Steering committee, Project leader

PhD in Culture Studies from the Humboldt & Viadrina School of Governance, Berlin, and a master’s in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London, Luísa Santos is Assistant Professor and Researcher in Artistic Studies at the Faculty of Human Sciences of Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She has been an independent researcher since 2009 and her projects reveal a particular interest in the social role of art and art institutions, as well as the formats and methodologies associated with them.

Steering committee, Project management

Deputy Director of Católica Doctoral School (CADOS) since September 2023. She was Head of the Research and Innovation Office of UCP (Jan. 2018-Sep. 2023). She was also Project Manager and Researcher for the European Cooperation Project “4Cs – From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture”, co-funded by the “Creative Europe: Culture” programme of the European Commission, coordinated by the Faculty of Human Sciences (FCH-UCP) (Jul. 2017-Dec. 2021). Co-founder and co-curator of the independent curatorial project “nanogaleria” since September 2018 with Luísa Santos.

Communication

Master in Curatorial Studies - Colégio das Artes UC in 2015 and Master in Architecture - DArq/FCTUC in 2011. Since 2015, she has been developing work in different areas, such as exhibition design, cultural production, curatorial research, mediation, and communication. She has collaborated on a previous project financed by the European Commission, 4Cs—From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture, Serralves Foundation, Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra—Bienal Anozero, CIM—Região de Coimbra, Linha de Fuga, a performing arts festival, and several national museums.

Steering committee, Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation, Director of Católica Doctoral School

Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation, Director of Católica Doctoral School (CADOS). PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Bamberg, Germany, in 1993, and since 2006 Associate Professor at FCH. President of the Portuguese German Studies Association (APEG) 2006-2010. Member of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) which he coordinates since 2012. 2016-2019 Vice-dean of FCH. His research is dedicated to European literature and culture since the 16th century.

PhD in Culture Studies from Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) and Justus Liebig Universität Giessen (double degree, 2013). She is currently an assistant professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences (UCP), academic director of the Lisbon Consortium, and coordinator of the Master's program in Culture Studies. She is a researcher at the Centre for Communication and Culture Studies (CECC) and a member of its board of directors. She is also director of the journal “Diffractions”, and a member of the executive committee of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA).

PhD in Culture Studies from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Univeridty of Giessen (double degree). Since 2022 she is invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She is a researcher at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture where she is currently developing the projects Archives of (In)hospitality.

Graphic design and website development

Graphic design - Glossary

Assistant to communication officer

Research assistant (2025) (MA student in Culture Studies, FCH-UCP)

Curator, cultural producer, art consultant, and writer with a specific focus on anticolonial, social, and political practices within the arts and culture.

Her curatorial and writing work is nurtured by the urgency to broaden and disseminate knowledge and artistic production from systemically racialised and marginalised perspectives.

She is the curator of the major exhibition Hard Graft: Work, Health & Rights at the Wellcome Collection in London (running until 27th April 2025). She was recently the co-Curator of the French Pavilion — with Céline Kopp, represented by artist Julien Creuzet — for the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale in 2024. She previously worked as a Curator at the New Art Exchange and in the Exhibitions & Public Programmes team at Nottingham Contemporary in the UK.

Steering committee, Director of CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian

Born and raised in Paris, Benjamin Weil studied art history before moving to New York in 1985, where he worked as Assistant Curator for a major private art collection until 1989. In 1998, he was appointed as Director of the New Media Department at ICA London, before moving in 2000 to San Francisco, to assume the position of Curator of Media Arts at SFMOMA where he was responsible for the collection of Media Arts as well as of an exhibitions and a film program. Weil returned to New York in 2006 to become the Executive Director of Artists Space; he moved back to Europe in 2009 to teach at the IUAV University of Venice, where he directed a research laboratory for doctoral students of visual arts. That year, he was appointed as Artistic Director at Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, a new institution dedicated to the production and presentation of new forms resulting from the creative use of technology (2009-13). In 2014, he became the Artistic Director of Centro Botín (Santander, 2014-20), where he also curated numerous monographic exhibitions and themed group exhibitions featuring works from the collection of Fundación Botín, which he was also responsible for during his tenure at Centro Botín.

Steering committee, Deputy Director of CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian

Master in Philosophy from Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, and Master of Arts - Twentieth Century Art and Visual Culture from Goldsmiths in London. She was Co-editor of ARCO magazine between 2022 and 2006, General Coordinator of the 1st Biennial of Architecture, Art and Landscape of the Canaries in Tenerife in 2006, Head of Exhibitions and Publication at Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón, Asturias, between 2007 - 2012, Head of Programme at FACT in Liverpool for seven years, between 2012 and 2019, Acting Head of Public Programme at Wellcome Collection in London, in 2019 and Trustee at Cove Park Ltd since 2021.

