Isadora Neves Marques

Isadora Neves Marques was in residence at LUMA Arles from September to December 2025.

Isadora Neves Marques (Lisbon, Portugal) is a film director, visual artist, and writer working across poetry and nonfiction. She was the Official Portuguese Representation – Portugal Pavilion at the 59^th La Biennale di Venezia in 2022 and was awarded a Special Prize at the Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize in 2022 and Artissima’s Present Future Art Prize in 2018. Her recent cinema releases include “My Senses Are All I Have to Offer” (2024; world premiere at Critics’ Week, Cannes Festival), “Becoming Male in the Middle Ages” (2022; Ammodo Tiger Short Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam), and “The Bite” (2019; world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival), with her films being shown in numerous film festivals. Her work has been exhibited and screened in art institutions such as High Line (New York), Pérez Art Museum of Miami (Miami), Castello di Rivoli (Turin), CA2M and Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid), CaixaForum (Barcelona), Tate Modern, Gasworks, and Wellcome Collection (London), HOME (Manchester), Palais de Tokyo and Frac Île-de-France (Paris), Times Museum (Guangzhou), Inside Out Art Museum (Beijing), and Kyoto City University of the Arts Gallery (Kyoto), as well as at the Gwangju Biennale, Guangzhou Image Triennial, and Liverpool Biennial. With Catarina de Sousa, she co-founded the film production company Foi Bonita a Festa in 2021. As a writer, she co-founded with Alice dos Reis the poetry press Pântano Books in 2020, publishing her own poetry as well as by Serubiri Moses, CAConrad, Odete, and others. She has contributed regularly on art and theory for e-flux journal and for publications by MIT Press, Sternberg Press, Verso, Archive Books, and others.