A artista e investigadora Ana de Almeida, em conversa com a curadora Ana Anacleto

18 de Agosto 2025 às 18h30 nos estúdios da RAMA.

 

Ana de Almeida vive e trabalha entre Lisboa e Viena, cidade onde tem desenvolvido a sua investigação em Critical Studies na Academia de Belas Artes deViena a par da sua actividade como docente na mesma instituição, assim como no departamento de Literatura da Universidade de Viena e no departamento de Estudos Transculturais da Universidade de Artes Aplicadas.

O seu trabalho centra-se em modos operacionais de arquivos e processos de memória numa perspetiva sociopolítica. Foi nomeada em 2011 para o Prémio BES Revelação, tendo desde então apresentado o seu trabalho em instituições portuguesas como o CAV em Coimbra, MAAT e MNAC em Lisboa, mas sobretudo em contexto internacional. Das suas exposições e projectos individuais destacam-se (In)verso. Between the Lens and the Archive com Huda Takriti na Camera Austria (Graz, Austria, 2024), Afterwork na Kunsthalle Wien (Viena, Austria 2023), From Fat and the City, no DUÚL [Casa das Artes de Ústí nad Labem] (Ústí nad Labem, República Checa, 2021) e Inhabited Projections, na FAK (Münster, Alemanha, 2018) e as participações nas exposições colectivas Cybernetics of the Poor, na Tabakalera (San Sebastián, Espanha, 2020) e na Kunsthalle Wien (Viena, Áustria, 2021), Carnations and Velvet – Art and Revolution in Portugal and Czechoslovakia, no GHMP [Galeria Municipal de Praga] (Praga, República Checa, 2019) e no MNAC (Lisboa, 2024), Haus Wittgenstein – Art, Architecture and Philosophy, no MAAT (Lisboa, 2018), Archipelago Mountain, Exhibition Laboratory of the Uniarts (Helsinki, Finlândia, 2018), dienstag abend N90 no ICA – Institute for Contemporary Art Yerevan (Yerevan, Arménia, 2017), Intransigent Ticket. The Artist as a Filter na CSULA Gallery (Los Angeles, 2013)  ou o screening Xkursion: Kino, no mumokkino: MUMOK – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Wien, Áustria, 2012).

Dos seus projectos editorias, destacam-se o trabalho em colectivo Undercurrents – Forum linke Literaturwissenschaft e a antologia co-editada com Mariel Rodríguez Rodríguez Standpoint Autotheory. Writing Embodied Experiences and Relational Artistic Practices, publicada pela Sternberg Press e distribuída pela MIT Press.

 

EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

Current & upcoming                  

September 2025          The Resistant Archive, solo exhibition at tranzit.sk, Bratislava, SK;

November 2025          The Desire of Being Many, group exhibition at Galerie Futura, Berlin, DE;

Mai 2026                      EX-VOTO, Ana de Almeida & Valeriia Pechena in Ecologies of Mother*ing: Reenchanting the World, Vienna, AT;

[TBA] 2026                   Ana de Almeida & Leo Trotsenko, curated by Justina Speitorake for the Klaipėda Cultural Communication Center (KCCC), LT;

 

Solo & duo

2025                 ARCO Lisboa, duo participation with Dejan Dukic represented by Gallery Zeller van Almsick, PT;

2024                 Ana de Almeida & Huda Takiti, (In)verso. Between the Lens and the Archive, curated by Anna Voswinckel, Camera Austria, Graz AT;

2024                 Brandungen. Die Entstehung der Sprache aus dem Wasser. (Collab. with Jakub Vrba and Christian Wimplinger), Landungsplatz                               Ebensee, AT. Commissioned by European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl – Salzkammergut 2024;

2024                 Nova. Future thoughts on surviving together. Together with Alicja Rogalska and Vanja Smiljanic part of Radical Playgrounds,                                  Berliner Festspiele, at Gropius Bau in Berlin, DE;

