Awardees of the Pilar Juncosa Awards and Scholarships 2026

Pilar Juncosa Biennial Award for Publishing 2026

Raquel Martínez Sánchez

Granollers (Barcelona), 1984

Project awarded with €12.000: Recording light

Recording light is a research project exploring the direct recording of light on photopolymer plates. Unlike conventional processes, in which light is used to transfer a pre-existing image onto a photosensitive plate, this project proposes using light itself to construct the matrix and generate the image. Through experimentation with different light sources and exposure conditions, the project investigates the material’s response and the expressive possibilities of this process. The research aims to develop an original working methodology and to produce a series of prints, thereby expanding the possibilities of photopolymer within contemporary printmaking.

Brief biography

Raquel Martínez Sánchez / Instagram: @raquel_martisa

Raquel Martisa is a visual artist and teacher. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and specialised in printmaking at Escola d’Art i Disseny Llotja. She was awarded a scholarship to undertake a Master’s programme in Artistic Print Media at the Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre in Madrid. She worked for nine years at Thumbprint Editions in London. She currently lives in Catalonia and teaches at Escola d’Art i Disseny Llotja in Barcelona. Her artistic practice focuses on printmaking and photopolymer, and on the investigation of light as a material and as the origin of the image.

Pilar Juncosa Award 2026 for Research on Miró and his context

José Carlos Martín García

Madrid, 1979

Project awarded with €8.000: Escrito en la arena

Escrito en la arena. Sobre escritura y reescritura en Joan Miró (Written in the Sand: On Writing and Rewriting in Joan Miró), based on a poetic text by Joan Miró, focuses on a handwritten notebook produced between 1936 and 1939, during the Spanish Civil War, and conceived as a project for an artist’s book and an illustrated collection of poems.

The notebook brings together poems, notes and ideas that the artist continued to develop for more than thirty years, revising and fragmenting them until they took their definitive form in Le Lézard aux plumes d’or and Ubu aux Baléares, two books from 1971 held in our collection, in which Miró is both author and illustrator.

Through the analysis of notes, publications, correspondence and archival holdings preserved in several institutions, including the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, the research will reconstruct how Miró reused and transformed this manuscript throughout his artistic career, treating it as an open-ended project and a working archive to which he repeatedly returned.

The project will examine not only the successive versions of this text, but also the transformation of Miró’s writing and handwriting itself into an autonomous visual language. Its aim is to demonstrate that writing was not a secondary activity in relation to painting, but rather one of the fundamental fields in which the artist experimented with new forms of creation.

Brief biography

José Carlos Martín García

Carlos Martín is an art historian, exhibition curator, writer and translator. Educated in Spain and Italy, since 2001 he has pursued a professional career in museums, collections and art research. He has served as Chief Curator of Fine Arts at Fundación MAPFRE and as a heritage specialist for the Banco de España Collection, and has worked extensively with institutions including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, CaixaForum, La Fábrica, the Centro José Guerrero and the Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife.

As a curator, his work has focused primarily on twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, with particular attention to the relationships between art, literature, photography and visual culture and, in recent years, to Surrealism and its contemporary reinterpretations. His exhibitions include Miró Poema (Fundación MAPFRE, 2021), Leonora Carrington. Revelación (ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst and Fundación MAPFRE, 2022–2023), Leonora Carrington (Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2025; Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2026), L’Image revenante (Musée Rath–Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Genève), Leonor Fini. Lo sguardo della sfinge (Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2025), Chillida. Poesía es construcción (Centro de Arte Alcobendas, 2025) and Una fuerza del pasado (CaixaForum Barcelona, 2026–2027), as well as projects devoted to Carlos Pérez Siquier, Vanessa Winship, Matías Costa, David Jiménez and Basilio Martín Patino.

He is the author and editor of numerous publications on contemporary art, photography and visual culture, including Miró Poema, Leonora Carrington. Revelación, Cajal. El arte de la ciencia and the two volumes of La Colección del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Claves de lectura. His project Gestos iconoclastas, imágenes heterodoxas was selected for the ”la Caixa” Foundation’s COMISART programme.

