Manuel Fontán Del Junco has been Director of Museums and Exhibitions at the Juan March Foundation since January 2006. He has published extensively on aesthetics and art theory, philosophy of culture, and art. In addition, he has translated works 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 the Instituto Cervantes: Bremen, Lisbon, and Naples.

He has organized and directed, and in some cases curated, more than a hundred exhibitions in the Foundation’s spaces in Madrid and its two museums, as well as projects as an independent curator, such as the recent Ad Reinhardt: “Art is Art and Everything Else is Everything Else” (October 2021), and Boris Groys: Thinking in Loops (La Virreina, Centre de la Image, Barcelona, 2020). Among his earlier projects, notable examples include: The Abstraction of Landscape: From Nordic Romanticism to Abstract Expressionism (2007); Aleksander Deineka: 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 Great Britain (2017); The Art Game: Pedagogies, Art, and Design (2019); and Genealogies of Art, or the History of Art as Visual Art (2019).