2023                 Afterwork, a live action role play game by Ana de Almeida. Project commissioned for Kunsthalle Wien on the framework of the                            exhibition In the Meantime Midday Comes Around, Vienna, AT;

2022                 Ensaio sobre a Gordura, solo exhibition at CAV, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, PT;

2022                 Nova. Future thoughts on surviving together. Together with Alicja Rogalska and Vanja Smiljanic at Temporary Gallery, Cologne,                             DE;

2021                 From Fat and the City/ Z tuku a města, solo exhibition at DUÚL, House of Arts Ústí nad Labem, Ústí nad Labem, CZ;

2019                 Exercising Impossibility, Ana de Almeida and Alicja Rogalska, VBKÖ – Association of Austria’s Women* Artists Vienna, AT;

2018                 Inhabited Projections, solo exhibition at FAK, Münster, DE;

2014                 The Collective Archive, ​installation and performance at Die Schneiderei art space, Vienna, AT;

2013                 Uniforma​, solo exhibition for the LuftSteuer Show Window Project, at Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory, Vienna, AT;

2012                 Trinomial​, solo exhibition at ​V.esch (Verein für Raum und Form in der bildenden Kunst), Vienna, AT;

2011                 BLOCKTV, online TV broadcast; project by Ana de Almeida and Jakub Vrba. Linz, AT;

2010                 Guided Tour, radio broadcast at Radio FRO, Linz, AT;

2010                 NEHMC, solo exhibition at Sala Bebé (Espaço Avenida 211), Lisboa, PT;

 

Group

2024                 Cravos e Veludo – Arte e Revolução em Portugal e na Checoslováquia (1968-1974-1989), MNAC Museu Nacional de Arte                                           Contemporânea, Lisbon, PT;

2024                 Brotlos. Leben ohne Sicherheit / From Bread and Butter. Group exhibition at MUSA Startgalerie, Wien Museum, Vienna AT;

2023                 On the New. Viennese Scenes and Beyond, group exhibition at Belvedere 21, Vienna, AT;

2022–2023        and so on, group exhibition curated by Kathy Cho at das weisse haus. In collaboration with Vienna Art Week, Vienna, AT;

2022                 entre o céu e a terra, curated by AA Contemporary Art Collection at Igreja das Domínicas in Elvas, programmed by 15 anos de                               MACE – Aqui somos rede, Elvas Museum of Contemporary Art, Elvas, PT;

2021–2022       Bezirksstarren, group exhibition with Leo Mayr, Lydia Lechner and Jakub Vrba at the Simmering District Museum (Wiener                                      Bezirksmuseum 11. Simmering) Vienna, AT;

2020–2021       Cybernetics of the Poor, group exhibition curated by Diedrich Diederichsen and Oier Etxebarria at Kunsthalle Wien, AT;           

2020                  Cybernetics of the Poor, group exhibition curated by Diedrich Diederichsen and Oier Etxebarria at Tabakalera, International                                    Centre for Contemporary Culture Donostía – San Sebastián, ES;

2019                 Carnations and Velvet – Art and Revolution in Portugal and Czechoslovakia, group exhibition curated by Adelaide Ginga and                                     Sandra Baborovska at GHMP – Prague City Gallery, CZ;

2019                 Translocal Scores, group exhibition curated by Simonetta Ferfoglia, Heinrich Pichler and Ruby Sircar at Project Space                                                Gumpendorferstrasse 6 Vienna, AT;

2018–2019        Haus Wittgenstein – Art, architecture and philosophy. Exhibition curated by Nuno Crespo for MAAT – Museum of Art Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, PT;

2017                 <dienstag abend> No. 90 at ICA – Institute for Contemporary Art Yerevan, Armenia;

2017                 Archipelago Mountain, exhibition by Ana de Almeida and Stephanie Misa at Galerie 5020 Salzburg, Austria. With: Meriç Algün,                              Ana de Almeida, Martha Atienza, Ann Böttcher, Amy Croft, Sara Deraedt, Isidora Krstić and Stephanie Misa. Salzburg, AT;

