Call for studio visits Bruno Alves de Almeida: 24 and 25 February

On Monday 24 February and Tuesday 25 February, curator and architect Bruno Alves de Almeida will visit several artists' studios in The Hague. Bruno currently works as a curator and resident liaison at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and was the co-curator and artistic director of the 2024 Luleå Biennale. He describes his areas of interest as follows:

"Bruno is interested in a broad range of artistic and spatial practices that critically engage with their socio-spatial contexts and surrounding environments. His work explores how art can activate, transform, and respond to urban, natural, and social dynamics and their manifestations in the public sphere."

Sign up
If you are interested in a studio visit with Bruno Alves de Almeida, you can register by Thursday 30 January, via this link. We ask you to briefly explain your interest in a studio visit and to include a link to your artist profile on haagsekunstenaars.nl and your personal website. The received responses will be reviewed and, along with any suggestions from Stroom, presented to the curator. Based on this list, he will make a selection to compile the visit schedule. You will receive a message shortly after the deadline to inform you whether you have been selected for a studio visit or not.

Short biography
Bruno Alves de Almeida (1987, Brazil/Portugal) is a curator and architect, currently working as curator and resident liaison at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands. Recently, he was the Artistic Director and co-curator of the Luleå Biennial 2024. His practice is rooted in site-specificity and responsiveness to the socio-spatial dynamics of each location, resulting in projects that extend beyond traditional exhibition spaces into public and liminal areas. These projects interweave art, architecture, urban theory, and the social and natural sciences, engaging both specialized and general audiences while creating platforms for the discussion of pressing topics.

In São Paulo, Bruno founded and curated projects that commissioned Latin American artists to create site-specific public artworks. These interventions responded to key urban sites, navigating the blurred boundaries between private and public realms, and generating flows between exhibition spaces and different places in the city. In the Netherlands, he has worked with multidisciplinary groups at the Jan van Eyck Academie and the Design Academy Eindhoven, exploring the intersection of art, design, social and natural sciences, and policy-making in response to socio-ecological challenges. Most recently, for the Luleå Biennial 2024, he collaborated with artists, architects, activists, and Sámi indigenous communities to address environmental, social, and political changes in the Swedish Arctic, a region undergoing industrial transition and urban transformation.

Bruno has collaborated with institutions such as TATE (UK), Harvard Graduate School of Design, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Independent Curators International (USA), The Canadian Centre for Architecture (Canada), PACT Zollverein (Germany), the 11th São Paulo Architecture Biennial, and Pivô Art and Research (Brazil). He is an alumnus of the De Appel Curatorial Programme, holds a Master’s from the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, Switzerland, and a Bachelor’s from the Oporto Faculty of Architecture, Portugal.

About the Studio visit program
Stroom regularly invites curators, artists, and critics from both the Netherlands and abroad to visit the studios of Hague-based artists who are registered with Stroom. The studio visit program offers artists the opportunity to present their work. It serves as a chance for constructive critical reflection on the work through a dialogue with an art professional. In this way, the visibility of both the artist and their work is enhanced.