Inês Moreira is an architect, researcher and curator based in Porto.
Her research/practice experiments different collaborations between architecture, art, exhibition display, and oblique research onto contemporary culture. In the recent years has been developing a curatorial research on space, under the title “Performing Building Sites: curatorial research in/on space”, her PhD thesis in Curatorial/Knowledge PhD at Goldsmiths College, Visual Cultures Department, University of London. The 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 the coordinator of Laboratório de Arte Experimental of Instituto das Artes / Ministério da Cultura, Lisbon [2003-05]; a consultant for the Architecture Cultural Program for the European Capital of Culture Guimarães 2012, Portugal; and a scientific consultant/advisor of European Project Transformations [FBAUP, 2009-2010].
As a free-lance curator, co-curated the public gatherings of Evento2009, Public Art Biennial, Bordeaux, France. Co-founder of the independent art group Plano 21 Associação Cultural, and part of the team of Terminal Project [2004-6]. Founder of experimental space petit CABANON [2007-8]. Resident curator at Museo Extremeño Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporâneo in Badajoz, Spain [2007…]. Collaborates regularly with the Rectorate of Univ. Porto where curated events and designed exhibitions [Depósito 2007, Pack 2007, Mapa 2007, Rescaldo e Ressonância! 2009].
As researcher, collaborated with the Master in Museum Studies [FLUP, Univ. Porto], Master of Art and Design for Public Space [FBAUP, Univ. Porto] and CITAR [Univ. Católica Portuguesa].
Inês Moreira is completing the writing of her PhD dissertation in Curatorial/Knowledge, Goldsmiths College, Visual Cultures Department, University of London, and was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (PhD Dissertation Scholarships). Master in Theory of Architecture and Urban Culture [UPC Barcelona, Spain 2003] with the financial support of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Master Dissertation Scholarships) and Graduate in Architecture [FAUP Porto, 2001].
contact: inexmoreira [at] gmail [dot] com
