Marika Vandekraats (she/her) is an artist, writer, and arts worker, occasionally tarot card reader, and friend from Vancouver (CA). Her research focuses on the human entanglements tied between nature and capital to frame extractivist processes that have irreversibly affected the climate. Her work takes shape through video, sculpture, text, and performative installations that utilize archival research to challenge its context. This takes shape in her recently published collaborative publication about the strawberry, bringing attention to its colonial history and its present exploitations, entitled The Colonial, Familiar, Nostalgic, Radical, Transformative Life of the Strawberry (HumDrum Press, 2024).

Marika has a MA in Art Praxis and Critical Theory from the Dutch Art Institute (2022, NL) and is based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.