Inês Valle

About

Inês Valle, an art curator, is leading the public engagement activities of the project, working in collaboration with team members to make the project creatively and strategically accessible to wider audiences in Nigeria and beyond. She is the director of the  Cera Project, a non-profit organisation for the promotion of art that falls outside Eurocentric and Western narratives, as well as, Creative Producer at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation/ CAM-Centro de Arte Moderna. She was the artistic director of insofar, an art gallery committed through its program to challenging stereotypes and redefining the artist-work-public relations to address the complexity and aesthetics of diversity. Valle is also the co-founder of DUSK, a contemporary art night festival in ancestral stone sites, and FRAT, an art and sustainability lab in Nigeria. Valle specialises in art that is politically engaged, and as an independent curator, she collaborates internationally with organisations including Centro Cultural Belém and Museum of Contemporary Art – Coleção Berardo in Portugal, the Canberra Contemporary Art in Australia, the National Museum of Lagos in Nigeria, and the Artspace Aotearoa in New Zealand, among others. Valle holds a Master’s degree in curatorial studies from the University of Lisbon, with a focus on contemporary Aboriginal art.