Alexandra Balona is an architect, researcher, and independent curator, based in Porto.

She holds a PhD in Culture Studies (FCH-UCP) with the dissertation “Troubling the Stage: Openness, Impurity and Intensity. The Politicality of Marlene Monteiro Freitas’ Choreographic Work.” Post graduated in Contemporary art (School of the Arts – Portuguese Catholic University, 2007), and graduated in Architecture (Faculty of Architecture Porto University, 2001), she is invited Assistant Professor at the School of the Arts - Portuguese Catholic University and researcher at the Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR-EA-UCP).

She curated various projects, both in team and independently, including Anton Vidokle: Citizens of the Cosmos and Future Past Imaginaries (Rampa, 2021); An Elephant in the Crystal Palace (Porto City Gallery, 2021); Opening, Impurity, and Intensity: Perspectives on the choreographic work of Marlene Monteiro Freitas (Porto City Theater, 2020); Metabolic Rifts (Serralves Museum and Porto City Theater, 2017–2018). With Sofia Lemos, she co-founded PROSPECTIONS for Art, Education and Knowledge Production. She co-edited Metabolic Rifts: Reader (2019) and An Untimely Book (2018). She writes on performing arts for Público newspaper and publishes in magazines such as Contemporânea and Art Press.