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Nuno Silas is a Curator and Artistic Director, multidisciplinary researcher, and artist whose work focuses on curatorial practice and the history of museum collections. He is a PhD Candidate in History and Philosophy of Science, with specialization in Museology, at the University of Évora, a IHC (Institute for Contemporary History) hub. He has collaborate with renowned institutions, such as Humboldt Forum, Iwalewahaus Bayreuth, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, EGEAC, CCFMA and Goethe Maputo. He holds a BA Degree from the School of Arts and Design (Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Caldas da Rainha) and atended a MA in African Verbal and Visual Arts at the University of Bayreuth (UB). At UB, he collaborated to DFG-Funded Research Projects, such as “Black Atlantic Revisited – African and South American UNESCO - World Heritage Sites and ‘Shadowed Spaces’ of Performative Memory” and “Multiple Artworks – Multiple Indian Ocean”. He was the curator and artistic director of the project Black Skin, White Masks: The Black Body in Presence at Galerias Municipais (EGEAC, Lisbon), and curator of the exhibition project "Olhares Críticos sobre o Arquivo: Sombras e Memórias" (Difficult Memories and Decolonization in Portugal), organized by Nuno Silas is a Curator and Artistic Director, multidisciplinary researcher, and artist whose work focuses on curatorial practice and the history of museum collections in collaboration with Plano Nacional das Artes (PNA), Lisbon and Paulo Freire Institute Berlin and Goethe Institute Lisbon. The project, taking place in 2026-27, deals with the work of memory through the Arts in Portugal. In April 2024, he was an Invited Guest of the workshop: Conflict and Collaboration in Digital African Spaces, at the Iwalewahaus (UB), presenting his ongoing research project: Hearing More Than Sounds: Restitution and Circulation of Memory, Sounds and Visual Movements of Resistance from Mozambique. This project investigates elements and narratives of Mozambican post-conflict propaganda, based on sonority and visual movements of resistance and the Mozambican's imagination today. Furthermore, he has collaborated with the Natural Museum Berlin and the Humboldt Forum Berlin with the project “Metamorphosis”, under the motto “a world in which coloniality no longer has a place”. He has received various awards and collaborated in group projects and exhibitions internationally: in 2022 have been pointed by Galerias Municipais of Lisbon as a Co-curator an Exhibition Black Skin, White Masks. The Black Body in Presence; in 2024, the University of Western Cape (UWC) awarded me a Museum Fellowship for redefinition of curatorial practice and museology method as well as art history on contemporary art discourse. In the same year, he was nominated at Mozal Arts and Culture Awards in Mozambique by Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Mozambique and the Kulungwana art gallery. His work received an Honorable Mentional by the Committee. From 2023 to 2025, he collaborated with Rampa Art Gallery (Porto-Portugal) and Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, for his solo research exhibition project Joni: Portrait of Mozambican Miners and Families in South Africa Revisited.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Nuno Aulino Fulane

Citation names

  • Nuno Silas

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A614-94BC-C458
ORCID iD
0009-0007-3563-597X
Google Scholar ID
Nuno Silas

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Performing Arts Studies (Musicology, Theater Science, Dramaturgy)
  • Humanities - Arts - Arts
  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - History
  • Humanities - Arts - Studies on Film, Radio and Television

