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Second lecture in the first series on the exhibition Masaveu Collection. Twentieth-Century Spanish Art: From Picasso to Barceló, directed by the curator of the exhibition, María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco.

In this lecture, María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco, curator of the exhibition and director of the series, will talk about the artistic avant-gardes of the twentieth century.

All lectures take place at 7:15 pm in the María Cristina Masaveu Auditorium.

IMPORTANT: Free admission on a first come, first served basis. Tickets (one per person) can be collected at the Foundation’s ticket office from one hour before the start of the lecture. One third of the tickets will be available for booking through the website from 7 DAYS before the event. For any queries, please contact infomadrid@fmcmp.com

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco
PhD in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid (1987), for which she obtained the outstanding thesis award, and MA in Art History and Museum Training from the George Washington University in Washington DC (1988–1990). She completed her post-doctoral training by taking part in the Ministry of Education and Science Reincorporation Programme for PhD Holders and Technologists, assigned to the Department of Art History III (Contemporary) at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1995 she was appointed associate lecturer in the Department of Art History III of the Faculty of Geography and History at the Complutense University of Madrid, and in 1998 she acquired senior lecturer status. Between 2002 and 2006, she taught on secondment in the Humanities Department of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. In 2014 she was a visiting lecturer at the Tres de Febrero University in Buenos Aires, and in 2017 she was appointed King Juan Carlos I Professor of Spanish Culture and Civilisation at New York University. Between January 2018 (following the merger of the former departments of Medieval, Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Complutense University) and September 2020, she was director of the Art History Department.

Twentieth-century art is her primary research interest, with a particular emphasis on the art-politics relationship, collecting and museums, as well as Juan Gris and cubism. This has led to monographs for publishing houses like Alianza, Electa, El Viso, Ariel, Acantilado, Cátedra and Antonio Machado.

She has curated exhibitions for the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (including Campo Cerrado: Art and Power in Post-War Spain, 1939–1953, 2016), Fundación Juan March, Fundación Mapfre, Fundación César Manrique, Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior (SEACEX), Museu de Belles Arts, Valencia, Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza and other institutions. She has also collaborated with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Phillips Collection in Washington DC.

Between September 2020 and November 2021, she was director general of Cultural Heritage and Fine Arts at the Ministry of Culture and Sport, and she has been a member of the Royal Board of Trustees of the Museo Nacional del Prado since 2013.