Curator, Collection Management at CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian

Master in Art History from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and postgraduate in Curatorial Studies from FBAUL, she also completed additional training in Photography Conservation and Preservation of Photographic Species, and Preventive Conservation – Environment in Museums. From 1995 to 1999, she worked at the Art Archive (Portuguese Photography Collections) of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG), in the Research team, responsible for the study, inventory, and curation of photographic collections. Between 2000 and 2010, she worked at the FCG Fine Arts Service, where she coordinated the Fine Arts and Exhibitions Sector (support and subsidies), curated and coordinated exhibitions, and coordinated research projects, editorial projects, and digital publishing projects. Curator and Conservator of the sculpture and installation collection (since 2010); and Live Arts Coordinator at CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian. Since March 2016, she has been the programming coordinator at Museu Calouste Gulbenkian.

Curator, Publications and Digital Coordinator at CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian

PhD candidate in the Art Studies - Art and Mediations course at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where she also completed her master's degree in Contemporary Art History, with a work entitled ‘Space, Body, Gesture: Three experimental films from the 1970s by Portuguese artists’. She also completed Advanced Training in Proofreading and Text Editing at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and a degree in Modern and Contemporary History at ISCTE. Patrícia Rosas has been working at CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian since 2005. She has co-curated several temporary exhibitions, she was the executive coordinator of the first digital catalogue raisonnée in Portugal dedicated to the painter António Dacosta, published in October 2014.

Live Arts Production at CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian

Cultural producer and consultant specialized in project management, events programming and curation with over 15 years experience producing innovative projects and managing and programming creative events.

Head of education, mediation, and participation at CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian

She has a degree in History from the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and postgraduate qualifications in Museology and Education from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona (Spain, 2000) and the University of Leicester (England - 2004) - Masters/Diploma in Museum Studies (specialising in Museum Education and Communication). Since July 2002, she has been coordinator of the Education and Artistic Animation Sector of CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian and of the Gulbenkian Education for Culture Programme. From 2020 to 2022, she taught mediation and education in museums on the master's programme in museology at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Head of exhibitions at CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian

Architect and exhibition designer based in Lisbon with a degree in Architecture from Universidade Luísada, a master’s in Housing and Urbanism from the Architectural Association in London, and a post-graduate degree in Management (PGG) from Universidade Católica Portuguesa. From 2006 to 2011, Rita worked at Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos. Since 2012, she has been collaborating with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, where she has been responsible for the architecture of key exhibitions, she also managed the installation of international exhibitions like Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (Grand Palais, Paris, 2016) and Tout ce que je veux (CCC OD, Tours, 2022).

European Funds and Culture Programme

Master's degree in Geography and Regional and Local Planning. His professional life is linked to the management of EU funds in Portugal and to projects of international cooperation, in the Portuguese Public Administration, the European Commission and, currently, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. He is a promoter of the project Laboratório de Candidaturas, Fundos Europeus para a Arte, Cultura e Criatividade, a space where ideas and people come together to discuss the main European funding initiatives for the cultural sector. He also works in advertising, writing, photography and travel.

Steering committee, Director of Jan van Eyck Academie

Director of the Jan van Eyck Academie since 2018. Khalidi was the curator of the Dutch entry for the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2024. From 2015 until 2018, he worked as associate curator at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris. He was also the curator of the group exhibition ACT II for the Sharjah Biennale in Beirut in 2017, cultural attaché of the Sydney Biennale in 2016 and chief curator of the Marrakech Biennale in 2014.

Steering committee, Business Director of Jan van Eyck Academie

Communication at Jan van Eyck Academie

Head of Communication and Strategy at Jan van Eyck Academie

Coordinator ofthe Food Lab at the Jan van Eyck Academy

Marente van der Valk is a UK/NL based culinary artist and chef. She graduated in 2012 from a MA Design and Environment at Goldsmiths University of London and has since then been focusing on projects and events with an emphasis on environmental awareness, community mindedness, as well as the ephemeral, poetic, and multi-sensory qualities of food. Currently, Marente coordinates the Food Lab at the Jan van Eyck Academie, encouraging collaborations and exploring new techniques, sciences, sensory and artistic interpretations and responses connected to food as a global phenomenon.

Steering committee, Director of Tensta konsthall

Director of Tensta konsthall. During her time as director of Malmö Konstmuseum (2012–18), she initiated several research projects based on the collection. Previously, she was the director of Iaspis, the International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm (2008–10), and before that, curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm (1997–2012). She has curated a great number of exhibitions with Ester Almqvist, Mary Kelly, Vera Nilsson, Yoko Ono, Martha Rosler, Cecilia Edefalk, and Ann-Sofi Sidén, among other artists. She has served on advisory boards for several art institutions, among them Overgaden and Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, and Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde in Stockholm. She has taught widely since the 1990s, and has co-edited a number of books, including The Society Machine (Garrett Publications, 2018); Oomph – The Women Who Made Sweden Colourful (Art & Theory, 2015); Baltic Reflections (Arena, 2014); Work, Work, Work: A Reader on Art and Labour (Sternberg Press, 2012); Moderna Museet: The Book (Moderna Museet, 2004) and Utopia and Reality: Modernity in Sweden, 1900–1960 (Yale University Press, 2002).

