Curator of the Portugal Pavilion at the Venice Biennial 2005. Artistic Director of Sydney Biennial 2006: On Reason and Emotion. Co-founder and Sub-director of the Contemporary Art Institute, Lisbon (1996 - 2001). Among other activities, she was in charge for 3 years of the International Contemporary Art Collection. Advisor in Lisbon's Exposition 94, "European Place of Culture". She has curated: Depois de Amanha, Cultural Center of Belém, Lisbon, 1994; Entrada Azul - Helena Almeida, retrospective, Casa de América, Madrid, 1998; Imagens de Troca - annual cycle exposition - Adriana Verajao, Eugénio Dittborn, Narelle Jubelin - Pavilhao Branco, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, 1998; Initiare!, Cultural Centre of Belém, Lisbon. 200; Inhabited Drawing - Helena Almeida, Drawing Center, New York 2004.