Bruno Alves de Almeida (Brazil/Portugal, 1987) is a curator with a background in architecture who develops context-responsive commissions, exhibitions, residencies, and live programmes that move beyond art spaces into the public sphere. His work explores how art can engage with, and contribute to, the social, spatial, and environmental conditions of specific places, creating meaningful encounters with diverse audiences while opening public debate around timely issues.

Bruno is the Curator and Resident Liaison of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands. 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, USA; the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Canada; Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands; PACT Zollverein, Germany; the 11th São Paulo Architecture Biennial, Brazil, among others. 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.