Marcela Rapallo is an artist, teacher and researcher based in Argentina. She combines all these roles in collaborative projects involving various groups and networks, focusing on live drawing and interdisciplinary collective creation experiences. She is part of Trazos Team, a group dedicated to developing Free Software technologies. Her work involves exhibitions, theater productions, performances, educational and mediation projects, as well as consultancy and training for festivals, galleries, cultural centers, foundations, universities, community and socio-educational programs.
Marcela has a degree in Visual Arts from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA), where she teaches postgraduate seminars, manages the artistic direction of the diploma program in "Cultural Mediation Community Arts and Technologies" (UNA/CLACSO), and leads the research projects “Open Drawing” (UNA) and “Water: Engaging with Ecological Challenges through Scientific Information and the Arts” (UNA/UNQ).
She received the Prince Claus Fund award within the “Cultural and artistic responses to the environmental crisis” program (CAREC, 2025). She has presented her work at venues such as Banco de la República (Cali, Colombia, as part of COP16 United Nations Biodiversity Conference), the opening of the Domo Lleno + Real Mix 0.4 Festivals (Planetarium of Bogotá, 2024), the Immersive Room at the Centro Cultural Kirchner (CCK, 2024), Festival Escuchar – Visual Sounds (Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2023), Animal Festival – Latin American Experimental Animation (Rosario, 2019), Accademia Albertina (Italy, 2018), Democritus University of Thrace (Xanthi, Greece, 2018), ACTI Festival (Colombia, 2013), FAM Festival (Chile, 2011), Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2011), FITI Festival (El Salvador, Central America, 2010), Artfutura (CCEBA, Spanish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, 2010), Fase 1 Festival (Municipal Exhibition Center, 2009), Cultura y Media Festival (San Martín Cultural Center, 2009), SAPO Gallery – Contemporary Drawing (2009), Tecnoescena 08 Festival (Recoleta Cultural Center), Kentler International Drawing Space Gallery (New York, 2008), and IMPA La Fábrica Ciudad Cultural (2002).
