Manuel Borja-Villel – Lives in Madrid, Spain. Doctor in Art History from the City University of New York, since 2008 he has been director of the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain), being responsible for the development and profound reinterpretation of the museum’s collection. In recent years, Reina Sofía has strengthened its position as a reference for cultural production through the work carried out with an asymmetrical network of institutions that includes, among others, museums, universities and independent institutions.
He directed the Fundación Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona, Spain) from its creation in 1990 until 1998, and made the foundation an experimental institution with a program centered on institutional criticism. Already at the head of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona from 1998 to 2008, he placed public management at the service of the citizen’s agenda, creating a place of dissent through radical pedagogy, criticism and institutional experimentation. He reflects on these and other themes in his latest book: Campos magnéticos: Escritos de arte y Política (Madrid: Arcadia, 2020).