Marianna Karava (born 1982 in Chalkida, Greece) is an interdisciplinary artist working across artist books, installations, performance, and participatory encounters.

Her practice develops through walking-based research, hand embroidery, and performative methods, bringing together urban and vernacular elements, fragments of language, and visual forms drawn from everyday cultural practices.

With a background in contemporary dance and improvisation, she approaches movement as a mode of research and a way of understanding space, shaping a methodology grounded in repetition, manual work, and embodied attention.

Her work explores how traces encountered in everyday surroundings can form small archives of place, reflecting on memory, visibility, access, and the presence of domestic forms of making within shared environments.

By translating ephemeral or overlooked visual elements into material forms, her practice examines how meaning is constructed, circulated, and reconfigured through embodied perception.

Working nomadically across Greece and wider European contexts, she develops projects through residencies and collaborations.

Alongside her artistic practice, she maintains an active teaching practice in yoga.