Hugo Barata is a visual artist, curator, and educator focused on critical anarchives and crypto-archives, as well as methodological approaches between art practice, curating and education. He has been exploring the concept of constellation to develop creative strategies in the fields of practice-based artistic research, the curatorial as a research-driven collaborative practice and informal methodologies for an inclusive education. PhD in Media Arts from ULHT, with a dissertation about the Archive and Contemporary Art. Recently curated exhibitions include Constellations I/II (CCB, MCB, Lisbon, 2019), Constellations III (CCB, MCB, Lisbon, 2020), In the Cohoorte of De Chirico (Arts College, Coimbra, 2021). He has worked as guest artist and education curator in institutions such as MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, CCB/Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon City Hall – Municipal Direction of Culture and EGEAC, developing different social intervention projects and also formation courses. Ciência Vitae