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
German Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Hauçá Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Swahili (generic) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Zulu Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2024/10 - 2029
Ongoing
PhD Candidate in History and Philosophy of Science - Specialization in Museology (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2019/10/04 - 2024/02/29
Attended
African Verbal and visual Arts media and curatorial studies, Uni Bayreuth (Master)
Major in Estudos africanos, Curadoria e Literaturas Africanas
Universität Bayreuth, Germany
2023/05/11 - 2023/05/18
Concluded
Curating Performance/Performing Curation: tendencies and tactics (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
Major in curation
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Switzerland
2022 - 2022
Concluded
Guest Student - Artistic Action and Research HKB - Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (Outros)
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Germany
2015/10/24 - 2017/11/20
Concluded
Fine Art Degree - Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Caldas da Rainha (Licenciatura)
Major in Artes Visuais - Performance e Escultura / Visual Arts - Performance and Sculpture
Escola Superior de Artes e Design (Caldas da Rainha), Portugal
15
2012/01/03 - 2012/10/31
Concluded
Psychopedagogy & Educational (Postgraduate Certificate)
Major in Pedagogy
Escola Nacional de Artes Visuais , Mozambique
16
2011/03/03 - 2011/08/30
Concluded
AutoCAD Metalomecânica at Centro de Formação Profissional. (Graduado)
Major in AutoCAD Metalomecânica
Centro de Formação Profissional Maputo., Mozambique
2003/01/03 - 2008/08/03
Concluded
High School at Escola Secundaria da Liberdade, Maputo- Mozambique (Bachelor (1st cycle))
Major in The high school curriculum
Escola Secundaria da Liberdade, Maputo- Mozambique, Mozambique
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2025/07/20 - Current Researcher (Research) Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade de Évora / IN2PAST - Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade de Évora / IN2PAST — Laboratório Associado para a Investigação e Inovação em Património, Artes, Sustentabilidade e Território, Portugal
Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade de Évora / IN2PAST - Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade de Évora / IN2PAST — Laboratório Associado para a Investigação e Inovação em Património, Artes, Sustentabilidade e Território, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021/10/13 - 2023/12 Student assistant - Research project “Black Atlantic Revisited – African and South American UNESCO - World Heritage Sites and ‘Shadowed Spaces’ of Performance - University of Bayreuth Univesidade de Bayreuth , Germany
Cluster of Excellence - "Africa Multiple", Germany
2022/02/02 - 2022/02/28 Commitee Member of the Juri of LIA - Leipzig International Art Programme Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA), Germany
Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA), Germany
2011/02/01 - 2012/03/01 Curatorial team and Production - CCMF, Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano CCFM - Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Mozambique

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2024 - Current PhD Candidate in History and Philosophy of Science, with specialization on Museology Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2024/09/09 - 2024/10/30 Curator; CCFM - Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Mozambique
CCFM - Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Mozambique
2013/05/04 - 2015/01/31 Production and curation at Kulungwana art Gallery, Mozambique. Galeria kulungwana, Moçambique., Mozambique
2012/01/26 - 2013/01/05 Publicity and designer at Panela Alves & Companhia, Mozambique. Panela Alves & Companhia,, Mozambique
2009/03/01 - 2011/10/28 Assistant Pedagogy at Escola Secundária do Tunduro, Mozambique. Escola Secundária do Tunduru,, Mozambique
Escola Secundária do Tunduru,, Mozambique
2009/01/01 - 2011/02/26 Scenographer at the UMOJA festival, Mozambique. UMOJA Festival Maputo, Mozambique
UMOJA Festival Maputo, Mozambique
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023 - Current Awarded grant: Museum Fellowship Programme . Zeitz Mocaa & University of Western Cape (UWC) Zeitz Mocaa Museum, South Africa University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Other
University of the Western Cape, South Africa
2024/09/09 - 2024/10/30 Joni: Portrait of Mozambican Miners and Families in South Africa Revisited - CCFM - Centro Cultural Franco-Mocambicano
4
Curador
CCFM - Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Mozambique
2020 - 2021 Scholarship for MA Studies at U.Bayreuth / Evangelische Studierendengemeinde Bayreuth (ESG) | Protestant University Chaplaincy Bayreuth, Germany
Master Student Fellow
Universität Bayreuth, Germany
Concluded
2018 - 2021 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Scholarship for training in Arts abroad , for AVA MA - Master in African Verbal and Visual Arts, at U. Bayreuth / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
Master Student Fellow
Universität Bayreuth, Germany
Concluded
2020 - 2020 Scholarship for the Exposition "Re-Invention of the Homem Novo" (New Man) at the Iwalewahaus - U. Bayreuth Evangelische Studierendengemeinde Bayreuth (ESG) | Protestant University Chaplaincy Bayreuth, Germany
Other
Evangelische Studierendengemeinde Bayreuth (ESG) | Protestant University Chaplaincy Bayreuth, Germany

