Sabine Marcelis

Typically focused on themes of transparency, reflection, opacity and translucency, often using pastel colours, minimalist shapes, smooth surfaces, and materials such as resin, glass, and stone, she has described her work as “an investigation of light, how it can create effects and atmospheres.

[28][29] In 2019, Marcelis was invited by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation to participate in its Interventions programme, a series of temporary installations in the Barcelona Pavilion.

An Installation by Sabine Marcelis" in which she reorganised the approximately 400 pieces held in the Schaudepot [de] exhibition warehouse collection by colour.

The kinetic work, a composition of four large, rotating red and orange mirrored glass columns, "traverses the boundary between art and design".

Other artists who have contributed to the series, which is staged on the Woodruff Arts Center's Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza, include Tanya Aguiñiga, Ignacio Cadena, Héctor Esrawe, Jaime Hayon, Bryony Roberts, and Yuri Suzuki.

[59][60] In 2024 her collaboration with traditional Japanese lacquerware artisans Kawatsura Shikki was included in a Tokyo exhibition at Kudan House called Craft x Tech Tohoku Project.

[65][66] The show was curated by Maria Cristina Didero and also included works by Studio Swine, Ini Archibong, Yoichi Ochiai, Hideki Yoshimoto, and Michael Young.

[45][69][70] She is a mentor for both the Women Bauhaus Collective and the Lexus Design Award, and also teaches at the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL).