Marleen Johow lives and works as a freelance artist in Munich. She designs and builds spaces for films, theatre, shootings and exhibitions. After completing her apprenticeship as interior decorator at the Munich Kammerspiele, she has been studying stage design and costume design with Katrin Brack at the Academy of Fine Arts in

Munich since 2018. In 2023 Marleen received the "Brigitte und Ekkehard Grübler-Stiftung" scholarship. In February 2024, Marleen completed the AdBK with a diploma.