
MARIANA MANCINI
Argentinian art director, consultant, dealer. After years practicing as a human rights and environmental lawyer, she changed careers to follow her vocation for design and art, fueled by living in five continents.
She has studied Cultural Management, Art Business, Photography, Art History and Curatorship. In 2010 she founded the Melian Foundation, which specialized in Latin American art and culture. Based in Argentina and Brazil, she served as the foundation’s General Director for more than ten years.
In this role, she developed, directed and executed artistic and cultural projects such as exhibitions, installations, artists’ books and catalogs, performances and conferences in museums, cultural spaces and prestigious local and international galleries. Her interdisciplinary style was supported by important public and private institutions, together with prominent directors, critics, curators and artists.
She has participated as a special guest in international art fairs and biennials in China, Australia, the United States, Cuba, Spain, Malaysia and Brazil.
Her passion for travel and experience living and working in different countries motivated her to accept a role presenting «Trips & Arts», a project in which she explores art, design, architecture, food and culture around the world.
In Rio de Janeiro, she co-founded VoArt, a social enterprise focused on giving visibility to the incredible cultural projects in the periphery of the city.
Currently, she also works as an Art consultant and adviser, designing cultural projects (management and production: exhibitions, fairs, auctions, festivals). She specializes in collections consultancy (cataloging, conservation and dissemination), exhibition curatorship, Strategic communication and branding, audience training and artistic mediation, mapping, surveys and research , artistic and corporate training: cultural management, curatorship, communication, cultural tourism, tool kits for artists and managers: advice for professionalization, comprehensive publishing of artistic and cultural publications
She is an expert advisor on the purchase of art both as an investment and as a passion.
With an inexhaustible curiosity and a team of specialist collaborators, she explores new ways of generating art by participating in digital projects and creating NFTs.