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/03/04 - Current Curator and Art Direction - Black Skin White Mask: The Black Body In Presence - Galerias Municipais Lisbon
Curator and Artist diretor
Galerias Municipais de Lisboa , Portugal
Galerias Municipais de Lisboa
Concluded
2024/10/12 - 2024/10/13 Difficult, Uncomfortable and silenced Memories: Memory work with Arts & Aesthetics in Portugal. Goethe institut & Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência. Portugal
Paulo Pires do Vale
member of a team
Goethe Institute Lisbon, Portugal
Ongoing
2020/02/04 - 2024/03/19 “Black Atlantic Revisited” – African and South American UNESCO World Heritage Sites and “Shadowed Spaces” of Performative Memory- Universität Bayreuth
0
researcher, assistant
Universidade de Bayreuth, Germany
Concluded
2021/03/01 - 2021/03/31 "Reconfiguring African Studies" Universität Bayreuth
Artist, Speaker
Concluded
2019/03/01 - 2019/03/30 Catchupa Factory - Novos Fotógrafos - CNAD - Centro Nacional de Arte, Artesanato e Design
000000000
residencia artistca Cabo Verde
Associação AOJE, Cape Verde
2014/04/04 - 2014/12/27 Centauro Justa Posição - Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Dialogues Africa“ initiierte Tanzproduktionen in Düsseldorf, Dresden, Münster, Bielefeld und Hamburg
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Artist, dancer.
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2024/04/01 - 2024/07/18 Guest of the PostDoc Working Group - Digital Trans*formations in Africa: A Critical Space for Intellectual and Material Capital , Africa Multiple Cluster for Excellence, U. Bayreuth
other
Other
Cluster of Excellence - "Africa Multiple", Germany
Ongoing
2013/02/03 - 2014/02/28 Project Coordinator at Centro de Artes Performativas - ENAV (National School of Visual Arts) Maputo
ND
founder
2012/02/05 - 2012/02/29 Bastidores Project - ENAV (National School of Visual Arts) Maputo
Dina Trigo
curator
Escola Portuguesa de Moçambique, Mozambique
2010 - 2010 Projecto ZoNa - ENAV (National School of Visual Arts) Maputo
Julia Barrata
Artist
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Silas, Nuno. "Black Skin, White Masks: The Black Body in Presence. Galerias Municipais Lisbon.". In Black Skin, White Masks: The Black Body in Presence. Galerias Municipais Lisbon., 20-27. Lisbon, Portugal: Galerias Municipais Lisbon., 2024.
    In press
  2. Nuno Silas; Alfieri, Noemi. "Migrations, power and the human body. Nuno Silas' Joni: Portrait of Mozambican Miners and Families in South Africa Revisited". In African, Ibero-American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, edited by da Luz, H. C. R.; Rendeiro, Margarida ; Alfieri, Noemi; Fernando, Mbiavanga. Lisbon, Portugal: Kotter Editorial, 2024.
    In press
Conference paper
  1. Alfieri, Noemi; Nuno Silas. "Migrations, power and the human body. Nuno Silas' Joni: Portrait of Mozambican Miners and Families in South Africa Revisited". Paper presented in IV International Conference on African, Ibero-American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures., 2023.
    Published
Exhibition catalog
  1. Nuno Silas; Pelembe, Titos; EGEAC. Corresponding author: Nuno Silas. Black Skin, White Masks: The Black Body in Presence , EGEAC - Galerias Municipais (Lisbon). EGEAC - Galerias Municipais, 2024.
  2. Nuno Silas. Não Tenhas Pressa de Gostar Muito - Catalogue Entry. Galeria 7, 2018.
Journal article
  1. Nuno Silas. "Passages and destinations, utopic migrations". (Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African press, and the uses of knowledge - Special Issue of Práticas da História 20 (2025): https://praticasdahistoria.pt/digital-retrospectives-historiography-africa.
    Open access • In press
