The Filter - Art Pathways

João Moreira Rato is currently a senior advisor for Morgan Stanley and is the President of the Portuguese Institute for Corporate Governance, a consultant
for sovereign debt issuing and derivatives, as well as a teacher at Nova School of Business and Economics and Nova IMS. He is also a Research Associate for the
Centre of Systemic Risk at LSE.

He was Chairman of CTT bank, non-executive director of Omtel, and has worked with Oliver Wyman in the set-up and build-up of the department for debt management of the Ministry of Finance of Kuwait, where he was an integral part of the
first debt issuing of the country. He was also part of the team that analysed the structure of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign debt

In 2014 he was the financial director for Banco Espírito Santo during the transition to Novobanco.

Between 2012 and 2014 he was the Chairman and CEO of the Treasury and Public Debt Management Agency. In this role, he was responsible for the strategy to return
to the medium and long-term public debt markets and for its successful implementation.

Between 2000 and 2012 he worked in investment banking for such banks as Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, and Morgan Stanley. He was also a founding member of a Hedge Fund specialised in Global macro.

He has a Doctorate from Chicago Booth and a Masters and Bachelors from the Universidade Nova in Lisbon. He is the author of the book: “The European Debt Crisis: How Portugal Navigated the post-2008 Financial Crisis”, published by Palgrave Macmillan in December 2020.

Rick Vercauteren has a career of more than 40 years as an art historian, editor, and writer. As an independent curator, he has worked for various art institutions in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. He writes, on a regular basis, texts on contemporary art and music in Dutch, English, and German. Furthermore, he operates as a personal adviser for artists in several countries in Western Europe. In addition, he is an enthusiastic interviewer (live) and a vivid master of ceremonies in the broader cultural domain in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium.

Rick was born in 1956 and studied History of Art, American Literature, and Film between 1974 and 1982. From 1986 till 2022 he
worked as a spirited curator and turbocharging director in museums in the Netherlands. Besides he was an animated teacher in the cities of Amsterdam, Eindhoven, ’s-Hertogenbosch and Tilburg (Academies of Contemporary Art and Open University). He’s a voracious reader and critical movie buff.

Authors Recommended:

Julio Cortázar, Franz Kafka, James Joyce and Shakespeare

Spaces Recommended:

Tate Modern, London and L'Orangerie, Paris

Marco Fedele di Catrano (Rome, 1976) is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose different creative practices converge with the aim of bridging the gulf between art and society.

His work in the fields of installation, photography, sculpture, and video is characterized by an intuitive handling of materials, objects, and spaces. In many cases, he processes found, elementary materials which get reconfigured in a synthetic and metaphorical form. His aim is to bind a minimal form with subjects of existential and social-political relevance. His site-specific interventions, mostly temporary, are made in dialogue with existing architecture, both indoor and in urban spaces. He currently lives and works in Lisbon.

Website

http://www.marcofedeledicatrano.com/

Space recommended

M23 Projects

Palácio de Cristal

Book recommended

José Saramago - Ensaio sobre a Cegueira

Carlos Antunes is an architect based in the village of Corvo near Coimbra. Together with Desiree Porto, he runs the Atelier do Corvo Architects in the same town. He is also a professor at the University of Coimbra. He is a member of CAP Coimbra since 1987 and is now its director. This interview is in Portuguese.

Atelier do Corvo

CAPC

Books Recommended:

Miguel de Cervantes - Dom Quixote

Space Recommended:

CAPC

Vera Hilger is an artist and the co-director of Raum Für Gäste an exhibition space she runs with her colleague Michael Krupp.

Books recommended:

Arbeit und Struktur by Wolfgang Herrndorf

Spaces recommended:

Kolumba in Cologne