Marcela Rapallo is a visual artist, researcher, and educator. She brings together these practices in projects developed within multiple collectives and working networks, focused on scenic drawing, real-time animation, and interdisciplinary experiences of collective creation. She is a member of the Trazos Team, dedicated to the development of Free Software technologies. She carries out exhibitions, theater works, performances, educational and mediation projects, consultancies, and training programs in festivals, galleries, cultural centers, foundations, community and socio-educational programs, and universities across Latin America and Europe.
She received the Prince Claus Fund award through the program “Cultural and Artistic Responses to the Environmental Crisis” (CAREC, 2025). She was selected as an artist to participate in the International Seminar “Hydro-Common Cultures” (Proyecto Entre Ríos, 2023). She has mentored fellowship recipients Fiona Avocado (Fulbright Fellowship, 2024) and Pedro Nan (UNA Fellowship, 2023) as part of the “Dibujo Abierto” research project, as well as Rafael Arévalo (IDARTES Fellowship, 2018) in the field of scenic drawing. She received the grant for Arts and Technologies from the Metropolitan Fund for the Arts for her project Open Panorama (2021). In 2019, she was awarded a fellowship by the Ministry of Culture in Colombia to carry out Cuerpo Gráfico, a residency and exchange project with the artist collective La Resistencia. In 2014 and 2016, Trazos Club was selected as a development project by the National University of the Arts through the program “University, Design and Productive Development” of the Ministry of Education. Her theatrical work Cuentos animados, based on scenic drawing, received the Teatro del Mundo Award for Best Children’s Show and a nomination for the ACE Theater Awards in the same category (2011).
She holds a degree in Visual Arts from the National University of the Arts (UNA) in Argentina, where she teaches postgraduate seminars, coordinates the diploma program in “Cultural Mediation, Community, Arts and Technologies” (UNA/CLACSO), and directs the research projects “Dibujo Abierto” (Open Drawing, UNA) and “Water: Participating in Ecological Challenges through Scientific Information and the Arts” (UNA/UNQ). She also develops projects within the recently created Buen Vivir Environmental Arts and Culture Program.
She has presented her work at the Banco de la República (Cali, Colombia, as part of COP16 United Nations Conference on Biodiversity), at the opening of the Domo Lleno + RealMix 0.4 festivals (Planetarium of Bogotá, 2024), at the Immersive Room of the Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK, 2024), at the Escuchar – Visual Sounds Festival (Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, 2023), at the Animal Festival of Latin American Experimental Animation (Rosario, 2019), at the Accademia Albertina (Italy, 2018), at the Democritus University of Thrace (Xanthi, Greece, 2018), ACTI Festival (Colombia, 2013), FAM Festival (Chile, 2011), National Endowment for the Arts (Argentina, 2011), FITI Festival (El Salvador, 2010), Artfutura (CCEBA, Buenos Aires, 2010), Fase 1 Festival (2009), Cultura y Media Festival (San Martín Cultural Center, 2009), SAPO Gallery – Contemporary Drawing (2009), Tecnoescena Festival (Recoleta Cultural Center, 2008), Kentler International Drawing Space Gallery (New York, 2008), and IMPA La Fábrica Ciudad Cultural (2002).
She has developed content and activities combining arts and technologies—centered on scenic drawing, real-time animation, and collective drawing—in institutions such as the Comprehensive Digital Education Plan (Ministry of Education of Buenos Aires City), the Cultural Mediators Training Program (Banco de la República, Colombia), the Cultural Science Center (Buenos Aires, Ministry of Science and Technology), Pontifical Javeriana University (Colombia), the Diploma in Research, Transfer and Development in Public Universities (University of Buenos Aires / CLACSO), Youth Activities Centers (Ministry of Education of Argentina), Escuela de Maestros (Buenos Aires City Government), Ártica Online Cultural Center (Montevideo, Uruguay), Casa Planas (Mallorca, Spain), Varkey Foundation, Telefónica Foundation, Proa Foundation, and Club Cultural Matienzo, among others.
