Ângela Berlinde
Portugal | B. 1975
Ângela Ferreira (aka Berlinde) is an artist, curator, and researcher in Visual Culture and Contemporary Photography. She holds a postdoctoral degree in Arts and Interdisciplinary Poetics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a PhD in Art Education, Visual Communication, and Plastic Expression from the University of Minho (Portugal), and a European Media Master in Photography from the Utrecht School of Arts (The Netherlands). She also holds a postgraduate degree in Artistic Direction and Curatorial Practices.
Co‑founder of the Encontros da Imagem International Photography Festival, which she led as Artistic Director for a decade, she is a member of the curatorial association Oracle and of the Board of Curators at the Museum of Photography of Fortaleza (Brazil). Since 2018, she has been part of the General Coordination team of the Fotofestival SOLAR, where she works as an artistic consultant. She also founded NERVO – The Photobook Observatory in Portugal.
As an independent curator, she collaborates with international festivals and exhibitions such as the Beijing Photography Biennale, Korea International Photo Festival, and GoaPhoto (India). She has published works of photography and text on India and on photopainting in Northeastern Brazil, serves as a consultant for international awards, and participates in juries such as the Sony Awards, LensCulture, and Rencontres d’Arles.
Her work has been showcased in museums and institutions across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, including the Museum of Tomorrow (Rio de Janeiro), CAFA (Beijing), the Center of Photography of Bilbao, and the Delhi Photo Festival.
CREDENTIALS
2022
Book included and featured in the Collection and Library of the Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo, Brazil
2021
Book nominated for the “Best Photobook of the Year” Award, Photo España
2015
BBC Photographer of the Year
2024
Picturesque Journey through Brazil – Cássio Vasconcellos
2021
“My Mind is a Cage” – Exhibition by Roger Ballen, curated by Ângela Ferreira and produced by Terra Esplêndida / Portuguese Centre of Photography
2019
Korea International Photo Festival – Eu Hyon‑Jin
2018
PhotoBiennale Beijing 2018: “Troubles and Tensions Ahead” – PHOTOBIENAL BEIJING
2016
“Happiness, a Place in the Sun” – Encontros da Imagem
2015
“Power and Illusion” – Encontros da Imagem
Museum of Photography of Fortaleza, Brazil
Joaquim Paiva Collection, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Gallery Show Me, Braga, Portugal
Monastery of St. Martin of Tibães, Braga
Museum of Image and Sound, Fortaleza, Brazil
City Council of Vilnius, Lithuania
Grupo DST, Braga
Transa, Ballads of the Last Sun. Espacio Jhannia Castro Publishing, Porto
2017
Nhnhã Aba, Addendum: Scopio Editions, Porto
2016
“Nynhã Aba” (in Tupi Guarani, “Indian Heart”) – Artist’s book on the ancient cosmogonies of Indigenous communities in Brazil. The book is held in public collections and was presented at the Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Center of Photography of Bilbao, Spain; Bogotá Museum, Colombia; Center of Photography of Montevideo, Uruguay
2015
Nhnhã Aba, Artist’s book, July 2015, Braga: Self‑published
2011
The Maias by Eça de Queirós, revisited edition with photography and short film. Braga: Published by dst, sa
2009
The Man Hope. Braga: Published by dst, sa
2006
Umbilical. Guimarães: Fuga pela Escada
2004
Indian Mirror. Fortaleza, Brazil: Secretariat of Culture of the State of Ceará
2003
The Dream of the Little Prince (a story told in images about people with disabilities in wheelchairs, for the promotion of the company IT FITS). Tilburg, The Netherlands
Exposições Lumicroma
IN COLORS PROJECT | REACT!
The broadness ... Ler Mais
The broadness to which the theme is open is represented in this set of 50 artworks by photographers from 22 nationalities. React! to what, from what perspective? The possibility of endless interpretations is mirrored in an exhibition in which the reaction is as much in the photographed "scene" itself as in the impression of the person who photographed it, and also, and always, in the eye of the person who appreciates the photograph.
In this realm, there is the image of time and place, of many places and many qualities of time. There is the beauty of moments, spaces, cultures and traditions. There is a whole scale of emotions. There is the poetry of landscapes and the destruction wrought by war. There is fantasy in improbable scenarios. There are global concerns, personal instances. Sometimes the weight of existence; sometimes the lightness of laughter in the face of death.