2017                 <dienstag abend> No. 89 , participation in Ales Pushkin’s Kupale Art Festival in Bobr, Belarus;

2017                 <dienstag abend> No. 86 workshop and lecture by Ana de Almeida, Ludwig Kittinger and Phelim McConigly for Curating                                         Exchange 6 at Press to Exit Project Space, Skopje, North Macedonia;

2016                 <dienstag abend> No. 84 Kozánow In Search for the Miraculous. Project of the European Cultural Capital Wroclaw, installation                               work, collab. with Ludwig Kittinger, Fernando Mesquita, Sophie Thun and Dorota Walentynowizc. Wroclaw, PL;

2016                 Business, series of animated short films about self-exploitation and working conditions in the cultural field. A project by Ana de                           Almeida and Jakub Vrba;

2013–2014      Project development period at Bildetage, Barichgasse 6/1 1030 Vienna, AT;

2013                 Curator’s Network, group show at Matadero, curated by Bori Szalai and Anca Mihulet. Madrid, ES;

2013                 Project residency at the Gdanska Miesta Galeria, a collab. between the City Gallery of Gdansk and <dienstag abend>, a program                           by Ludwig Kittinger and Fernando Mesquita. Gdansk, PL;

2013                 Local artist at Studios das Weisse Haus, Vienna, AT;

2013                 Little Bit of History Deleting, group show curated by Isin Önol at GLP Contemporary Gallery, Vienna, AT

2013                 The Intransigent Ticket, group exhibition at the Fine Arts Gallery, California State University Los Angeles, USA;

2012                 Realities & Togetherness, group exhibition at the 0gms Gallery Sofia, Bulgaria;

2012                 Screening of The Fox Den at Exkursion: Kino film program, mumok kino, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, AT;

2011                 FIRMA, project by Ana de Almeida and Jakub Vrba. Finland (several locations) and Kunstraum LOVE in Vienna, AT;

2008                 O Intervalo Entre Pesos, group exhibition at Espaço Avenida 211, Lisbon, PT;

2007                 7 Artes, group exhibition at Gallery Francisco Tojal, Lisbon, PT;

CURATORIAL WORK

04/2022            What is Left to Steal, Research Lab at the Donaufestival in Krems, AT;

11 – 12/2018   Archipelago Mountain, exhibition by Ana de Almeida and Stephanie Misa at the  Exhibition Laboratory of the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland;

05/2018             Virtual Virtue, exhibition curated by Gudrun Ingenthron for Hong Zeiss and Michael Kral at Franz-Josef-Kai 3 Vienna, AT;

06/2017            <dienstag abend> No. 87-88 Manfred Hubmann and Thomas Geiger hosted by <dienstag abend> at Kunstraum SUPER. Vienna, AT;

11/2016             <dienstag abend> No. 85 at KLUCKYLAND, group exhibition, curatorship together with Ludwig Kittinger, Fernando Mesquita,                                  Sophie Thun and Dorota Walentynowizc. Vienna, AT;

05/2016             <dienstag abend> No. 83 at Laakos Projects. Group exhibition, several locations, curatorship together with Ludwig Kittinger,                                  Fernando Mesquita, Sophie Thun and Dorota Walentynowizc, Several locations, Heraklion, GR;

01/2016              Rundgang 2017 – Curatorship of the Daniel Richter Class Exhibition, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, AT;

06 – 07/2015     No Need for References, a project by Ana de Almeida, Catalina Ravessoud and Mariel Rodríguez. Group exhibition at                                               Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, AT;

12/2013 – 03/2014  Dependent Publishing an Overlook on Contemporary Portuguese Artist Publications a project by Ana de Almeida and                                          Bernhard Cella at the Salon für Kunstbuch, 21er Haus Museum for Contemporary Art, Vienna, AT;

OTHER

Co-founder and editor of Transatlantica – International Art & Cultural  Association in Support of Printed Media, together with Mariel Rodríguez. Non-profit cultural association, publishing house and publication series project for authors from the Global South;

