Gallery Talks

In this edition of Gallery Talks, writer and historian Bernardo Pinto de Almeida will share his perspective on the relationship between art and emotion, and art and history, with examples of artistic practices in the Portuguese context.

Bernardo Pinto de Almeida received the title of Professor Emeritus of Art Theory and History at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto in 2004. In 1983, he received the AICA/Gulbenkian Foundation Prize for Art Criticism. From 1990 to 1996, he was a member of the Acquisitions Committee of the Serralves Foundation, where he organised several exhibitions. He curated the Portuguese art collection at the M.E.I.A.C. (Museo Extremeño Ibero-Americano de Arte Contemporáneo) in Badajoz, Spain. From 1995 to 2001, he was the artistic director of the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation, where he established the Centre for Surrealism Studies and organised numerous exhibitions.

Between 2005 and 2009, he was a member of the board of directors of the Berardo Foundation, representing the State. As an independent curator, he organised over a hundred exhibitions in museums and institutions in Portugal and Spain. He has written around three hundred prefaces for catalogues in Portugal and abroad, and has given over three hundred lectures at cultural institutions in Portugal and internationally.

He edited the 40-volume collection Caminhos da Arte Portuguesa no Século XX for Editorial Caminho and contributed to the magazines Lapiz, Arte y Parte (Spain), Artforum and Contemporânea (USA). He has published approximately twenty books of essays on art and ten books of poetry.

Photographs by Sérgio Monteiro / Galeria Municipal do Porto