  2. Nuno Silas. "Ongoing process of reparation: notes on exhibitions in Portugal". Midas - Museus e Estudos Interdisciplinares (Midas - Museums and Interdisciplinary Studies) 21 (2025): https://journals.openedition.org/midas/.
    Open access • Under revision
Journal issue
  1. Pontes Lança, Filipa; Nuno Silas. "Moçambiques Fanzine - ENAV (National School of Visual Arts) Maputo". https://www.buala.org/pt/vou-la-visitar/bastidores-fanzine (2012): https://www.buala.org/pt/vou-la-visitar/bastidores-fanzine.
    Published • Coeditor
Magazine article
  1. Bantumen. "Millennium bim apoia exposição “Madjoni-Djoni” de Nuno Silas", Bantumen, 2025, https://www.bantumen.com/artigo/madjoni-djoni-nuno-silas/.
  2. RM. "Nuno Silas narrates the lives of miners and Mozambican families in South Africa", Club of Mozambique, 2025, https://clubofmozambique.com/news/nuno-silas-narrates-the-lives-of-miners-and-mozambican-families-in-south-africa-276480/.
  3. ND. "Nuno Silas narra a vida de mineiros e famílias moçambicanas na África do Sul", Rádio Moçambique, 2025, https://www.rm.co.mz/nuno-silas-narra-a-vida-de-mineiros-e-familias-mocambicanas-na-africa-do-sul/.
  4. ND. "Wimmelbilder des Wahnsinns: Halle 14 zeigt Schau über Infrastruktur", Leipziger Volkszeitung, 2023, https://www.lvz.de/kultur/kultur-leipzig-spinnerei-zeigt-ausstellung-wimmelbilder-des-wahnsinns-E626X32AMZAEJBSI6IEXLI3ROM.html.
  5. Nuno Silas. "Metamorphosis - Issue "A world in which coloniality no longer has a place“ -", Humboldt Forum Magazine, 2022, https://www.humboldtforum.org/en/magazine/article/metamorphosis/.
  6. Pelembe, Titos. "(Des)Colonizar a Arte da Performance", Arte Capital, 2022, https://www.artecapital.net/opiniao-230-titos-pelembe--des-colonizar-a-arte-da-performance.
  7. Will Furtado; Nuno Silas. "The Intensity of Identity of a Diasporic Artist - In Conversation with Nuno Silas", C& América Latina (C&AL), 2021, https://amlatina.contemporaryand.com/editorial/the-intensity-of-identity-of-a-diasporic-artist-nuno-silas/.
  8. Natacha Narciso. "Alunos da ESAD em residência artística em Alcanena", Gazeta das Caldas, 2017, https://gazetadascaldas.pt/cultura/alunos-da-esad-residencia-artistica-alcanena/.
  9. Nuno Silas. "A arte urbana nas Caldas da Rainha", Gazeta das Caldas, 2015, https://gazetadascaldas.pt/diversos/a-arte-urbana-nas-caldas-da-rainha/.
Newspaper article
  1. Domingos Mucuambe. "Angústias de um “Madjoni-joni” ressuscitadas por Nuno Silas e Xenofobia contra famílias moçambicanas / Angusties of a "Madjoni-Joni" resusscitated by Nuno Silas and Xenofobia aganist Mozambican Families", O País, 2025, https://opais.co.mz/angustias-de-um-madjoni-joni-ressuscitadas-por-nuno-silas-e-xenofobia-contra-familias-mocambicanas/.
  2. AA. "Nuno Silas apresenta “Migração e movimentos de resistência”", O País, 2025, https://opais.co.mz/nuno-silas-apresenta-migracao-e-movimentos-de-resistencia/.
  3. AA. "Mozambican Nuno Silas at the Bamako Biennale of Photography", 2024, https://www.maputofastforward.com/en/mozambican-nuno-silas-at-the-bamako-biennale-of-photography/.
Online resource
  1. Nuno Silas. Podcast - Nuno Silas at Sala de Museu. 2023. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nuno-silas/id1667382954?i=1000633105699.
  2. Nuno Silas. The voice of Mozambican Artists in the Diaspora - Cycle of Conversations "Repensar as Artes" (Rethinking Arts). 2020. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=417522486043357.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. Exhibition Aquilo que o corpo já esqueceu ( Artists: Sara Carneiro, Luis M. S. Santos, Nuno Silas, Sofia Yala - Curator: Ângela Ferreira). 2025.
  2. Nuno Silas. Personal Exhibition Joni: Portrait of Mozambican Miners and Families in South Africa Revisited. Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano - Maputo. 2025.
