Marianna Tsionki (b. 1980, Athens) is a curator, researcher and educator currently based in Manchester.
She holds a PhD in Curatorial Studies from the Manchester School of Art discussed alter-institutionality through curatorial knowledge and aesthetic production at the intersection of art, ecology and technology. She also holds an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths University of London, Visual Cultures Department and a BA in Multimedia Design from Huddersfield University. Her research/practice examines curating as a critical practice and a discourse within cultural institutions; previous curatorial projects and writing have focused on the impact of globalisation, migration, digital infrastructures, and networks, ecotechnology and climate change.
Among her curated projects are the exhibitions Meteorological Mobilities at Apexart, NYC (2020), A Cinematic Museum of the Everyday at Next Mixing, Shanghai (2019), Polyrhythmia at Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces, (2017) and A Common World in Transition – An Assembly (SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, 2021).