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Filipa Ramos
Filipa Ramos, PhD, is a Lisbon-born writer and curator whose research investigates art's relationship to ecology. She is Lecturer at the Art Institute at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel. Ramos curated BESTIARI, the Catalan representation at the 60th Biennale di Venezia (2024). She co-founded the online artists’ cinema Vdrome. She runs the art and science festival The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish with Lucia Pietroiusti, with whom she also curated Songs for the Changing Seasons for the 1. Klima Biennale Wien (2024) and Persones Persons (8th Biennale Gherdëina, 2022). In 2021, she co-curated Bodies of Water, the 13th Shanghai Biennale. Ramos was Editor-in-chief of e-flux Criticism(2013–20), Associated Editor of Manifesta Journal (2009–11) and contributed to Documenta 13 (2012) and 14 (2017). She edited Animals (Whitechapel Gallery/ MIT Press, 2016). Her upcoming book, The Artist as Ecologist (Lund Humphreys, 2025), discusses the ways in which contemporary artists embrace environmentalism.