Bruno Alves de Almeida

Bruno Alves de Almeida (Brazil/Portugal, 1987) is a curator with a background in architecture whose work explores how art can engage with the social, spatial, and environmental conditions of specific places. Working across contemporary art, architecture, and other disciplines, he develops context-responsive commissions, exhibitions, residencies, and live programs that move beyond art spaces into the public sphere. His practice is committed to creating ambitious projects that are grounded in context and meaningful to diverse audiences, while opening public debate around timely issues.

Bruno is the Curator and Resident Liaison of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands, one of Europe’s leading post-academic multidisciplinary institutes. In 2025, he collaborated with Tate, U.K., as a Brooks International Fellow, and received the Mondriaan Fonds Curator Researcher Grant for his project Threshold Institutions, Liminal Practices. In 2024, he was Artistic Co-Director of the Luleå Biennial, Sweden, where he worked with artists and architects in relation to the complex environmental, social, and geopolitical realities of the Swedish Arctic. Previously, in São Paulo, he founded and curated projects that commissioned Latin American artists to develop context-specific public artworks between exhibition spaces and everyday urban life.

Donna Honarpisheh

Donna Honarpisheh is the Curator of Art and Research at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, where she curates global exhibitions in modern and contemporary art. Notable exhibitions include Manoucher Yektai: The Stranger and the Tree, the artist’s largest institutional exhibition to date; Huguette Caland: Outside the Line, the artist’s first U.S. solo museum exhibition; Ahmed Morsi in New York: Elegy of the Sea; as well as Spirit-Matter, a thematic exhibition of artists who combine material experimentation with global spirit cosmologies. She is the writer and host of ICA Miami’s award-winning podcast, Tomorrow is the Problem, which addresses pressing issues in art and culture. Honarpisheh earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught undergraduate courses in global modernisms, postcolonial studies, and art history at Georgetown University, Fordham University, Sarah Lawrence College, and UC Berkeley. She was awarded the 2025 Vilcek Prize for Curatorial Work.