Marianna Karava (born 1982 in Chalkida, Greece) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice unfolds through movement, manual processes, and site-responsive forms of making.

Drawing on walking-based research, hand embroidery, and performative methods, she develops projects that emerge through direct engagement with everyday environments and local forms of knowledge, translating observations and encounters into material and participatory forms.

Rooted in contemporary dance and improvisation, she approaches movement as a mode of research, shaping a methodology grounded in repetition and embodied attention.

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

She is particularly interested in how contemporary artistic practices can remain connected to everyday experience and create spaces for observation, exchange, and participation.

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.