Name: Maria Duran Marques
Position/Professional Category: PhD Candidate
Research project title: Atelier, Academia, Oficina, Fábrica: Para Além das Belas-Artes no Feminino durante a Viragem do Século XX em Portugal
Supervisor: Joana Cunha Leal, IHA-NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST
Thematic areas: Historiography, Nineteenth-century art, Contemporary Art, Multidisciplinarity, Material culture, Memory
Position within IHA: RG Member [Art Theory, Historiography and Criticism]
Contact: maria.duran.marques@gmail.com
Biography
Maria Duran Marques is an artist and PhD student at the NOVA FCSH – Art History department.
She has a Master’s Degree in History and Patrimony from the College of Letters of the University of Lisbon (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa), with the dissertation “The Collectioner’s House – Palace of Necessidades and Prince Ferdinand II’s art pieces: Exhibition and Fruition”.
She holds a Graduate Degree in Art Curatorship from NOVA FCSH, and was one of the curators of its final exhibition. She was a writer and collaborator researcher in the archival project ‘It is an ocean, not a puddle from which you drink once’. She participated in the conference Gothic (Revival) Spaces, with the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
Her artistic work focuses on the plasticity of language as an historical part of visual culture. She is a published author with Editora Urutau, and in various international anthologies.
