Marianna Vecellio is curator, researcher, and writer. In 2012, she was appointed as curator at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli/Torino – where she has worked since 2007. She has conceived and created several exhibitions and publications among the other Mutual Aid. Art in Collaboration with Nature (2024); Rossella Biscotti (2024) Artisti in guerra (2023); Espressioni con frazioni (2022) e Espressioni la proposizione (2021); aaajiao. Deep Simulator (2020); Renato Leotta. Sole (2020); Claudia Comte (2019-20); Michael Rakowitz. Imperfect Binding (2019); Pedro Neves Marques (2019-20); Hito Steyerl. The City of Broken Windows (2018-19); Cally Spooner (2018-19); Anna Boghiguian (2017-18); Cécile B. Evans (2017-18); Ed Atkins (2016-17); Rachel Rose (2016-17); Paloma Varga Weisz (2015-16); Intenzione Manifesta (2013-14); Massimo Grimaldi. Before The Images (2009). She has conceived and curated the transdisciplinary projects Abitare il minerale (2018), Comp(h)ost (2019) and Vibrant Nature. On decay and rebirth (2024) Vibrant Nature. On Telluric Cosmologies (2025) which explore, between posthumanity and ecology, new forms of coexistence and transformation of living.
She collaborates to numerous editorial projects and published with international institutions, including the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; MAXXI, Rome; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; Whitechapel, London; Le Consortium, Dijon; Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen; Le Center d'Art Contemporain, Geneva; Fondation Serralves, Porto and published in Italian and International magazines.
From 2016 to 2019 she curated the Curva Blu residency program located on the island of Favignana inviting the following artists: Trisha Baga, Diego Marcon, Massimo Grimaldi, Giulia Cenci, Stephen G. Rhodes and David Horvitz; and curating the exhibition Sivilization's Wake with Stephen G. Rhodes and Barry Johnston (Palermo, 2018).
She has held conferences and lectures at universities and institutions including, Triennale, Milan; LACMA, Los Angeles; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; NABA – New Academy of Fine Art, Milan; Politecnico, Turin; University of Angewandte Kunst, Vienna; OGR, Turin; Galleries of Italy, Turin.
