Photo by Jannik Abel.

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 and nature can inform the present.
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Tanja Thorjussen and Thale Blix Fastvold in the artist duo LOCUS, is currently showing at the Helsinki Biennial with the works Zostera Marina`s song of increase created to celebrate and increase Zostera Marina (common eelgrass) in the Baltic Sea.
Previously, at the exhibition "Eden and Everything After" at Museum of Archaeology – UiS in Stavanger (NO) in 2023 Thorjussen created artworks about historical objects from the collection, speculating on its meaning through artistic methodology such as drawing and intuitive listening.​

Thorjussen has a BFA from KHIB in Bergen (NO) and Parsons The New School in New York (USA) and is educated as a curator from Telemark University. She is the initiator of LOCUS since 2006 and PAO - Performance Art Oslo since 2012-2021 and from 2019 she is elected chair of Tegnerforbundet (The Norwegian Drawing Center)
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Instagram: @animatika & @Locus_Oslo

Tanjathorjussen (at) gmail . com

www.locusart.org
www.performanceartoslo.no
www.tegnerforbundet.no