Contemporânea

Susana Ventura (Coimbra, 1978) is an architect by training (darq-FCTUC, 2003) but prefers to dedicate herself to research, writing, and curating, exploring the intersections of architecture, art, and philosophy. She holds a PhD in Philosophy with a specialisation in Aesthetics, supervised by José Gil (FCSH-UNL, 2013), and is currently a Contracted Researcher at the Center for the Study of Architecture and Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (CEAU-FAUP). She has served as an Invited Assistant Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Minho, and Évora. Among her various curated exhibitions are "Utopia/Dystopia" (with Pedro Gadanho and João Laia, MAAT, 2017), "The House of Democracy: Between Space and Power" (Casa da Arquitectura, 2018), "Radial body" (an exhibition by Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela, Municipal Galleries, Lisbon, 2020), and "The Tale" (an exhibition by Tiago Baptista, Rialto 6, Lisbon, 2022). In 2014, she received the Fernando Távora Prize (9th edition) and represented Portugal at the Venice Architecture Biennale in the same year. Since 2020, she has been the host of the radio program "Aforismos Espaciais" on Radio Antecâmara, dedicated to exploring the connections between architecture, literature, visual arts, poetry, and cinema.