Thais Gouveia

Thais Gouveia (1984) is a half Brazilian, half Portuguese independent content and communications manager and art critic with contributions to This is Tomorrow, DasArtes magazine and Entretempos of Folha de São Paulo. She graduated in Art and Technology at PUC, Brazil and studied Art Criticism at Central St Martins University of the Arts, London. She also worked in the communications department of David Roberts Art Foundation and Baró Gallery and as photo editor at Lola Magazine and Rolling Stone Brazil.

ReviewMarch 27, 2015<November 27, 2017

Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector at the Barbican

“Why do we keep things?” was one of the questions raised by the Venezuelan curator Luis Pérez-Oramas during the 30th Biennial of São Paulo, in 2012. Under his curation, the Biennial that year, which I had the chance to attend, was marked by the inclusion of artists whose works were…