Marjatta Oja lives and works in Helsinki. She has studied in Free Art School in Helsinki, Accademia di Belle Arte in Milan and in the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, where she completed her doctoral studies in 2011. Oja uses different media, mainly photographs, videos and objects. She aims to infuse image with depth, liveliness and three-dimensionality into “situational sculptures”. The works of Oja have been presented in exhibitions and events since the late 1980s in Finland, Scandinavia, Europe, Asia and the USA.
Marjatta oja works and co-operates with other artists. Two years ago she started a co-operation with visual artist Jukka Rusanen and she runs Local Energy projects together with her co-operators https://web.facebook.com/LahienergiaLocalenergy/ . She is a member of AV-arkki, the Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art, http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/about-av-arkki / The Association of Finnish Sculptors https://sculptors.fi/en/union/ and the Collective Intelligence- group http://www.collectiveintelligence.fi