Filipa Pestana is a visual artist working in the fields of drawing, painting, installation and photography, with a degree in Communication Design from IADE and a specialisation in web design from Master Computers.
She studied painting and drawing at the Arte Ilimitada school and at MArt, where she received a scholarship for the Artist Residency programme in 2021.
She is a resident artist and a member of the Board of Founders and the team at Base Escola de Arte.
Filipa is represented in the Fernando Ribeiro collection, among other private collections.

This exhibition is realised in collaboration with A Base.
A selection committee, assembled by OGMT and composed of Zoe Gray (Director of Exhibitions at Bozar, Brussels and former Senior Curator at Wiels, Brussels), Lee DaeHyung (Founder of Hzone, South Korea and Curator of the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017), Eliette Rosich (Representative of the Sovereign Art Prize in Portugal), David Willis (Independent Curator and former Curator of MOT+++, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) and Sandrine Llouquet (Artist and Founder of OGMT) nominated 2 artists from A Base’s artist-in-residence programme, including Filipa Pestana, for a solo exhibition at OGMT during 2025.