Arantxa Ciafrino is a museologist, art historian, and researcher. She holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Museo Reina Sofía, and a Bachelor’s degree in Museology from the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Her professional background spans museum education, curatorial work, cultural production, and research in institutions across Brazil, Spain, and Germany. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Sociomuseology at Universidade Lusófona in Lisbon, where her research explores contemporary dance and performance as decolonial practices in museums. Her research examines how the moving body and relational practices in performance and dance can become means for museums to reflect their ways of dealing with memory, knowledge, and power, while also addressing the risks of their instrumentalization by these institutions.

Ciafrino, Arantxa & Gonçalves, Pedro Marco. (2025). Poetics in Museological Crossroads: Collection Nosso Sagrado and its journey throughout time, in Museums, Materials and Discussions. University of Bologna.
https://mmdjournal.unibo.it/article/view/21595/19451

Ciafrino, Arantxa & Gonçalves, Pedro Marco. (2024). To Counter-Colonize Brazilian History instead of Decolonizing it. Museological Review, University of Leicester.
https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/mr/issue/view/272

Ciafrino, Arantxa & Pausini, Adel Igor. (2024). Um olhar Sociomuseológico sobre a Dança Contemporânea e a Performance em museus e suas potencialidades na transformação social e institucional. Cadernos de Sociomuseologia, Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon.
https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/cadernosociomuseologia/article/view/9480

Ciafrino, Arantxa. (2023). A Museological Perspective on Contemporary Dance and Performance as a Decolonial Practice (pp. 30–45) and Reflections on Chapter 4 (pp. 122–136), in Moving the Forum, Berlin.
https://www.calameo.com/read/007400385cecd24ff0522