Marianna Karava (b. 1982, Chalkis, Greece) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice develops through walking-based research, manual translation, and participatory structures, exploring how traces encountered in public space can form small archives of place.

She works with hand embroidery, artist books, and spatial installations, translating urban markings, vernacular motifs, and fragments of language into tactile forms.

With a background in contemporary dance and improvisation, she approaches movement as a way of entering and understanding space. Over time this embodied perspective has expanded into visual and material practices shaped through observation, repetition, and manual work.

Walking, writing, and embroidery function as interconnected research tools: the body moves through a site while the hand translates observed forms into material gestures.

Working nomadically across Greece, the Balkans, and wider European contexts, she develops projects through residencies and collaborations. Alongside her artistic practice, she teaches yoga, cultivating an understanding of the body as a source of awareness and knowledge.