Bruno Alves de Almeida (Brasil/ Portugal) is a curator and architect based in the Netherlands, currently curator and resident liaison of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, and tutor at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Bruno has developed a distinctive context-specific and multidisciplinary curatorial practice marked by projects that foster intersections between art, architecture, urban theory, design and the social and natural sciences. And which often go beyond customary exhibition models and spaces, and experiment with the formats for production, presentation and experience of artistic practice.
From 2013 to 2018 in São Paulo, Brazil, Bruno spearheaded a series of projects departing from the specificity of their urban contexts in order to create public fora addressing timely social, political and urban issues. He initiated and curated exhibitions and site-specific public commissions that breached institutional boundaries, and reached wider and more diverse publics: either by intervening in the interface between the private and the public realms; by proposing experimental formats that generate flows between the exhibition space and other locations in the city; by engendering strategies that allow for a critical interaction with a wide range of publics, among others.
Currently in the Netherlands, he expanded his interest in exploring the co-defining relation between the social and spatial dynamics shaping our urban environments towards a wider understating encompassing the natural environment and its relation to the ongoing socio-ecological crisis. Leading the artistic programme of the Jan van Eyck Academie, he has curated a wide breadth of programmes which fostered urgent debates and promoted crossovers between the arts, the social and natural sciences, policymaking, among other fields, through formats experimenting with the physical and digital/online realms.
Bruno is an alumnus of the De Appel Curatorial Programme, Amsterdam (2018/19). He collaborated with institutions such as the Harvard Graduate School of Design; Storefront for Art and Architecture; PACT Zollverein; 11th São Paulo Architecture Biennial, Pivô Art and Research, and others. Participated in residencies such as: TATE Intensive, TATE Modern; IdeasCity Arles, New Museum with LUMA Foundation; Curatorial Intensive Accra, Independent Curators International, among others. And is the recipient of grants from the Hyundai TATE Research Centre: Transnational, the Prince Claus Fund, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, among others.
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