Pilar Juncosa Award 2026 for Innovation in Arts Education

Isidoro García-Díaz

Cáceres, 1983

Project awarded with €8.000: Escuchar lo que la máquina no ve

Escuchar lo que la máquina no ve begins with a question: what can listening reveal that an algorithmic interpretation overlooks? Designed for young people aged 18 to 30, the project proposes a sound-art laboratory at Fundació Miró Mallorca. Participants will explore its spaces and Joan Miró’s creative world through listening walks, field recordings and collaborative creation. They will then compare their firsthand experiences with AI-generated responses to identify simplifications, recurring patterns and omissions. The process will lead to collaborative sonic counter-narratives and a final event, El museo que escucha (The Listening Museum), alongside a methodology that the Fundació’s education team can reuse.

Brief biography

Isidoro García-Díaz

Isidoro García-Díaz holds a PhD from the University of Extremadura, where he teaches in the field of music education. His work combines musical practice, university teaching and research in arts and music education, with a particular interest in listening, sound creation, cultural mediation and digital technologies. He is a member of HUM037, the research group «Didáctica, Recursos, Educación Artística y Musical», and leads MUSARTE, an educational innovation group.

Pilar Juncosa Scholarship for Artistic Education projects for the Family Program 2026

Maria Antònia Aloy Brotard

Sencelles, Mallorca, 1979

Project awarded with €3.000: Miró and the Time Travelers

The Miró and the Time Travelers project aims to link the artist with the themes of memory and the passage of time. It is grounded in an exploration of the memory of the spaces and objects inhabited by Joan Miró—specifically the Son Boter house and the items he collected. At the same time, the project’s activities involve artistic experimentation with the passage of time, utilizing depth, material layering, sequences of actions, and visual combinations of elements and objects, allowing the child to create reality and play with the duality of past and present.

Maria Antònia Aloy Brief biography

Maria Antònia Aloy is a cultural creator and communicator who develops projects connecting the community with memory, territory, and identity, with a particular focus on intergenerational transmission. Notable among her projects is Som blat, which she carries out in schools, care homes for the elderly, and in collaboration with organizations such as the Mallorca Literària Foundation. She has also designed and facilitated community spaces for artistic creativity at themed fairs and “Art Nights” across Mallorca.

Instagram: @mantonia_aloy

Pilar Juncosa Scholarship for Artistic Education projects for the Family Program 2026

Marina Uguet Ibáñez

Felanitx, Mallorca, 1991

Project awarded with €3.000: Laboratori Miró

Laboratori Miró is an educational programme for families that transforms a visit to the Fundació Miró Mallorca into a shared creative experience. Inspired by Joan Miró’s creative process, the project uses printmaking as a tool to encourage curiosity, experimentation, play and dialogue between children and adults. Far from reproducing the artist’s works, it invites participants to investigate, experiment, make mistakes and discover that all creation is born from a process. The programme incorporates specific adaptations for different age groups, active methodologies and inclusive resources that ensure flexible and meaningful

Marina Uguet Brief biography

Marina Uguet is an illustrator and Early Childhood Education teacher, teacher trainer and organizer of art workshops for children and adults. She has a degree in Fine Arts and Early Childhood Education and a Master’s degree in Illustration from the LABASAD school. Her work has been published in the magazine El Tatano, by Cavall Fort and my first book, Mudança, was published in 2024, with the collaboration of Marina Bennasar. That same year they were awarded the Mallorca Prize for Illustrated Children’s Literature, with the consequent publication in 2025 of our second book, Fugissera. In 2026 her first book as a full-fledged author, Ton pare no té nas, was published.

Instagram: @marina.ugue
Pàgina web: marinauguet.com

4 2026 training grants to participate in the Joan Miró Graphic Works Workshop Courses

Each scholarship is endowed with €2,000. In this edition, the scholarships have been awarded to:

1. Mercedes Balle Quiroga / Palma, 1991 / Instagram: @mercedes.balle  / www.mercedesballe.com
2. Desirée Moreno / Valencia, 1994 / Instagram: @desireemorenog
3. Karolina Wysocka / Poland, 1975 / Instragram: @karolinawysocka /www.karolinawysocka.com
4. Albert Ramírez Bonay /www.albertbonay.com