marjolein.guldentops(at)hotmail.com
lives and works in Brussels
Marjolein Guldentops is a visual artist and performer whose work focuses on the materiality of language. She approaches language as both matter and structure; a dynamic system that we inhabit, shape, and are continually shaped by. Embracing its ambiguity and transformative potential, she regards words as collaborators rather than instruments in her creative process.
Her work explores how linguistic frameworks influence our perception of space, time, identity, and interpersonal relationships. Through transposition and the interplay of typographic and lyrical elements, texts migrate across performance, sound, printed matter, and site-specific installations, generating spatial compositions that sit at the intersection of reading, listening, and physical presence.
Selected exhibitions, performances and other activities
2025 performance, Timely Mannerism, Ateliers Claus, Brussels (BE)
2025 performance, Time and Again, CCINQ, Brussels (BE)
2025 solo exhibition, Here Now, Espace Vanhomwegen, Brussels (BE)
2025 launch A4 review N°3, rile*books, Brussels (BE)
2024 performance, She Had a Name, Salon des Ateliers Mommen, Brussels (BE)
2024 performance, Tell Tales, 11th Xarkis Festival, Nicosia (CY)
2024 a project on walking methodologies, Mäander:::meander, Berlin (DE)
2024 performance, Voices in the Blue, Blue Bench Session #3, Bizet Bizar, Brussels (BE)
2024 group exhibition, Au bord de l’infini, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR)
2024 group exhibition, Turning Point, Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerp (BE)
2024 in-situ installation and performance, Nomadic, Bloemenhofplein, Brussels (BE)
2023 vitrine exhibition, Living by the Sun, Dreaming with the Moon, B09k, Changsha (CN)
2023 group exhibition, LINGUISTIC XPEDITION, URBAN NATION, Berlin (DE)
2023 performance, There and Back Again, Flyktig/Fugitive, Valdres (NO)
2023 group exhibition, Banqueroute, Musée Boverie, Liège (BE)
2023 book launch & performance, Where Are We Going, SB34-The Pool, Brussels (BE)
2022 performance, Here Now, WIELS Art Book Fair, Brussels (BE)
2022 performance, Burn After Use, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, curated by Pauline Hatzigeorgiou, Paris (FR)
2022 vitrine exhibition, Urban Rhythms, Art au Centre #9, Liège (BE)
2022 audio commission, Airport Special (O.J.A.I./No Tourists), Dublin Digital Radio (IE)
2021 performance, Assembly Call, SB34 Clovis, Brussels (BE)
2021 performance, Lost and Found, SUEUR festival, Abdij van Vorst, Brussels (BE)
2020 group exhibition, THE FEMALE HAZE(d), Decoratelier, Brussels (BE)
2020 group exhibition, Slow Motion Slumber, Rue Denmark 35, Brussels (BE)
2018 video screening, Circular Movements, Cas-co, Leuven (BE)
2018 solo exhibition, (To Take) A Form To Make A Form, Cas-co, Leuven (BE)
2017 graduation show, Reviewing Authorship, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels (BE)
2017 group exhibition,There’s Always More to See, M Museum, Leuven (BE)
Publications
2025 artist book, Right Now, Right Here, Here Now, published by Zero-Desk Editions
2025 online publication, Three Fold journal, Issue 18
2025 A4 n°3, Littérature Supersport collective, Brussels
2025 contribution to Christine Demias' project: Après coup / Nachträglichkeit calendar (March)
2024 contribution to Christine Demias' project: A4xX, unlimited edition
2024 Catalogue 2022–2023, Art Au Centre
2024 SOFAM Revue #4
2023 artist book, Where Are We Going, published by Zero-Desk Editions
2022 Linda Nochlin Fanzine, KIOSK
2022 article on my work by Raymond Balau, Boarding Call, L’art même #87
Broadcasts & Mixes
2025 Model City: TOWERS w/ Accou Laposte, KIOSK radio, Brussels (BE)
2025 Model City: CARS w/ Accou Laposte, KIOSK radio, Brussels (BE)
2025 Model City: INTERIORS w/ Accou Laposte, KIOSK radio, Brussels (BE)
2025 Model City , Guest Mix by Accou Laposte & Marjolein Guldentops, stegi.radio, Athens (GR)
Residencies
2025 two-week residency, w/ Accou Laposte, Erica Synths, Riga (LV)
2024 two-week residency, Xarkis, Nicosia (CY)
2024 three-month residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, supported by the Flemish Government, Paris (FR)
2023 one-year residency residency, Fresh A.I.R.#8, Berlin (DE)
2023 on-site research and public presentation program, Flyktig/Fugitive, Valdres (NO)
2018 two-month residency, N+1 Project Space, Cas-co, Leuven (BE)
Grants & Awards
2026 mini-grant by SOFAM
2025 grant for emerging talent, The Flemish Government
2024 mini-grant by SOFAM
2024 culture Moves Europe grant
2023 grant for visual artist, SOFAM
2023 grant for emerging artist, The Flemish Community Commission (VGC)
2017 award: N+1 Project Space Cas-Co