive texts, and gestures that resist finality. It is a platform for unfinished narratives and the slow aesthetics of consequence.