Andreia Duarte

Andreia Duarte is a director, curator, actress, and researcher whose practice emerges at the intersection of art, Indigenous thought, Southern epistemologies, and critiques of coloniality. For 25 years, she has developed partnerships with Indigenous artists, leaders, and representatives. She holds a PhD from the University of São Paulo (USP), with research on art, counter-coloniality, and Indigenous peoples. For the past ten years, she has been part of MITsp – São Paulo International Theatre Festival, where she works in Artistic Direction’s Curatorial Assistance. She is Artistic Director of the !PULSA! Insurgent Art Movement festival and Director of Outra Margem, an art and thought platform that develops aesthetic-political actions focused on social justice and confronting colonial legacies through festivals, seminars, performances, and publications. From 2022 to 2026, she served as Curatorial Coordinator for exhibitions at the Museum of Indigenous Cultures of the State of São Paulo. She is a curator for the Countries Showcase at the Prague Quadrennial 2027. She is also a consultant and dramaturg for Breath of the Forest, a Theatrical Concert Performance, a co-production by Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, Duda Paiva Company, and Outra Margem, featuring the Kamayurá people. In 2027, she will begin her postdoctoral research at the School of Communications and Arts (ECA-USP), titled Non-Colonial Epistemologies: An Exercise in Resistance in Curatorial Practice in the Performing Arts, under the supervision of Professor Antônio Araújo.