Bruno Alves de Almeida (1987, Brazil/Portugal) is a curator and architect, currently working as curator and resident liaison at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands. Recently, he was the Artistic Director and co-curator of the Luleå Biennial 2024.

His practice is rooted in site-specificity and responsiveness to the socio-spatial dynamics of each location, resulting in projects that extend beyond traditional exhibition spaces into public and liminal areas. These projects interweave art, architecture, urban theory, and the social and natural sciences, engaging both specialized and general audiences while creating platforms for the discussion of pressing topics.

In São Paulo, Bruno founded and curated projects that commissioned Latin American artists to create site-specific public artworks. These interventions responded to key urban sites, navigating the blurred boundaries between private and public realms, and generating flows between exhibition spaces and different places in the city. In the Netherlands, he has worked with multidisciplinary groups at the Jan van Eyck Academie and the Design Academy Eindhoven, exploring the intersection of art, design, social and natural sciences, and policy-making in response to socio-ecological challenges. Most recently, for the Luleå Biennial 2024, he collaborated with artists, architects, activists, and Sámi indigenous communities to address environmental, social, and political changes in the Swedish Arctic, a region undergoing industrial transition and urban transformation.

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