Filipa Ramos

Filipa Ramos, PhD, is a writer and curator whose long-term research investigates art's relationship to ecology. She is particularly interested in animals and time-based media. Ramos teaches at the Art Institute at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel and is Curator of the 2027 edition of LIAF and co-curator of the 2028 Bergen Assembly. Together, with Lucia Pietroiusti she founded the arts, humanities and science festival "The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish" (2018-onwards). Recent projects include "BESTIARI," the Catalan representation at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), "Songs for the Changing Seasons" for the 1. Klima Biennale Wien (2024) and in 2022, "Persons Personen," the 8th Biennale Gherdëina (both with Pietroiusti). In 2021, she co-curated "Bodies of Water," the 13th Shanghai Biennale. Her most recent book, "The Artist as Ecologist" (2025), discusses the ways in which contemporary artists embrace environmentalism.