Liliana Coutinho (Lisbon, 1977) is a Debates and Conferences programmer at Culturgest — Caixa Geral de Depósitos Foundation and an Integrated Researcher at IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST. She is co-curator of Walk&Talk - Bienal de Artes, September — November 2025, in São Miguel (Azores, Portugal).She was part of the curatorial team for the INDEX / Braga Media Arts Biennials of Art and Technology, in 2022 and 2024.She was assistant director and curator of thematic cycles at Teatro Maria Matos between 2015 and 2017.Between 2013 and 2015, she was responsible for the Education Service at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art.As a researcher and curator, she has collaborated with CAM - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, M.A.C. Serralves, Le Plateau (Paris), Artistas Unidos and Atelier Re.Al.She was part of the editorial team for Close-Up, Orfeu Negro, 2022, by Ana Borralho & João Galante.
She co-edited the book Paisagens Imprevistas (2020), dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Materiais Diversos Festival. Published, among others, “Empatia: Reflexões sobre uma possível correlação humano-artificial”, in Arte digital, Academia, Museu ZeRo, Museu ZerO and I2ADS UP, 2024; “O delicado fio do comum”, in André Guedes, Ensaios para uma antológica, Kunsthalle Lissabon and Cura Books, 2016; “L'objet: ni un fétiche ni une preuve, mais un don pour la performance”, in Performance Vie d'Archive, Les presses du réel, 2014; ‘O Coro, outra vez’, in Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker em Lisboa, INCM, 2013; On the utility of a universal's fiction, in Gimme Shelter: Global Discourses In Aesthetics. Amsterdam University Press, 2013; “Hearing our pathway — A Sensous Walk”, in Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture, London: Routledge, 2013. She has participated in scientific committees, published articles and given lectures in Portugal and abroad. She holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Art Sciences from the University of Paris 1 — Pantheon Sorbonne. She was a guest lecturer at the Postgraduate Program in Art Curatorship at FCSH/UNL and is a guest assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Letters at the University of Beira Interior.