Marleen Boschen is an Interdisciplinary Research Fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London.

“I am a researcher, curator and artist working at the intersections of art and ecology. I am currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew working on the project Future Ecologies of Art: Exploring Kew as a Site for Past, Present and Future Artistic Engagements. Since 2023 I have been an adjunct curator for art and ecology at Tate, London. I am also the co-curator of Testing Grounds, the artistic programme of the garden of Villa Romana, Florence. In my practice, I am particularly interested in ecological imaginaries, border ecologies and more-than-human solidarities.I was a senior lecturer in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art 2023-24 and have been teaching since 2019 across art, ecology, the Environmental Humanities and Cultural Studies. I completed my PhD thesis Carrier Seeds: A Cultural Analysis of Care and Conflict in Four Seed Saving Practices in 2022 at Goldsmiths, University of London”.

Selected publications

Boschen, M., & Mackinnon, S. (2024). Sonics of Rupture: A Methodology for Sounding Anthropogenic Earthquakes and Tuning into Ecological Trauma. GeoHumanities, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2024.2418832

Boschen, M. & Grześkiewicz, H. (2024), ‘(Un)Caring Borders: More-Than-Human Solidarities in the Białowieża Forest’ in Alberro, H., Atasoy, E., Castle, N., Firth, R., & Scott, C. (Eds.). (2024). Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003345770