Olof Marsja (1986, Gällivare) works with sculptural expressions that analyse and blend uncannily the ultra modern contemporary digital reality and pop culture with history and traditions connected to his Sámi heritage and Duodji (Sámi craft). Crafts and materials are central in Marsja’s research and his works are deeply marked by the plurality of practical knowledge and references that characterise the hybrid forms with which he seriously and humorously analyses questions of history, the contemporary world and identity. Marsja has an BfA from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts & Design in Stockholm (2017) and was a recipient of the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Stipend in 2019. He was exhibited at Moderna Museet (Stockholm, 2022), The Sámi Center for Contemporary Art (Karasjok, 2021), Röhsska Museet (Gothenburg, 2021), NEVVEN (Gothenburg, 2021), Göteborgs Konsthall (2020), Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm, 2019), and Luleå Biennial (2018) among others. Marsja lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Sleepwalking Into the Abyss
Aug 26 — 28, 2022
And Darkness the Right Hand of Light
Co-curated by NEVVEN and MELK
Apr 8 — May 1, 2022
Olof Marsja
CHART Journal — Dec 3, 2022
Trapping Bears in the Sámi Highlands
MacGuffin Magazine — Aug 6, 2022
Improvisationens Politik
Konstnären — Mar 15, 2022
What if the Bear Is the Sun, and the Sun Is the Bear
Migration — Oct 23, 2021
A World Beyond
Kunstkritikk — Jun 1, 2021
Olof Marsja på NEVVEN
Konsten.net — May 21, 2021
Underfundig Samisk Samtidskonstnär
Opulence — May 17, 2021