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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. 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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