Olof Marsja, Čuovgga Guorri [Tracker of Light], 2025 (Bronze, stone, 160 × 40 × 190 cm). Permanent sculpture installed at Hanaholmen – the Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre in Espoo, Finland. Commissioned by Public Art Agency Sweden.

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Olof Marsja, To Carry This Body of an Animal Forth installation view, 1646, The Hague (2025). Picture courtesy of 1646.

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Olof Marsja, The Stena Foundation Culture Scholarship 2023 Exhibition installation view, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg (2023). Picture courtesy of the Gothenburg Museum of Art.

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Olof Marsja, Pathfinder I, 2023 (Jesmonite, glass, stainless steel, strap, synthetic lasso, wool, 300 x 170 x 162 cm).

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Olof Marsja, Pathfinder II, 2023 (Jesmonite, aluminium, stainless steel, strap, synthetic lasso, wool, 300 x 200 x 140 cm).

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Olof Marsja, The Stena Foundation Culture Scholarship 2023 Exhibition installation view, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg (2023). Picture courtesy of the Gothenburg Museum of Art.

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Olof Marsja, The Shepherd, 2023 (Alder wood, glass, reindeer fur, stick, nail, jesmonite, strap, artist’s T-shirt, brass, synthetic lasso, 206 x 55 x 55 cm).

Olof Marsja, Geist 2, 2023 (Silvered glass, alder wood, reindeer fur, stainless steel chain, Swedish coin, ratchet strap, 175 x 50 x 40 cm).

Olof Marsja, Omvänd Ikonoklasm, 2025 (Silvered glass, bronze, aluminium, 30 x 30 x 20 cm).

Olof Marsja, Sleepwalking Into the Abyss installation view.

Olof Marsja, The Bearer of III Tidings, 2022 (Bronze, aluminium, steel, chamotte, wood glue, graphite powder, rope, stainless steel, PL glue, alder wood, mdf, fabric, 104 x 92 x 72 cm).

Olof Marsja, A Bunch of Material Manifestations of the World that Lingers in the Periphery of the Eye, installation view. Picture courtesy of The Sámi Center of Contemporary Art, Karasjok, Norway.

Olof Marsja, Migration - The Journey of Objects, installation view. Picture courtesy of Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Olof Marsja, Orakel III, 2021 (Bronze, aluminium, steel, brass, polyester rope, safety pin, alder wood, wool textile, fake Summit Series jacket, Volvo car textile, plinth, 120 x 65 x 48 cm).

Olof Marsja, Orakel III (detail), 2021 (Bronze, aluminium, steel, brass, polyester rope, safety pin, alder wood, wool textile, fake Summit Series jacket, Volvo car textile, plinth, 120 x 65 x 48 cm).

Olof Marsja, Ah Vår! [Ah Spring!], 2024 (Glass, alder wood, plywood, sand, wood glue, reindeer antlers, jesmonite, t-shirts, luhkka, 133 x 137 x 40 cm).

Olof Marsja, B.B. Brown II, 2024 (Glass, aluminium, 30 x 30 x 16 cm).

Olof Marsja, Čuovgga Guorri [Tracker of Light], 2025 (Bronze, stone, 160 × 40 × 190 cm). Permanent sculpture installed at Hanaholmen – the Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre in Espoo, Finland. Commissioned by Public Art Agency Sweden.

Olof Marsja, To Carry This Body of an Animal Forth installation view, 1646, The Hague (2025). Picture courtesy of 1646.

Olof Marsja, The Stena Foundation Culture Scholarship 2023 Exhibition installation view, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg (2023). Picture courtesy of the Gothenburg Museum of Art.

Olof Marsja, Pathfinder I, 2023 (Jesmonite, glass, stainless steel, strap, synthetic lasso, wool, 300 x 170 x 162 cm).

Olof Marsja, Pathfinder II, 2023 (Jesmonite, aluminium, stainless steel, strap, synthetic lasso, wool, 300 x 200 x 140 cm).

