Hi, I'm Marlene and I mostly work in visual narration, illustration, ceramics & tattoo. I am also an art teacher.
Between 2014 and 2018 I have been part of the organization of the small press festival Gutter Fest in Barcelona, Spain, and from 2007 to 2012 I've been co-publishing the international comic magazine Two Fast Colour together with Luka Lenzin in Hamburg, Germany.
I have two children and am a passionate practitioner of the Brazilian art Capoeira Angola.
BIO
FORMAL EDUCATION:
2025 Master in Art pedagogy // Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
2022 Master in Visual Communication: Illustration, class Henning Wagenbreth //
Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany.
Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany.
2007- 2008 Freemover exchange semester at EINA –escola d‘art i disseny, Barcelona, Spain.
2010 Diploma in Illustration & Graphic design, class Anke Feuchtenberger //
HAW - Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, Germany.
HAW - Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, Germany.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE / INTERNSHIPS:
● July 2025 Literature residency with kids, Can Grau / Cardant Cultura, Roda de Ter, Spain.
● April 2023 Residency at PLOU ceramic studio, Valencia, Spain.
● May– July 2018 Residency at the Maison des Auteurs, Angoulême, France.
● November 2017 Residency at Kitokia Grafika risograph studio, Kaunas, Lithuania.
● October 2012 – April 2013 Leonardo european internship at the spanish-french publishing house Mámut Cómics, Barcelona, Spain.
● July 2007 Artistic assistant of Anne-Mette Lichtenberg, International Summer Academy Pentiment, HAW Hamburg, Germany.
GRANTS:
2024 Comic grant of the German Literature Fund / Deutscher Literaturfonds.
2023 Comic grant of the city of Berlin / Comicstipendium Berlin.
2018 Residency grant of the Centre National du Livre (CNL).
BOOKS:
L‘Art de vestir-se bé. (Texto: Bel Olid). Pol·len edicions, Spain, 2024.
Pots ser. (Texto: Bel Olid). Pol·len edicions, Spain, 2022.
Cancioneiro Ilustrado de Capoeira Angola. UdK Berlin, Germany, 2022.
Momento Móvil. Apa Apa Comics, Spain, 2019.
Maud. kus!comics, Lithuania, 2018.
À un autre endroit. L’Association, France, 2013.
FANZINES (selection):
And then, war started 2025
Wherever I Go 2024
Bicimami 2023
Family Altar 2021
Computer Class 2019
¡Ay Mamá! 2019
Monodosis 2018
Inadequate Habitat 2014
Europa Deadly Sad 2013
EXHIBITIONS (selection):
● 2023 -2025 Group exhibition Perdona, estoy hablando // Centrocentro Cibeles, Madrid, Spain / Insitututo Cervantes, Nantes, France / Comic Festival Munich, Germany / Neimenster, Luxembourg / Utrecht, The Netherlands
● 2023 Group exhibition Her Gaze. When Storms reveal silence // Kunsthaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.
● 2023 Solo exhibition Niemand ist frei // Comicfestival Hamburg, Germany.
● 2023 Group exhibition Stipendiates of the Comicstipendium // Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, Germany.
● 2023 Solo exhibition NO PLOU // Plou estudi, Valencia.
● 2023 Group exhibition Grosse Salatschüssel des Lebens. Comics aus Le Monde Diplomatique //
Gallery Neurotitan, Berlin, Germany.
● 2022 Solo exhibition Licuri botou gameleira no chão // Fatbottom Books, Barcelona.
● 2019 Group exhibition of residents // Maison des Auteurs, Angoulême, France.
● 2018 Solo exhibition En el centro ya no vive nadie que conozco // Gallery AK-35, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
● 2017 Exhibtion Wunderkinder/Niñ@s maravilla with Roberta Vázquez, currated by Tevi de la Torre //
Molar bookshop, Madrid, Spain.
● 2017 Solo exhibition Miskas / Wood // POST galerija, Kaunas, Lituania .
● 2016 Solo exhibition Ungles de NEON // La Bòbila, L‘Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain.
● 2016 Solo exhibition Amb un gelat a la mà davant el fàstic // Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain.