TANJA THORJUSSEN

Tanja Thorjussen (b. 1970) is an artist living in Oslo (NO). Her artistic medium spans between drawing, sculpture, performance and art in public space. Through speculative research her artistic practice revolves around how ancient art can inform the present into the future. At the current exhibition at Museum of Archaeology – UiS in Stavanger (NO) she is showing artworks based on historical animal figurines from the collection, speculating on its meaning through artistic methodology such as drawing and intuitive listening. Her artistic focus is on the mystic and spiritual in nature and animals, hydrofeminism, and the science embedded in archaeology, indigenous knowledge and ancient mythology. Thorjussen is educated at KHIB in Bergen (NO) and Parsons The New School in New York (USA).