Olof Marsja, The Stena Foundation Culture Scholarship 2023 Exhibition installation view, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg (2023). Picture courtesy of the Gothenburg Museum of Art.

Olof Marsja, The Shepherd, 2023 (Alder wood, glass, reindeer fur, stick, nail, jesmonite, strap, artist’s T-shirt, brass, synthetic lasso, 206 x 55 x 55 cm).

Olof Marsja, Geist 2, 2023 (Silvered glass, alder wood, reindeer fur, stainless steel chain, Swedish coin, ratchet strap, 175 x 50 x 40 cm).

Olof Marsja, Omvänd Ikonoklasm, 2025 (Silvered glass, bronze, aluminium, 30 x 30 x 20 cm).

Olof Marsja, Sleepwalking Into the Abyss installation view.

Olof Marsja, The Bearer of III Tidings, 2022 (Bronze, aluminium, steel, chamotte, wood glue, graphite powder, rope, stainless steel, PL glue, alder wood, mdf, fabric, 104 x 92 x 72 cm).

Olof Marsja, A Bunch of Material Manifestations of the World that Lingers in the Periphery of the Eye, installation view. Picture courtesy of The Sámi Center of Contemporary Art, Karasjok, Norway.

Olof Marsja, Migration - The Journey of Objects, installation view. Picture courtesy of Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Olof Marsja, Orakel III, 2021 (Bronze, aluminium, steel, brass, polyester rope, safety pin, alder wood, wool textile, fake Summit Series jacket, Volvo car textile, plinth, 120 x 65 x 48 cm).

Olof Marsja, Orakel III (detail), 2021 (Bronze, aluminium, steel, brass, polyester rope, safety pin, alder wood, wool textile, fake Summit Series jacket, Volvo car textile, plinth, 120 x 65 x 48 cm).

Olof Marsja, Ah Vår! [Ah Spring!], 2024 (Glass, alder wood, plywood, sand, wood glue, reindeer antlers, jesmonite, t-shirts, luhkka, 133 x 137 x 40 cm).

Olof Marsja, B.B. Brown II, 2024 (Glass, aluminium, 30 x 30 x 16 cm).

Olof Marsja

Olof Marsja (b.1986, Gällivare) works with sculptural expressions that analyse and blend uncannily the ultra modern contemporary digital reality and pop culture with history and traditions connected to his Sámi heritage and Duodji (Sámi craft). Crafts and materials are central in Marsja’s research and his works are deeply marked by the plurality of practical knowledge and references that characterise the hybrid forms with which he seriously and humorously analyses questions of history, the contemporary world and identity. Marsja holds a BFA from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts & Design in Stockholm (2017) and was a recipient of the Stena Foundation Culture Scholarship in 2023 and the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Stipend in 2019. He has recently exhibited at 1646 (The Hague, 2025), Scandinavia House (New York, 2025), NEVVEN (Gothenburg, 2025 and Bologna, 2024), Public Service Gallery (Stockholm, 2025), Gammel Strand (Copenhagen, 2024), Buffalo AKG Art Museum (Buffalo, 2024), Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma (Helsinki, 2024), Gothenburg Museum of Art (Gothenburg, 2023), Göteborgs Konsthall (Gothenburg, 2023 and 2020), Galerie Nordenhake focus (Stockholm, 2023), Moderna Museet (Stockholm, 2022), Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale (2022), Luleå Biennial (2022 and 2018), The Sámi Center for Contemporary Art (Karasjok, 2021), Röhsska Museet (Gothenburg, 2021), and Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm, 2019) among others. Marsja lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Exhibitions

Konvergenser #10 (Ten Years of NEVVEN) — Part 2
Aug 14 — Sep 28, 2025

A Gathering of Watchers, Seers and Geists Discussing the Probability of Them Experiencing True Light
May 8 — Jun 13, 2025

