Based in Venice,(Italy), Manchester (UK) and Reykjavik (Iceland).
She is currently living in Venice.
Marina Marques was born in Natal, north-eastern Brazil in 1998 and grew up in Italy. Trained in visual arts, photography and curatorial practices in Venice,England and Iceland.
In her research and practice she likes to curate projects, concepts and desires in the tensions between materiality and impalpability, invisibility and sensuality, exploring the transformative potential of the minor senses, especially olfaction, in the visual arts.
Loom Magazine
2021, Hide and Seek, in collaboration with Charles Turner,
commissioned by Creative Industries Trafford
Marina
Marina Marques è nata a Natal, nord-est del Brasile nel 1998
e cresciuta in Italia. E’ formata in arti visive, fotografia e curatela tra Venezia,
Inghilterra e Islanda. Nella sua ricerca e pratica ama curare progetti,
concetti e desideri nelle tensioni tra materialità e impalpabilità,
invisibilità e sensualità, esplorando il potenziale performativo dei sensi minori
nelle arti visive.
EXHIBITIONS and PROJECTS
2024 Subliminal Encounters
Fabrica30
Fabrica Research Center, Treviso
partecipative performance and talk
2024 Ritratto olfattivo dell’asfalto veneziano
at L’intruso inventato cioè l’asfalto veneziano curated by Andrea Ceresa, Federico Broggini and Giovanni Paolin at Panorama, Venice
artist
2024 Osmogonie
MA thesis at IUAV, multisensorial editorial publication
curator
2023 Osmotopie
curated exhibition with the artists Luca Vitone, Sunna Svavarsdottir, Nuvola Ravera, Enrico Boccioletti Biennale Sessions, La Biennale Di Venezia
curator
2022-ongoing Cookbook of Taste Lost research supported by Rannis Students Innovation Fund Iceland
curator
2021 You Keep Me Under No Smell
with original artworks by
Nuvola Ravera, Raffaela
Naldi Rossano and Margherita Soldati
at Venice Art Projects,
Venice
curator
2021 Under No Smell
at Rea Fair, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano
artist
2021 everendever at Uscire Col Maltempo
curated by AUGE!
artist
2021 Origini
at Buso, Venice
artist
2020
Hu
collective curatorial project supervided by Davide Quadrio at IUAV University, Venice
curator
2020
Limen, per una trasparenza visiva
BA degree exhibition in a box supervised by
Riccardo Caldura e
Anna Sostero
2020 Glinta
indipendent photographic publication
artist
2018-ongoing Last Frame Project
curator
2018
MEMORY
indipendent publication created during Think, Process, Print by Marcin Limonowicz and Sebastian Pren at
Fabrica Research Center
artist
2019 White Smell
at White Box, San Servolo, Venice
artist
2019
Colors Magazine, n°Ecologia
editor
EDUCATION
2020/2024 University IUAV of Venezia MA LM-65 Visual Arts
110/110L
2022
Iceland University of the Arts
MA Curatorial Practice, Erasmus+
2017-2020
Academy of fine arts of Venice
BA, Visual Arts
110/110L
2019-2020
Manchester School of Art
BA Photography Erasmus+
WORKSHOPS and LECTURES
2024 Osmogonie lecture by Marina Marques as part of Francesco Bergamo’s academic course:
Questions of Rapresentation. Seminars for
Theory and History of Representational Methods
at IUAV University of Venice
2023 Odor symposium Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
2023 Sculture Immateriali lecture by Marina Marques as part of Nuvola Ravera’s academic course: Tecniche della Scultura at Accademia di Belle Arti di Genova
2022 Absent Monuments
by Paulina Pakyute
Lithuania
2021
Per una Trasparenza Visiva,
lecture by Marina Marques as part of Anna Sostero’s academic course: Problemi Espressivi del Contemporaneo at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera
2021
Human Plus: Taste and Smell
Talking Sense by Davide Howes
Centre for Sensory Studies
Concordia University
2019
Atmosfere: la dimensione
olfattiva dei luoghi
di Tonino Griffedo
Smell Festival, Bologna
2020
Last Frame Project lecture by Marina Marques during
Photo Therapy Day online,
Royal Photographic Society
and Gruppo di Ricerca sulla Fototerapia (GRIFO, PhotoTherapy Research Group)
2018 AMATEUR!
with Erik Kessels
Design and Creative Thinking at Fabrica Research Center
2018
Gamification
with Bruno Setola
Creative problem solving
at Fabrica Research Center
2018 Creative Writing
with Tiziano Scarpa
at Fabrica Research Center
2018 Creative Writing
with Simone Tempia
at Fabrica Research Center
