Olivier Marboeuf is an author-storyteller, artist, independent curator, cultural theorist and film producer from Guadeloupe. 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) in Guadeloupe, member of RAYO, an experimental pedagogy program in the Greater Caribbean, and of the international board of the Akademie der Künste der Welt de Cologne.

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 (Cassis site) 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 theatrical text La nuit juste avant le feu will be published by Editions Atlantiques déchaînés, while a Brazilian Portuguese translation of Suite décoloniales is planned by Editora Oficina Raquel.