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Manuel Segade (A Coruña, Spain, 1977) has a BI in History of Art from the University of Santiago de Compostela. His dissertation was a review on theatricality and allegorical linguistic structures in the sculpture from the 1980s through the work of Juan Muñoz. Since 1998 he works in fragments of a cultural history of aesthetical practices of the end of the XIXth Century, around the production of a somatic and sexualized subjectivity, about what he published the essay "Narciso Fin de Siglo" (Melusina, 2008).

In 2005 and 2006 he served as content coordinator for the Metrònom Fundació Rafael Tous d'Art Contemporani in Barcelona. From 2007 to 2009 he was a curator of the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea in Santiago de Compostela. In 2009 he resumed his freelance activity as a researcher and independent curator producing and curating projects for Fundació Joan Miró, La Casa Encendida, ARCO, MUSAC, Centre d'Art La Panera, Pavillon Vendôme (France), Kadist Foundation (France), Bienal de Cuenca (Ecuador), ArteBA (Buenos Aires) TENT, (Róterdam) o el CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles (Madrid). He has been teacher of curatorial practices in post-graduate programmes such as Honnours in Curatorship of Michaelis University in Cape Town (South Africa) or the MACBA Independent Studies Programme. He is tutor of the École du Magasin, Grenoble (France). His last projects are focused on new approaches to curatorial practices. He currently lives in Madrid (Spain) where he is the director of CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo.