Victoria Gandit Lelandais
Cultural strategy consultant and LITO Ambassador, Paris
Victoria Gandit Lelandais starting her career at an early stage at Yvon Lambert gallery, assisting the renown photographer Candida Hofer. Over the past 18 years and in parallel to studies, she worked in key institutions and galleries, while specializing in the Middle Eastern Contemporary Art and emerging markets. In the UAE, she was part of the inception of SIKKA, an art platform by Dubai Culture Authority, before she was appointed as head of Art Dubai’s Collectors' Circle. While working for the fair, Gandit started the first UAE based collector's group, the Art Salon. She then became the head of External Relations of Alserkal Avenue, the region’s largest art district. Today, Gandit manages her own cultural strategy consultancy firm for companies, institutions and collections. In business, she works across the board, with artists on commissions and new technologies, with galleries outreach in emerging markets, as well as with institutions, developing new revenue streams and digital assets. She is an Ambassador for LITO, an organization that creates 3D-printed limited editions and 3D retendered NFTs of institutional masterworks.