Tiago Casanova (Funchal, Portugal, 1988) studied Architecture at Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto, where he was one of the founders of Scopio - International Photography Magazine in 2010. He was also one of the founders of the XYZ Books Publishing house and Bookshop in 2013, A ILHA (Gallery and Art Space) in 2014, and Estúdio Bulhufas in 2017.

Tiago Casanova has been exhibiting his work regularly in solo and group shows since 2006 in many countries such as Portugal, Spain, Austria, Belgium, UK, Slovenia, Slovakia, Germany, Scotland, Brazil, Iceland, Switzerland, Hungary, Colombia and Italy. Besides the work he produces in the context of his artistic investigation and practice, he also develops a professional career as an editor, book-maker, curator and exhibition designer. In 2012, he was the recipient of the BES Revelação Photography Award, in 2014, his work was mentioned for the best work selection at Plat(t)form - Fotomuseum Winterthur, and in 2015 he won the Jury Award at Festival A3 Bandas in Madrid.

After obtaining a first degree in Modern Languages and Literature (Coimbra University, Portugal), José Maçãs de Carvalho (Anadia, Portugal, 1960) completed a postgraduate course in Management of the Arts (Institute of European Studies in Macau, 1998) in Macau where he taught and lived from 1994 to 1999. He obtained a Phd in Contemporary Art at  Colégio das Artes, University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2014.

He teaches at the University of Coimbra, in the Architecture Department and Colégio das Artes where he is the Supervisor of the Master degree in Curatorship. Since 2020 he is the curator of the Coimbra Contemporary Art Center.
He has received scholarships from Fundação Gulbenkian (1994), Fundação Oriente (1999-2001), Instituto Camões (2001) and Centro Português de Fotografia (2003). He has works (photographs and videos) in several public and private art collections .

He was both curator and participant in the exhibition My own private pictures (Plataforma Revólver, LisbonPhoto Biennial, 2005), which lay at the origin of his nomination for the BES Photo Prize in 2005 (most important prize for photography in Portugal).In 2008 was shortlisted for the Pictet Prix (Suisse Bank Award for Photography).

He´s been showing photography since the early 90s  and video since the 2000s. In 2013 showed videos in New York and Paris ("Fuso NY”, Union Square Park, and “Chantiers d´Europe”, Theatre de la Ville), and in 2011 in Oslo (“When a painting moves...something must be rotten!”, Stenersen Museum). Between 2011 and 2017 set up seven exhibitions as a practical project for his doctoral programme around the subject of archive and memory at CAV, Coimbra; Ateliers Concorde, Lisbon and Colégio das Artes, Coimbra; VPF gallery, Lisbon; The City Hall Photographic Archive, Lisbon, Museu do Chiado and MAAT Museum in Lisbon and a book, “Unpacking: a desire for the archive”, was published by StolenBooks. In 2015, a book of photographs, “Partir por todos os dias”, was published by Editora Amieira. In 2016 his photographic work about Oporto university campus was published on a book called “Aspela” by Scopio Editions and Oporto Polytechnic Institute.

In 2016 the book “Archive and Apparatus” was published by  Centro de Arte de S. J. da Madeira and in   2017 also the book “Archive and Interval”, by Stolen Books/Colégio das Artes-Universidade de Coimbra and MAAT Museum, with contributions by Pedro Pousada, José Bragança de Miranda, Adelaide Ginga and Ana Rito.

For Maria Condado (Lisboa, Portugal, 1981) landscape is not only a pictorial field of research but also a political and a social one. The artist freewheeling painting style, with its different layers of abstract fluid and vibrant colors, pretends to understand landscape as a cultural construction, a product of cultures, experiences that reveal ways of seeing the world. The artist has exhibited widely in group and in solo exhibitions throughout the country namely A Play of Boundaries (Carlos Carvalho, Lisbon, 2018), Uma loja, cinco casas, uma escola (Casa Bernardo, Caldas da Rainha, 2016), Ensaios sobre a (in)flexibilidade do natural – parte 2 (Ministério do Ambiente, Lisboa, 2014), Onde é a China?, (Museu do Oriente, Lisboa, 2016), 16º Programa de Exposições (Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa 2009), Hangart 7, (Salzburg, Áustria, 2009), Vestígio (Pavilhão 28, Hospital Júlio de Matos, Lisboa, 2005) and II Rothschild Bank Painting Prize Finalists Exhibition – Palácio das Galveias, Lisbon. Her works are held in numerous public and private collections such as PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon, Grupo RAR, Porto.“Hortus” is the name of her artist book edited in 2016 by Stollen Books, Lisbon.