Marta Soares holds an MA and a PhD in Art History by the NOVA FCSH (School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa).
In 2016, Marta co-curated an exhibition on the Portuguese avantgarde painter Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (1887-1918) held at two Portuguese national museums, and has collaborated with exhibits organized by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and the Pompidou Centre.
Her main research interests revolve around modernism and avantgarde, animation and media archeology, art theory and historiography.
Representative works:
Curatorship (with Raquel Henriques da Silva)
M. Soares, Silva, R.H., (2016-2017). Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso / Porto Lisboa / 2016 –1916, held at Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis and at Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado.
Research articles
Farré Torras, B., Crespillo-Marí, L., Soares, M. (2024), Post Wow, is Less More? A Critical Approach to Animated Mapped Projection for Art Historical Knowledge Sharing. Magazén, 5 (1), 149-171.
Soares, M. (2022). Modernism and Discourses on Animation in 1930s Portugal: The Case of José de Almada Negreiros. animation: an interdisciplinary journal, 17(1), 88-109. https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477221085511
Book chapter
Soares, M. (2023). Puppets, child art and an illuminated manuscript: Puppet shows with multilayers of primitivism in 1920s Granada. In Leal, J. C. and Pinto dos Santos, M. (eds.), The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms (170-183). Routledge.
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