Adelaide Ginga
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An art historian, curator, and museologist, she currently holds the position of Director of MACAM – Armando Martins Museum of Contemporary Art.
She graduated in Art History from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and obtained her master’s degree in Contemporary History from the same institution as an FCT fellow. Her published dissertation was awarded the Vítor de Sá Prize (1999), granted by the University of Minho, and received an Honorable Mention from the Mário Soares Foundation. Subsequently, she completed a master’s degree in Curatorship and Exhibition Organization at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and is currently a doctoral candidate in Contemporary Art at the College of Arts of the University of Coimbra.
She began her career in 2001 as a contemporary art specialist at the Institute of Contemporary Art of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture. Later, she coordinated the International Department of the Institute of Arts, being responsible for various national representations at events such as the Venice Biennale, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Prague Quadrennial. In 2006, she was appointed Deputy Director of the Institute of Arts in Lisbon.
In 2007, she led the renovation of the International Biennial of Art and Culture of São Tomé and Príncipe, serving as General Commissioner for its 5th (2008) and 6th (2011) editions. She was curator at MNAC (National Museum of Contemporary Art) from 2008 to 2020. Between 2012 and 2016, she was a professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University, where she taught Curatorship and Arts Management. In 2016, as a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation fellow, she developed an international research project on Born Digital/Software-Based Art.
She is the author of more than one hundred curatorial projects, publications, and art history essays, and has also presented lectures and talks at national and international events.