Marjolein Guldentops
lives and works in Brussels
marjolein.guldentops@hotmail.com
Guldentops approaches language as both material and structure—a dynamic system we inhabit, shape, and are continually shaped by. Working across performance, text, sound, and installation, she explores how linguistic frameworks shape our experience of space, time, and identity. Her work often returns to themes of urban wandering, the embodied voice, and alternative forms of communication that push against dominant narratives. She draws on varied lexicons and notation systems—ranging from meteorological charts to administrative language—to highlight the ambiguity and instability of meaning. Through poetic shifts and subjective distortions, Guldentops examines how systems categorise, remember, and forget. Her work exposes the rigidity of such structures while opening space for rearticulation, vulnerability, and resistance.
Selected exhibitions, performances and other activities
2025 Time and Again, performance, CCINQ, Brussels
2025 Here Now, Solo exhibition, Espace Vanhomwegen, Brussels (BE)
2025 Model City , Guest Mix by Accou Laposte & Marjolein Guldentops, stegi.radio, Athens (GR)
2025 Launch A4 review N°3, rile*books, Brussels
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
2025 Three Fold journal, Issue 18, online publication
2025 A4 n°3, Littérature Supersport collective, Brussels
2025 Après coup / Nachträglichkeit calendar (March), contribution to Christine Demias' project
2024 A4xX, unlimited edition, Christine Demias
2024 Art Au Centre – Catalogue 2022–2023
2024 SOFAM Revue #4
2022 Linda Nochlin Fanzine, KIOSK, Ghent (BE)
2022 Boarding Call, article by Raymond Balau, L’art même #87
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
2025 The Flemish Government
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)