Manuel Cirauqui

Manuel Cirauqui (b. 1978) is a curator and writer, working at the crossroads of contemporary art, design strategy, and experimental academia. He is the director of Eina/Idea, a think tank and programming platform within EINA. Cirauqui has served as curator at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao since 2016, and is a collaborator of STARTS, an initiative of the European Commission to foster productive dialogue between science, technology, and the arts.

Holding a degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and after a period of independent research at EHESS (École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) and INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales) in Paris, he obtained a Masters degree in Esthetics and Contemporary Art Theory from Paris Nanterre University.