Miguel López-Remiro Forcada (Pamplona, ??1977) has been elected as the new director of the Picasso Museum Málaga two days before the end of the term of José Lebrero, who has led the museum in Malaga since 2009. The decision has been announced this Friday by the Picasso Museum Foundation after a long selection process that lasted nine months. In a brief statement, the museum’s governing body limits itself to saying that López-Remiro “has been chosen due to his suitability to assume this key role in the institution and based on the bases of the international competition called.”
Miguel López-Remiro has a degree in Economics, and a Doctor in Philosophy and Letters, Aesthetics and Theory of Art from the University of Navarra, he is also an Executive MBA from IESE and a graduate of the Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont University in Los Angeles. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, San Diego and is editor of the first anthology of Mark Rothko’s texts with Yale University Press and Flammarion. He has also served as a professor at the European University of Madrid in the School of Architecture, Engineering and Design and its new Creative Campus, and has been deputy curatorial director of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, founding director of the University of Navarra Museum, and curator at institutions such as the Sorigué Foundation or the Otazu Foundation.
The new director will lead the museum for the next five years, until 2029, and will take office “effectively” in early January. Miguel López-Remiro will have a gross annual salary of 80,000 euros, plus an allowance of up to 35,000 euros per year for housing, and up to 5,000 euros per year for private trips. The international competition to find a replacement for Lebrero opened last March and the deadline for submitting candidates closed in July, the selection of which was carried out by a committee made up of Laurent Le Bon, president of the Pompidou Center in Paris; Samuel Keller, director of the Beyeler Foundation in Basel; Karole Vail, director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice; Lola Jiménez-Blanco, former general director of Fine Arts, and Eugenio Carmona, professor of Art History.
