Marilena Georgantzi

Marilena Georgantzi (b.1987, Athens) is a set designer and visual artist. Her practice lies in the activation of personal and collective memories, rethinking on historiography as artistic storytelling and as a system of layers often untangling traces of water and earth strata. Her work includes soft environments made through textile manipulation and printmaking as well as fragmented writings. Marilena has been selected for residencies, artistic and curatorial proposals by renowned institutions and festivals and as a tutor in collective experiences where the importance of women’s often invisible labor and traditional crafts is highlighted ex. Halle 14, Leipzig, 2023, Centre for Circular Design, UAL, 2022. She has published essays on world-making and the immersive, Dionysian aspect of sound in video games ex. Ambiances Conference, 2020. Marilena’s set design portfolio includes productions like PLAZA (Leipzig Tanztheater, Schauspiel Leipzig, 2024), Teardrop (Stereo Nero Dance Co., supported by the Ministry of Culture, 2023), and 442 or a Game Without a Score (Stereo Nero Dance Co., Onassis Stegi Young Choreographers Festival, 2021; part of Greece's participation in the Prague Quadrennial, 2023).