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January 3, 2025 1:36 pm Comments Off on Lisbon GalleryArtistic Director of Lisbon Gallery, inaugurated on December 6, 2017, in Lisbon’s Príncipe Real district.
Artistic Director of Lisbon Gallery, inaugurated on December 6, 2017, in Lisbon’s Príncipe Real district.
Curator of the exhibition Flexibility: Design in a Fast-Changing Contex for the first World Design Capital.
Co-Curator and commissioner of "Peter Zumthor: Buildings and Projects 1986-2007" exhibition.
Curatorship and coordination of the second edition of Action for Age, a program on design and aging, which brought together 22 schools across Portugal.
Curator and commissioner of the international component of Effect D, where design intertwined with the theme of Trisomy 21.
Commissioner of Action for Age, the role of design in the context of the challenges and opportunities presented by an ageing population.
Curator of the industrial design module for the exhibition “(P) Arquitectura e Design de Portugal 1990/2004”
Co-director of Reflex #1, a publication that reflects the work carried out and exhibited during the EXD'99 Biennale.
Guta was non-executive director and artistic and curatorial co-director fo the 4th edition of the biennale
Guta was one of the guest speakers invited to this series of debates at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, together with Paola Antonelli and Patricia Urquiola, among others.
Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Terrafoundation.
Creator and Co-Founder of reCenter Culture, a support platform for the cultural sector active between 2021 and 2023.
Artistic Director of Portuguese Participation
Co-curated and co-directed the Biennale EXD's second edition.
Co-curator of the itinerant exhibition/installation Voyager 01, presented in Milan, London Lisbon and Barcelona.
Co-curated Voyager 03, one of the biggest itinerant projects for the dissemination of Portuguese culture.
Co-directed and co-curator EXD’s third edition.
Administrator of one of the most important cultural institutions in Portugal, the Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém.
Director of Communication and Strategic Design
Co-Curator of design book &Fork published by Phaidon Press.
GMG commissioned and supervised the double publication about Casa da Musica alongside André Tavares. This book revealed the caleiestopic inspiration that was behind the creation and genesis of this institution, featuring as well interviews and original texts from various authors.
With the intention to open Casa da Música to other areas of cultural production and to different types of audiences, GMG created the programme “ONP on Fridays”, featuring concerts by Porto’s National Orchestra alongside 12 events that created dialogues between designers, architects, artists and musicians.
GMG was invited to be part of the consulting board of the first edition of World Design Capital.
GMG was invited by the Portuguese Government to direct the cultural programme Art Algarve 2009, titled “As Bright As The Sun”.
GMG was the co-curator and director of the EXD Biennale’s 5th edition.
Conception, direction and host of the TV programme Cidades Visíveis (Invisible Cities), broadcasted by Canal Q.
“Vem ao Quê?” was a cultural tv programme broadcasted by Canal Q that invited various people to comment and critique on different relevant subjects of the time.
Consultant for the Music Department of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Responding to a challenge proposed by the Portuguese water brand “Água de Luso'' in the context of their 160th Anniversary, GMG curated the exhibition Pureza, produced by experimentadesign, that showcased the work of eight Portuguese artists.
Co-author of the project, GMG and the experimentadesign team were inspired by the legacy of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and her text “Testamento”.
GMG curated the exhibition From Here to Somewhere, primarily presented in the Lisbon Airport and later in the Airport of Porto, that explored the relationship between travelling and design. This project was part of the programme of EXD’13 biennale.
In 2013, GMG integrated the Cultural Commission of the Olympic Committee of Portugal alongside Paulo Cunha e Silva. Pro Bono participation.
Proposed and commissioned by GMG, Freedom of Image: Design and Visual Communication in Portugal (1974-1986) was an exhibition curated in the context of the 40th Anniversary Commemorations of the 25th of April, the Portuguese Carnation Revolution, and also part of the Year of Design 2014/2015 programme.
Nominated by the Portuguese Government to be Commissioner of the Year of Portuguese Design 2014/2015, GMG curated a programme of projects with the aim to promote and diffuse national design.
GMG was one of the lecturers of the second edition of “Rock Paper Pixel”, in the context of FADFest – Festival de les Arts i del Disseny de Barcelona (Barcelona’s Festival of Arts and Design) – where also participated Debbie Millman and Maria Popova.
Alongside Alice Rawsthorn and Lili Hollein, GMG was one of the guests of MIART Talks, invited to share her experience as a designer curator.
Commissioner of the National Awards of Portuguese Design that aimed to stimulate the development of the design discipline and the investments in innovation and research in this field in Portugal.
Taking place in Galeria Municipal de Matosinhos, the debate brought together Adalberto Dias, Guta Moura Guedes, José Bartolo, José Carvalho Araújo, Pedro América, Rui Grazina and Toni Grilo. Maria Milano and Roberto Cremascoli were the moderators.
In the context of the Year of Portuguese Design, GMG was the commissioner and co-curator of the exhibition LEVE.
Participation in Fórum do Futuro’s first edition, promoted by Porto Municipality.
Taking place in the Vitra Campus, within the context of the project First Stone (Primeira Pedra), the grand opening of Resistance featured a debate commissioned by GMG.
Commissioner of the documentary Common Sense
GMG was a member of the jury of The Design Prize 2018, an award co-founded by Abitare Magazine and Designboom, intrinsically linked to the city of Milan - the global epicentre of design.
Artistic direction of the first international presentation of Lisbon Gallery.
Conception and artistic direction of First Stone, a 6 years programme of experimental research exploring the potentialities of the Portuguese stone.
Curator and artistic director of the programme City Cortex for Corticeira Amorim