The mayor of Porto said this Tuesday, at the presentation of the Galeria Municipal do Porto (GMP) program, that it has not yet been decided who will replace Filipa Ramos, who asked to leave the artistic direction of GMP.
The mayor, who thanked the work carried out by Filipa Ramos, which “now materializes in this program”, which will be implemented throughout this year, said that the commissioner and researcher left at her request for “reasons of personal life”. .
“Filipa does not abandon us, for reasons of her personal life and personal choices, she asked to stop performing the duties she had been performing, but will continue to work with us as curatorsaid Rui Moreira.
The mayor has said that his replacement in the position that he holds until the end of the month is not a matter that worries him “particularly”, because there are “sufficient teams to ensure and give continuity to the project”.
“I think that [a saída da direção artística] It will give Filipa more freedom to do what she probably likes the most and at the same time allow her to adjust the private matters that she mentioned to me and which I respect. There was no dissent between Filipa and Rui Moreira, ”she said.
At the moment, “we see no need to expedite any replacementwe have to look at two factors: first, I have a mandate that lasts only two and a half years and the second is that we are going to have this great challenge of having a new municipal gallery or expansion of the municipal gallery, which will also help us Filipa, that she has been the one who has designed the technical program of this gallery”, said the mayor.
“The main thing is to say that Filipa will continue working with us, she already worked before taking this position, that is, in the Forum of the Future, and she will continue, so she is one more name change what else“, underlined Rui Moreira.
Born in Lisbon, Filipa Ramos received her PhD in Philosophy from Kingston University in London.
Curator of the cinema section of Art Basel, one of the most important international contemporary art fairs, the Portuguese co-founder, in 2013, of the cinema online Vdrome, where works by filmmakers and artists at the intersections between film, visual arts and the moving image are presented.
With an international curriculum built between academia, curatorship and writing, Filipa Ramos was also part of the curatorial teams of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, which took place in 2021, and the eighth Gherdëina Biennale, in Val Gardena, in northern Italy, in 2022.
He collaborated in projects that went through institutions such as the Tate Modern, in London, the Bildmuseet museum, in the Swedish city of Umeå, or the Ambika P3 gallery, in London, and he has published texts in exhibition catalogs and in various magazines of international art. , as frieze or mousse.
His next book, “The Artist as Ecologist”, will be published this year by the London publisher Lund Humphries.
Source: Observadora