  3. Madjoni-Djoni – Retratos de Mineiros e Famílias Moçambicanas na África do Sul / Madjoni-Djoni – Portraits of Mozambican Miners and Families in South Africa. 2025.
  4. Selected Artist for the 14th Biennal of Photograhy of Bamako - Rencontres de Bamako. 2024.
  5. Personal Exhibition Joni: Portrait of Mozambican Miners and Families in South Africa Revisited. Rampa Associação Cultural, Porto. 2024.
  6. Livre Trânsito Exhibition. 2024.
  7. Performative Installation “Metamorfose: Arquivo Anómico e outros sons" (Metamofosis: Anomic Archive and Other Sounds). 2023.
  8. Resident at Livre Trânsito - Permant Cycle of Residencies and Artistic Interventions. 2023.
  9. Colelctive Exhibition Über Leitungen.Infra Structures. 2023.
  10. Artistic Residency and Exhibition "Our (Spatial) Stories in Live Performative Futures". 2022.
  11. Collecctive Exhibition From a Distance Calling. 2021.
  12. Installation Levity , included in the Reading festival “Bayreuth navigates". 2020.
  13. Exihibition: Gazing at COVID19 in Arts and Beyond - Digital Literature Festival. 2020.
  14. Collective Exhibition "Não tenhas pressa de gostar muito". 2018.
  15. Exhibition at The Catchupa Factory Residency for Photographers. 2017.
  16. Installation of drawings and sculpture - Festival Foz do Arelho. 2017.
  17. Collective Exhibition Universo Surreal - Entre o Delírio e o Absurdo / Surreal Universe, between delirium and the absurd. 2016.
  18. «Conversas 2.0 – Artists residency» Câmara Municipal de Vila Nova da Barquinha. 2016.
  19. Individual Exhibition Fluxus Colante - Mediateca do BCI - Espaço Joaquim Chissano, Maputo. 2012.
  20. Collective Exhibition Fotografias Colorado - Curated by Luc André. 2011.
Artistic performance
  1. 2024. Performance "Kupalha", Event Arte e Ação: Jaime Isidoro e a performance em Portugal / Event Art and Action: Jaime Isidor and performance in Portugal. Casa-Museu Teixeira Lopes , Vila Nova de Gaia.
  2. 2018. Performance Tive a sorte de nascer na Europa / I had the luck to be born in Europa - Mostra de Performance. Teatro Municipal da Guarda.
  3. 2017. SILOS Contentor Criativo , GATO VERMELHO | Performances Cycle, - Caldas da Rainha (Portugal). SILOS Contentor Criativo , GATO VERMELHO.. Silos Contentor Criativo.
  4. 2016. Nuno Silas .With Changes - SILOS Contentor Criativo , GATO VERMELHO | Performances Cycle, - Caldas da Rainha (Portugal). SILOS Contentor Criativo , GATO VERMELHO.
  5. 2011. Performance at ENAV's Annual Exhibition. Instituto Camões Maputo.
Choreography
  1. Pak Ndjamena e Rafael Mouzinho (Composer). 2014. Performance Tour JUSTAPOSIÇÃO CENTAUROS Project. Festival Tour 2014. Kampnagel Hamburg. https://kampnagel.de/.
  2. Pak Ndjamena e Rafael Mouzinho (Composer). 2014. Performance Tour JUSTAPOSIÇÃO CENTAUROS Project . Festival Tour 2014, Tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf.
  3. 2014. Performance tour JUSTAPOSIÇÃO CENTAUROS Project. Festival Tour 2014, Hellerau Dresden. Hellerau Dresden.
Curatorial / Museum exhibition
  1. 2024. "Joni: Portrait of Mozambican Miners and Families in South Africa Revisited. Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano - Maputo".
  2. Buhlebezwe Siwani, Hwati Masimba, Rita GT, Valete. 2023. "Curator and Art Director of the Exhibition "Black Skin, White Masks: The Black Body in Presence" - Galerias Municipais Lisbon". In Black Skin, White Masks: The Black Body in Presence.
  3. 2021. "Cuator and Artist of the Exhibition Re-invention of Homem Novo - Iwalewahaus - Universität Bayreuth".
Video recording
  1. Nuno Silas; Galeria Ana Lama (Producer); João Ramos (Director). 2022. Artistic Performance “Monumento Zea” - Galeria Ana Lama, Lisbon. Galeria Ana Lama.
Visual artwork
  1. Nuno Silas. Artistic Intervention in Urban Art - Caldas Late Night Festival.

