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Marjolein Guldentops is a visual artist and performer who explores language as both material and structure—something we inhabit, shape, and are shaped by. Through writing, drawing, performance, and visual composition, she examines its inherent ambiguity and potential for transformation. Translating between mediums, she shifts concepts from one form to another: scripts become performances; performances evolve into books, drawings, or installations. She often repurposes everyday elements—administrative codes, office supplies, workwear—subverting their functions to create new meanings. Through subtle distortions, she challenges how systems categorise, remember, and forget, exposing their rigidity.

Upcoming

22nd of May 2025, Book and Record Launch at Espace Vanhomwegen, Brussels (BE)


Selected exhibitions and performances

2024 She Had a Name, performance, Salon des Ateliers Mommen, Brussels (BE)
2024 Tell Tales, performance, 11th Xarkis Festival, Nicosia (CY)
2024 Mäander:::meander, a project on walking methodologies, Berlin (DE)
2024 Voices in the Blue, performance, Blue Bench Session #3, Bizet Bizar, Brussels (BE)
2024 Au bord de l’infini, group exhibition, Cité Internationale des arts, Paris (FR)
2024 Turning Point, group exhibition, Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerp (BE)
2024 Nomadic, in-situ installation and performance, Bloemenhofplein, Brussels (BE)

2023 Living by the Sun, Dreaming with the Moon, billboard, B09k, Changsha (CN)
2023 LINGUISTIC XPEDITION, group exhibition, URBAN NATION, Berlin (DE)
2023 There and Back Again, performance, Flyktig/Fugitive, Valdres (NO)
2023 Banqueroute, group exhibition, Musée Boverie, Liège (BE)
2023 Where Are We Going, book launch & performance, SB34-The Pool, Brussels (BE)

2022 Here Now, performance, WIELS Art Book Fair, Brussels (BE)
2022 Burn After Use, performance, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris (FR), curated by Pauline Hatzigeorgiou
2022 Urban Rhythms, vitrine exhibition, Art au Centre #9, Liège (BE)
2022 Airport Special (O.J.A.I./No Tourists), audio commission, Dublin Digital Radio (IE)

2021 Assembly Call, performance, SB34 Clovis, Brussels (BE)
2021 Lost and Found, performance, SUEUR festival, Abdij van Vorst, Brussels (BE)

2020 THE FEMALE HAZE(d), group exhibition, Decoratelier, Brussels (BE)
2020 Slow Motion Slumber, group exhibition, Rue Denmark 35, Brussels (BE)

2018 Circular Movements, video screening, Cas-co, Leuven (BE)
2018 (To Take) A Form To Make A Form, solo exhibition, Cas-co, Leuven (BE)

2017 Reviewing Authorship, graduation show, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels (BE)
2017 There’s Always More to See, group exhibition, M Museum, Leuven (BE)

Publications
2024 Contribution, Après coup / Nachträglichkeit by Christine Demias, March 2025 calendar​

2024 Contribution, A4xX by Christine Demias, a free unlimited edition

2024 Art Au Centre - Catalogue 2022-2023
2024 SOFAM Revue #4
2022 Contribution, Linda Nochlin Fanzine, Kiosk Gent, (BE)

2022 Article, Boarding Call, written by Raymond Balau, L'art même #87

2021 Artist book, Where Are We Going, published by Zero-Desk Editions


Residencies

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 artist in residence, Fresh A.I.R.#8, Berlin (DE)

2023 One-week 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

2024 Mini-grant by SOFAM

2024 Culture Moves Europe grant, Funded by the creative Europe programme of the European Union

2023 Grant for visual artist, SOFAM

2023 Grant for emerging artist, The Flemish Community Commission (VGC)

2017 Award: N+1 Project Space, Leuven (BE)

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