Member of the <dienstag abend> artist collective;

Member and co-founder of Interndinner – collective against the precarisation of work in the cultural field;

Member of VBKÖ – Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs, Association of Austria’s Women* Artists;

Co-founder of the curatorial project Gudrun Ingenthron;

since 2021, Editor at Undercurrents – Forum für Linke Literaturwissenschaft;

 EDUCATION

2015/ –           PhD candidate at the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies of the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna, Austria. Dissertation: From the Collection to the Archive: A Reflection on the Production of Images in the 1974—1989 Inter-Revolutionary Space between the Carnation and the Velvet Revolutions. Tutoring by Univ.-Prof. Diedrich Diederichsen;

2016 – 2017   Lectoring Program for Post-graduate Students (University didactic and teaching administration for lecturers) at the Academy                              of Fine Arts of Vienna, AT;

2011 – 2014   Master of Critical Studies at the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies of the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna, AT;

2014                 Commoning the City – Vienna International Summer School with Anette Baldauf, Silvia Federici, Chantal Mouffe, Stavros.                                       Stavrides and Suzana Milevska (a.o), AT;

2012                 Sommerakademie: Kunst und Ideologiekritik nach 1989 at Kunsthaus Bregenz, with Jens Kastner, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz,                                   Kerstin Stakemeier und Stephan Dillemuth (a.o), AT;

2005 – 2009    Licenciatura in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, PT;

2008                  Painting, Media Arts and Art Theory courses with Lena Séraphin and Taava Koskinen at the Lahti Institute of Fine Arts, Finland                           under the ERASMUS EU student mobility program;

WORK AND POSTGRADUATE POSITIONS

2010/–        Freelance artist

SS 2025       Lecturer at the Department for Transcultural Studies, University of Applied Arts Vienna: PS The Political Ontology of Photography:                         Power, Representation and Resistance; AT

2022–2025  Researcher at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies of the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna, AT;

2023–2025   Associated doctoral fellow at GRAMA: Graduiertenkolleg Medienanthropologie at the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar, DE;       

SS 2022       Lecturer at the University of Vienna, German Department: PS NdL: Plan:Stadt:Literatur. Untersuchungen zum                                                               angewandten Utopismus, co-teaching with Uni.-Assist. MMag. Christian Wimplinger;

WS 2021/2022  Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna: PT Projekt – Master in Critical Studies: Counter-Appropriation, co-teaching with                           Univ.-Prof. Diedrich Diederichsen. In cooperation with the Donaufestival in Krems;

WS 2020/2021  Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna: PT Projekt – Master in Critical Studies: Cybernetics of the Poor II, co-teaching                         with Univ.-Prof. Diedrich Diederichsen. In cooperation with Kunsthalle Wien;

04/2021       Curator and organizer of the online symposium Sharing and Responding, together with Anke Dyes, Inka Meißner and Nina                                      Kerschbaumer, a cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna and the Kunsthalle Wien;

WS 2020/2021 Lecturer at the University of Vienna, German Department: PS NdL: Reise in die Revolution. Das Spannungsfeld zwischen                                       Intervention und Bericht in den Werken deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller*innen, co-teaching with Uni.-Assist. MMag. Christian                                  Wimplinger;

SS 2020         Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna: PT Projekt – Master in Critical Studies: Cybernetics of the Poor, co-                                                   teaching with Univ.-Prof. Diedrich Diederichsen. In cooperation with Kunsthalle Wien;

06/2020         Curator and organizer of the online workshop Sharing and Responding, together with Anke Dyes, Inka Meißner and Nina                                         Kerschbaumer, a cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna and the Kunsthalle Wien;

2019–2020     Maternity leave

2018–2019     Guest researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts of Prague, Czech Republic (supported by IFK Junior Fellowship Abroad);

2018                 Researcher for Carnations and Velvet: Art and Revolution in Portugal and Czechoslovakia. Exhibition curated by Adelaide Ginga                             and Sandra Baborovska at the GHMP Prague City Gallery;

