marjolein.guldentops(at)hotmail.com
lives and works in Brussels
Marjolein Guldentops is a visual artist and performer based in Brussels whose work explores the materiality of language. She approaches language as both matter and structure: a dynamic system that shapes how we perceive, relate, and make sense of the world, while remaining open to ambiguity, slippage, and transformation. Rather than treating words as fixed instruments of communication, she works with them as active collaborators in the creative process.
Working across performance, sound, publication, and site-specific installation, she develops text-based projects in which texts move between voice, typography, movement, and material form. These shifts allow language to be encountered not only as something to be read, but also as something to be heard, inhabited, and experienced physically.
Education
2019 Specifieke Lerarenopleiding, LUCA School of Arts, Ghent, (BE)
2017 MA Fine Art, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, (BE)
2016 BA Vrije Kunsten, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, (BE)
Selected exhibitions, performances and other activities
2026 Performance with Gilles Hellemans, XXX’s OOOs, Gula Gula Festival, Ruiterijcomplex, Vilvoorde (BE)
2026 Performance with Accou Laposte, A Mouth to House It, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris (FR)
2025 Performance, Timely Mannerism, Ateliers Claus, Brussels (BE)
2025 Performance, Time and Again, Gay Summer, CCINQ, Brussels (BE)
2025 Solo exhibition, Here Now, Espace Vanhomwegen, Brussels (BE)
2024 Performance, Tell Tales, 11th Xarkis Festival, Nicosia (CY)
2024 Group exhibition, Au bord de l’infini, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR)
2024 Performance, Voices in the Blue, Blue Bench Session #3, Bizet Bizar, Brussels (BE)
2024 In-situ installation and performance, Liquid Language, Nomadic, Brussels (BE)
2023 Billboard, Living by the Sun, Dreaming with the Moon, Lunar Practices, 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 and performance, Where Are We Going, SB34 – The Pool, Brussels (BE)
2022 Performance, Boarding Call, Burn After Use, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, 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, Final Call, Fruit Anxiety, Desire and Method, SB34 Clovis, Brussels (BE)
2020 Group exhibition, THE FEMALE HAZE(d), Decoratelier, Brussels (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)
Publications
2025 Artist book, Right Now, Right Here, Here Now, Zero-Desk Editions
2025 Online publication, Three Fold: Issue 18
2025 A4 n°3, Littérature Supersport collective, Brussels (BE)
2024 SOFAM Revue #4
2021 Artist book, Where Are We Going, Zero-Desk Editions
2022 Article on the work by Raymond Balau, Boarding Call, L’art même #87
2022 Linda Nochlin Fanzine, KIOSK
Awards & Residencies
2026 SOFAM Mini-Grant
2025 Grant for Emerging Talent, Flemish Government
2024 Two-week residency, Xarkis, Nicosia (CY)
2024 Three-month residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, supported by the Flemish Government, Paris (FR)
2024 SOFAM Mini-Grant
2024 Culture Moves Europe Grant
2023 One-year residency, Fresh A.I.R. #8, Berlin (DE)
2023 One-week residency, Flyktig/Fugitive, Valdres (NO)
2023 Grant for Visual Artist, SOFAM
2023 Grant for Emerging Artist, Flemish Community Commission (VGC)
2018 Two-month residency, N+1 Project Space, Cas-co, Leuven (BE)
2017 Award, N+1 Project Space, Cas-co