Speaker

Ana Cristina Cachola

Ana Cristina Cachola (1983, Elvas, PT) is an independent curator, university professor and writes regularly for artistic and academic publications. She has a degree in Communication Sciences from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a Master in Cultural Management from Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP). She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from UCP, research funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology. In 2016, she obtained an individual post-doctoral fellowship, from the same Foundation. She is part of the team leading the European project 4Cs: from Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture, supported by Creative Europe. She has curated solo and group exhibitions in institutions such as MAAT, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Galeria da Boavista (Lisbon), 50 Golborne (London), La Nave (Madrid), among others. She is artistic director of the project Community while Immunity and founded and directs the feminist curatorial program Quéréla, in Lisbon, since 2020.