Manuel Borja-Villel

Manuel Borja-Villel - Lives in Madrid, Spain. PhD in Art History from the City University of New York, since 2008 he has been director of the Reina Sofía Museum (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 benchmark for cultural production through 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, to 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 in Barcelona from 1998 to 2008, he put public management at the service of the citizen agenda, creating a place of dissent through radical pedagogy, criticism and institutional experimentation. He reflects on these and other themes in his latest book: Magnetic Fields. Writings on art and politics (Madrid: ARCADIA, 2020).