Academic and professional activities

2023-06-28 to 2023-06-28 - Curador da exposição Disturbing in the Nilo Arte Moderna e Contemporânea do Sudão (co-curadoria de Rahiem Shadad) Brotéria, Lisboa, 28.06.2023

2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31 - Investigador associado do Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, projeto FCT - "MAPS - Pós-memórias Europeias: uma cartografia pós-colonial"

2016 to 2017 - General Commissioner - "Past and Present - Lisbon, ibero-american capital of Culture 2017", Câmara Municipal de Lisboa

2016 to ... - Researcher and Cultural Programmer | ERC MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories, European Research Council

2015-02-21 to 2015-04-19 - Curatorship (with Samuel Titan Jr. e Ludger Dezentral) - exhibition "Modernidades: Fotografia Brasileira (1940-1964)"

2014-06-20 to 2014-09-07 - Curatorship - exhibition Artistas Comprometidos? - exposição internacional de artes visuais

2014 to 2015 - Curatorship (with Rita Xavier Monteiro) - online exhibition "unplace, arte em rede: lugares entre lugares"

2013 to 2014 - Curador convidado do Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR) para uma programação artística sobre África Contemporânea

2009 to 2015 - General Commissioner - Programa Gulbenkian de Cultura Contemporânea "Próximo Futuro"

2009 to 2013 - Member of the Evaluation Commission in Artistic Studies - FCT Studentships and Fellowships.

2008 to 2008 - General Commissioner - Programa Gulbenkian Distância e Proximidade

2007 to 2007 - Curatorship (with Debra Singer e Esra Sarijedik) - exhibition "Um Atlas de Acontecimentos", Fundação Gulbenkian

2006 to 2007 - General Commissioner - cultural forum "O Estado do Mundo" Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

2005-11-01 to 2005-12-31 - Curatorship - "Zoologia Tropical: obras de Nelson Leirner e Jorge Dias" exhibition, Centro Cultural de Lagos

2005 to 2005 - Curatorship - "Réplica e Rebeldia: Artistas Plásticos de Moçambique, Angola, Cabo Verde e Brasil" - Instituto Camões (exposição apresentada em Maputo, Luanda, Cidade da Praia, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador da Baía e Brasília)

2004-11-01 to 2004-11-30 - Curatorship - Feira de Arte de Lisboa dedicada ao Brasil e a Moçambique, Feira Internacional de Lisboa

2004 to 2015 - Cultural Programmer - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

2004 to 2008 - Reator and responsible for - Programa Gulbenkian Criatividade e Criação Artística

2003 to 2008 - Coordinator of the Artistic Formation Program - Criatividade e Criação Artística, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (with Catarina Vaz Pinto)

2003 to 2006 - Principal Adviser - Instituto Camões para as Artes Contemporâneas

1998 to 2004 - Responsible for the Art Collection of Caixa Geral de Depósitos

1993 to 2004 - Artistic Director - Culturgest

Other Activities

2022-05-1 to 2022-09-30 - Consultor artístico da Comissão de Candidatura da cidade de Évora a Capital Europeia da Cultura, 2027.

2021 to 2022 - Comissário da Exposição EUROPA, Oxalá, colaboração entre o Musée Royale de l'Afrique centrale de Tervuren (Bélgica), Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée de Marseille (France), Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal) através do projeto MEMOIRS - Filhos de Império e Pós Memórias Europeias, e a Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Delegação em França - https://gulbenkian.pt/paris/europa-oxala/

2019-12-05 to 2019-12-14 - Programação Bienal de Marselha RHMIT

2019-10-03 to 2019-10-03 - Organização "Artes na Europa no Tempo da Pós-Memória": Literatura, Performance, Cinema" Ciclo Memórias Coloniais, Culturgest, Lisboa

2011-11 to 2011-11 - Jury of experts - "9.ºs Encontros de Fotografia de Bamako"

2011-10 to 2011-10 - Jury of experts - "DOClisboa 2011"

2010 to 2011 - Member of the National Council for Culture - advisory body of the Minister of Culture

2008 to 2013 - Representative appointed by the Minister of Culture (José António Pinto Ribeiro) - Working Group - Study and Recommendations for the mobility of artists in the UE and third countries - Council of Europe

2008 to 2008 - Member of the scientific board of ONDA/ Ministry of Culture - France. Study and Recommendations for the mobility of artists in France (Paris)

2007 to 2011 - Member of the Management Board of Roberto Cimetta Found (Brussels)

2000 to 2000 - Coordinator and author of the curricular revision of the History of Art and Dramaturgy - Reform of the curricula in the Secondary Education (Portugal)

1999-10-25 to 1999-10-29 - Members of the expert work group for Culture - procedures for examining applications for funding into the 'Connect' Project (X General Direction, European Commission, Brussels)

1999 to 2000 - Members of the expert work group A.F.F.A. (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs) - evaluation of artistic projects (2000-2001)

1998-07 to 1999-07 - Members of the expert group in contact with the Ministry of Education and Culture, in order to study and propose the Artistic Education Reform in Portugal.

1991 to 1998 - Comissionar for the Body's Arts' activities - Fundação de Serralves

1991 to 1991 - Invited by the Association Française d'Action Artistique (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France) in order to word reports about the situation of the dance in Portugal - Creation of a fellowship program between Portugal and France in the field of dance.

1990 - Invited by the Angolan Secretariat of State for Culture - co-autor of the curricula organization project of the Instituto de Formação Artística e Cultural de Angola (with Gil Mendo, Ana Clara Guerra Marques e Vanda Nascimento).

11-06-20 to 30-07-20 - Curadoria do Ciclo de cinema e video El Dorado, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires.