Sara Battesti

Head of Communication

Lisbon, 1972. BA in Public Relations and Advertising (INP) starts her career in haute couture in Paris with Thierry Mugler. Returns to Portugal and works first as a Media planner, then as a strategist and Accounts supervisor at an advertising agency for several clients including Beiersdorf and Volvo. In 2003, joined the Biennial Experimentadesign (EXD) team as coordinator of the Communication department collaborating in many different projects, editorials, contests (DW 2.0) and exhibition projects (Line Watermark, Transit, Voyager National Tour). In 2008, is responsible for the communication strategy for the launch of Experimenta in Amsterdam working with international design studios (Kessels Kramer, The Designers Republic), and the relaunch of EXD with the retrospective exhibition of Peter Zumthor. Until mid-2012 is part of the experimentadesign team and collaborates in the dissemination of timely exhibitions and festivals of POGO association.