Maria Mandea (b. 1991, Bucharest) is a designer and artist.
She graduated with a Bachelor and Masters degree in Product Design at UAUIM Bucharest in 2017 and is currently a PhD student at UNARTE where she researches the design of playful objects.
In 2013 he created Micul Haos, a doll design project based on an original concept, on the border between toys and participatory art objects. In 2017, she co-founded the Super Serios design studio where she develops games and playful-performative installations.
She works on projects in which she combines the tangible with the digital (Nunu - Cinema Elvira Popescu, 2016; Eviction Notice - Cinetic, 2017; Divided - Ars Electronica, 2020). She created scenography for educational theatre and children theatre performances (Offline Family, Memories from the school age - dramaturgy Mihaela Michailov, directed by Radu Apostol and Kunterbund - directed by Ana Crăciun Lambru).
She has participated with projects in national and international festivals: Explore Dance Festival 2013, Temps D’Images 2013, 2014, Poitiers Film Festival 2018, TAKAVOIR - laboratory of new images 2019, Simultan Festival, 2020, Ars Electronica Festival 2020.