Helder Maia has a degree in Scenography and a PhD in Fine Arts – Sculpture by the Faculty of Fine Arts of Pontevedra, University of Vigo. Articulates his activity as a scenographer in cinema and theater with the teaching of scenography in the theater course of ESMAE – Superior School of Music and Performing Arts – Polytechnic Institute of Porto, since 1998, where he has assumed the coordination of the scenography area between 2008 and 2014, coordination of the Master degree in Theater between 2008 and 2012 and the position and Director of Theater Department between 2014 and 2020.
Integrated member of NIMAE (Research Group in Arts, Music and Entertainment)
Develops research in areas related to the expression of materials in the plastic language of the show, artistic interventions in space and analysis of the sense of sustainability applied to scenography.