Barbara Neves Alves. Photo credit: Pedro Manuel Barbara Neves Alves
Barbara Neves Alves is a Portuguese artist, researcher, and educator based in Amsterdam. Her work moves through materials, gestures, and collective encounters to explore how colonial histories persist and can be reimagined in public and institutional spaces. She holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she developed the concept of miscommunication as a creative and political framework. Her research unfolds across artistic and academic contexts through installations, workshops, editorial collaborations, and site-based projects including Stories in Clay (with António Ramalho), Publishing Expanded, and Sites of Miscommunication, which bring artistic inquiry into shared reflection and re-imagination. Her work has been published in PARSE Journal and exhibited at RAMPA (Porto), Manifold Books (Amsterdam), and Zone2Source (Amsterdam), among others. She teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Royal Academy of Art (KABK).