The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Alexandre Melo is Professor of Sociology of Art and Culture at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and a curator and art critic. Since the early 1980s, he has written for publications such as Jornal de Letras (Lisbon), Expresso (Lisbon), El País (Madrid), Flash Art (Milan), and Parkett (Zurich). He is a regular contributor to Artforum (New York). Melo has curated exhibitions in Portugal and abroad: 10 Contemporary, Serralves Museum, Porto; Eduardo Batarda, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon: Venice Biennial—Julião Sarmento; São Paulo Biennial—Rui Chafes / Vera Mantero; Portugal Novo, Pinacoteca São Paulo, etc. His recent exhibitions include Liquid Skin - Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Joaquim Sapinho, MAAT, Lisbon; Roi Soleil—Albert Serra, Galeria Graça Brandão, Palácio Pombal, Lisbon; E pluribus unum—Douglas Gordon, Miroslaw Balka, Rui Chafes, Galeria Marília Razuk, São Paulo; 1000 Imagens—John Baldessari, Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner, Renee Greene, Pratchaya Phintong, Rosângela Rennó, Wantanee Siripatananunthakul, Galeria Cristina Guerra, Lisbon; Life, Still Life—Cristina Iglesias, Lia Chaia, Vasco Araujo, Galeria Presença, Porto. Melo was the curator of the contemporary art collections of the Ellipse Foundation and the Banco Privado for Serralves. He has served as Cultural Counselor in the Portuguese government (2005/2011).
Melo will discuss his exhibition How Many Worlds Are We?, which took place July 20 through October 29, 2023, in Bangkok, along with other projects.