Aiming to bring together curators, artists and institutions at a time when most prizes awarded in the arts in Portugal are aimed at artists, the Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar Curation Prize seeks to promote activity in the field of contemporary art curation, production of critical resources and creation of editorial output.

The prize is awarded through an open call, and rewards a curatorial project in contemporary art, in the form of an individual or collective exhibition, held at the Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar.

Composed of curator Isabel Carlos, artist Vasco Araújo and the director of the Atelier-Museu Sara Antónia Matos, the jury of the 2016 edition considered Hugo Dinis’ ‘Strange Recent Days in less than happy times’, a reflection on crisis and austerity, to be an especially timely and relevant project.