Tamara Marbl Joka (1968)

Tamara Marbl Joka is an Oslo-based artist, recent visual arts graduate, and current master’s student at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She was born in 1968 in Sarajevo, which was a part of The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at the time. Following the dissolution of state in 1992, she immigrated to Norway. She consequently completed her formal training as a lecturer of Arts and Crafts at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Tamara Marbl Joka has exhibited in many group exhibitions and two solo exhibitions in the Nordic region. In 2007, the county municipality of Telemark purchased her work for their permanent collection.

By exploring textures and using the material as memory, she studies the challenges within in the medium. Her process is a direct result of inner dialogue and contradiction. These occur between head and heart, as well as the material and the sensual.