Portrait of curator and architect Paula Nascimento

Born in Luanda, Angola, Paula Nascimento is an architect and curator with degrees from the Architectural Association School of Architecture and from the LSB University in London. She collaborated with architecture studios in Oporto and in London before founding Beyond Entropy Africa with Stefano Rabolli Pansera in 2011 – a research-based collective network that operates in the fields of architecture-urbanism-visual arts and geopolitics.

Nascimento has also been a consultant on a variety of projects including the Angola Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015 and often collaborates with different artist institutions and collectives, both on the African continent and abroad. She curated the African Galleries at Arco Lisbon 2019 and 2020.

As an architect, Nascimento collaborates with the Angola Commission for Expo, working as a project director for the award-winning Angola Pavilion at Expo Milano 2015 and with projects for the Angola Pavilion at Expos Astana 2017 and Dubai 2020.

She has received several awards including the Golden Lion Award 2013 at the Venice Biennale, ArcVision Women for Expo Special Award (2015) and African Architecture Awards in 2017.