And the winners are! – 2024 Pilar Juncosa Awards and Grants
Once again, reaffirming the Foundation’s strong commitment, inspired by its founders Joan Miró and Pilar Juncosa, the 2024 awards and grants have been presented, totaling €46,000 to support young artists.
2024 Pilar Juncosa Biennal Printmaking Award
María Isabel Martínez Tudela
Barcelona, 1976
Awarded project with €12,000: Juana y Josefa
The series Juana y Josefa explores the role of the “silenced” woman in rural contexts during the post-war and dictatorship periods in Spain. According to the moral code imposed by Franco, a woman in public was expected to be “virtuous and modest,” and her attire was to reflect this ideal. Institutions like the “Patronato de Protección a la Mujer” exercised strict control over how women were to present themselves in society.
Through artificial intelligence systems and real photography of geographic locations, the series reinterprets and gives visibility to the female figure. The work portrays two women in different Spanish towns during these years, dressed in sophisticated, elegant, and extravagant clothing—far removed from the modest woman archetype. This creates fashion editorial-style images that never existed, prompting reflection on patriarchal models of domination and giving voice to women who were instrumental in the country’s development during that time.
Brief Biography
Isabel Martínez / @IsabelitaVirtual
A Creative Director working at the intersection of art, technology, and communication. With a career spanning leading advertising agencies such as Wunderman, DDB, and Vostè, as well as tech giants like Meta, she has collaborated with globally renowned brands and cultural organizations, including Hermès, Apple, Dior, and NASA. In 2018, she was recognized as a Webby Award Honoree for Best Content in Art and Culture, alongside the Metropolitan Museum and LACMA. She is the only Spanish artist to have showcased her work in Times Square’s Midnight Moment, joining the ranks of artists like Andy Warhol, Björk, and Sophie Calle.
Pilar Juncosa and Sotheby’s Biennal Grant for research into Miró and his artistic and cultural milieu
Guillem Aloy Bibiloni
Palma, 1981
Awarded Project with €8,000: Son Abrines. La casa de Joan Miró i Pilar Juncosa
Son Abrines. La casa de Joan Miró i Pilar Juncosa is an in-depth investigation exploring the period from 1954 to 1960. This study goes beyond the simple history of a house, delving into how Joan Miró and Pilar Juncosa settled in Mallorca and built their residence.
The research draws on unpublished primary sources from public and private archives, as well as a reinterpretation of known documentation, to provide a comprehensive analysis of the architecture of Son Abrines. The project examines the history of the site, the lifestyle, the key figures and architects involved, the interiors, furniture, and artworks it housed. The written essay intertwines this narrative with the transformation of Mallorca in the mid-20th century, reconstructing a house that no longer exists.
Brief Biography
Guillem Aloy Bibiloni
Architect, researcher, lecturer, and coordinator of the Fine Arts degree at ADEMA-UIB (2024-…). Previously, he was a researcher and lecturer at UPC-ETS Architecture Barcelona (2017-2023) and completed research residencies at ENSA Paris-Malaquais (2019) and the Berliner Hochschule für Technik in Berlin (2019). He has published articles in specialized journals on Art, Culture, Architecture, Theater, and Urban Studies.
He regularly contributes to academic discourse as a visiting lecturer at numerous institutions, including the Architectural Association Visiting School (2023), Aarhus School of Architecture (2021-2022), Royal Danish Academy (2022), Universidad Andrés Bello in Santiago de Chile (2022), and ENSA Paris-Malaquais (2022), among others. He earned his degree in Architecture and defended his doctoral thesis (October 2022) in the Department of “Theory and History of Architecture and Communication Techniques” at UPC-ETSAB on the relationship between theater, architecture, and the city of Palma (awarded Cum Laude with International Mention; recipient of the 2017 Ciutat de Palma Research Prize and a 2018 grant from the Institut d’Estudis Catalans).
Pilar Juncosa Award for an Educational Art Project
Georgina Victoria Dezcallar Quadreny
(Palma de Mallorca, 1991)
Alberto Pérez Palos
(Barcelona, 1993)
Awarded Project with €6,000:MiroLab: Exploració Creativa en Espai i Forma
The project MiroLab: Exploració Creativa en Espai i Forma aims to create a sculpture-furniture piece that functions as both artwork and a workshop space for children. Inspired by the sculptural techniques of Joan Miró, the piece will allow students from a primary school in Palma to explore volumetric and constructive possibilities while fostering creativity, teamwork, and learning. Three design and construction sessions will be held using a participatory and artistic methodology, alongside a presentation session with experts in art-education to analyze the sculpture-furniture piece and strengthen strategies for its use.
The main objective is to blend contemporary art with pedagogy, emphasizing the synergy between these two fields and exploring their implications. The project seeks to broaden understanding of how art can enrich education—and vice versa—encouraging reflection on future applications of this fusion within the educational field.
4 Training Grants to Participate in the Graphic Art Workshop Courses of Joan Miró
Each grant is valued at €2,000. In this edition, the grants have been awarded to:
- Caterina De Nisco / Parma (Itàlia), 1991
- Nerea Sanz Ferrer / Madrid, 1992
- Felipe Carrión Penagos / Bogotà, 1994
- Eva Miquel Tortosa / Barcelona, 1970
2 Grants for Accommodation and Participation at La Casa de Velázquez, Madrid
Medina de las Torres, Badajoz, 1993
For his project: “Diferentemente rojos, dos geranios”
The project explores the concept of horizontal heritage, the transmission of knowledge through oral traditions and manual craftsmanship. This heritage resides in the fingertips, at the tip of the tongue; it is left on the surface of a wooden piece of furniture, a marble shelf, or any garden pot. It is the inheritance of storytelling and making, passed from mouth to hands. A horizontal narrative that spreads along the ground through a video installation, presented as an audiovisual essay intertwining times and stories.
Irma Álvarez-Laviada García
Gijón-Asturies, 1978
For her project: “Circunstancias materiales”
A theoretical-practical research project focused on the use of new materials related to design and architecture, and their application in the field of visual and plastic arts, based on rationalist architecture. This will be formalized through sculpture, painting, and installation.
Grant for Accommodation and Participation at The Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London
Alán Carrasco González
Burgos, 1986
For his project: Fierce Fumes
The project Fierce Fumes investigates, through the review of historical sources (graphs, documents, news, and photographs), the environmental pollution episode that occurred in 1952 in London, known as The Great Fog. Using various printmaking techniques that employ charcoal as a connecting element, such as black charcoal inks, drawing charcoals, carbon photographic prints, and the handcrafted creation of pigments for screen printing made from powdered charcoal, the project aims to build a visual genealogy connecting The Great Fog with a shared European history of the coal extractivist economy. The Great Fog also serves as a veiling metaphor for what, within major historical narratives, prevents us from seeing the full picture.
