Marjolein Guldentops is a Brussels-based visual artist and performer whose work delves into the materiality of language and the dynamics of textual experience. Through writing, orality, and visual compositions, she examines how language influences our perception of both physical and metaphysical spaces, as well as the interactions between people and the interplay between the body and its surroundings. By integrating graphic and typographic elements with lyrical sequences, she creates spatial compositions that play with the ambiguity of language.
Words are central to her practice, serving as collaborators that actively shape her creative process. These collaborations often materialise as sculptural forms in performances and paper installations. Guldentops reimagines elements of corporate culture, such as office supplies, workwear, and administrative codes, imbuing them with different meanings. Her body of work spans performance, drawing, publication, and installation.
Upcoming
2025
19th January, performance @Sunday Salon, Leuven
Past
2024 Performance, She Had a Name, Did the Flat Character Fall Out of Character?, Hot Pot, Brussels
2024 Common Reflection, Streetview, Brussels
2024 Performance, She Had a Name, Did the Flat Character Fall Out of Character?, Salon des Ateliers Mommen, Brussels
2024 Performance, Tell Tales, 11th Xarkis Festival, Nicosia (CY)
2024 Mäander:::meander, a process-orientated project on walking methodologies in Berlin (DE)
2024 OPEN STUDIO, Cité Internationale des arts, Paris (FR)
2024 Performance, Voices in the Blue, Blue Bench Session #3, Bizet Bizar, Brussels (BE)
2024 Performance, Where Are We Going, Cité Internationale des arts, Paris (FR)
2024 Group exhibition, Au bord de l'infini, Cité Internationale des arts, Paris (FR)
2024 Screening, Turning Point, Antwerp Art Weekend, From me To You Space, Antwerp (BE)
2024 In-situ installation and performance, Nomadic, Bloemenhofplein, Brussels (BE)
2024 Artist talk w/ Niels Poiz, ABCB, MAX, Brussels (BE)
2024 Group exhibition, Lunar Practices, Bananafish, Shanghai (CN)
2023 Duo exhibition w/ Eva Karduck, FLUX I BELL PLACE, Berlin (DE)
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, Somewhere along the Line, Jester, Genk (BE)
2023 Activation Bureau of Lost Causes, artists’ books fair Apples & Oranges, Jester, Genk (BE)
2023 Group exhibition, Rhizome structures, Hamburg (DE)
2023 OPEN STUDIOS, Fresh A.I.R. #8, Berlin (DE)
2023 Performance, There and Back Again, Flyktig / Fugitive, Valdres (NO)
2023 Activation Bureau of Lost Causes, Week-end LIVE, Musée Boverie, Liège (BE)
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, Here now, Le Lac, Brussels (BE)
2022 Performance, Boarding Call, Les Heures Sauvages, curated by Pauline Hatzigeorgiou, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris (FR)
2022 Vitrine, Urban Rhythms, Art au Centre #9, Liège (BE)
2022 Workshop, Walking and Writing the City, Le Lac, Brussels (BE)
2022 Audio commission, Airport Special (O.J.A.I./No Tourists), Dublin Digital Radio
2022 Performance, Final Call, SB34 Clovis, Brussels (BE)
2021 Performance, Space Travel, BANG! Big Bang city festival, Stelplaats, Leuven (BE)
2021 Performance, Assembly Call, SB34 Clovis, Brussels (BE)
2021 Activation Bureau of Lost Causes, Apples & Oranges artist publications and multiples fair, C-Mine, Genk (BE)
2021 Solo exhibition, Urban Rhythms, GC De Maalbeek, Brussels (BE)
2021 Group exhibition, Bruoscella, K.L.8, 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 Group exhibition, Jonge Kunstenaars, Carrington Gallery, Ghent (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
2024 Contribution, Après coup / Nachträglichkeit by Christine Demias, March 2025 calendar
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
Artistic collaborations
2017 NEKUIA, group show, soundpiece w/ Stephanie Becquet, Brussels (BE)
2017 Soup Sonnette, Festival Poisson-Évêque, performance w/ Stephanie Becquet and Romy Vanderveken, Brussels (BE)
2017 Do Not Open: 02, performance w/ Bo Vloors, Emma Verbeeck, Max Meyer, Arthur Brouns, Oscar Cassamajor and Quinten Vermaelen, La Vallée, Brussels (BE)
2016 Sneeuwlicht a theaterplay by Heleen Desmet, scenography w/ Stephanie Becquet and Romy Vanderveken, OPEK, Leuven (BE)
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)