Marko Daniel biography

Marko Daniel (Aachen, Germany, 1964) graduated in History of Art and Philosophy from University College London (1988) and holds a PhD in the History and Theory of Art, awarded by the University of Essex (1999). He received a grant from the British Academy to do his fieldwork in Barcelona for his doctoral thesis, entitled Art and Propaganda: The Battle for Cultural Property in the Spanish Civil War. In addition, he is an authority on Chinese and Catalan contemporary art. Daniel has pursued his teaching career in Southampton, Taiwan, London and Barcelona. In 2006, he joined Tate Modern in London as its Curator of Public Programmes, going on to head the department for Tate’s two centres in London between 2011 and 2017. Daniel has been the Director of the Fundació Joan Miró since January 2018.