Department: Tate St Ives Programme
Hosts: Georgina Kennedy, Curator, Communities; and Giles Jackson, Curator, Interpretation
Installation view of Daniel de Paula, Testemunho 2015, at Galeria Leme, São Paulo
Courtesy Galeria Leme
Photo © Filipe Berndt
Bruno is collaborating with Tate St Ives to support the development of its residency-based Artists Programme within the reimagining of Barbara Hepworth’s Palais de Danse. His research explores how cultural institutions can devise situated and socially engaged residencies that foster meaningful connections with their localities while addressing urgent global challenges and the shifting conditions of artistic practice. He is also working to develop international partnerships and networks.
Bruno is a curator whose practice is rooted in site-specificity and responsive to the socio-spatial dynamics of place. His ongoing research investigates curatorial and institutional formats that strengthen the relationship between artistic practice and the public sphere. His work weaves his background in architecture with art, urbanism, policymaking, design, and the social and natural sciences. This interdisciplinary approach has informed projects that operate across public and private realms in São Paulo, the liminal urban-rural landscapes of Maastricht, and – during Bruno’s time as Artistic Director of the Luleå Biennial 2024 – institutions, heritage buildings and public sites in the Swedish Arctic.
Bruno is currently Curator and Resident Liaison at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, and a recipient of the Mondriaan Fonds’ Curator Researcher Grant 2025 for his project Threshold Institutions, Liminal Practices. Among other roles, he was Artistic Director and co-curator of the Luleå Biennial 2024 – Art & Architecture, and a tutor at the Design Academy Eindhoven. He has collaborated with institutions such as Tate; the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; Independent Curators International, New York; the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; PACT Zollverein, Essen; the 11th São Paulo Architecture Biennial; and Pivô Art and Research, São Paulo. He is also an alumnus of the De Appel Curatorial Programme, Amsterdam.
Bruno was born in Brazil and is based in Maastricht.