Other

Data management plan
  1. Nuno Silas. "Data Manager of the DFG-Funded Project Black Atlantic Revisited - Africa Multiple Cluster (U.Bayreuth)". 2021. Universität Bayreuth. https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/unneeded2-Research/1research-sections/art_aestethics/Black-Atlantic-Revisited/index.html.
Other output
  1. Founder of Núcleo de Performance de Mozambique. 2012. Nuno Silas.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/10/10 Conversation with students of the ETAP Design School during Cerveira Art Bienal 2023 - Cycle of residences Transito - Fundação Bienal de Arte de Cerveira Transito
Fundação Bienal de Arte de Cerveira (Cerveira, Portugal)
2023/02/09 Exhibition tour: Black Skin, White Masks. The Black Body in Presence, Galerias Municipais Lisbon
Galerias Municipais. (Lisbon)
2016 VILA NOVA DA BARQUINHA – Conversas 2.0: Residências artísticas «Conversas 2.0 – Artists residency»

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2025/02/15 - 2025/02/15 Desenhar, Imaginar o Mundo ao Nosso Redor / To Draw and to Imagine the World around us , Workshop at CCFM - Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano (2025/02/15 - 2025/02/15)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
CCFM - Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Mozambique
2025/02/14 - 2025/02/14 Migração e movimentos de resistência: a jornada e os desafios / Migration and resistance movements: the journey and the challenges - CCFM (Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano) e CCMA (Goethe Institut Maputo) (2024/02/14 - 2024/02/14)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
CCFM - Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Mozambique

CCMA (Goethe Institut Maputo), Mozambique
2023 - 2023 Guided Visit to the Exhibtion "Metamorfose: Arquivo Anómico e outros sons", with students of ETAP Cerveira (Professional and art school) (2023/10 - 2023/10)
Other (Co-organisor)
Bienal de Cerveira, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/05/19 - Current Listening Session with Nuno Silas - Echoes of the Brother Countries Exhibition, HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Berlin (Germany)
Exhibition
Echoes of the Brother Countries
HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt , Germany
2023/12 - Current Migrações, poder e o corpo humano: "Joni: Portrait of Mozambican Miners and Families in South Africa Revisited”, de Nuno Silas
Conference
IV International Conference on African, Ibero-American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures.
Universidade de Cabo Verde, Cape Verde
2020/12/05 - Current The voice of Mozambican Artists in the Diaspora - Cycle of Conversations "Repensar as Artes" (Rethinking Arts)
Round table
Cycle of Conversations "Repensar as Artes" (Rethinking Arts)
2024/09/19 - 2024/09/19 Conversa sobre 'Madjoni-Djoni - Retratos de Mineiros e Famílias Moçambicanas em África do Sul', com Nuno Silas e Alexandra Balona / Conversations 'Madjoni-Djoni - Retratos de Mineiros e Famílias Moçambicanas em África do Sul', com Nuno Silas e Alexandra Balona - Aula Magna da FBAUP - Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto
Conference
Conversa sobre 'Madjoni-Djoni - Retratos de Mineiros e Famílias Moçambicanas em África do Sul',
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
2024/04/12 - 2024/04/13 Hearing More Than Sounds: Restitution and Circulation of Memory, Sounds and Visual Movements of Resistance from Mozambique - International Workshop Conflict and Collaboration in Digital African Spaces - Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth
Conference
Conflict and Collaboration in Digital African Spaces - Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth
Cluster of Excellence - "Africa Multiple", Germany
2023/09/28 - 2023/09/30 Migrations, power and the human body. Nuno Silas' Joni: Portrait of Mozambican Miners and Families in South Africa Revisited - IV International Conference on African and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, University of Santiago (Cape Verde)
Conference
IV International Conference on African, Ibero-American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
Universidade de Santiago, Cape Verde, Cape Verde

