21/10/2026
TREASURES | Cristina Filipe
It is a privilege to welcome Cristina Filipe to TREASURES, Crowns and Tiaras International Colloquium with a participation in the Panel: Crowns and Tiaras as Symbols.
Cristina Filipe, a researcher at the Centre for Research in Science and Technology of the Arts, holds a PhD in Heritage Studies from the School of Arts of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, a Master’s in Arts and Design from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design and studied jewellery at ArCo — Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Royal College of Art. As an educator, Cristina was teacher and director of the Jewellery Department at Ar.Co, and has been a guest artist and lecturer at several international institutions. She received the Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant from the Art Jewelry Forum for the book Contemporary Jewellery in Portugal and authored the Avant-Garde of the 1960s to the Early 21st Century. Since 2005, has worked as an independent curator and researcher. She founded and chaired PIN — Associação Portuguesa de Joalharia Contemporânea, created and was general curator of the 1st Lisbon Contemporary Jewellery Biennial — Cold Sweat.
In 2026, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to undertake a Visiting Scholar fellowship in curatorial studies at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, in 2027.
In the image, Cristina Filipe, Reliquiae II, 2011, photograph (of the Rui Chafes sculpture Du Bist Mir Immer Noch so Frisch im Blut, 2009, iron), cotton paper, 50 x 50 cm, photo: C. B. Aragão
