Marianna Tsionki is a curator, researcher and educator working at the intersection of contemporary art and ecology. She is University Curator at Leeds Arts University, overseeing Curatorial Programmes and Library Operations.
She is concerned with the role of curatorial and institutional practice in a time of ecological crisis, with particular focus on methodologies of alter-institutionality and radical pedagogy. Her current research focuses on decolonial eco-visualities, eco-feminist practices, indigenous Naturecultures and local ecological knowledge as methods of developing kinship networks and interspecies modes of life; with a forthcoming book to be published by K. Verlag in 2024. Previous curatorial projects and writing have focused on the Anthropocene’s ever-evolving social and ecological transformations, the impact of globalisation and migration, the politics of extractivism, global ecologies of resource exploitation and humanity’s post-industrial relationship with nature. Her writing features in numerous books published by Sternberg, Palgrave Macmillan, Wetlands, and dpr-barcelona. She received her PhD in Curatorial Practice from Manchester School of Art, and her MA in Contemporary Art Theory from the Visual Cultures Department of Goldsmiths, University of London.
