Delphine Marinier (*1976, France), Berlin-based curator, artist, collector, teacher
Marinier studied Art History, History and Geography at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Between 1996 and 2001, she obtained a Master's Degree and a DEA graduate degree in Contemporary History. After passing the CAPES competitive exam at the Sorbonne University in 2000, she started to teach history and geography in German in bilingual Abibac-classes in a Paris region high school. She passed the Agrégation competitive exam in 2006. She moved to Berlin 2009 and since works at the Franco-German high school (Französisches Gymnasium Berlin).
Besides her professional activity as a teacher, Marinier started to take part in Berlin based curatorial and artistic projects. In 2010 she co-founded stattberlin, a nonprofit exhibition project space in Berlin-Mitte together with the performer and curator Lan Hungh (TW). At stattberlin she commissioned and/or produced a broad range of international artists that included Antonio Paucar (PE), Yingmei Duan (CN), Chen Chieh-Jen (TW), Brian Bixby (USA), Yao Jui-Chung (TW) and curated exhibitions such as In The Making in the frame of the European Month of Photography Berlin 2012 and (con)temporary space-time as part of the Month of Performance Art Berlin 2013.
From 2015 to 2016, she worked as a freelance curator together with Lan Hungh in the frame of several Berlin based projects such as The Month Of Performance Art Berlin 2015 or the Monat der Fotografie OFF 2016 at ERRATUM Gallery.
2016 she co-founded the Berlin based artist-run space gr_und with Lan Hungh and James Verhille and worked there from 2016 to 2019 as a curator and administrator. Since 2019, she has been working as a freelance curator.
Marinier also regularly sets up pedagogical projects providing her students with the possibility to experience the artistic practice by arranging internships for them at stattberlin and gr_und as well as by involving them in curating and organizing art exhibitions at her school.
As an artist, Marinier develops and experiments with mixed media as she combines various digital techniques such as scanning, photography and video with more traditional art forms such as painting, drawing and installation. Her works investigate our perceptions of reality and the barriers of time and space. She draws upon these inspirations to create experiments using light, movement and objects. She is inspired by her study of history, geography, and social and political phenomena. Her involvement in these subjects is reflected in her perception of reality and in her work. Most of her work uses a flatbed scanner as a camera and also as an object to film. Scanning allows her to show microscopic details and also represent infinite space in a pure black void. Her videos are experiments that poetically combine all of these interests. The work is output in the form of video projections. There is an excitement and wonder in Delphine's work; a wide eyed perception of reality that can be contagious. Her works have been shown in Berlin, Paris, Lamspringe (Germany), Pereira (Columbia) among others.
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