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). Alongside her artistic practice, Marika runs a roaming library called Reading Room Rotterdam, and and is currently working with Casco Art Institute and Utrecht University to employ a method of harvesting in preparation for Whose Ocean? an assembly to challenge the current rights of the ocean.

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