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Visual artsMiguel Von HafeA Portuguese national, he has pursued a long career as a curator and a lecturer in art and visual studies. After gaining a degree in Art History from Oporto Universi- ty, he started out on his career at the Fundação de Serralves. In addition to working as a curator, he has been director of the Fundação Cupertino de Miranda in Vila Nova de Famalicão (1995–98) and of the Visual Arts and Architecture Section of Porto 2001, European Capital of Culture (1999–2001). He has programmed numerous exhibitions such as First Story — Women Building / New Narratives for the 21st Century and has been joint curator of Squatters/Ocupações together with Bartomeu Marí,João Fernandes and VicenteTodolí, with whom he also worked on the Juan Muñoz exhibition at the Jardim da Cordoaria in Oporto. He has twice been curator of Pontevedra Biennial (in 1998 with Alberto González Alegre and in 2004 with David G. Torres). In 2002 he curated the Portuguese Pavilion at the 25th Sao Paulo Biennial. From 2003 to 2005 he was a member of the curatorial committee of the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona, and from 2002 to 2009 he worked on the website and book project bringing together extensive archives of Portugal’s contemporary art scene, entitled www.anamnese.pt for the Fundação Ilídio Pinho. In 2009 he was elected director of the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC) by a committee of experts made up, among others, by Manuel BorjaVillel, Iñaki Martínez Antelo, Simón Marchán Fiz and Rosia Gómez-Baeza.35Advisory Committee