Women of the World is a series of portraits that celebrates female strength, creativity, and resilience across different cultures.
Photography exhibition by Tânia Neves @ Casa do Comum, until 11 April 2026.
Since 2015, Tânia Neves has been travelling the globe with camera in hand, documenting the cultures she encounters. In 2024, she was a finalist in the ‘BORA Mulheres programme with unusual voyages. An advocate for ethnic self-determination and female empowerment, she created Women of the World at the invitation of ‘BORA Mulheres in 2025, returning to the programme this year as an ambassador.
From the Mongolian steppes to the Moroccan High Atlas, from the Pamir Mountains to the Colombian Sierra Nevada, via North Korea, the Silk Road, Ethiopia, and isolated communities in Russia, this exhibition builds a visual narrative of diversity, identity, and cultural survival. These are women who lead, uphold traditions, confront inequality, and reinvent their daily lives with an immense capacity for adaptation and resistance.
The exhibition is on display on the 1st floor of Casa do Comum, coinciding with the ‘BORA Mulheres bootcamp (27–28 March) until 11 April—the date of the next edition of Conversas Fora do Comum. These are monthly unusual voyages gatherings at Casa do Comum that use travel as a starting point to explore themes such as identity, belonging, inequality, and the future.
In this context, Women of the World acts as a visual complement to the contemporary debate on leadership, gender equity, and new skills. By giving visibility to women from distinct backgrounds, it challenges the idea of who leads and where change is born—showing that many of the skills of the future are already being practised, every day, by women all over the world.
