The Filter - Art Pathways

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

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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.

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.

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 artwork editions. From 2013 to 2015 he was the president of the Portuguese section of AICA, the International Association of Art Critics.

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

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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 books.

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.

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 various places, amongst the Orient Foundation Museum in Lisbon. Luis regularly fails at surfing and has a little vegetable patch to which he dedicates far too much of his time and energy. 

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 Marseille, he was living in Lisbon and is originally from London.