Acquisitions Policy
The CAM Collection comprises around 12 000 artworks from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing in particular on Portuguese art, but without excluding significant works of international art.
Throughout the history of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, the criteria for the incorporation of new works into the Collection, whether through acquisition, donation, bequest or exchange, have varied according to the guidelines established with each change of management.
In a museological context in which the physical exhibition and reserve spaces are limited and where the preservation of the Collection’s quality must be a priority, the existence of criteria for artworks joining the Collection becomes particularly important.
Thus, in addition to an Acquisitions Policy, which outlines the principles of the incorporation of artworks in the Collection, an Acquisitions Committee was also formed. Comprising five members who hold the position for a renewable period of two years, the Committee meets three to four times a year to review the acquisition proposals of CAM’s curators and directors.
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Afonso Dias Ramos
Afonso Dias Ramos is a researcher at the Art History Institute at FCSH – UNL / IN2PAST, associate editor of ‘Revista de História da Arte’ and guest lecturer at FCSH – UNL. He studied at FCSH – UNL and the Université Paris-Sorbonne and completed his master’s and PhD in History of Art at University College London. He has worked at CAM and was guest researcher at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, as well as being the recipient of a post-doctoral grant at Forum Transregionale Studien/Freie Universität Berlin.
Filipa Oliveira
Filipa Oliveira has been curator and programme-manager for Almada Municipal Council since 2018, with responsibility for the artistic direction of Casa da Cerca, the Galeria Municipal de Almada and the Convento dos Capuchos. Between 2015 and 2017, she was artistic director of Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, in Évora, and from 2002 to 2014 worked as an independent curator, organising various solo and group exhibitions in Portugal and abroad, notably at the 28th São Paulo Biennial and the Coimbra Biennial of Contemporary Art.
João Sousa Cardoso
João Sousa Cardoso is an artist, essayist and teacher at the Lusófona University, where he has led the degree course in Audiovisual Communication and Multimedia since 2010. He is an associate member of CRILUS at the Université Paris-Nanterre. As director of TEATRO EXPANDIDO! in 2015, he created various shows and films. He has a degree in Visual Arts from the FBA – University of Porto, a master’s in Communication Sciences from UNL and a PhD in Social Sciences from the Université Paris-Decartes (Sorbonne). He received an FCG grant between 2006 and 2009.
Marta Mestre
Marta Mestre is a curator and researcher in contemporary art, currently working as artistic director of the José de Guimarães International Centre for the Arts. Over the last fifteen years, she has worked with various institutions in Portugal and Brazil. She studied Art History and Culture and Communication at UNL and the Université d’Avignon. She was an external member of the General Council of the University of Minho (2021-2022) and has taught at various academic institutions, as well as sitting on several juries for the visual arts.
Paula Nascimento
Paula Nascimento is an architect and independent curator. She is currently president of the artistic committee of the Nesr Art Foundation, a member of the advisory board for Hangar, associate curator of the 7th Lubumbashi Biennale and recipient of the 2022 Okwui Enwezor Fellowship Research Grant. She studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and LSB University in London. She set up the studio Beyond Entropy Africa with Stefano Pansera and was a founding member of the Pés Descalços collective, which develops cultural projects in Luanda.