Olivier Marboeuf
Intervenant
Olivier Marboeuf is an author-storyteller, artist, independent curator, cultural theorist and film producer from Guadeloupe. He is now considered one of the leading voices of decolonial criticism in the French-speaking world.
In the early 1990s, together with French-Beninese author Yvan Alagbé, he founded éditions Amok (now Frémok), a research-based comics publisher that launched the legendary Parisian literary café Autarcic Comix. He then became artistic director of Espace Khiasma (2004 to 2018), a visual arts and living literature center based in the parisian outskirts and dedicated to minority representations, which contributed to introducing postcolonial theories to the French art scene through numerous exhibitions and encounters. From 2013 to 2024, he was also a film producer with Spectre Productions, producing some sixty artists’ films and documentaries in all formats. He currently divides his time between writing, drawing and activities linked to collaborative art practices. He is a founding member of the Réseau Indépendant des Travailleur-euses et Acteur-ices de l’Art (RITAA).
Among his recent grants and residencies, for the academic year 2023/2024 he has benefited from the Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship at the University Institute of London in Paris (ULIP), where he initiated research about the archive of Caribbean diasporic presences in Paris and London. He is also writer in residence at La Maison Baldwin / Fondation Camargo in Cassis in 2025.
In 2022, he published the essay Suites Décoloniales : s’enfuir de la plantation and the poetry collection Les Matières de la Nuit, both published with Éditions du Commun. In 2025, his first theatrical text La Nuit juste avant le feu has be published by Editions Atlantiques déchaînés. In 2025, his first play, La Nuit juste avant le feu (The Night Just Before the Fire), was published by Atlantiques déchaînés (Guadeloupe), while Kayfa Ta published How to Live from Fire to Fire (in English and Arabic) and Editora Oficina Raquel (Brazil) published Fugas Decoloniais.