Producer at Tensta konsthall

Producer at Tensta konsthall, where she among other things serves as project manager for Studio Funk – Contemporary Art for All, a program designed for and with young people with disabilities who are interested in art, social issues, and creative activities. She previously studied the master's course Commissioning and Curating Contemporary Public Art at HDK-Valand, Gothenburg, and Decolonial Feminist Thought, Activism, and Art at Linköping University. She also holds a Degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Södertörn University, where she completed the Cultural Management Programme. Before joining Tensta konsthall, Lindblad worked as Studio Manager at Studio Miriam Bäckström, overseeing the coordination of art commissions for institutions such as the Buffalo AKAG Art Museum in New York, Stadshallen in Lund, and Nya Sjukhusområdet in Malmö. She is co-founder of Klubb Kahlo, a feminist cultural organization active in Stockholm and Norrköping (2015–2018). Selected productions include Process—artist residency, Slipvillan (2018); Lesbian Screening—queer short films (2017); Identity—exhibition (2016); Lesbian Breakfast—in collaboration with Lesbisk Makt (2016). She currently serves as a Board Member of Kultwatch, Treasurer on the board of Urban Company (Gula Villan in Järna), and Auditor for Konstmusiksystrar.

Steering committee, Artistic Director of the Museum of Impossible Forms

Chair of the Board of the Museum of Impossible Forms

Steering committee, Ecosystem projects and Development Director of MOCA NGO

Cultural strategist and project manager with over 10 years of experience in contemporary art, cultural diplomacy, and institutional development. She is Co-founder and Director of Ecosystem Projects and Development of MOCA NGO, UMCA and UEAF, co-curates “The Post-War Memory Culture in Ukraine”, and serves as an expert on Memory and Identity at RES-POL. Previously, she held key roles at the National Art Museum of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Institute.

Steering committee, Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund Co-founder and CEO of MOCA NGO

Cultural programmer, art historian, and curator specializing in visual arts and cultural diplomacy. He is Co-founder and CEO of the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (UEAF) and Head of Strategic Programmes of UMCA/MOCA NGO. He has worked with PinchukArtCentre, Mystetskyi Arsenal, and the British Council. His curatorial projects include the Ukrainian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2013) and SWAP: UK/Ukraine (2016–2020).

Communications Director of MOCA NGO

Communications specialist of MOCA NGO with experience in cultural journalism, copywriting, and event management. She focuses on storytelling and research, working with artists to document their practices through interviews and multimedia content. As part of the RES-POL project, she assisted in writing an analytical brief on cultural policy. Mariia is currently pursuing a BA in Ukrainian Philology at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Steering committee, Co-founder and Director of MOCA NGO

Art historian, curator, critic, and PhD in Philosophy. She is the Director of MOCA NGO, leads UMCA’s development, co-curates the Wartime Art Archive, oversees art education projects and serves as an expert on Memory and Identity at RES-POL. From 2017 to 2020, she was Deputy Director for Development at the National Art Museum of Ukraine. Her research focuses on new media, Western European art (20th-21st c.), and Soviet informal art. Publications include The Art of Ukrainian Sixties (2021).

Coordinator of operations and communications of MOCA NGO. She is a co-founder of the MONTAZH art center in Vinnytsia. She has worked as a communications specialist and manager on artistic and cultural projects in Vinnytsia, focusing on building a network of cultural actors in Ukraine and promoting cultural decentralization.

Steering committee, Artistic director of The Listening Biennial

Artist, writer, theorist, and artistic director of The Listening Biennial and Academy. His work focuses on questions of agency, community, pirate culture, and poetics, which results in a range of collaborative and extra-institutional initiatives, including Communities in Movement (2019-23), Oficina de Autonomia (2017-), The Living School (with South London Gallery, 2014-16), The Imaginary Republic (2014-19), Dirty Ear Forum (2013-22), Surface Tension (2003-2008), and Beyond Music Sound Festival (1998-2002). In 1995 he founded Errant Bodies Press, an independent publishing project supporting work in sound art and studies, performance and poetics, artistic research and contemporary political thought. His publications include: Poetics of Listening (2025), Dreamtime X (2022), Acoustic Justice (2021), The Other Citizen (2020), Sonic Agency (2018), Lexicon of the Mouth (2014), Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian (2012), Acoustic Territories (2010, 2019), and Background Noise (2006, 2015).

