Dissemination
Visual Arts Cycle to host curator Lourenço Egreja
The next session of the Visual Arts Cycle will take place on April 28, 2026, at 3:00 p.m., in room 2.37 of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (FCHS), at the Gambelas Campus. The guest speaker will be curator Lourenço Egreja, who will present the PRÉMIO ARTE JOVEM 2026.
Lourenço Egreja holds a degree in History from Lusíada University of Lisbon and was an Erasmus scholarship holder, through which he studied for one year in the History programme at the University of Barcelona. After returning from the United States in 2003, where he studied under a Fulbright grant, he began working on various contemporary art curatorial projects. In the U.S., after completing a Master’s degree in Art History and Museum Studies at CUNY, he worked as a curatorial assistant at Wave Hill Public Gardens (New York).
His first project in Portugal was Anteciparte (2005–2008), an annual competition aimed at final-year Fine Arts students, designed to showcase the most promising emerging artistic proposals in Portugal. During this period, he was also invited to curate three artists for the Small Box project, a “black box” installed at the Lisbon Psychiatric Hospital, as well as EDP Sete Maravilhas, in which seven artists created ephemeral installations for specific Portuguese monuments, among many other projects.
From 2009 onwards, he has been dedicated to the project Carpe Diem – Arte e Pesquisa, based at Palácio Pombal in Lisbon, where he serves as lead curator. Since 2016, he has developed Arte Jovem, a national competition for final-year Arts students in Portugal.
Lourenço Egreja has developed and participated in major curatorial projects at both national and international levels. More recently, he was invited to direct the JUSTLX 2018 Art Fair at the Museu da Carris, the Portuguese Section at JUSTMADX in 2019, and the second edition of JUSTLX in Lisbon.
This event is supported by national funds through FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., under the projects «UID/04019/2025 – CIAC» DOI: 10.54499/UID/04019/2025 and «UID/PRR/04019/2025» DOI: 10.54499/UID/PRR/04019/2025.
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