The 2025 Sovereign Portuguese Art Prize

David Elliott is a cultural and art historian, writer, curator and museum director primarily concerned with modern and contemporary art. Elliott was Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England from 1976-96, Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden from 1996-2001, the founding Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan from 2001-06, the first Director of Istanbul Modern, Turkey in 2007 and from 2016-2019, Vice-Director and Senior Curator of the Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art in Guangzhou. From 1998-2004, he was President of CIMAM (the International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) and in 2008, the Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor of Art History at Humboldt University, Berlin; from 2012 to 2017 he was a guest professor in curatorship at the Chinese University, Hong Kong. Since 2010. He has been the Artistic Director of biennales of contemporary art in Sydney, Kiev, Moscow and Belgrade and is currently working freelance as a writer and curator.

João Paulo Queiroz holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Lisbon, an MA in Communications from the University Institute of Lisbon, and a BA in Painting from the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes de Lisboa. He is a Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon, in the PhD courses in Art Education of the University of Porto, and PhD in Arts of the University of Seville, Spain. Queiroz acted as coordinator for the International Congress CSO annually from 2010 to 2022 and of the academic journals Studio, Gama, and Croma. From 2012 to 2022, he coordinated the Congress Raw Material, Practices of Visual Arts in Basic and Secondary Education annually. He currently serves as President of the Board of Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes (SNBA, National Society of Fine Arts). He has held several solo exhibitions and was awarded the Gustavo Cordeiro Ramos Painting Prize by the National Academy of Fine Arts in 2004.

Maura Marvão has a law degree from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and a Master’s in Arts Administration from New York University. She has worked at the United Nations and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. For the last 17 years has been the representative in Portugal and Spain of the international auction house Phillips. Teaches Art Markets and Practices of Collecting on the Culture Studies Programme (Master’s and PHD’s) at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon.  Has organised numerous international conferences and seminars and has been involved in various culture-related projects. Was president of ADIAC (Associação de Difusão Internacional de Arte Contemporânea), a member of the Board of Directors of the Fundação da Juventude (culture department), founding president of the Portuguese branch of the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington and president of the Group of Friends of the Ricardo Espirito Santo Silva Foundation. 

Maura Marvão is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Bagos D’Ouro Association, which promotes the education and social integration of children and young people in the Douro region 

Vicente Todolí was appointed artistic director of Hangar Bicocca (Pirelli Foundation) in May 2012 where he is responsible for the program. Vicente Todolí career in the visual arts spans more than 30 years and includes positions as Chief Curator (1986-88) and then artistic director of the IVAM (Valencian Institute of Modern Art, 1988-1996), before joining the Museum of Contemporary Art Serralves as its founding director in 1996 until 2002. In 2002 he was appointed Director of the Tate Modern by the Trustees of the Tate, where he joined full-time in March 2003 and left in June 2010.

Tim Marlow is Chief Executive and Director of the Design Museum in London.

Formerly Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Arts and Director of Exhibitions at White Cube, Marlow has been involved in the contemporary art world for the past thirty years as a curator, writer and broadcaster.  He has worked with many of the most important and influential artists of our time to deliver wide-ranging and popular programmes and brings a commitment to diverse and engaging exhibitions to his new role showcasing the transformational capability of design.

Marlow sits on the Board of Trustees for the Imperial War Museum, the Design Age Institute and Cultureshock Media. Marlow was awarded an OBE in 2019.

Francisco Trêpa (1995) is a Portuguese artist based in Lisbon. He studied ceramics at Escola Artística António Arroio (2013) and holds a BA in Sculpture (2017) and an MA in Multimedia Art (2022) from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Since 2015, he has exhibited nationally and internationally in various galleries and institutions. His work is included in the António Cachola Collection (MACE), the PLMJ Foundation Collection, and several private collections. In 2024, he was a finalist for the EDP Foundation New Artists Award and won the Grand Prize of the Sovereign Art Prize.