Joel Valabrega is a curator based in Porto and Milano.  In 2024, she curated the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th International Venice Biennale. From 2020 to 2024, she was Curator of Performance and Moving Image at Mudam Luxembourg, and in 2025, she became Head of Programme / Curator at Galeria Municipal do Porto. Recent projects include the performance festival Fogo Fátuo (2025), the experimental exhibition Workers in Song by Billy Bultheel & James Richards (2024), the performative group exhibition After Laughter Comes Tears (2023), and the performance festival The Illusion of the End (2022). From 2016 to 2022, Valabrega ran the project space MEGA in Milano and has held curatorial roles at institutions such as V-A-C Foundation in Moscow and Venice (2018–19) and Triennale Milano (2020). Her curatorial work—spanning exhibitions, performance programs, and commissions—has involved collaborations with artists including Tarek Atoui, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Cecilia Bengolea, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust, Lara Favaretto, Trajal Harrell, Ligia Lewis, Eliane Radigue, and Nora Turato, among others. In addition to her curatorial practice, she researches and collaborates with magazines and is the author and editor of several publications.