Marijpol

Marijpol (*1982) is an illustrator. Her practice combines comics, illustration and design. She studied visual communication and illustration in Hamburg. Her comics appear in international magazines and anthologies such as Delfi, Lagon Revue and Colorama Clubhouse. Her graphic novel Hort (2022, Edition Moderne) was nominated for the Sélection Officielle of the 51st Festival d'Angoulême in the French edition. In 2024 she showed works at the Kunsthaus Göttingen and the Centre Pompidou Paris. Since the summer semester of 2025, she has been a professor of illustration and comics at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. Marijpol lives and works in Hamburg.

Oer-Erkenschwick

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.