Biography

Joana da Palma Monbaron is an educator and organizer with an academic background in art history and Russian studies. She has worked as a substitute teacher in high schools and education departments of various contemporary art institutions, where she has co-organized situated educational projects to reconsider cultural and political categories. Some projects include Tracings Out of Thin Air (2015-2018), Invisible Archives Marseille (2018-2020) and Educational U-turn. Who else is producing knowledge in culture? (2021). She is currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, with a Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) scholarship.