The Minister of Culture and Sports, Mikel Iseta, has chosen Manuel Segade as the new director of the Reina Sofia Museum after a meeting he held on Monday 5 June with the institution’s Board of Trustees, in which he was briefed on the three candidates previously selected by the international committee. So far, the head of the CA2M Center for Contemporary Art in Mostoles has been the highest scoring candidate in an election process that has lasted four months.

Thus, Segade will replace Manuel Borja-Villele, who was director of the institution from January 2008 to January of this year, and previously directed Fundació Tàpies and Macba.

The decision was not supposed to be easy and as planned A country an international committee had to select a final list of three out of nine candidates, five women and four men. Manuel Segade, 46, competed with Magali Arriola, director of Tamayo in Mexico, Cristiana Collu of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, Viviana Curi, director of the Zapopan Art Museum, Rosana Carrete of the Cabildo of Montevideo. , Bartomeu Mari, former director of Macba, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro and Ferran Barenblit, also former director of Macba.

Week of Expert Committee Interviews

Committee of Experts, consisting of Christoph Sheriks, Curator of MoMA; Quahtemoc Medina, Chief Curator, University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC); Joanna Mytkowska, director of the Warsaw Art Museum; Gloria Moore, former director of the Galician Contemporary Art Center (CGAC), and Maria Nicanor, director of the Smithsonian Design Museum, have spent the last week interviewing all applicants for the position, according to Reina Sofía. Museum of this newspaper.