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2021/02/24 - 2021/03/30 The Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA) is an international artist in residency programme located at the Spinnerei Leipzig. During a week we worked in many proposals from artists in South Africa. It was a lot of work, our task would be to select candidates for the second phase of applications for the residency based on the artist quality of their projects and artistic careers. Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA), Germany

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2016/02 - 2016/07 Assistant of the Laboratory of Print and Engraving/ Assistente da Oficina de Serigrafia e Gravura (Responsible Professor: Célia Bragança) (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) Escola Superior de Artes e Design (Caldas da Rainha), Portugal
2014 - 2014 Visual Arts Course - 2013/2014 academic year - Escola Secundária Tunduru (Maputo, Mozambique) (Bachelor) Escola Secundária Tunduru , Mozambique

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2022/11/02 Metamorphose - Issue “…A world in which coloniality is no longer possible. “ Humboldt Forum Magazine
2021/01/21 Contemporary&and The Intensity of Identity of a Diasporic Artist We spoke to the Maputo-born artist Nuno Silas about his work exhibition Dissident Planets, contemporaryand.com
2021 Die Intensität der Identität eines diasporischen Künstlers Akono Verlag
2020/02/24 University of Bayreuth Like many others, Mozambican artist Nuno Silas was surprised by the pandemic. In this interview, Silas, currently attending the University of Bayreuth, explains where the inspiration for his creative process came from and how he is coping with the current situation.

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2023/10/26 - 2023/10/26 Sala de Museu | Podcast on Spotify Sala de Museu
2023/09/15 - 2023/09/15 Conversas à Beira Minho - RCC - Rádio Cultural de Cerveira 93,6 CONVERSAS À BEIRA MINHO
2020/12/05 - 2020/12/05 Repensar as Artes. A VOZ DOS ARTISTAS MOÇAMBICANOS NA DIÁSPORA A VOZ DOS ARTISTAS MOÇAMBICANOS NA DIÁSPORA
Distinctions

Award

2023 Museum Fellowship Programme - Awarded by Zeitz Mocaa & University of Western Cape (UWC)
Zeitz Mocaa Museum, South Africa

University of the Western Cape, South Africa
2023 Nomination for MOZAL Arts and Culture Prize 2023
MOZAL, Mozambique

Kulungwana Art Gallery, Mozambique
2022 Research Project Award - INSTRUMENTALISIERUNG VON KRITIK, Humboldt Forum.
Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Germany
2021 Photography Award, "African Icons" context, Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence (U. Bayreuth)
Universität Bayreuth, Germany
2020 Scholarship for the Exposition "Re-Invention of the Homem Novo" (New Man) at the Iwalewahaus - U. Bayreuth
Evangelische Studierendengemeinde Bayreuth (ESG) | Protestant University Chaplaincy Bayreuth, Germany
2019 Scholarship for MA Studies at U.Bayreuth
Evangelische Studierendengemeinde Bayreuth (ESG) | Protestant University Chaplaincy Bayreuth, Germany
2018 Scholarship for training in Arts abroad - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (for AVA MA at U. Bayreuth)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2017 Catchupa Factory Award - New Photographers
The Catchupa Factory Residency for Photographers, Cape Verde