Marilou Dejans is a Brussels-based Belgian artist working primarily in painting. Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Antwerp in 2019, she has developed a distinctive practice that blends visual with live arts to explore human connection, discomfort and absurdity. Through an intuitive process of reworking and overpainting, she foregrounds the tactile presence of canvas and paint. Dejans approaches painting as a spatial and performative medium, extending it beyond the canvas. Drawing on a background in theatre, she engages in multidisciplinary collaborations, including Sound of C with accordion player Suzan Peeters (C-mine, Genk, 2025) and scenographic work for Avalon Emerson All Night Long (The Cause, London, 2023).
At the moment she teams up with visual artist Nel Maertens for Horst 2026