Marijke De Roover
b. 1990, Belgium
Marijke De Roover is a part-time professional karaoke singer, meme connoisseur and taxi driver; widely known for her queer and feminist performance work.
In her artworks, she deals with questions regarding the nuclear family, feminism/motherhood, ethics of reproduction, and love, romance and compulsory heteronormativity under late capitalism. In 2020 she had her first institutional solo at Museum de Pont in Tilburg (NE). Recent exhibitions include those at KIOSK, Ghent BE; EMST - The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (GR); Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR); Museum fur Neue Kunst, Freiburg (DE) and the David Roberts Art Foundation, London (UK). She lives and works in Ghent, BE.