SS 2018            Lecturer at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies of the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna: Medientheorie III SE From the                                        Documentary to the Archive: Contemporary art practices of lived, transmitted and embodied experience of resistance to the                                        Brazilian Military Dictatorship and of the Portuguese Revolutionary Process;

2018                  Research assistant for Haus Wittgenstein – Art, architecture and philosophy. Exhibition curated by Nuno Crespo for MAAT –                                    Museum of Art Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal;

2018                  Conference organizer of Archipelago Mountain: Topographies of alternative imaginaries, together with Stephanie Misa at the                                  Uniarts Helsinki, Finland;

WS 2017/2018  Lecturer at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies of the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna: VL Kunst der Gegenwart I,                                              mentorship by Univ.-Prof. Diedrich Diederichsen;

2017–2019         Junior Fellow at the IFK – International research centre for cultural studies of the Art University of Linz in Vienna, Austria;

2016–2017         Maternity leave;

2015–2018         Curator at: www.gudruningenthron.com

2015–2017          Program director of Inquietudo – Portuguese Speaking Film Festival in Vienna;

2012–2017          Waitress at Café Leopold, Vienna ;

2012–2013          Intern at Salon für Kunstbuch, Vienna;

2011                      Babysitter, different locations, Vienna;

2010                      Gallery assistant at Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden. Internship under the Leonardo Da Vinci EU mobility program;

2009–2010          Exhibition invigilator at MUDE – Museum for Design and Fashion in Lisbon, Portugal;

2009–2010          Waitress at Pois Café, Lisbon;

2008–2009          Waitress at Restaurante El Gordo, Lisbon; 

PRIZES, GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIP

2022–2025        ÖAW DOC-Team Doctoral Fellowship Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences;

2021                 Staatsstipendium für Medienkunst – Austrian State Grant for Media Arts;

2020                 Working Grant by the City of Vienna, AT;

2017–2019        Fellowship at IFK – International Research Centre for Cultural Studies in Vienna, AT;

2018                 Project grant by the Austrian Chancellery for Art and Culture;

2017                 Travel grant European Cultural Foundation STEP Beyond;

2015                 Project grant by the Austrian Chancellery for Art and Culture;

2012                 Awarded with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s grant for Professional Specialization and Valorization in Arts Abroad, PT;

2011                 Co-Winner of the BES Revelação Art Prize. Serralves Foundation and Museum for Contemporary Art in Porto, PT;

2011                 Working Grant by the City of Vienna, AT;

2010                 LinzEXPOrt grant awarded by Linz Kultur for FIRMA, collab. with Jakub Vrba. Additional support by Wien Kultur, FRAME – Finnish Fund for Art Exchange and the Arts Council of Finland;

2010                 LINZimPULS grant awarded by Linz Kultur for BLOCKTV, collab. with Jakub Vrba; 

PUBLICATIONS

2025                 de Almeida, Ana, Rodríguez Rodríguez Mariel. 2025. “La Auto-cosa. Writing together through institutions, artistic practices and critical imagination”. In: Standpoint Autotheory. Writing Embodied Experiences and Relational Artistic Practices. Vol. 29 (2025). Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien & Sternberg Press. Ana de Almeida and Mariel Rodríguez Rodríguez (Eds.) [Article, peer-reviewed, in print]

2025                 de Almeida, Ana. 2025. “Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: Civil Imagination. A Political Ontology of Photography Verso, 2012 presented by Ana de Almeida” In: Camera Austria International, Nr 169. (2025) [Short book review]

2024                 de Almeida, Ana. 2024. “Conversations with an Ornithologist”. In: Skulptur und Raum: Für die Vögel. die angewandte and Österreichischer Skulpturenpark. [Essay]

2024                 de Almeida, Ana, Wimplinger, Christian. “Kooperation und Empfindung. Die Arbeit der Sinne in Helga M. Novaks politischer Prosa der Neuen Sensibilität”. In: neoAVANTGARDEN: Neue Sensibilität: Vorschläge zu einem Kanon. Band 18. (Mai 2024). München: edition text+kritik. Jörgen Schäfer und Georg Stanitzek (Hg.);

