2025 Pilar Juncosa Awards and Grants …. And the winners are!

Pilar Juncosa Biennial Award for Artistic Creation 2025

Pedro Luís Cembranos

Madrid, 1973

Awarded project with €30,000: Expiravit

This project is linked to the serial and multiple nature of graphic art, revolving around the limits and meanings of original and copy, the concept of representation based on repetition as a work process, and the notion of replica in Eastern thought. The project to be carried out involves the use of paper and edition as a sculptural medium through the formal study of copying techniques and resources from classical Roman statuary and the examples of it found on the island of Mallorca, starting from the serial reconstruction of the work of Joan Miró.

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Pedro Luis Cembranos / Instagram: @pedroluiscembranos

His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, having received various awards and grants such as the Multivers Grant for Video Art Creation from the BBVA Foundation, the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome Grant, the Casa de Velázquez Grant, the Proposals Grant from the Art i Dret Foundation, the ArtistaXArtista Grant in Havana, the Contemporary Grant from Essaouira in Morocco, the Portuguese Screenprinting Center Grant in Lisbon, the Druckvereiningung Foundation Grant in Germany, Visual Arts Creation Grants from the Community of Madrid, International Mobility Grants for Creators from Escorxador-Madrid to Brazil, the Young Artist Awards from the Artist’s Book Prize of the Ankaria Foundation, and the Generation 2003 and Generation 2006 Awards from the Montemadrid Foundation.

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Pilar Juncosa 2025 Grant for an Artistic Education Project

Tina Codina Perez & Taller d’Art Esment

Palma de Majorca

Awarded project with 3.000€: Treballo com un jardiner

Treballo com un jardiner (I Work Like a Gardener) is a collective game made of art and imagination. Based on a set of modular pieces created by the artists of Esment’s Art Workshop and Connecta Cultura (Tina Codina) and inspired by the universe of Joan Miró, participants are invited to build and transform a shared garden within the Fundació Miró Mallorca or in other. This garden is not only an aesthetic metaphor but a living ecosystem, inspired by Lynn Margulis’ theories on symbiosis and interdependence between species. Each piece, like each organism, makes sense in relation to the others: it grows, mutates, disappears, or reappears, shaping a collective landscape that changes with every new intervention.

The result is an open and constantly evolving space, where the diversity of participants becomes the creative engine. More than a finished artwork, it is a living process: a garden that blossoms through collaboration and interconnection.

Connecta Cultura & Taller Art Esment

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Tina Codina & Taller d’Art Esment 

Connecta Cultura (Tina Codina) and the Taller d’Art d’Esment (Esment Art Workshop) share a common vision: art as a driving force for social transformation, inclusion, and collective creation. Our collaboration stems from the conviction that artistic processes, when developed through diversity and mediation, can generate real spaces for encounter and mutual recognition. This complicity has already borne fruit in two previous projects. With Redibuixant Canamunt (Redrawing Canamunt), a project promoted by Es Baluard Museu, we explored the neighborhood through drawing and community action. With Cartografies de la memòria col·lectiva (Cartographies of Collective Memory), winner of the Teatre Principal residencies managed by Casa Planas, we opened a dialogue between image, archive, memory, and creation, giving voice to multiple stories and creating pathways for the collective narrative to be built into a piece of scenic and exhibition experimentation that places the audience in the role of active agent.

This journey has allowed us to consolidate our own methodology, where the artists of Esment are not passive participants but co-authors and active agents of the proposals, and where the mediation by Connecta Cultura becomes an inseparable part of the work. The project Treballo com un jardiner (I Work Like a Gardener) is the next step on this shared path: a living installation that once again brings art, diversity, and community together in the same creative ecosystem.

4 Training Grants to participate in the Courses of the Joan Miró Graphic Arts Workshops

Awarded with 2.000€. In this edition, the grants have been awarded to:

1. Maria Marinelli / Spoleto (Itàlia), 1992 / Instagram: @maria.marinelli.art  / www.marinellimaria.com
2. Lin Calle / Hubei (Xina), 1994 / Instagram: @lin.calle /  www.lincalle.com
3. Maria Gurikhina / Rússia, 1998 / Instragram: @art_mag_reality / www.mariagurikhina.com
4. Teresa Moro / Madrid, 1970 / Instagram: @teresamorovg / http://teresamoro.blogspot.com/

Beca de residència i participació a The Slade School of Fine Art, University College, Londres

Awarded with 4.000 € to cover travel, accommodation, etc., expenses in London.

Jaime González Palencia

Majorca, 1997

The project draws on the historical cabinets of curiosities to connect them with the digital archives of the 21st century, where chaotic collecting, post-truth, and fiction generate new narratives. Through a pseudo-science and a reimagined history, I unfold an aesthetic world in which painting plays a leading role, becoming the space where images and found objects are resignified and intertwined with the present.

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Jaime González Palencia

Jaime González Palencia (Mallorca, 1997) is a visual artist with a master’s degree from Minerva Art Academy in Groningen. His practice, rooted in figurative painting and expanded through digital archives and mixed media, examines how images circulate, are re-signified, and woven into historical and personal narratives. He has exhibited with spaces such as Fran Reus, Lapislázuli Gallery, and Noord Gallerie, and at art fairs like Supermarket Art Fair and FARRA. Recently, he presented his solo show And other rusty shines at De Tunnel (Utrecht) and participated in the Ongekend Young Masters auction with Kers Gallery and Adam Amsterdam Auctions.