The José Luis Brea Chair
The Museo Reina Sofía Chairs are a place of permanent reflection around art history as a specific field of discourse and knowledge, its forms of writing — the narration and making inherent in its theory and practice — its methodological tensions and crossroads, and its flows into other knowledges and acts of making.
José Val del Omar, Vibración de Granada, 1934-1935
Donación del Archivo Val del Omar, 2011
The José Luis Brea Chair is devoted to visual cultures as a field of study in its own right, and reflects on the image and the epistemology of visuality in contemporary society and culture.
The Chair’s name is a homage to Spanish art critic and thinker José Luis Brea (1957–2010), one of the earliest voices to give form to visual studies in the Spanish-speaking world. His work opens a pivotal space for thinking with and through images from a transdisciplinary perspective, extending beyond conventions of canonical art history.
About the Chairs
Annually scheduled spaces for dialogue and debate which seek to rethink the present from multiple perspectives.