The Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, inaugurated in 2008, has become a benchmark in contemporary art at both national and international levels. Located in Móstoles, in the south of the Community of Madrid, it has made its own territorial position one of its greatest strengths. Its peripheral, decentralized, eccentric and outlying location is understood as a possibility for building imaginary geographies. This public museum, with low institutionality, safeguards the contemporary art collection of the Community of Madrid and the ARCO Foundation and works around the potentialities of contemporary practice through artistic production, exhibitions, thought, research and conservation of its collections. The CA2M is a museum that speaks volumes to establish dialogues that allow expanding institutional boundaries through its exhibitions and activities based on affective policies. A center that debates between the idea of a powerhouse, as Alexander Dorner conceived it—an electrical power plant in continuous operation—and the experiential body of radical imagination that Pontús Hultén spoke of.

Tania Pardo (Madrid, 1976)

Degree holder in Art History, curator and researcher, she is currently director of the Museo CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, where she previously served as Deputy Director (2019-2013). She has also been Advisor for Plastic Arts of the Community of Madrid (2019-2023). Head of Exhibitions at La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2015-2019). She was Director of Projects at the Fundación Santander 2016 (2009-2010); was part of the team at MUSAC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and León, León (2003-2009) and was a professor of Art History at the UCM, Complutense University of Madrid (2014-2019). As a curator, she has developed various projects in both national and international institutions, has regularly written as an art critic in different media and develops various projects at the intersection of artistic, social, and educational fields.

Other museums, other perspectives is a lecture series in which directors of other museums are invited to speak about their experiences, histories and knowledge in the management and direction of the museums in which they have worked.

Coordinated by: Isabel Tejeda

In collaboration with: Consellería de Educación, Cultura, "Consellería de Educación, Cultura, Universidades y Empleo de la Generalitat Valenciana (201)"