Manuel Fontán del Junco
Director of Exhibitions of the Fundación Juan March
Director of the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español (Cuenca) and of the Museu Fundación Juan March (Palma)

PhD in Philosophy, he studied at the universities of Navarra and Münster (Germany). He has published texts and essays on aesthetics and art theory, Philosophyof culture and on modern and contemporary artists. He has also translated into Spanish texts by Martin Heidegger, Franz Marc, Walker Percy, Peter Sloterdijk, Boris Groys and Paul Klee. Between 1995 and 2005 he was Director of three European branches of high schoolCervantes: Bremen, Lisbon and Naples. Since January 2006 she has been Director of Museums and Exhibitions at the Fundación Juan March, Director of the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español (Cuenca) and the Museu Fundación Juan March (Palma). In 2016 she was a Clark Fellow at The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

He has directed, and in some cases curated, more than a hundred exhibitions, both in the Fundación Juan March's spaces in Madrid and in its two museums. These include La ciudad abstracta. 1966: the birth of the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español (2006); La abstracción del paisaje. From Nordic Romanticism to Abstract Expressionism (2007); Aleksander Deineka (1899-1969): An Avant-Garde for the Proletariat (2011);Listening with the Eyes. Sound art in Spain, 1961-2016 (2016); William Morris and company: the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain (2017); The game of art. Pedagogies, art and design (2019) and Genealogies of art, or: the history of art as visual art (2019).