Manuel Segade, nou director of the Reina Sofia Museum

The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid announced this Monday Manuel Segade as the new director of the art gallery, replacing Manuel Borja-Villel in the position, as announced by the Ministry of Culture. Segade arrives after having been at the head of CA2M (Centre d'Art Dos de Maig), the contemporary art museum of the Community of Madrid, for a decade.

The minister, Miquel Iceta, will tomorrow propose to the Council of Ministers the appointment of Segade to replace Borja-Villel, who announced last January that he would present his candidacy to continue at the head of the museum after fifteen years in office.

Currently director of the Museum Center d'Art Dos de Maig (Móstoles), dependent on the Community of Madrid, Segade has a degree in Art History from the University of Santiago de Compostela.

He has curated for two decades (2003-2023) numerous exhibitions at national and international institutions and has served as a professor in university programs in South Africa and Brazil. In addition, he is a founding member of the European Art Assembly, a meeting point for several European contemporary art directors on urgent issues of contemporary art and a founding member of the European Forum For Advanced Practices, supported by the network of the European Community COST.