There remains, still, the certainty of a kaleidoscopic world, in permanent change, so that stories repeat themselves. Because man repeats himself. The continuity of life is also maintained. It is in the faces of many. It is in the colors. It is in the light of black and white. It is in the instinct. In the will. In what is lost, in what is conquered. Ler Menos
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IN COLORS PROJECT | HOME
In 74 photographs, 32 authors from 14 nationalities give us the most poignant portrait of what we are, what we do and what we are failing at. Because HOME has smiles and exposed wounds. It shows a sense of belonging and an absurd lack of ground. It is the human cloak of a thousand patches to which we all belong.
This is our Home. And we can't close our eyes.
IN COLORS PROJECT - an initiative without borders by Lumicroma - reclaims the relevance of photography as a socio-cultural record and artistic intervention. Through the convergence of experiences, aesthetics and visions, it aims to trace, every year, the big picture of the times in which we live. Ler Menos
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AUSCHWITZ: TRACE(S) OF A LEGACY
To keep the memory alive appeals to reflection and to vigilanc ... Ler Mais
To keep the memory alive appeals to reflection and to vigilance and encourages the commitment of future generations, so that, through these, the voices of the survivors, which will soon no longer be heard, can echoe.
We know the history, we have seen the films and we have read the books. We have always been told that Auschwitz is the true symbol of Holocaust, since more than one million jews were murdered there. A factory of killing people! Gypsies, ho-mossexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and political dissidents also suffered in this dark place.
We have read about the hideous experiments carried out by Mengele in Auschwitz. We have seen photographies of the survivors, of the corpses, of the crematoriums, of the abandoned personal belongings. We started our journey to Poland with the thought that we would be prepared to face the interpretative centre of the Holocaust and, through it, find the answer to our restlessness: how could this have been humanly possible?
During the journey, we revisited those with whom we had previously shared the feeling of the concentration camp. All the pages, testimonies and faces remained well alive in our memories.
We have arrived, the presence in Auschwitz overwhelms us!
No memory, read, studied, seen or heard can be compared to standing right there. In the deafening silence of that place, which carries within itself the imense loss of human sense, the question of Theodor Adorno gains strenght: How can poetry be possible after Auschwitz Ler Menos
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COURA'S PARADISE
Alfredo Cunha's eye, attentive and sharp, documents this magic, this spirit of brotherhood, this collective happiness. The joy of the audience and the euphoria of the bands, who never forget th ... Ler Mais
Alfredo Cunha's eye, attentive and sharp, documents this magic, this spirit of brotherhood, this collective happiness. The joy of the audience and the euphoria of the bands, who never forget that breathtaking human wall and the generous way they are received. It captures the sweetness, the serenity, the deepest peace, the shared love, the respect, the amazement, the unique energy of the Taboão river, contrasted with the exaltation, the apotheosis, the celebration and the joy, that sacred emotion that Almada Negreiros once said was "the most serious thing in life".
Year after year, we need the Paredes de Coura Festival to recharge the batteries of passion, to dispel the mediocrity of the grayest days, to cure the diseases of the sadness that makes us pale and to chase away the city carrion that burrows into our bones. To fill ourselves with beauty, euphoria and the deepest peace, in divine communion with nature. On pilgrimage, in a perpetual return to magic.
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IN COLORS PROJECT | JOY
Photography, as a device for representation and mediation, emerges as a territory for ideological, aesthetic, and poetic experimentation. The selected images map out visual strate- gies through which different cultures are encoded, ritualized, and transmitted. Encompassing a range of representational expressions – from collective celebration to intimate contemplation – each author presents a singular visual lexicon, revealing joy as a socio-anthropological and aesthetic praxis, while envisioning the creation of possible futures.
The curatorial approach is structured around the hypothesis that the photographic image constitutes a device for reconfiguring sensibility, for analyzing and interpreting reality, transfigured and appropriated into autonomous and individual realities, prompting us to question the conditions of possibility for pleasure, encounter, and transformation in contemporary societies.
Curated by Aníbal Lemos and Sandra Maria Teixeira
IN COLORS PROJECT – a borderless initiative by Lumicroma – reclaims the relevance of photography as a sociocultural record and artistic intervention. Through the convergence of experiences reflecting on the current world and through photographic creation, it aims to annually trace the grand image of the time in which we live. Ler Menos
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