* Mariana Rodríguez Iglesias (Buenos Aires, 1982)

She is an independent curator and freelance art writer. Holds a Master Degree in Arts (History and Research, U.B.A.) and used to be helper of professor, Dra. Andrea Giunta, in load of the pulpit of History of Contemporary Latin American Art. She followed a post degree programme on relation between the history of art and conservation. In 2016, she was chosen to travel to Kiev, Warsaw and Prague in the research program for curators CPR: 2016 - Eastern Europe. In 2013 she was selected and awarded a scholarship for the Artists Program of the Torcuato Di Tella University, to participate as a critic / curator. She is called as a jury of prizes that encourage local production and its development, such as: Central Bank National Painting Prize (2017); Itaú Visual Arts Award (2017); C.Lab # 4 - Mercosur (San Pablo, prize for curators); Galleries selection jury for FACA (2017 and 2018); Oxenford Scholarships (2016) She has been working in the curatorial practice since 2006, starting with The unusable Cities hosted in Galería Appetite. She incursions in non-traditional formats, such as the realization of the exhibition Crack-up (2015) developed in 25 minutes, in video format. She was the curator at MACBA of Fundamental Interactions of a Starry Sky (2016) with works by Silvia Gurfein, Julia Masvernat and Carla Bertone. Together with Florencia Battiti, they curated the new edition of arteBA Focus Galerías (2016), a first experience of this contemporary art fair that privileged the works, rather than the grid of the stand. During 2011, together with Pía Landro, she designed the Curatorial Education Program for the Faena Arts Center. She was the Coordinator of Curatorial Educational Department for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires, in which she made numerous experiences that cross education in museums with other ways of perceiving and reflecting on contemporary art. She has coordinated editions 50 and 60 of Ramona. Art magazine without images’ "Poéticas Contemporáneas" (Buenos Aires, 2005 and 2006). She produced Snow Ball project for Fundación Telefónica when it began to be something more than a concept. She leads horizontal workshops of reflection, a theoretical-practical format for deepening, debate and practice of writing on art. She designed courses specially requested by the Malba’s Fried Association, which function as introductory prologues for artists and problems to the institution community. She works and lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.