The Filter - Art Pathways

João Moreira Rato is currently a senior advisor for Morgan Stanley and is the President of the Portuguese Institute for Corporate Governance, a consultant for sovereign debt issuing and derivatives, as well as a teacher at Nova School of Business and Economics and Nova IMS. He is also a Research Associate for the Centre of Systemic Risk at LSE. He was Chairman of CTT bank, non-executive director of Omtel, and has worked with Oliver Wyman in the set-up and build-up of the department for debt management of the Ministry of Finance of Kuwait, where he was an integral part of the first debt issuing of the country. He was also part of the team that analysed the structure of Abu Dhabi's sovereign debt In 2014 he was the financial director for Banco Espírito Santo during the transition to Novobanco. Between 2012 and 2014 he was the Chairman and CEO of the Treasury and Public Debt Management Agency. In this role, he was responsible for the strategy to return to the medium and long-term public debt markets and for its successful implementation. Between 2000 and 2012 he worked in investment banking for such banks as Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, and Morgan Stanley. He was also a founding member of a Hedge Fund specialised in Global macro. He has a Doctorate from Chicago Booth and a Masters and Bachelors from the Universidade Nova in Lisbon. He is the author of the book: “The European Debt Crisis: How Portugal Navigated the post-2008 Financial Crisis”, published by Palgrave Macmillan in December 2020.

Rick Vercauteren has a career of more than 40 years as an art historian, editor, and writer. As an independent curator, he has worked for various art institutions in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. He writes, on a regular basis, texts on contemporary art and music in Dutch, English, and German. Furthermore, he operates as a personal adviser for artists in several countries in Western Europe. In addition, he is an enthusiastic interviewer (live) and a vivid master of ceremonies in the broader cultural domain in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. Rick was born in 1956 and studied History of Art, American Literature, and Film between 1974 and 1982. From 1986 till 2022 he worked as a spirited curator and turbocharging director in museums in the Netherlands. Besides he was an animated teacher in the cities of Amsterdam, Eindhoven, 's-Hertogenbosch and Tilburg (Academies of Contemporary Art and Open University). He's a voracious reader and critical movie buff. Authors Recommended: Julio Cortázar, Franz Kafka, James Joyce and Shakespeare Spaces Recommended: Tate Modern, London and L'Orangerie, Paris

Marco Fedele di Catrano (Rome, 1976) is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose different creative practices converge with the aim of bridging the gulf between art and society. His work in the fields of installation, photography, sculpture, and video is characterized by an intuitive handling of materials, objects, and spaces. In many cases, he processes found, elementary materials which get reconfigured in a synthetic and metaphorical form. His aim is to bind a minimal form with subjects of existential and social-political relevance. His site-specific interventions, mostly temporary, are made in dialogue with existing architecture, both indoor and in urban spaces. He currently lives and works in Lisbon. Website http://www.marcofedeledicatrano.com/ Space recommended M23 Projects Palácio de Cristal Book recommended José Saramago - Ensaio sobre a Cegueira

Carlos Antunes is an architect based in the village of Corvo near Coimbra. Together with Desiree Porto, he runs the Atelier do Corvo Architects in the same town. He is also a professor at the University of Coimbra. He is a member of CAP Coimbra since 1987 and is now its director. This interview is in Portuguese. Atelier do Corvo CAPC Books Recommended: Miguel de Cervantes - Dom Quixote Space Recommended: CAPC

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 Spaces recommended: Kolumba in Cologne

Rute Ventura is an art consultant based in Lisbon, Portugal. She is the founder of Matéria Rara, a bespoke support & development office for artists' studios and curatorial projects. Prior to this she worked at Lisson Gallery as Associate Director & Artist Liaison, collaborating closely with artists such as Ai Weiwei, Dan Graham, Lee Ufan amongst many others where she developed and project managed exhibitions including Dan Graham's first survey exhibition in China at Red Brick Museum, Beijing; Rashid Rana's Pakistan Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale and Ai Weiwei's Raiz and Inoculation tours in South America. Books recommended: Robert Macfarlane - The Wild Places Spaces recommended: Serralves Museum in Porto

José Sousa Machado was born in Luanda, Angola in 1956. His school education was in Lisboa, Portugal. Still in Lisboa attended Instituto Superior Técnico. In 1975 moved to Brazil and graduated in Economy in the Faculdade de Ciências Políticas e Económicas in Rio de Janeiro where he also studied literature for 3 years in the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. In 1981, back in Lisboa, Machado worked as a journalist, art critic, and cultural coordinator for the newspapers Correio da Manhã, Semanário, and ABC magazine. He collaborated with Jornal de Letras, Diário de Notícias, Diário Popular, and Diário de Lisboa among other publications and periodicals. Founded and directed the magazines Artes & Leilões, Arte Ibérica, Agenda Cultural de Lisboa, and Aprender a Olhar. Since 2014 Machado is in charge of the project Livraria Sá da Costa.

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. Lisson Gallery's website Wikipedia

Miguel Nabinho runs one of the most important galleries in Portugal, representing some of its most important names. Its focus is on Portuguese art. The interview is in Portuguese.

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. Lisson Gallery's website Wikipedia

Sofia Marçal is the head curator of the National Museum of Natural History and Science since 2001, where she has been developing work on the intersection between art and science, through numerous exhibitions, catalogues, and conferences. She is also Secretary of the Board of Directors of ICOM Portugal. Books recommended by Sofia: Susan Sontag - Stories Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu - Essay on Taste Lawrence Durrell - The Alexandria Quartet Spaces recommended: Centro Cultural de Belém Fundação Carmona e Costa Fundação Gulbenkian CaixaForum Madrid Pompei in Italy

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. João Silvério's Website Books recommended by João: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar - The Time Regulation Institute Han Kang - Human Acts Spaces recommended: Hamburger Bahnhoff in Berlin Haus der Kulturen der welt in Berlin Neue Gallery in Berlin Centro de Art Moderna Gulbenkian in Lisbon Culturgeste in Lisbon Berardo Museum in Lisbon

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 Spaces recommended: The Royal Academy in London Plovdiv in Bulgaria (Wikipedia page)

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. Emília's Wikipedia page Books recommended by Emília: Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet Joke J. Hermsen - Melancholy in Times of Turmoil Noreena Hertz - The Lonely Century Space recommended: Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon

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. https://joaomachado.net/ Book recommended by João: Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens Ken Garland's Manifesto - First Things First Space recommended: Galeria Vera Cortez and Projecto Travessa da Ermida in Lisbon

Pedro Boese is an artist who has lived in Berlin for the last 24 years, so has experienced the beginning of Berlin as an art centre all the way to its current form. His work focuses mainly on painting and etching. He has exhibited all over Germany and also in Portugal and Holland. Book recommended by Pedro: Edited by Ludermann, Marina; Gass, Adair; Waquil, Isabel - O Poder da Multiplicação (exh. cat.) Space recommended: Kunstwerein Tiergarten in Berlin

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. Luís' linktr: https://linktr.ee/LuisRamosPinto Book recommended by Luís: Why Nations Fail - The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson.

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. Tom's website: www.tomsaunders.eu Books recommended by Tom: Bruno Latour - Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam? Leila Slimani - Le pays des autres