Michelle Samba (b. 1990) is an interdisciplinary artist and musician whose practice stages charged materials like percussion, blood, rope, table & chair, voice and ritual, to probe power, complicity and how bodies carry meaning within institutional frames.

In 2025 she presented I, Hereby (part of her table & chair series) at Museum Schloss Moyland as part of Marina Abramović & MAI in Dialogue with Joseph Beuys: seven days, seven hours, no intermission, where she used her blood as ink to stamp discarded institutional paperwork, a precise, durational score about value, cost, truth, permission and bureaucracy.

Samba develops multi-year series. Hit Me Baby One More Time examines violence, play and responsibility through drums, rhythm, rope and audience involvement; ENTRY (part of table & chair) where she stages a desk for unsent letters as ritual proposal; Gateways merges performance, music and installation into relational setups.

She is a Station Noord maker and realized work with partners including OCW, Motel Mozaique, Nieuwe Makers, We the North, Explore the North, Oerol and Tryater.