franciscaccportugal@gmail.com
@franciscaportugal1
EDUCATION
MFA Curating (Goldsmiths College of London)
BA Arts and Humanities (University of Lisbon)
INSTITUTIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
2023 Curatorial Fellow (Callie’s Berlin)
2022 Curator (Berlin Art Prize)
2022 Guest Curator (Duplex Air)
GUEST SPEAKER
2023 ZK/U (Berlin)
2022 Duplex Air
WRITING
2025 Gulbenkian CAM
2020-2022 Umbigo Magazine
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Francisca Portugal is an independent curator and writer based between Lisbon and Berlin.
Her practice explores contemporary notions of friendship and empathy. She creates spaces for experimentation, discourse, and exchange, with a strong focus on informal networks and collaborative processes.
With an interdisciplinary background in Arts and Humanities, Portugal investigates how friendship intersects with curatorial practices, resulting in a diverse body of work that spans solo and group exhibitions, public programs, and talks across both independent and institutional contexts. Her recent projects reflect a growing interest in connections that extend beyond conventional exhibition formats, embracing process-oriented approaches and alternative art ecosystems. This has led her to devote much of her public programming to working with emerging artists and producing exhibitions in which she is engaged from inception to completion, sustaining meaningful, long term relationships with the artists she collaborates with.
Currently, Portugal is focused on researching archival methodologies, with particular attention to oral history. She has initiated a project that explores personal narratives as tools for historical inquiry, aiming to develop frameworks that challenge traditional models of documentation and historiography.
CURATING
Holbein Syndrome, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisboa (2025), IV Capítulos, Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisboa (2024), Jarra Humana, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Elvas (2024); Highly Confusing Times, Arbag, Lisboa (2024); FENDA, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora (2023); What Goes Around Comes Around, Arbag, Lisboa (2023); Is There Yet Space for Light (exposição individual de Maria Appleton), Paris (2023); I’m Fine if You’re Fine, ArtRoom, Lisboa (2022); À Volta do X, Pavilhão 31, Lisboa (2022); Os Sapatos do Mestre (exposição individual de Lucas Odahara), Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Berlim (2022); Elbow Room (exposição individual de Hana Yoo), KUNST HAUS ACUD, Berlim (2022); Stayin’ Alive, Duplex Air, Lisboa (2022); In Nihilum, Swiss Church of London, Londres (2020).
Her practice explores contemporary notions of friendship and empathy. She creates spaces for experimentation, discourse, and exchange, with a strong focus on informal networks and collaborative processes.
With an interdisciplinary background in Arts and Humanities, Portugal investigates how friendship intersects with curatorial practices, resulting in a diverse body of work that spans solo and group exhibitions, public programs, and talks across both independent and institutional contexts. Her recent projects reflect a growing interest in connections that extend beyond conventional exhibition formats, embracing process-oriented approaches and alternative art ecosystems. This has led her to devote much of her public programming to working with emerging artists and producing exhibitions in which she is engaged from inception to completion, sustaining meaningful, long term relationships with the artists she collaborates with.
Currently, Portugal is focused on researching archival methodologies, with particular attention to oral history. She has initiated a project that explores personal narratives as tools for historical inquiry, aiming to develop frameworks that challenge traditional models of documentation and historiography.
CURATING
Holbein Syndrome, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisboa (2025), IV Capítulos, Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisboa (2024), Jarra Humana, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Elvas (2024); Highly Confusing Times, Arbag, Lisboa (2024); FENDA, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora (2023); What Goes Around Comes Around, Arbag, Lisboa (2023); Is There Yet Space for Light (exposição individual de Maria Appleton), Paris (2023); I’m Fine if You’re Fine, ArtRoom, Lisboa (2022); À Volta do X, Pavilhão 31, Lisboa (2022); Os Sapatos do Mestre (exposição individual de Lucas Odahara), Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Berlim (2022); Elbow Room (exposição individual de Hana Yoo), KUNST HAUS ACUD, Berlim (2022); Stayin’ Alive, Duplex Air, Lisboa (2022); In Nihilum, Swiss Church of London, Londres (2020).
