The Team

 

Henrik Sprengel

henrik@espronceda.net

Dr. Henrik Sprengel (Co-Founder) is a serial entrepreur with experience with converting ideas into real businesses, since a decade. Based in Barcelona he feels truly European. His conviction that the EARTH without art would be “EH” makes him a strong believer in art & culture and in espronceda.

 

Holger Sprengel

holger@espronceda.net

Dr. Holger Sprengel (Co-Founder) is an art lover. He holds an MBA and  PhD in Law. Holger is Managing Director in Nurogames and Nuromedia and attracted by the idea of STARTS and believes that artists can trigger innovation. With many companies founded both in the digital and bricks&mortar sector he believes that art and culure is to make the earth a better place. He advises Espronceda in various aspects.  

 

Alessia Gervasone

alessia@espronceda.net

Alessia Gervasone is a cultural manager, researcher and curator.
Art is her passion, as a wonderful global language to create, find, and express new different ethics.
She believes in dialogue and in the interconnection aimed at exploring new artistic and creative frontiers through different mediums.
Sustainability and Human rights are her values. Graduated cum laude in Communication and Valorization of contemporary artistic heritage and with a course in entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative industry sector. She has collaborated with different museums, cultural and university institutions, always working in the arts organization and production. She was a teaching assistant in New Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin and worked in a research center dealing with new technology, cinema, and education.

 

Maria Mantzakou

maria@espronceda.net

After working several years as content and coordinator manager for virtual and museological projects,  Maria Mantzakou currently manages the artistic projects of Espronceda Center for Art & Culture. She is leading the selection of resident artists giving support to the residencies  and collaborating with the staff and curators, as well as preparing the expos.

 

Clara Bellido

Clara Bellido (PR Manager). As managing director of a PR agency (LemonGrass Communications), she has extensive experience in communication campaigns for clients from different sectors, at a local, national and international level. She currently coordinates the communication and PR of the exhibitions and events of Espronceda Center for Art & Culture.

c.bellido@lg-media.es