Marialena Marouda

Marialena Marouda (GR/BE) is a performance and sound artist based in Brussels, Belgium. She studied philosophy and visual arts at Columbia University in New York USA, and continued her studies at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen, Germany. She was a participant of the Advanced Performance And Scenography Studies (a.pass) Post-Master program, in Brussels.

Marialena’s practice is research-based and develops over the long term. She focuses on embodied knowledge and its performance, through storytelling, vocalizing and sound. Since May 2025 and for the next 2 years, her research centers around the Politics of Exploring Joy from a queer feminist perspective, supported by a grant by the Flemish Government.

Her work as part of The Oceanographies Institute (TOI), which Marialena initiated in 2018, has been presented internationally, for example at the Ultima Contemporary Music Festival in Oslo (2024), the Climate Imaginaries at Sea Festival in Amsterdam (2024), and at the Dansand Festival in Ostend (2022). In 2022 Marialena curated the symposium Songing with Our Ancestors: Hydrofeminisms, with contributions by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Peggy Pierrot and Johanna Peine, in collaboration with VUB Crosstalks, Kaaitheater and Q-O2. She has collaborated with a.o. the composer Charlie Usher, as well as choreographers Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Elpida Orfanidou and Fabrice Mazliah.

Since 2022, she is a professor for the MA Performance and Installation Studio at the school of graphic research (erg - école de recherche graphique) in Brussels.