Mariia Manuilenko

Mariia Manuilenko is a art curator and cultural manager working between New York (US) and Kharkiv (Ukraine). Her practice focuses on contemporary Ukrainian art, exhibition development and cross cultural programming. She has been active in curatorial work since 2017 and over the past three years has curated more than thirty exhibitions across the United States and Europe in collaboration with museums, nonprofits and independent art spaces.
She is the Co-Founder of Rukh Art Hub and Art Territory, two platforms supporting Ukrainian artists through exhibitions, public programs and international partnerships. Her curatorial work is represented in the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where catalogs from her recent exhibitions were added to the library collection.
Before moving her practice to the United States, Mariia worked with The 4th Block International Association of Graphic Designers where she coordinated large scale poster festivals – Triennial The 4th Block that brought together more than five hundred designers from forty countries. During this period she also contributed to the establishment of the 1st  museum of ecological posters in Eastern Europe – The 4th Block MAL and produced several international triennials, workshops and publications.
Mariia currently teaches at the Kharkiv Academy of Design and Arts where she developed an original course on exhibition histories and curatorial practices. Her projects have been featured in Forbes, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, Whitehot Magazine and other media