Marina Resende Santos

BIOGRAPHIE

Marina Resende Santos is a Berlin-based artist, gardener and researcher. Her work addresses issues of agency, ecology technology through performance, text and installation. She often works in public spaces, using methods from subversive affirmation and theatre of the oppressed. She has taught artistic approaches to postcoloniality at the Bauhaus-University Weimar and the Berlin University Alliance. In Chicago, she served as the editor of Lumpen, a 30-year world journal for art, politics and culture, as well as assistant director of the Public Media Institute. Marina studied Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Chicago and Spatial Strategies at the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin. In recent years, she has exhibited internationally in Ithaca, Chicago, Los Angeles, Berlin and Salvador. Marina is a co-founder of the collective Kitchen Sink in Chicago and the project space Make-up e.V. in Berlin. She has been a resident of the Community of Practice at the Cool Down Festival of the Alliance of International Production Houses (Germany), ACRE (Steuben USA), and Watou Kunstenfestival (Belgium) as well as the Center for European Arts HELLERAU and part of the School for Dissident Friendship of the Berliner Festspielhaus and Ashkal Alwan.

FILMOGRAPHIE