Karine Marenne

Karine Marenne, a graduate of the Images in the Environment program at ARTS², is a professor of Performance and Body Art Practice at ARTS².

An interdisciplinary visual artist and performer since 2000, her artistic work explores and manipulates the concept of IMAGE in its broadest sense. Over the years, performative acts have become central to her practice. For her, performance is a poetic/political act, a way of shaping an Image to reveal systemic fractures. She uses the body to create Images by subverting codes and archetypes, with irony often being her weapon of choice.

In 2006, she created We Love ART, transforming the BOZAR palace into a fitness room where artists, curators, art critics, and guards were invited to sweat for Art. From 2005 to 2008, she developed a long-running nomadic series titled Caravan of Love. From 2012 to 2017, armed with a feather duster, she self-proclaimed herself Art Maid, wandering through fairs and institutions to build her collection of collectors. From 2016 to 2018, in Artiste Couple, she and Mrs. Delmotte performed the concept of "the couple."

Her current project, Apron Role, is a voluntary de-layering performance involving the donning and shedding of 50 aprons, which will be presented in March 2024 as part of the Women In Art Biennale.