Kosme M. de Barañano

Kosme de Barañano y Letamendía (born 1952) is a Spanish museologist and professor. He has curated and edited catalogs of more than fifty exhibitions in European and American museums. He is considered an expert in the work of Eduardo Chillida.

In the museum field, he held a fellowship at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. In May 2000 he was appointed director of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art, a position he held until 2004. In addition, he has been part of advisory committees such as those of the Museo del Prado and the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao. He was a member of the Advisory Commission for the creation of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao,

He was also the curator of the exhibition Baselitz-Academy, dedicated to Georg Baselitz, being the first exhibition of a living artist held by the institution in 2019.

In 1990, he curated an exhibition of Alberto Giacometti with 380 works, including sculpture, painting and drawing for the Reina Sofía Museum. In 1992 he did a retrospective of Chillida with 300 works at the Palacio de Miramar in San Sebastián.

In the academic field, he was a researcher at the University of Heidelberg, full-professor of art history at the University of the Basque Country, and full-professor of Methodology of art history at the Miguel Hernández University. In addition, he was a visiting professor at the IUAV di Venezia, the Venezia-Verona and the University of Berlin.

Aside from these, he has collaborated with written media such as the newspapers El País, La Gaceta del Norte and ''El Correo,