Marita Isobel Solberg is a visual artist, musician and composer with North-Norwegian, Sami and Kven/Finnish roots. Based in Troms, she works nomadically on the Norwegian and international art scene. Her practice is interdisciplinary and moves at the intersection of ceramics, performance art, sound, installation and site-specific interventions. The voice – as vibration, body and carrier of experience – is a recurring material in her work, parallel to clay/ceramics, organic materials and spatial installations. The works are often relational and sensual, and explore tensions that can be experienced as both seductive, triggering, confronting and transforming.
Solberg balances between multiple “worlds” – presence, identity, culture, nature, belonging and spiritual technologies; between the local and the universal; between the material and the immaterial. Growing up in Manndalen, surrounded by nature, crafts, seasonal work and multicultural language landscapes (Sami languages, Kven, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish), constitutes a living archive in her artistic work. Through the Riddu Riđđu festival, indigenous knowledge and global perspectives became a natural part of her frame of reference early on.
She studied ceramics at Nordland Art and Film School (1997–1999) and received a master's degree from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2007). Since then, she has worked internationally with performance, ceramics, music and sound, and participated in residencies and projects at, among others, The Watermill Center (NY, USA), Strangelove Festival in Folkestone (UK), Riddu Riđđu Festivála in Manndalen (Sápmi), Art & Life Institute (NY, USA), Barents Spectacle in Kirkenes (Norway), MoCA in Taipei (Taiwan), Anchorage Museum in Alaska (USA), Alianait Festival in Iqaluit (Canada), Grace Exhibition Space (NY, USA), Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Japan), SDG in Karasjon (Norway), Pushkinskaya 10 (St. Petersburg, Russia) and at Ca´Pesaro; Museum of Modern Art in Venice.
Among key projects and collaborations are M À R A S,  with Risto Puurunen, Steve Vanoni and Stig Pettersen, TARA MORHUA and SOL & STEN with Trond Ansten, Between Sky and Sea VII: Flying Blind, GANGERE with Charlotte Bendiksen, Der alt har lyd / Buot Gos lea jiena with Koyo and Lene Westerås and collaborations with, among others, Risto Puurunen (Cleaning Women), Steve Vanoni, Ferske Scener (Blodklubb and Siida:Bukta), Terry Smith (UK), Francesco Ducato (IT), Nazare Soares, Nordting, Elind Rui Blix,  POPU POPU with Adam Zaretsky and Hege Tapio,  Gypsy Chicken and Non Grata (Estonia).
Solberg's intention is to challenge both the audience and herself - to reach into the innermost being and create vibrations with reverberation. She invites the audience into a intimate, fabulating and philosophical charged world, where questions of listening, body, material and belonging are central: How do we choose to listen to our surroundings - and our inner self?