Museums in Transformation – Inclusive and Circular Practices with Contemporary Art A Toolkit for Museums and Collections

Arantxa Ciafrino (she/her) works as an independent curator with a focus on contemporary dance, performance, and decolonial approaches. She earned her doctorate in sociomuseology at Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon. Her research examines the decolonial potential of dance, performance and intentional gestures within museological contexts, reflecting on their ways of engaging with memory, knowledge, and power without disregarding the risks of institutional instrumentalization. Her research was developed in part during her time with the research center »Intervening Arts« at Freie Universität Berlin, as part of the sub-group »Interventional Choreographies: Formats and Practices of Decolonisation and Ecology«..Henrique Godoy (he/him) is a PhD candidate for sociomuseology at Universidade Lusófona, develpoing a research focused on the usage of archives in exhibitions under a research scholarship from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) in association with Foundation Mário Soares and Maria Barroso. He has a Master’s degree in Museology and graduated in photography at Universidade Paulista in São Paulo, Brazil. He has been working and writing on photography and museums of political memory..Marta Jecu (she/her) is a researcher, professor at the Universidade Lusófona, and independent curator. She previously held positions at Aix-Marseille Université and at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, and holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Artistic Studies from Freie Universität Berlin. Her curatorial approach is research-oriented and based on long-term collaborations with institutions and artists, using contemporary artistic practice as a methodology of content production. She leads the Horizon Europe project CIRCUL’ARTs and the research project CARIM, funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation. Her recent exhibitions include the solo show of Delio Jasse at Galerias Municipais, Museu de Lisboa (2024), and Stone Alive at the Museum of Geology, Lisbon (2022).