2022                 de Almeida, Ana, Wimplinger, Christian.  “Inherited Revolution: Narratives in transgenerational memory transfer”. In: Journal of Literary Theory Special Issue: Memory and Literature. Vol. 16, No 2 (2022). Berlin: De Gruyter Urania Milevski and Lena Wetenkamp (Ed.) (peer-reviewed);

2021                 de Almeida, Ana, Müller, Jan, Wimplinger, Christian. “Die Linke schaut nach Portugal: Reisebilder von und für die Nelkenrevolution”. In: Zusammenspiel von Text und Bild im Reisebericht. Heft 6 von Mobile Culture Studies. Sandra Vlasta and Birgit Englert (Ed.) (peer-reviewed);

2021                 de Almeida, Ana, Abou Hatab, Marwa, Diederichsen, Diedrich, Gankovska, Vasilena, Hille, Moira, Nitsch, Laura and Ruhm, Constanze. “Einfach dranbleiben. 10 Jahre Critical Studies – Eine Roundtable-Diskussion zum Master” In: Big Critical Energie. Text und Kritik. Andrea Zabric, Leonie Huber and Valerie Ludwig (Ed.). Vienna: Schlebrügge;

2019                 de Almeida, Ana. “The Carnation and the Rose” In: Carnations and Velvet: Art and Revolution in Portugal and Czechoslovakia. Prague: GHMP Prague Municipal Gallery Eds.;

2018                 de Almeida, Ana. “The House” In: Wittgenstein House: Art, Architecture and Philosophy. Lisbon: MAAT Eds;

2017                 de Almeida, Ana and Misa, Stephanie. Archipelago Mountain. Salzburg: Galerie 5020 Eds.;

2015                 de Almeida, Ana, Ravessoud, Catalina and Rodríguez, Mariel. No Need for References. Vienna: Kunsthalle Exnergasse Eds.;

2014                 de Almeida, Ana; Dyes, Anke and Tirler, Julia. “¿Selbstverwirklichung als Bezahlung? Zu den Anliegen und Praxen von Interndinner” In: Bildpunkt Exitstrategien. Vienna: IG Bildende Kunst, Frühling 2014;

2012                 de Almeida, Ana; Dyes, Anke and Tirler, Julia. “… why being an intern keeps you from fighting for your workers rights.” In: Kulturrisse Heft 04/2012. Viena: IG Kultur Eds.;

EDITORIAL WORK

Upcoming

2026                 “re/dis/ordering. vernacular archives as dynamic social agents and social performances of memory”. Guest-editor together with Elif Süsler-Rohringer and Lena Ditte Nissen. INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquires, Issue #10,  Support provided by the Research Focus Cultural Analysis in the Arts at the Department of Cultural Analysis at Zurich University of the Arts, CH;

2025                 “Standpoint Autotheory. Writing Embodied Experiences and Relational Artistic Practices” Vol. 29 (2024). Akademy of Fine Arts Vienna & Sternberg Press. Together with Mariel Rodríguez Rodríguez (peer-reviewed);

2024                 Mitstreiten. Literarische Solidarität und anti-rassistische Verbündungen. (Winter 2024/2025). Undercurrents Forum für Linke Literaturwissenschaften. Undercurrents (Eds.);

2023                 “Literatur und Care”. In: lfb Texte 21. Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag. 2023. Undercurrents (Eds.);

2022                 “Linke literarische Zeitschriften” Nr. 17 (Winter 2022). Undercurrents Forum für Linke Literaturwissenschaften. Undercurrents (Eds.); 

TALKS, LECTURES AND CONFERENCES

03/2025           “Family Albums and Moments of Resistance: Exploring Personal and Collective

Narratives through Photography”. Workshop facilitator at the Department of Photography, Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava, SK;

