VISUAL ARTIST MAIJA OJANEN
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​Maija Ojanen (born 1981) is a visual artist working mainly with drawing and painting on paper. She has focused on large-scale watercolor paintings and ink drawings. Gouache and watercolor painting has been her main technique for several years. Lately she has started to draw with ink and bright colors have changed to a black and white color scheme.

She build her art works trough details. At the center of her forks is a human. Often woman or a child. Alongside human life nature elements have important role at her works. Nature elements often get strong symbolic meanings or describes mythological beings. Through flowers, birds and others nature marks she describes the relationships between human and nature as well as self-understanding. In her works she combines together her perceptions of the world we are living in. How to describe the merging of inner and outer space and the mixing of mind and material. She is fascinated by magical realism. Believes, myths, popular stories, science and parapsychology all melts and mix together and combines something we might call the wounded experiment to understand the nature of reality and our place on it. 


Maija Ojanen completed her master´s degree in fine arts at Aalto University in 2012 . She also so has completed visual art studies at art institute of Kankaanpää at Satakunta university of applied sciences in 2006. She has also studied four months at Ècole Nationale Supérieure d´Art de Dijon in 2010. 
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Maija Ojanen work and lives in Jyväskylä. She has had solo exhibitions at Helsinki, Tampere and Jyväskylä in Finland. She has participated in group exhibitions several museums and galleries in Finland and internationally in Berlin and Prague. She has also held workshops and teach art at Jyväskylä Community College.



ART EDUCATION
2008-2012  Education Aalto University, University of Art and Design , Helsinki (MA)

2010 ENSA, Dijon, France,
2001-2006 Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, Institute of fine Arts 2001-2006 (BA)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024, Galleria Muuntotila
2024, Pop-up näyttely Gumbostrand Konst & Form
2023, B-galleria, Turku
2022, Kouta Galleria, Kouvola
2021, Galleria Hoppa, Jyväskylä
2021, Art Center Itä, Lappeenranta
2011, Studio Mältinranta, Tampere
2008, Gallery Becker, Jyväskylä
2008, Lahti Art Factory, Lahti
2007, Gallery Rajatila, Tampere
2006, Gallery Postelli, Kankaanpää
2005, Gallery Nunes, Helsinki
2004, Bar Vakiopaine, Jyväskylä

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024, Kulttuurikeskus Akustiikka, Ylivieska. (Ojanen, Viherjuuri )
2022 Mustaa valkoisella, Jyväskylän taidemuseo
2022 Galleria Vanha Kappalaisentalo, Porvoo, ( Myllymäki, Koljonen, Ojanen)
​2021 Taidesalonki Talvio, kesänäyttely

2021 Galleria Uusikuva, Kotka ( Myllymäki, Koljonen, Ojanen)
2021 Matkalla maan keskipisteeseen - Notions of places - from belonging to displacement, Saarijärven Museo
2019 Mansikkapaikka, Jyväskylä Art Associations summer exhibition, Art center Järvilinna, Laukaa
2018 Skjl:n Juhlat/Bileet/Party/Fest/Hiëje- Art Festival, Joensuu art museum
2018 Other realites, Jyväskylä Art Museum
2015, Viisikko, Höyry gallery Jyväskylä
2014, Taas samat naamat, Central Finland Museum, Jyväskylä
2013, UudenPolvenMuseo, Jyväskylä
2012, Täällä on kaikki mi kaunista on, Central Finland Museum, Jyväskylä
2011, Mitä ihmettä/ What on earth, Gallery palsa, www.galleriapalsa.com
2010, Antidote 1, RSProjekts, Berlin
2010, Haihara 10, Haihara Art Center, Tampere
2010, Epäyhtälö, Gallery Rantakasarmi, Helsinki
2009, 6x6, The Helsinki art´s association´s Christmas exhibition, Gallery Katariina, Helsinki
2009, Money, Money, Money... , Raisio Art Museum
2009, Six semaines á Grand-Popo, Lissa Gbassa, Villa Karo, Grand-Popo, Benin
2009, Recharged, Helsinki city museum
2008, Love without boundaries, Tampere art associations group exhibition at Gallery Kritiku, Praha
2007, Rajaton rakkaus, Tampere art associations group exhibition at Art Center MältinrantaTampere
2006, Pamela Pam Pam, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä

OTHER ART WORKS
2017, `Linnut´ wall painting, Public art work at Jyväskylä vocational school
2009, 100-year plan, Fire-art work in Suomussalmi
2009, Mami Wata wall painting, PerkeleCollectice: Teemu Mäki, Maija Ojanen Sampsa Indrén, Juha Liede; Grand Popo, Benin

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Jyväskylä Art Museum
Tampere Art Museum
Private collections

GRANTS AND RESIDENCES

2024, The Finnish Cultural Foundation
2024, Valosag residency, Budabest Hungary

2023, The Finnish Cultural Foundation
​2021, Arts Promotion Center Finland
​2020, Arts Promotion Center Finland

2019 The Finnish Cultural Foundation, Central Finland regional found
2015, Arts promotions Center Finland
2013, Arts Promotions center Finland
2010, PAF, residency of arts in France
2009, TAIK grant
2009, Villa Karo, residency of arts in Benin

MEMBERSHIPS
Finnish Painters Union
Jyväskylä Artist association
Kuvasto, visual rights organization



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