Steering committee, Co-director of tranzit.ro

From 2012 she is co-director of tranzit.ro, coordinating tranzit.ro/ Iași. She graduated Curating Contemporary Art (M.A. 2009), Royal College of Arts, London.Text: Almost Institution in Self-Organised Subjects, eds: Stine Hebert and Anne Szefer Karlsen, published by Open editions (2013).

Steering committee, artist and curator at tranzit.ro/ Iași

Artist and curator living and working in Iași, Romania. He studied media art and sculpture at ArtEZ/AKI, (Enschede, The Netherlands). Since 2012, he works as a curator for tranzit.ro / Iași and for 1+1 Association. As an artist, he participated in Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, section: Déconstruction / Reconstruction (2008), “Videos Europa” - Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing (FR) (2009), “Vector Association at Western Front”, Vancouver BC (2011), “Cradle Count” (with Andrea Faciu), The Unanswered Question. Iskele 2, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein & Tanas Berlin (2013), ”Democracy – not quite enough for everybody”, RAM – Media Art Festival, Arad, (2014), The School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial (2015), Land of Fire, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara (2024).

Curator, Director of Galerias Municipais and Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar

Director of the Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, since 2012, and of the Municipal Galleries (2017-2019 and 2023-2026). She has a degree in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, a Master's degree in Curatorial Studies, and a PhD with the thesis “From Sculpture to Spatiality” at the same University (FCT Scholarship). Commissioner since 2006, exhibitions stand out: at MAAT, at Galeria Municipal do Porto, at Millennium bcp, at CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, at Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar (since 2013), at Fundação Carmona e Costa, etc. She regularly publishes essays on art, in catalogs and specialized magazines, and coordinates the Notebooks collection from the Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar.

Curator, Deputy Director of Galerias Municipais and Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar

Historian, art critic, and curator. He graduated in Art History at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and in Business Communication at Escola Superior de Comunicação Social de Lisboa. Faro has collaborated in various activities and projects of research, curation, promotion, criticism, writing, and production within the scope of Contemporary Art.

Communication Coordination at Galerias Municipais

HANGAR is a center for creation, research, and cultural and artistic exchange that focuses on the epistemologies of the South and has solidified itself as an unavoidable, diverse, and inclusive structure in contemporary arts, not only in Portugal but also internationally. HANGAR's activity plan and artistic project were designed to guarantee the consolidation and stability of our activity within the four-year horizon, continuing the work that HANGAR has been developing since 2015.

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João Mourão and Luís Silva have been working as a curatorial duo since 2009. They serve as Co-Directors of Kunsthalle Lissabon, which they both founded in 2009. They were the curators of the Portugal Pavilion in the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale (2022) with “Vampires in Space”, a solo project by Isadora Neves Marques. A selection of recent projects they curated includes solo shows by Mounira Al Solh (Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal), Jonathas de Andrade (CRAC Alsace, Altkirsch, France and MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal), Manuel Solano (Pivô, São Paulo, Brasil), Pedro Barateiro (Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon, Portugal) and Carla Filipe (MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal). They are currently preparing Inês Zenha's first large institutional exhibition at CA2M, in Madrid. While co-directors of Kunsthalle Lissabon they have presented solo shows by Teresa Solar, La Chola Poblete, Sara Sadik, Gabriel Chaile, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Ad Minoliti, Zheng Bo, Laure Prouvost, Caroline Mesquita, Sol Calero, Petrit Halilaj and Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, to name a few. Besides their curatorial practice, João Mourão and Luís Silva contribute regularly to various publications and have edited several monographs. They were the curators of ZONA MACO SUR (2015 - 2017), the solo projects section of Mexico City's contemporary art fair, and Artissima's Disegni section (2017 -2019), in Turin.

Born in Panama in 1999, Ana Laguna is a cultural programmer and curator based in Lisbon. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with various cultural festivals and has been part of curatorial and production teams for exhibitions in Panama and Portugal. She was a member of the Public Programs team at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and, more recently, worked as a special projects curator at MAC Panamá, where she organized the exhibition Cuidar, Sanar, Recordar, Resistir. As an independent curator in Panama, she led the Macro Art section in the latest edition of Macro Fest, curated Recuerdos del Terraplén, pt. 1, and organized Giana De Dier’s first institutional solo exhibition at Casa Santa Ana. Additionally, she developed Pasos firmes en igualdad de género y salud femenina in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and co-curated the MAC 2023 Auction – Tantas Cosas Bellas. At an institutional level, she oversaw exhibition spaces at the Ministry of Culture of Panama. She also has experience as an educator in artistic learning programs and is a founding member of the Unión de Feministas para el Engendramiento de Nuevos Sistemas (UNFES).

Curator of the Buro Stedelijk