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Raphael Fonseca will take up the role of visual arts programmer at Culturgest, the private foundation of state-owned Portuguese bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos.
\n\n\n\nThe Brazilian will also continue to work with the Denver Art Museum, where he is currently curator and head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art, moving into a curator-at-large role with plans to move to Lisbon in June. Fonseca is currently curating the Taiwan Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale and is co-curator of the 3rd Counterpublic Triennial, to be held in St. Louis, USA, later this year. In 2027 he will direct the Sequences festival in Reykjavik, alongside Yina Jiménez Suriel.
\n\n\n\nCulturgest, founded by the bank in 1993, has two exhibition spaces at its Lisbon headquarters as well as facilities for theatre, dance, music and cinema. Fonseca succeeds Bruno Marchand, who took up the role of deputy director of the Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia (MAAT), Porto, in March.
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