Filipa Ramos

She is Lecturer at the Arts Institute of the HGK/FHNW, Basel. Her research focuses on how contemporary art engages with nature and ecology. Ramos is curator of the Art Basel Film sector and a founding curator of the online artists’ cinema Vdrome. Current projects include Bestiari, the Catalan piece presented at the 2024 Venice Biennale and the arts, humanities and science festival The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (since 2018, with Lucia Pietroiusti). In 2024, she curated Songs for the Changing Seasons for the 1st Klima Biennale Wien (with Lucia Pietroiusti), in 2022, Persons Persone Personen at the 8th Biennale Gherdëina (with Lucia Pietroiusti). In 2021, she co-curated Bodies of Water at the 13th Shanghai Biennale (with Andrés Jaque, Lucia Pietroiusti, Marina Otero Verzier and Mi You). Ramos has been Editor-in-Chief of e-flux criticism (2013-20), Associate Editor of Manifesta Journal (2009-11) and has contributed to Documenta 13 (2012) and 14 (2017). She is the author of Lost and Found (Silvana Editoriale, 2009) and editor of Animals (Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, 2016). Her upcoming book, The Artist as Ecologist, will be published by Lund Humphries in 2024.