The Filter - Art Pathways

João Moreira Rato is currently a senior advisor for Morgan Stanley and is the President of the Portuguese Institute for Corporate Governance, a consultant for sovereign debt issuing and derivatives, as well as a teacher at Nova School of Business and Economics and Nova IMS. He is also a Research Associate for the Centre of Systemic Risk at LSE. He was Chairman of CTT bank, non-executive director o...

Rick Vercauteren has a career of more than 40 years as an art historian, editor, and writer. As an independent curator, he has worked for various art institutions in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. He writes, on a regular basis, texts on contemporary art and music in Dutch, English, and German. Furthermore, he operates as a personal adviser for artists in several countries in Western Europe...

Marco Fedele di Catrano (Rome, 1976) is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose different creative practices converge with the aim of bridging the gulf between art and society. His work in the fields of installation, photography, sculpture, and video is characterized by an intuitive handling of materials, objects, and spaces. In many cases, he processes found, elementary materials which get recon...

Carlos Antunes is an architect based in the village of Corvo near Coimbra. Together with Desiree Porto, he runs the Atelier do Corvo Architects in the same town. He is also a professor at the University of Coimbra. He is a member of CAP Coimbra since 1987 and is now its director. This interview is in Portuguese. Atelier do Corvo CAPC Books Recommended: Miguel de Cervantes - Dom Quixote Space Recom...

Vera Hilger is an artist and the co-director of Raum Für Gäste an exhibition space she runs with her colleague Michael Krupp. Books recommended: Arbeit und Struktur by Wolfgang Herrndorf Spaces recommended: Kolumba in Cologne

Rute Ventura is an art consultant based in Lisbon, Portugal. She is the founder of Matéria Rara, a bespoke support & development office for artists’ studios and curatorial projects. Prior to this she worked at Lisson Gallery as Associate Director & Artist Liaison, collaborating closely with artists such as Ai Weiwei, Dan Graham, Lee Ufan amongst many others where she developed and project...

José Sousa Machado was born in Luanda, Angola in 1956. His school education was in Lisboa, Portugal. Still in Lisboa attended Instituto Superior Técnico. In 1975 moved to Brazil and graduated in Economy in the Faculdade de Ciências Políticas e Económicas in Rio de Janeiro where he also studied literature for 3 years in the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. In 1981, back in Lisboa...

Richard Wentworth is an artist who played a leading role in New British Sculpture since the end of the 1970s. His work, encircling the notion of objects and their use as part of our day-to-day experiences, has altered the traditional definition of sculpture as well as photography. Richard has taught at Goldsmiths College,  Oxford University, and The Royal College of Art. Lisson Gallery's webs...

Miguel Nabinho runs one of the most important galleries in Portugal, representing some of its most important names. Its focus is on Portuguese art. The interview is in Portuguese.

Richard Wentworth is an artist who played a leading role in New British Sculpture since the end of the 1970s. His work, encircling the notion of objects and their use as part of our day-to-day experiences, has altered the traditional definition of sculpture as well as photography. Richard has taught at Goldsmiths College,  Oxford University, and The Royal College of Art. Lisson Gallery's webs...

Sofia Marçal is the head curator of the National Museum of Natural History and Science since 2001, where she has been developing work on the intersection between art and science, through numerous exhibitions, catalogues, and conferences. She is also Secretary of the Board of Directors of ICOM Portugal. Books recommended by Sofia: Susan Sontag - Stories Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède...

João Silvério is an independent curator since 2003, he studied among other things, curating at Faculdade de Belas Artes in Lisbon. He is an associated curator at PLMJ Foundation, a tutor at RAMA Residencies, and the founder of the Empty Cube Project which has presented the work of various artists, designers, and architects. And recently has launched the empty cube reader Project which focuses on a...

Iva Ivanova is a senior business intelligence analyst at Sotheby's. She is from Sófia in Bulgaria, where she has spent most of her time in the last year. She studied at Sotheby's Institute of Art and London School of Economics and Queen Mary University all in London. Book recommended by Iva: Thomas Erikson - Surrounded by Idiots Spaces recommended: The Royal Academy in London Plovdiv in Bulgaria (...

Emília Ferreira is the Director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon and a researcher at the Institute of Art History in Nova University. She also collaborates with the Modern Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, since 1997, and was a member of Casa da Cerca - Contemporary Art Centre, from 2000 to 2017. She has curated several exhibitions and has published several book...

João M. Machado is a graphic designer with a particular interest in book design. He graduated in Graphic Design in Lisbon, having continued his studies in Barcelona, where he also worked with the studio Base Design and later studied in London at Chelsea College of Art & Design. He has also participated in several exhibitions and collaborates often with art galleries and other design studios. h...

Pedro Boese is an artist who has lived in Berlin for the last 24 years, so has experienced the beginning of Berlin as an art centre all the way to its current form. His work focuses mainly on painting and etching. He has exhibited all over Germany and also in Portugal and Holland. Book recommended by Pedro: Edited by Ludermann, Marina; Gass, Adair; Waquil, Isabel - O Poder da Multiplicação (exh. c...

Luis is a digital heritage specialist, his career has taken him to London, New York, The Hague, and now Lisbon.  A strong believer in the important role cultural heritage plays in society, Luis spends most of his time helping Portuguese museums make their collections available online whilst advocating for open access policies.  He is a keen amateur photographer having exhibited in variou...

Tom Saunders is an artist working across photography, painting, and drawing. The starting point of his work is an investigation of the variety of ways that singular approaches to art-making seen in early 20th-century art history are transformed in their manifestation within the complex technological and architectural networks of 21st-century art. He is now based in Paris and about to move to Marse...