Bruno Alves de Almeida (Brazil/Portugal, 1987) is a curator with a background in architecture whose work explores how art can engage with the social, spatial, and environmental conditions of specific places. Working across contemporary art, architecture, and other disciplines, he develops context-responsive commissions, exhibitions, residencies, and live programmes that move beyond art spaces into the public sphere. His practice is committed to creating ambitious projects that are grounded in context and meaningful to diverse audiences, while opening public debate around timely issues.

Bruno is the Curator and Resident Liaison of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands, one of Europe’s leading post-academic multidisciplinary institutes. In 2025, he collaborated with Tate, UK, as a Brooks International Fellow, and received the Mondriaan Fonds Curator Researcher Grant for his project Threshold Institutions, Liminal Practices. In 2024, he was Artistic Co-Director of the Luleå Biennial, Sweden, where he worked with artists and architects in relation to the complex environmental, social, and geopolitical realities of the Swedish Arctic. Previously, in São Paulo, he founded and curated projects that commissioned Latin American artists to develop context-specific public artworks between exhibition spaces and everyday urban life.

Bruno has collaborated with institutions including Harvard Graduate School of Design, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and Independent Curators International, USA; the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Canada; Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands; PACT Zollverein, Germany; and the 11th São Paulo Architecture Biennial and Pivô Art and Research, Brazil. He is an alumnus of the De Appel Curatorial Programme, Amsterdam, holds a Master’s from the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, Switzerland, and a Bachelor’s from Porto’s Faculty of Architecture, Portugal.