“My connection to this residency began through enriching conversations with Floating Museum about its development and conceptual approach during my research as a Brooks International Fellow at Tate. I was exploring residency formats as “site-symbiotic” frameworks, rooted in reciprocal relationships between artists and places. I’m excited to now experience the residency firsthand in Chicago, bringing these ideas into dialogue with Floating Museum’s practice and learning from the communities it works with.“
Bruno Alves de Almeida (Brazil/Portugal, 1987) is a curator who develops site-responsive projects that bring artists into dialogue with the social, spatial, and ecological realities of specific places, from metropolises such as São Paulo to smaller cities like Maastricht and remote regions such as the Swedish Arctic. Working across contemporary art, architecture, and other disciplines, he develops exhibitions, public programmes, and commissions that extend beyond traditional art spaces into the public sphere and everyday life. He is committed to creating ambitious work that is meaningful to diverse audiences, while opening debate on urgent socio-political and environmental issues.
He is the Curator and Resident Liaison at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands, one of Europe’s leading post-academic multidisciplinary institutes. In 2025, collaborated with Tate, UK, as a 2025 Brooks International Fellow, and was awarded 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, Scandinavia’s oldest biennial.
He is an alumnus of the De Appel Curatorial Programme (2018/19), Netherlands, and has a Masters in Architecture from the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio, Switzerland, and the Porto Faculty of Architecture, Portugal.
Bruno Alves de Almeida (Brazil/Portugal, 1987) is a curator who develops site-responsive projects that bring artists into dialogue with the social, spatial, and ecological realities of specific places, from metropolises such as São Paulo to smaller cities like Maastricht and remote regions such as the Swedish Arctic. Working across contemporary art, architecture, and other disciplines, he develops exhibitions, public programmes, and commissions that extend beyond traditional art spaces into the public sphere and everyday life. He is committed to creating ambitious work that is meaningful to diverse audiences, while opening debate on urgent socio-political and environmental issues.
He is the Curator and Resident Liaison at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands, one of Europe’s leading post-academic multidisciplinary institutes. In 2025, collaborated with Tate, UK, as a 2025 Brooks International Fellow, and was awarded 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, Scandinavia’s oldest biennial.
He is an alumnus of the De Appel Curatorial Programme (2018/19), Netherlands, and has a Masters in Architecture from the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio, Switzerland, and the Porto Faculty of Architecture, Portugal.
What would you like Floating Museum’s community and audience to know about your practice?
I develop site-responsive projects that bring artists into dialogue with the social, spatial, and ecological realities of particular places. My practice explores how art, place, and people can connect more meaningfully, and how institutions can become more open and responsive to the communities around them.
I develop site-responsive projects that bring artists into dialogue with the social, spatial, and ecological realities of particular places. My practice explores how art, place, and people can connect more meaningfully, and how institutions can become more open and responsive to the communities around them.