11/2024           “The Carnation and the Rose. Mapping an inter-revolutionary space between the Carnation and Velvet Revolutions”. Presenter at Narrating Revolutionary Events in Cultural Memory – International Congress on Revolutions and Rebellions in Historiography, Literature and Arts.Faculty of Philosophy, University of Siegen, DE;

05/2024            “From the shoebox to the archive. Mapping an intergenerational and inter-revolutionary space between the Carnation and the Velvet Revolutions” Presenter at the symposium PASS(ED) ON. Narrativization of Vernacular Archives within intergenerational and transnational memory transfer. University of the Arts Linz, AT;

04/2023            “Stay and tell: memory objects and narratives of appropriation. Tracing social change in text, photographs and patterns within personal archives”. Together with Elif Süsler-Rohringer and Lena Ditte Nissen. Lecture and presentation of the ÖAW Doc-Team research project at GRAMA: Graduiertenkolleg Medienanthropologie at the Bauhaus University Weimar, DE;

2023                 Guest artist at the “What to do after work” World-Building Workshop by Michael Simku. Workshop ran as part of the same name educational program by Andrea Rubin and Michael Simku in the framework of the exhibition “In the meantime, midday comes around” curated by WHW for Kunsthalle Wien, AT;

2022/05            Visiting Guest Speaker & Critic at the course for Visual Theory and Practice by Dr. Melanie Sindelar at the CEU – Central European University in Vienna, AT;

2021/12            Presenter, together with Christian Wimplinger, of “Nie habe ich so gründlich einen Olivenbaum betrachtet”. Empfindsamkeit und Kooperation bei Helga Novak at Ein Kanon der Neuen Sensibilität: Vorschläge, workshop by Teilprojekt A06 Pop, Literatur und Neue Sensibilität: Theorien, Schreibweisen, Experimente In Sonderforschungsbereich 1472 “Transformationen des Populären“ organized by Jörgen Schäfer and Georg Stanitzek in collaboration with Roberto Di Bella and Isabella Greiner at the University of Siegen, DE;

2021/09            Presenter together with Christian Wimplinger at the International Writers’ Workshop Memory and Literature organized by Dr. Lena Wetenkamp (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) and Dr. Urania Julia Milevski (Universität Bremen), DE;

2021/08            Phony Writings, together with Christian Wimplinger, speaker at the CARPA7: Elastic Writing in Artistic Research, international colloquium on artistic research in performing arts at the Theater Academy of University of the Arts Helsinki, FI;

2021/06            Nachhall einer Revolution: Demokratie und andere Kuriositäten lecture-performance. Historical, cultural and political introduction to the theater play Catarina e a Beleza de Matar Fascistas by Tiago Rodrigues at Wiener Festwochen. 24th and 25th of June, 18.30, Foyer Halle E+G Museums Quartier, Vienna, AT;

2021/05            Guest talk, together with Alicja Rogalska and Vanja Smiljanić at the seminar “Queer-Feministische Kollektive in Kunst und Kultur” by Doris Posch at the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna, AT;

2021/05            Speaker at “Biography in Practice”, 18th Workshop of the research network Biographieforschung of the University of Vienna. Planning and organization by Planung und Organisation: Bettina Dausien and Amos Postner of the Department of Education of the University of Vienna, AT;

2021/02            My View, artist-tour by Ana de Almeida of the exhibition Cybernetics of the Poor at the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT;

2021/01            Kunsthalle Wien Podcast: Ana de Almeida, Alicja Rogalska & Vanja Smiljanić in conversation with Michael Simku;

2020/06            Guest lecture at the Pool Seminar on Artistic Research, Department of Fine Arts of the Zurich University of the Arts ZHDK, CH;

2019/11            Speaker at the workshop Family Frames – Perspektiven auf Intimität und Familiarität in fotografischen Medien at the Institute for Film, Theater and Media Sciences of the University of Vienna, AT;

2019/05            Speaker at Cybernetics of the Poor International seminar, part II. Organized by the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies of the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna, AT;

