BIOGRAPHY

Marita Isobel Solberg is a musician and visual artist, working with sound, performance and installation art. In addition to her master’s degree from Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2007), she has been singing and exploring different musical genres ever since childhood and has a artsound band project called MmmMaras. Solberg is originally from Manndalen in Troms, she has a base in Tromsø, Norway, but lives a nomadic life on the Norwegian and international art scene. Over the years, she’s done guest performances and residencies in places like The Watermill Center in New York, Art / Life Institute in NY, The Performance Studio in London, TTT in Mexico City, the Arctic Hideaway in Fleinvær and Pushkinskaya in St. Petersburg. With her strong connection with the northern Norwegian part of the country, she has been in charge of the fictional Sámi Daiddamusea in the award-winning museum performance of RiddoDuottarMuseat and Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum in 2017. In recent years, she has been very active as performance artist and has participated in a number of projects and cooperation.