Director of the Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar – Egeac (Egeac -Cultural Equipment Management Company), since its opening in 2012, and of the Galerias Municipais/Municipal Galleries – Egeac, between 2017 and 2019, having resumed directing that structure since January 2023.
At the Atelier-Museu, she is responsible for the museum’s design and opening project, defining the program and implementing its artistic and executive project, as well as an educational service and an editorial project, in partnership with the publisher Sistema Solar – Documenta. In the Municipal Galleries of Egeac, and in close articulation with the tutelage, she carried out its organic reorganization and the definition of the strategic lines of programming of the total set of five exhibition spaces, taking into account the notion of public service, the characteristics and potential of each space, as well as the needs and expectations of the national artistic fabric, namely: intersectional questions, LGBTQ+, female, ecological sustainability, etc. She was at the forefront of the refurbishment project of Galeria Quadrum, one that reconstituted its former architectural transparency and breadth. She implemented a common transversal editorial project to the whole set of exhibition spaces, thinking of it as a memory archive of activities and exhibitions.
She is the technical-scientific coordinator of the Banco de Arte Contemporânea – BAC, a project of documentary and artistic assets of contemporary art, which was born from a partnership / collaboration with the Fundação Carmona e Costa and the Instituto de História de Arte (Art History Institute) of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (Faculty of Social and Human Sciences) of the Universidade Nova (New University) of Lisbon. The project involves a strong research component, receiving internships from university students and academic projects every six months, or from professionals linked to curatorship, art history, editing or other epistemic fields.
Since 2016, she coordinates the Acquisition Commissions for the Collection of Contemporary Art of the Lisbon City Council. Since October 2022 she has been part of the Board of Patrons of the Fundação Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva.
She holds a degree in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, a Master in Curatorial Studies and a PhD with the thesis “Da Escultura à Espacialidade” (“From Sculpture to Space”) from the same University. She continues her academic studies in MUST, an organisation devoted to Museum Studies in the above-mentioned Art History Institute, and she is often invited to supervise academic theses.
She has been a curator since 2006, having presented shows in several institutions, from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Carmona e Costa Foundation, Museu Berardo, MACE and MAAT-EDP Foundation and was invited twice by the Portuguese government to participate in the “limited competition” for the Portuguese representation at the Venice Biennale.
From 2012 to 2015 she was a member of the Board of AICA / SP (International Association of Art Critics / Portuguese Section) to which she remains associated, and is a regular Jury member for several awards, namely of the kind that imply research grants and artistic residencies. She regularly publishes essays on art, in catalogs and specific magazines, having published more than two hundred texts. She coordinates the collection Cadernos do Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar & DOCUMENTA, in which she created a collection of extended interviews with artists, curators and other professionals, which are generally developed over a year and a half, allowing an in-depth knowledge of their processes and concerns, as well as other relevant issues. She was a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and coordinator of the Sculpture Course at Ar.Co., in Lisbon.