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Manuel Borja-Villel. Photo: Courtesy CCE
The director of the Reina Sofía Museum, Manuel Borja-Villel, will visit the museum. the Dominican Republic as part of a dialogue and collaboration program called “Encuentros de aqui? and there”, which aims to share experiences and strengthen ties of collaboration between Dominicans and this cultural institution, promoted by the Embassy of Spain and the Cultural Center of Spain Santo Domingo.
During his visit to the country, Borja-Villel will exhaust An agenda of meetings with Dominican artists, visits to workshops and art galleries, a meeting with the Minister of Culture, Milagros Germán, the Museum of Modern Art and you will know; the experience of the Batey Mata Los Indios and the Community of the Morenos in Villa Mella, as well as; as well as the Batey San Luís.
In addition, this Wednesday, May 25, at the Cultural Center of Spain Santo Domingo, he will give a lecture. a conference open to the public and especially aimed at artists, museographers, gallery owners, cultural managers and people linked to the cultural sector, to present the online experience called “Situated Museum”, an active collaborative network of collectives and neighborhood associations of the Lavapiés neighborhood in which the Reina Sofía Museum participates as part of its work in different local, national and international networks.
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This initiative is It is made up of heterogeneous agents such as the European network of L´Internationale museums, the research network on Latin American conceptual art Red Conceptualismos del Sur, the Fundación de los Comunes, the Institute of Radical Imagination and the Located Museum. It is an exercise in alternative institutionality that is committed to the present and to the reality that every statement is always situated.
About Borja-Villel
He has a doctorate in Art History from the City University of New York and director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain) since 2008.
directed the Foundation Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona from June 1990 to July 1998. From July 1998 to January 2008, he was director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA).
Since January 2008 , is director of the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum. During this time, Manuel Borja-Villel has given continuity to recognizable aspects of the relationship between the museum, the social movements and the citizenry that characterized his time at the Fundaci & oacute; Tàpies and the MACBA.
The Reina Sofía Museum, founded in 1992, is one of the most important in Madrid and offers visitors an extensive collection n of contemporary Spanish works of art.