Curated Programmes 2025

Sofía Lanusse (b.1985, Buenos Aires) is professional in the arts and curator based in Paris. In 2020 she co-founded Espacio Temporal, an independent and non-profit project dedicated to fostering dialogues between contemporary artistic practices from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe. From 2021 to 2025 she served as the Director of The Outsider Art Fair in New York and a Board member of the European Outsider Art Association. Prior to her arrival in France, she worked as Head of Relations at ARTBO (2015-2018) in Bogota, Colombia and VIP relations at Arteba (2010-2014) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has curated several exhibitions across New York, Paris and Madrid. 

Diogo Pinto (Lisbon) is an artist, curator and writer based in Basel. He is driven by the elasticity of contemporary artistic practices, focusing on artists who have operated in unconventional scenarios. Recently, he has presented projects at der TANK, suns.works, Dietikon Projektraum, Galerias Municipais, MONITOR Gallery, Faltpavillon, Spirit Shop, June Art Fair, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Kunsthalle Palazzo, and Kunsthaus Baselland. He was co-director and co-founder of the exhibition project Ascensor (2018-2020) and is currently part of the curatorial team at Plattform.

Paula Nascimento (Luanda, 1981) is an architect and independent curator based in Luanda. She co-founded Beyond Entropy Africa (2010-16), a research studio that has worked in architecture, visual arts, and geopolitics. She has developed a series of artistic and curatorial projects, including Luanda Encyclopedic City and the award-winning Angola Pavilion at the Biennial of Venice in 2013. As an independent curator, she has worked on interdisciplinary projects exploring themes related to post-colonial cities and contemporary readings for historical themes. She has curated several exhibitions in Angola, South Africa, Portugal, and Italy and has participated at Experimenta Design, Triennale di Milano, Bamako Biennial and the VI and VII Lubumbashi Biennial. Since 2019, she has been curator of Africa em Foco/The Shape of the Ocean at ARCOlisboa. Paula is currently the chair of the artistic committee at Nesr Art Foundation in Luanda.

PhD in Visual Arts-History, Theory and Criticism of Art-PPGAV-UFRGS. Adjunct Professor of History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Methodology and Practice of Art Teaching (UERGS). He was assistant curator of the 12th Mercosur Biennial.  Work with the links between exhibitions, film editing, art history and racialization in Brazilian art and the visibility of black subjects in the visual arts. Author of the thesis Film Editing and Exhibition: Black Voices in the White Cube of Brazilian Art. Member of the curatorial committee of the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo/USP. Curator of the exhibition "Presença Negra no Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul"(2022). Member of the curatorial board of the exhibitions: "Social Fabric (Houston-USA); "Enpowerment" (Volfsburg-Germany), Fractured Times (MAC-USP-Brazil ) Member of the board of AWARE - Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions (France-USA),). In 2023 he was general curator of "Dos Brasis: Arte e pensamento negro", the most comprehensive exhibition of black Brazilian artists (Brazil-Sao Paulo). That same year he was guest curator at the Inhotim Institute for the 2023 season, curating the exhibitions: Mestre Didi: The Initiates in Mystery Don't Die, "Doing the Modern, Building the Contemporary: Rubem Valentim and the Right to Form. In 2024,  curated the show: Jaime Lauriano: Why You don’t  know about the Western Remains (NY) curator  with Andrea Giunta, the exhibition Rosana Paulino: Amefricana, at MALBA (Buenos Aires- Argentina), Panmela Castro: From the Garden to an Ocean ( Lisbon- Portugal), The Ocean is the Axis ( Mexico City-Mexico). In the same  year it was guest  fellow at The Clark Institut and  at Getty Center Foundation with his Pos-Doctoral Research :Where is the Black Brazilians in the Afro diasporic Art History?.