Konvergenser #10 (Ten Years of NEVVEN) — Part 1
Apr 30 — Jun 15, 2025

A Potential Movement, a Movement’s Potential, and a Sudden Stillness
Aug 8 — Sep 22, 2024

Mastabatoom, Mastabadtomm
Jan 25 — Mar 24, 2024

Sleepwalking Into the Abyss
Aug 26 — 28, 2022

And Darkness the Right Hand of Light
Co-curated by NEVVEN and MELK
Apr 8 — May 1, 2022

Triple 4
Apr 29 — Jun 6, 2021
Press

Stockholm Art Week
The Forumist — May 13, 2025

Hypnotisk Dans Mellan Konstverken På NEVVEN
Göteborgs Posten — Aug 9, 2024

Olof Marsja
CHART Journal — Dec 3, 2022

Trapping Bears in the Sámi Highlands
MacGuffin Magazine — Aug 6, 2022

Improvisationens Politik
Konstnären — Mar 15, 2022

What if the Bear Is the Sun, and the Sun Is the Bear
Migration — Oct 23, 2021

A World Beyond
Kunstkritikk — Jun 1, 2021

Olof Marsja på NEVVEN
Konsten.net — May 21, 2021

Underfundig Samisk Samtidskonstnär
Opulence — May 17, 2021

Olof Marsja - Triple 4
Göteborgs Posten — May 6, 2021

En Historia på Flera Plan
Omkonst — May 5, 2021
Editions

Olof Marsja, A Bunch of Sculptures Dreaming of the Light, Gothenburg: NEVVEN Editions, 2024 — Monograph Book
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Olof Marsja, Čuovgga Guorri [Tracker of Light], 2025 (Bronze, stone, 160 × 40 × 190 cm). Permanent sculpture installed at Hanaholmen – the Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre in Espoo, Finland. Commissioned by Public Art Agency Sweden.

Olof Marsja, To Carry This Body of an Animal Forth installation view, 1646, The Hague (2025). Picture courtesy of 1646.

Olof Marsja, The Stena Foundation Culture Scholarship 2023 Exhibition installation view, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg (2023). Picture courtesy of the Gothenburg Museum of Art.

Olof Marsja, Pathfinder I, 2023 (Jesmonite, glass, stainless steel, strap, synthetic lasso, wool, 300 x 170 x 162 cm).

Olof Marsja, Pathfinder II, 2023 (Jesmonite, aluminium, stainless steel, strap, synthetic lasso, wool, 300 x 200 x 140 cm).

Olof Marsja, The Stena Foundation Culture Scholarship 2023 Exhibition installation view, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg (2023). Picture courtesy of the Gothenburg Museum of Art.

Olof Marsja, The Shepherd, 2023 (Alder wood, glass, reindeer fur, stick, nail, jesmonite, strap, artist’s T-shirt, brass, synthetic lasso, 206 x 55 x 55 cm).

Olof Marsja, Geist 2, 2023 (Silvered glass, alder wood, reindeer fur, stainless steel chain, Swedish coin, ratchet strap, 175 x 50 x 40 cm).

Olof Marsja, Omvänd Ikonoklasm, 2025 (Silvered glass, bronze, aluminium, 30 x 30 x 20 cm).

Olof Marsja, Sleepwalking Into the Abyss installation view.

Olof Marsja, The Bearer of III Tidings, 2022 (Bronze, aluminium, steel, chamotte, wood glue, graphite powder, rope, stainless steel, PL glue, alder wood, mdf, fabric, 104 x 92 x 72 cm).

Olof Marsja, A Bunch of Material Manifestations of the World that Lingers in the Periphery of the Eye, installation view. Picture courtesy of The Sámi Center of Contemporary Art, Karasjok, Norway.

