Tenured professor of Art Aesthetics and Theory at the University of Vigo, Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego is Doctor in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Coordinator of the University of Vigo’s Master of Contemporary Arts: Research and Creation, Ruiz de Samaniego was the director of the Luis Seoane Foundation of A Coruña (2008-2011). He received the Espais Award for art criticism as a cultural critic and curator and was curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Art Biennale. He has published numerous books, including: Maurice Blanchot: una estética de lo neutro (1999), Semillas del tiempo (1999), La inflexión posmoderna: los márgenes de la modernidad (2004), James Casebere (2005), Belleza de otro mundo. Apuntes sobre algunas poéticas del inmovilismo (2005), Paisaje fotográfico. Entre Dios y la fotografía (2007), and Ser y no ser. Figuras en el dominio de lo espectral (2013). He has curated exhibitions by artists Antón Lamazares, Luis Seoane, Xesús Vázquez, Chema de Luelmo and Manuel Vilariño as well as a range of contemporary art group exhibitions (La Isla Futura: arte joven cubano; Arte y nihilismo; 5000 años de arte moderno; Arte y enfermedad) and exhibitions Georges Perec: Tentativa de inventario; Atlantikwall. Arquitecturas bélicas en las playas del oeste; Andrei Tarkovski: fidelidad a una obsesión; La escultura en Fritz Lang; Unterwegs: al paso de Walter Benjamin; and Cabañas para pensar.
