Marjolein van der Loo

Marjolein van der Loo is an interdisciplinary researcher whose practice moves between curatorial, editorial, artistic, and pedagogical work. The projects she initiates arise from a passion for ecology and have a feminist approach and social agenda. As associate curator for Onomatopee, she is responsible for the exhibition and publication series on Folklore & Critical Research (2024-2028).

With the self-initiated project Puree&Pruimenvlaai, Marjolein researches themes from South Limburg history from an eco-feminist perspective with support from the Mondriaan Fund and Limburg Province in collaboration with Museum Het Nieuwe Domein. In 2023, she was curator in residence at ZERO Foundation in Düsseldorf and started as a teacher at the Interdisciplinary Arts program at Maastricht Institute of Arts. 

In 2021 and 2022, she was an artist in residence at Arcus Project in Japan, where she created and published the book Katsura Hito with Handsaw Press Tokyo. Marjolein is the editor of the publication A Tree, A Reader on Arboreal Kinship (2024), and co-editor of the volume Enfleshed, on Ecologies of Entities and Beings (2023), both published by Onomatopee.

Marjolein completed her Fine Art and Design Teacher program at the Maastricht Academy of Visual Arts, a Bachelor's degree in Art History at the University of Utrecht, and obtained her Master's degree in Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art at Aalto University in Finland.