Statement
Mano is an artist and media designer whose work unfolds within the hybrid space between the analog and the digital. His practice merges material experimentation with critical reflection to explore power structures, virtuality, and the cultural transformations of the digital age. Operating on the premise that ‘text’ (in a semiotic sense) must be manifested through materiality itself, he moves across installation, sculpture, performance, and video, selecting the medium that best serves each concept.
His work aims to position itself at the edge of the present, exhibiting it and triggering questions rather than offering answers. Mano sees art’s primary role as reflecting contemporary phenomena and operating at the borders of the established—expanding, blurring, deforming, and subverting them. Through this approach, his series have addressed emerging themes such as accelerationism, techno-feudalism, data culture, gentrification, the philosophy of nature, and relational identities.
Background and Education
Born in Buenos Aires, Mano’s interest in the relationship between the IRL and the digital began in adolescence through self-taught graphic design and mural graffiti. While he studied Graphic Design, he joined Estado Lateral Media Lab, one of the first media labs in Latin America, where he specialized in programming and the development of interactive installations. Simultaneously, Mano started a decade of experience as a live video performer (VJ), participating in festivals in Argentina and abroad.
From 2012 onwards, his focus expanded toward artistic practice and independent cultural production in Buenos Aires. This shift was intensified after participating as an artist in exhibitions with Forward collective at the EAC in Montevideo, the Palacio de las Artes in Buenos Aires, and the Kulturni Centar Beograd in Belgrade. Mano then studied Art Curation and Cultural Management, produced the Pirámide Selva festival, Plank festival, and co-founded the art space CPU (contemporary processes unity), which he co-directed until 2020 in the Palacio Barolo.
When moving to Berlin in 2019, Mano completed the residency at ZK/U and organized the Salvajes festival. Then he began Sculpture studies at the Weissensee Kunsthochschule (KHB) in 2020, a move driven by the desire to enrich the materiality of his art practice after years of conceptual and digital work. In 2024, his Erasmus exchange was completed at the Digital Arts Department in Vienna run by duo übermorgen.
Mano obtained the German Diplom degree in Sculpture from Weissensee KHB in September 2025 with honors, and is currently working on his Master’s thesis project. In 2026, he was awarded the 1st-runner place of Beyond Future Art 2025 and his video art work ‘Elenchus’ was acquired by the Ursula Blickle Video Archiv at the Belvedere.
