Manuel Segade Lodeiro

Programming, directing and coordinating, within the framework of the general action plans of the Museo and the budgets and guidelines of the Royal Board of Trustees, the exhibitions and activities held in the Museo Reina Sofía, as well as directing different associations, units and museum staff, under the terms set by the Statute of the Organisation (approved by Royal Decree 188/2013, of 15 March).

As director of the Museo Reina Sofía, Manuel is a full member of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía’s Royal Board of Trustees and the Board of Trustees of the Museo Reina Sofía Foundation. Furthermore, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Bétonsalon and of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and an advisory member on the Acquisitions Committee of Frac Bretagne (Fonds régionaux d’art contemporain). He is also Chevalier of l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic.

He holds a BA in Art History obtained from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela in 2002, completing his training in 2004 as an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow on the Postgraduate course in Cultural and Visual Studies from the Art and Humanities Research Board at the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (CentreCATH), University of Leeds (UK), under the guidance of Professor Griselda Pollock.

In June 2023 Manuel was named as Museo Reina Sofía director, a post he currently holds. Previously, from January 2016 he was director of the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M) in Madrid. In 2017 he curated the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with a project by artist Jordi Colomer. Prior to this, he developed curatorial projects as an independent curator for Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Centro ARC (Los Choros, Chile), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC) (León), Centre d’Art la Panera (Lleida), Pavillon Vendôme (Aix-en-Provence), KADIST (París), Bienal de Cuenca (Ecuador), arteba Fundación (Buenos Aires), TENT (Rotterdam) and Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M) (Madrid). From 2007 to 2009 he worked as a curator at the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC) (Santiago de Compostela), and from 2005 to 2006 as a content coordinator for Metrònom Fundació Rafael Tous d’Art Contemporani (Barcelona).   

In the academic sphere, he has served as a lecturer in curatorial practices on different postgraduate and MA programmes, for instance the Honours in Curatorship programme at the Michaelis School of Fine Art from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the Independent Studies Programme (PEI) at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), and was also a tutor for a two-year period at L’École du Magasin (Grenoble), until its closure in 2016. 

Across the breadth of his professional career, Manuel has been a jury member of numerous prizes, competitions, open calls and selection committees, including the Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts, the Prix Marcel Duchamp and the Pavilions of Spain, the Netherlands and Romania at the Venice Biennale. He also regularly writes for different academic publications, journals specialised in contemporary art and exhibition catalogues, in addition to organising lecture series and conducting workshops and lectures in an array of institutions focused chiefly on contemporary art, its modes of exhibition and curatorship as a performative practice. 

Gross remuneration for 2024: €141,588.72