SÉRGIO MAH

Has a BA in Sociology and a MA in Communication Sciences. Teaches on Photography and Contemporary Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University Nova of Lisbon. His researches and writings are mainly focuses on image practices, namely in photography, video and cinema. He has conceived for the Ministry of Education the official programs of Photography for the Specialized Artistic Education; he was the coordinator of the artistic residency “The Site of Arts” (2007) for the cultural forum “The State of World” at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (CGF); He was the coordinator and teacher of the Advanced Courses in Photography (2005, 2008) at the CGF. As curator he was responsible for a significant number of solo and group shows, and has worked with artists such as Jeff Wall, Thomas Demand, David Claerbout, Pedro Costa, Paulo Nozolino, Victor Burgin, Julião Sarmento, Joel Sternfeld, Roman Signer, Tacita Dean and Walid Raad. He was the Artistic Director of the LisboaPhoto Biennial (2003-2005) and of PhotoEspaña (2008-2010). He was the curator of the Portuguese Pavilion at 54ª Venice Art Bienniale.