Marlies Augustijn’s core interests lie with interdisciplinary projects connecting current sociopolitical debates, scientific research and art, non-art spaces, and the potential of the nocturnal city for the arts. Marlies often works in the context of live events and performance art. She is currently Assistant Curator for Block Universe, an international performance art festival and commissioning body based in London, and Programme Maker London Night for Extra Extra, a Rotterdam-based multidisciplinary platform exploring the sensuality of contemporary urban life.
Previously she has worked as Assistant Curator for DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation), a non-profit organisation for contemporary art in London, where she was involved in the development of the artistic programme including DRAF’s Curators’ Series and annual Evening of Performances, and managed the David Roberts Collection. Marlies contributed to DRAF’s Study Series, a series of case-studies highlighting works from the collection, by conducting in-depth research into Miroslaw Balka’s practice resulting in an extensive essay and public in-conversation. Marlies has also worked in exhibition and events management for visual arts centre The Darling Foundry in Montreal, and annual contemporary arts festival Art Night in London.
Marlies has recently co-curated Alt-Age: Designing Belief, a one-day festival of talks, film screenings, live performances and a publication taking place at the Design Museum in London (2018), and SMOG, an exhibition with coinciding publication at Arthill Gallery, London (2018).
Marlies is a regular contributor to Dutch magazines GLAS and KLEI for which she writes about contemporary glass, design and ceramics. She holds an MA Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London, and a BA Liberal Arts and Sciences from Amsterdam University College.