Madina Ziganshina. Since 2021, she has been a FCT PhD fellow in Heritage Studies, Museology and Artistic Curatorship option at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto. She completed her Master's Degree in Contemporary Artistic Creation in 2015 at the University of Aveiro and graduated in Artist-Painter in 2006 from Kazan Art College, from which she graduated with honors. She is a Researcher at the Center for Transdisciplinary Research Culture, Space and Memory CITCEM of the University of Porto, integrated into the research group Material and Intangible Heritage. She has organized: 2 scientific events (seminars), both supported by the CITCEM research center; since 2015, she has organized 6 festivals that combine contemporary art and heritage and has directed several artistic residencies. She has received 12 awards in the area of ¿¿arts, the most recent with the acquisition of works by museums; she has received honors and grants for artistic production. She participated as a guest curator in the CreArt project, funded by the European Commission, Creative Europe programme. She has published, as an author, in an international peer-review journal (Dutch Association of Aesthetics), and has an article as a second author in an international peer-review journal Asian Anthropology; she has national publications on the theme of museums and curatorship and has given 7 presentations at conferences, two of which were by invitation. She has coordinated 2 bilingual books, with international circulation, published in 2016 and 2017, has several national and international publications of prefaces and has multiple visual publications in exhibition catalogues and books. She has held more than 30 solo and group painting exhibitions in Portugal, in European countries, and in India and Dubai. She has collaborated with 4 City Councils to implement innovation projects in the area of ¿¿artistic curatorship and museology, which were also supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia, the Millennium BCP Foundation and the Finnish Foundation for the Arts FRAME. Between 2004 and 2009 she was a grant holder of the Russian Ministry of Culture, with whose support she participated in international artistic residencies, including an artistic residency in Cannes with an exhibition of the results at the Palais des Festivals during the Russian Art Week 2009 in France. She illustrated 4 books published in Russia. She is the author of the informal ART-MAP moving curatorial project, which works internationally. She has training and practical experience in exhibition organization and design, artistic creation and production, critical writing and has knowledge in art history and scenography. He was part of the unpaid focus group for debate and reflection on the Visual Arts sector in Aveiro as part of the preparation of a Strategic Plan for Culture and Aveiro's candidacy for the title of European Capital of Culture 2027. He was part of the jury of the 4th Sever do Vouga International Film Festival, Paisagens, promoted by the Cineclube de Avanca and held between May 28th and 30th, 2021. In 2022, he was part of the jury for evaluating applications for specific support from the Partnership Support Program of the Directorate-General for the Arts, specification Multiculturalism: Partnership with the High Commissioner for Migration.