2019/04            Speaker at Cybernetics of the Poor International seminar, part I. Organized by Tabakalera, International Centre for Contemporary Culture Donostía – San Sebastián, ES;

2018/06            The revolution’s archive through family photographs and artistic discourses,  lecture at IFK – Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna, AT;

2017/06            Internships, unpaid and underpaid work in the cultural field (in behalf of Interndinner), lecture for the European Anthropology seminar at the University of Vienna, AT;

2017/05            Burning archives, lecture with Ludwig Kittinger and Phelim  McConigly for the 6th International SymposiumCurating Exchange: Spaces, Functions, Fictions and Other Commons organized by Press to Exit, Skopje, Macedonia;

2016/10            Cultural Entrepreneurship? Panel discussion with Adrienne Goehler; Ana de Almeida (on  behalf of Interndinner); Fabrice Starzinskas and Thomas Burkhalter. Conception and moderation by Bianca Ludewig at Elevate – Festival für zeitgenössische Musik, Kunst und politischen Diskurs, Graz, AT;

2015/10            Extremely Precarious Limbo: Interndinner at Philosophy Unbound #5 with Ana de Almeida; Jakub Vrba and Mariel Rodríguez, lecture/ theater play at Spektakel, Vienna, AT;

2015/06            No Need for References – on artistic research, a talk between Ana de Almeida, Catalina Ravessoud and Mariel Rodríguez. Moderation by Gerardo Montes de Oca. Kunsthalle Exnergasse – WUK. Vienna, AT;

2012                 Moderation (together with Mariel Rodríguez) of the discussion and presentation of No Order – Art in a Post-Fordist Society (guests: Marco Scotini and Andris Brinkmanis) at the Salon für Kunstbuch 21er Haus Museum for Contemporary Art, Vienna, AT;

2011                 The distance between contemporary art and the general audience, lecture for the Communication sciences and Cultural Studies seminar, Faculty of Humanities, University of Lisbon, PT;

CINEMA

2025                 Moderator of the panel discussion “ON HAUNTINGS – CINEMATIC APPROACHES TO GHOSTS” with the directors Iris Pakulla, Anja Dreschke and Yuefei You at Ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna, AT;

2025    Moderator of the Q&A talk of “Mário” with director Billy Woodberry. Ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival 2024, Votiv Kino de France in Vienna, AT;

2024                 Moderator of the Q&A talk of “Fogo no Lodo” with directors Catarina Laranjeiro and Daniel Barroca. Ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival 2024, Votiv Kino de France in Vienna, AT;.

2023                 Juror for ADA – Austrian Documentary Award. Ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival 2023 Vienna, AT;

2022                 “The Flight of the Swallow and Other Somnambulistic Wanderings: A read aloud reflection on allegorical and poetic representations of the Portuguese migratory flows of the 60s and 70s”. Introduction performance for “No Táxi do Jack” by Susana Nobre. Screening at Kaleidoskop 2022, Vienna, AT;

2021/05           Moderator of the panel discussion “Body Politics – About Emancipations, Turning Points and Transformations” with the directors Moara Passoni, Coraci Ruiz and Mattijs van de Port at Ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna, AT;

2019    Intro talk with Günter Kaindlstorfer for “Ray & Liz” by Richard Billingham. Screening at Kaleidoskop 2019, Vienna, AT;

2018/01           Film discussion with Ana de Almeida and Nanna Heidenreich on Spell Reel by Filipa César, 2017. Moderation by Djamila Grandits and Doris Posch for Screening Africa – contemporary perspectives on african cinemas at Schikaneder Kino, Vienna, AT;

2017/10           Moderation of the director talks and film discussions with Marta Mateus (Farpões, Baldios 2017 PT), Bernhard Hetzenauer (La Sombra de un Dios 2017 AT/MX) and Juliana Antunes (Baronesa 2017 BR) at VIENNALE 18, Vienna, AT;

2015–2017       Program manager for Inquietudo – Portuguese Speaking Film Festival. Top Kino, Vienna, AT;