Manuel Fontán del Junco (Jerez de la Frontera, 1963). With a PhD in Philosophy, he has published texts on aesthetics and art theory, philosophy of culture, and art theory. He has translated Martin Heidegger, Franz Marc, Walker Percy, Peter Sloterdijk, Boris Groys, and Paul Klee. Between 1995 and 2005, he directed three European branches of the Cervantes Institute (Bremen, Lisbon, and Naples), and since January 2006, he has been the Director of Exhibitions at the Juan March Foundation.

He has organized numerous exhibitions on modern and contemporary art, among others: The Abstract City. 1966: the birth of the Spanish Museum of Abstract Art (2006); The abstraction of landscape. From Nordic Romanticism to Abstract Expressionism (2007); The Total Enlightenment. Conceptual Art from Moscow, 1960-1990 (2008); Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) (2010); Aleksander Deineka (1899-1969). A vanguard for the proletariat (2011); The applied avant-garde (1890–1950) (2012); Paul Klee: Master of the Bauhaus (2013); Josef Albers: minimal means, maximum effect (2014) Modern Taste. Art Deco in Paris, 1910-1935 (2015), The Never Seen Before. From Informalism to the Post-War Photobook [1945-1965] (2016) and Listening with the eyes. Sound Art in Spain, 1961-2016 (2016).