curatorship

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At A Outra Margem, an art and thought platform founded and directed by Andreia Duarte, curatorship is a field of research, creation, and the contestation of narratives. Its approach brings together contemporary art, critical thought, and the relationships between body, territory, and knowledge production, questioning hegemonic references and the colonial structures that have historically shaped the production, legitimization, and circulation of art.

Andreia's trajectory is marked by extensive experience in collaboration with Indigenous peoples. Their knowledge, practices, and ways of being constitute important foundations of her curatorial thinking. This experience informs an investigation connected to the epistemologies of the Global South and studies of coloniality, with an interest in the relationships between Latin America and Africa.

She is interested in building dialogues between historical and cultural experiences, taking into account the specificities of each context and investigating how colonial legacies permeate bodies, territories, and systems of artistic and cultural production.

A Situated Curatorial Practice

Based on these questions, A Outra Margem develops projects in the performing and visual arts, bringing together curatorship, artistic direction, programming, research, and exchange. Its work connects artists, thinkers, communities, and institutions through processes grounded in the social, cultural, and political experiences of different territories.

At the heart of its curatorial practice is a reflection on who produces knowledge, which stories are recognized, and which references shape the ways in which art is created, presented, and understood. These questions inform projects developed in Brazil as well as initiatives built through dialogue with Latin America and Africa.

Curatorial Experiences

Andreia's trajectory includes experience with festivals, cultural institutions, exhibitions, and research platforms. At MITsp – Mostra Internacional de Teatro de São Paulo, where she has worked for ten years, she has held different roles within the festival: she coordinated the Reflexive and Educational Program from 2016 to 2020, led Communications in 2024 and Institutional Relations in 2025, and currently works as assistant curator to the artistic director. In 2020, she also co-curated the seminar "Perspectivas Anti-coloniais", with Christine Greiner and José Fernando Azevedo.

From 2022 to 2026, she led the curatorial coordination of exhibitions at the Museu das Culturas Indígenas in São Paulo. During this period, she participated in the conception and development of projects including "Hendu Porã'rã" (Parts I and II), "Indígenas em São Paulo: Nem se estivermos sozinhos, nunca vamos parar de cantar", "Nhe'ery – Onde os espíritos se banham", and the conceptual project for the Jaider Esbell Gallery.

She has also conceived and developed projects that bring together art, Indigenous thought, and collective creation. These include TePI – Teatro e os Povos Indígenas, a platform conceived by Andreia and developed across different editions, with artistic direction and curatorship in collaboration with Ailton Krenak; and "Língua Mãe" (2024), a project of general direction and curatorship developed with Ailton Krenak and Suely Rolnik at the Museu das Culturas Indígenas and Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro.

In the performing arts, she is artistic director and curator of !PULSA! Movimento Arte Insurgente, alongside Guilherme Marques, with editions held in Itabira and Belém. In 2023, she served as artistic director of "Efeito Kopenawa – Homenagem à sua vida e obra", presented at Sesc Vila Mariana and Unifesp. In 2022, she was part of the curatorial team of FIT-BH – Festival Internacional de Teatro Palco & Rua de Belo Horizonte, alongside Marcos Alexandre and Yara de Novaes. In 2026, she curated"Leituras Performáticas – Dramaturgias Indígenas" at the Mário de Andrade Library.

She is currently part of the Brazilian curatorial team for the Countries and Regions Exhibition at Prague Quadrennial 2027, with the proposal "Aqui embaixo passa um rio", and is curating MITbr 2027.

International Circulation and Exchanges

International circulation is an important part of Andreia's research and curatorial practice. Her experience as a curator and programmer includes festivals, markets, gatherings, and artistic platforms across Africa, Latin America, and Europe.

In Africa, she has participated as a programmer in the Semana da Dança and the KINANI platform in Maputo, Mozambique; Jomba! Contemporary Dance Experience in Durban; and Kaza Kamba Pan African Festival of Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa. In Europe, she has participated in the Holland Festival and Julidans in Amsterdam, and Proximamente LAB at KVS in Brussels. In Latin America, her work includes Santiago a Mil in Chile; Festival Internacional Gestos de América (FIGA); the Mercado Cultural of the Festival de Artes Vivas de Bogotá in Colombia; JUNTA Festival in Teresina; FIT-BH in Belo Horizonte; Mirada PRO in Santos; MIAC in Porto Alegre; MICBR; and Festival de Curitiba. In 2019, she participated in GIRART – Mercado de las Artes Escénicas y la Música in Argentina as a programmer for MITsp.

In 2026, she was selected as a Global Connector by IETM – International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts, participating in the network's plenary meeting in Oulu, Finland. These exchanges expand opportunities for collaboration and dialogue between A Outra Margem and different contexts of artistic creation and thought.

Curatorial Consulting, Education, and Research

A Outra Margem also develops curatorial consulting, workshops, and residencies focused on investigating the relationships between curatorship and territory. These processes are developed in dialogue with institutions, festivals, artists, and cultural practitioners, taking into account the historical, social, cultural, and political specificities of each place.

These experiences include curatorial consulting for FESPIN – Festival de Teatro de Santo Antônio do Pinhal and the exhibition "Rurais", in 2026; a curatorial residency held in Peçanha, Minas Gerais, in 2025; and the workshop "Como Pensar Curadoria a partir do Território", held during Semana da Dança in Maputo, Mozambique, in 2026. Andreia is also currently working as curatorial consultant for the third edition of Festival Maputo em Cena, in Mozambique.

These activities are open to partnerships with festivals, cultural institutions, organizations, and initiatives interested in developing curatorial consulting, education, and research processes connected to the specificities of their territories.

Research

In 2023, Andreia completed her PhD at the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo, with the dissertation "Teatro e os povos indígenas, por uma reinvenção da vida". In 2027, she will begin her postdoctoral research at the same institution, with the project "Epistemologias não coloniais: um exercício de resistência na curadoria em artes cênicas", under the supervision of Professor Antônio Araújo.

This research continues her investigation into the relationships between curatorship, coloniality, and knowledge production, expanding the dialogue between artistic and intellectual practices that value non-colonial perspectives.