Photo by Jan Hajdelak Hustak
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 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.
Find out more about Mareike Dobewall's artistic research project: uniarts.se
2017 -
2012 - 2015
2013
2006
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
Since 2017 Mareike Dobewall has been teaching regularly at DOCH, School of Dance and Circus and the University College of Opera at Stockholm University of the Arts. In 2018 she held a workshop
for music students at the University of Guadalajara.
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2017
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2016
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2014
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2012
2011
2010
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
2018
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2017
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2016
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2015
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2014
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2011
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
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2012
2011
2010
2008
2006
A STORY OF A DRESS, Oslo
A PORTUGUESE STORY, Lisbon
FAMILY PORTRAIT, Marburg
IKKE HELT ALENE, Oslo
TWO PEOPLE, Berlin
DU FEHLST, Berlin