Inês Moreira (PhD, completed 2014)

Inês Moreira is an architect, researcher and curator. Based in Porto where she was born in 1977. In her research and practice she has been experimenting collaborations between architecture, contemporary art and speculative/oblique research on contemporary culture. In the recent years, she is developing a curatorial research on space under the title “Performing Building Sites: curatorial research in/on space”. This research proposes a critical epistemology to the field of curatorial studies and embraces her professional experience has author/designer of spatial installations for art exhibitions.

She was recently appointed as Cultural Programmer of Architecture for the European Capital of Culture 2012, in Guimarães, Portugal, where she is Deputy Programmer for Art+Architecture. As curator/expert she has coordinated Laboratório de Arte Experimental of Instituto das Artes/Ministério da Cultura, Lisbon [2003-05]; co-founder of the independent art group Plano 21 Associação Cultural, and part of the team of Terminal Project [2005…]; founder of experimental curatorial project petit CABANON [2007…]; resident curator at Museo Extremeño Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporâneo in Badajoz, Spain [2007…]. Collaborates with the Culture Department of Universidade do Porto since 2006 where curates events and designs exhibitions [Depósito 2007, Pack 2007, Mapa 2007, Rescaldo e Ressonância! 2009]. Co-curator of the public gatherings of Evento2009, Public Art Biennial, Bordeaux, France. As researcher/teacher she has been collaborating with the Master of Art and Design for Public Space [FBAUP, Universidade do Porto], the Master in Museum Studies [FLUP, Universidade do Porto] and as a researcher of CITAR [Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto].

PhD candidate in Curatorial/Knowledge, Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London with the financial support of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (PhD Scholarships). Master in Theory of Architecture and Urban Culture [UPC Barcelona, Spain 2003] with the financial support of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Dissertation Scholarships). Graduted in Architecture [FAUP Porto, Portugal 2001].