Olof Marsja, Migration - The Journey of Objects, installation view. Picture courtesy of Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Olof Marsja, Orakel III, 2021 (Bronze, aluminium, steel, brass, polyester rope, safety pin, alder wood, wool textile, fake Summit Series jacket, Volvo car textile, plinth, 120 x 65 x 48 cm).

Olof Marsja, Orakel III (detail), 2021 (Bronze, aluminium, steel, brass, polyester rope, safety pin, alder wood, wool textile, fake Summit Series jacket, Volvo car textile, plinth, 120 x 65 x 48 cm).

Olof Marsja, Ah Vår! [Ah Spring!], 2024 (Glass, alder wood, plywood, sand, wood glue, reindeer antlers, jesmonite, t-shirts, luhkka, 133 x 137 x 40 cm).

Olof Marsja, B.B. Brown II, 2024 (Glass, aluminium, 30 x 30 x 16 cm).

Olof Marsja, Čuovgga Guorri [Tracker of Light], 2025 (Bronze, stone, 160 × 40 × 190 cm). Permanent sculpture installed at Hanaholmen – the Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre in Espoo, Finland. Commissioned by Public Art Agency Sweden.

Olof Marsja, To Carry This Body of an Animal Forth installation view, 1646, The Hague (2025). Picture courtesy of 1646.

Olof Marsja, The Stena Foundation Culture Scholarship 2023 Exhibition installation view, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg (2023). Picture courtesy of the Gothenburg Museum of Art.

Olof Marsja, Pathfinder I, 2023 (Jesmonite, glass, stainless steel, strap, synthetic lasso, wool, 300 x 170 x 162 cm).

Olof Marsja, Pathfinder II, 2023 (Jesmonite, aluminium, stainless steel, strap, synthetic lasso, wool, 300 x 200 x 140 cm).

Olof Marsja, The Stena Foundation Culture Scholarship 2023 Exhibition installation view, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg (2023). Picture courtesy of the Gothenburg Museum of Art.

Olof Marsja, The Shepherd, 2023 (Alder wood, glass, reindeer fur, stick, nail, jesmonite, strap, artist’s T-shirt, brass, synthetic lasso, 206 x 55 x 55 cm).

Olof Marsja, Geist 2, 2023 (Silvered glass, alder wood, reindeer fur, stainless steel chain, Swedish coin, ratchet strap, 175 x 50 x 40 cm).

Olof Marsja, Omvänd Ikonoklasm, 2025 (Silvered glass, bronze, aluminium, 30 x 30 x 20 cm).

Olof Marsja, Sleepwalking Into the Abyss installation view.

Olof Marsja, The Bearer of III Tidings, 2022 (Bronze, aluminium, steel, chamotte, wood glue, graphite powder, rope, stainless steel, PL glue, alder wood, mdf, fabric, 104 x 92 x 72 cm).

Olof Marsja, A Bunch of Material Manifestations of the World that Lingers in the Periphery of the Eye, installation view. Picture courtesy of The Sámi Center of Contemporary Art, Karasjok, Norway.

Olof Marsja, Migration - The Journey of Objects, installation view. Picture courtesy of Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Olof Marsja, Orakel III, 2021 (Bronze, aluminium, steel, brass, polyester rope, safety pin, alder wood, wool textile, fake Summit Series jacket, Volvo car textile, plinth, 120 x 65 x 48 cm).

Olof Marsja, Orakel III (detail), 2021 (Bronze, aluminium, steel, brass, polyester rope, safety pin, alder wood, wool textile, fake Summit Series jacket, Volvo car textile, plinth, 120 x 65 x 48 cm).

Olof Marsja, Ah Vår! [Ah Spring!], 2024 (Glass, alder wood, plywood, sand, wood glue, reindeer antlers, jesmonite, t-shirts, luhkka, 133 x 137 x 40 cm).

Olof Marsja, B.B. Brown II, 2024 (Glass, aluminium, 30 x 30 x 16 cm).

Olof Marsja

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