Adelaide Ginga

Art historian, curator, and museologist, currently leading MACAM – Armando Martins Museum of Contemporary Art.

Earned her degree in Art History from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the NOVA University of Lisbon and obtained a master's degree in Contemporary History from the same institution, with a scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Her published dissertation was awarded the Vítor de Sá Prize (1999), granted by the University of Minho, and received an Honorable Mention from the Mário Soares Foundation. Later, completed a master's degree in Curating and Exhibition Organization at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, and she is currently a PhD candidate in Contemporary Art at the College of Arts of the University of Coimbra.

Ginga began her career in 2001 as a specialist in contemporary art at the Institute of Contemporary Art of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture. Later, she coordinated the International Department of the Institute of the Arts, being responsible for several national representations at events such as the Venice Biennale, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Prague Quadrennial. In 2006, she was appointed Deputy Director of the Institute of the Arts in Lisbon.

In 2007, she led the renewal of the International Biennial of Art and Culture of São Tomé and Príncipe, serving as General Commissioner for its 5th (2008) and 6th (2011) editions. Adelaide Ginga was a curator at the MNAC (National Museum of Contemporary Art) from 2008 to 2021. Between 2012 and 2016, she was a lecturer at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University, where she taught the course on Curatorship and Artistic Management. In 2016, as a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation fellow, she developed an international research project on Born Digital/Software-Based Art.

Ginga is the author of several curatorial projects, publications, and essays on art history, and has also delivered talks and lectures at national and international events.