Mareike Dobewall is a director and scenographer working in the field of live art. Her work is not bound to a genre but rather crosses the boundaries of genres and overlaps into varying art forms. It is her believe that each art form can be what we let it become.

Mareike Dobewall (born 1984) has both theoretical and practical training as director and scenographer. She has professionally worked with film, theatre, dance, opera and installation art. In the past years she has put a main focus on the qualities of sound in live art.

In 2017 Mareike Dobewall started as a PhD candidate at Stockholm University of the Arts with a specialisation in Opera.

PhD candidate at the Stockholm University of the Arts

BA Scenography at Norwegian Theatre Academy (NTA), Fredrikstad

Erasmus, BA Choreography, Dance and Context at Interdisciplinary Centre for Dance/ Universität der Künste, Berlin

One year course in film making (16mm) at Kaskeline Filmakademie, Berlin

Nordic Mobility Funding, Iceland

Travel Scholarship, Stiftelsen Svensk-islänska samarbetsfonden, Sweden 

Selected for the Dual Year Alemania-México 2016-2017, Goethe Institut, Mexico

Residency, Dansearena Nord, Norway

Residency, BEK, Bergen Center for Electronic Arts, Norway

Travel Scholarship, ffuk (Norway), Iceland and Austria

Prize for best directing at international theatre festival TELPA Daugavpils, Latvia

Diversestipend Kulturrådet, Norway

Scholarship, Stiftelsen Thomas Fearnley, Heddy og Nils Astrup, Norway

Scholarship, Skipsreder Tom Wilhelmsens Stiftelse, Norway

Cannes Film Festival, Short Film Corner, France

Artist in Residency at Mustarinda, Finland

Cannes Film Festival, Short Film Corner, France

Director and scenographer for "Voiceland" during the Opera Days 2018, Reykjavik, Iceland

Workshop leader, director and composer for "Demmin - Eine Stadt zum Klingen bringen" as part of Sommerschule Demmin, Germany

Director of "Schnitzler´s Dreams - Genia" from "Schnitzler´s Dreams" (2015), Theater Freiburg, Germany

Director, composer, concept and development for spatial musical performance “Musica Munda”,
Laboratorio de Arte Variedades, Guadalajara, Mexico

Concept, libretto, direction, choreography and scenography of the living choir piece "Voiceland" in Hjalteyri, Iceland

Concept and direction for the choir performance "Vokal-De-Konstruktion" at Instituto Cultural Cabanas, Guadalajara

Director for “Open Doors“ as part of ”Att ha en röst” at Folkoperan, Stockholm

Director and Choreographer for the theatre piece “Realities” at TELPA Daugavpils, Daugavpils, Latvia

Director and Scenographer for the theatre piece “Wilhelm und Katarina” at Waggonhalle,Marburg, Germany

Concept, development, costumes, scenography, production, direction of installative opera “Schnitzler's Dreams”, Bibliothekets Aula, Fredrikstad

Video and lights for the theatre piece “Mother Hunting” directed by Bianca Casady from CocoRosie, at Blackbox at NTA and National Theatre in Oslo (NTA)*

Scenography, costumes and light for the dance piece “Kylmä”, by Lorena Alvarez at Institut del Teatre, Barcelona

Co-Creator for the light installation “Reflecting Light”, exhibition scenography, Teknisk Museum Oslo (NTA)*

Assistant in scenography during stage A for the opera “Adam's Passion” by Arvo Pärt, directed by Robert Wilson, Noblessner Foundry, Tallinn (NTA)*

Co-Creator for the sound installation “Great Grand Mother 2”, AccidentalFestival, London (NTA)*

Co-Creator for the live voice installation “Great Grand Mother”, Mahler's “Kindertotenlieder”, Folkoperan, Stockholm (NTA)*

Director and scenographer for the theatre piece “4:48 Psychosis” by Sarah Kane, Black Box, Fredrikstad (NTA)*

Performer in “This Situation” by Tino Seghal, with Louise Høyer at Litteraturhuset, Fredrikstad (NTA)*

Performer and concept for the long durational performance “Small house growing from within”, Performance Art Bergen (NTA)*

Choreographer and dancer for the dance piece „Women with unhealthy complexion listening to the sound of sirup in the walls“ with Lorena Alvarez, UdK Rundgang, Uferstudios, Berlin

Director and scenographer for the site-specific opera “Street Opera”, Opera Showroom, Folkoperan, Stockholm (NTA)*

Director and scenographer for the theatre piece “Blindenschrift” by Lars Poppe, Waggonhalle, Marburg

* (NTA) = created during her scenography studies at the Norwegian Theatre Academy

A STORY OF A DRESS, Oslo

A PORTUGUESE STORY, Lisbon

FAMILY PORTRAIT, Marburg

IKKE HELT ALENE, Oslo

TWO PEOPLE, Berlin

DU FEHLST, Berlin