Winner of the first edition

(Valladolid 1981)

This artist’s latest exhibitions include ‘Sal metálica’ at the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid and the group exhibition ‘Doblad mis amores!’ curated by Chus Martínez at Collegium, Arévalo. Her work has been part of exhibitions in institutions and museums such as TBA21, CA2M, Tabacalera, Matadero and La Casa Encendida in Madrid, Can Felipa. Fabra i Coats, Caixaforum and MACBA in Barcelona. Her work is present in collections such as TBA21, La Caixa, CA2M, among others. Belén holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Akademie der bildende Künste in Vienna since 2010, where she studied with Professor Heimo Zobernig, and a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her work can currently be seen in the exhibition ‘Itinerarios’, at the Centro Botín, Santander and in the exhibition ‘Epílogos’, at MUSAC, León.

Winner of the second edition

(Vigo, 1983)

Olmo graduated in Visual Arts at the Facultade de Belas Artes de Pontevedra, obtained a master's degree in Artistic Production at the Universitat Politècnica de València and in 2016 completed the SOMA Educational Programme in Mexico City.
His exhibitions include ‘Vacacional’ (2022) at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Xixón, ‘Lo fingido verdadero’ (2021) a site-specific intervention for Casa de Lope de Vega, Madrid, ‘Inestimable Azar’ (2020) XIV Bienal FEMSA, Mexico, ‘Todo sucede como si’ (2019) Can Felipa Arts Visuals, Barcelona and ‘Crisis?, What Crisis?’ (2018) Tenerife Espacio de las Artes. His work has been screened at Cineteca Madrid, at (S8) XIV Mostra de Cinema Periférico de A Coruña or at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Olmo Cuña's activity is based on everyday experiences in the different places around him, with a particular interest in observing and questioning how the most generalised forms of approach to the territory work through the image. His practice, based on the encounter between manual and digital processes, often involves activations that seek to propose other conditions of perception in relation to a given cultural, landscape or urban scenario.

Winner of the third edition

(Madrid, 1982)

Elvira Amor holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Castilla-La Mancha. She has lived and studied in Madrid, Cuenca, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Puebla (Mexico), Brussels (Belgium) and Yogyakarta (Indonesia), developing different projects. She is currently part of the Nave Oporto collective studio. She has had solo exhibitions at CAB Centro de Arte de Burgos, Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Alimentación 30 and García Galería.

Recently she has had solo exhibitions at Labs Contemporary (Bologna) and Untitled Art Contemporani (Andorra). She has held collective exhibitions at the Pallazo delle Esposizioni, Academia de España, Rome; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid; Estudio 50, Havana; Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid; Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca; Convento de Santa Clara, Sevilla; Quinto Piso, Mexico City; or Galería El Mirador, Fundación Lebensohn, CCEBA-AECID, Buenos Aires.

She has received a grant from the Spanish Academy in Rome, the VEGAP grant for the creation of visual art and the Banco Santander-Open Studio Foundation prize for artistic production.

She attended the JAI Instituto de Prácticas Artísticas programme and has participated in residencies at the Fundación Bilbao Arte, Villavergerie in Huesca, Kankabal or Zona Seis, both in Mexico, and Mundo Dios, Argentina.

Winner of the fourth edition

(Granada, 1982)

Pablo Capitán del Río has a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Granada and a Master's Degree in Artistic Production from the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

He has had both group and solo exhibitions, the most recent being R E S O L I A at Half House in Barcelona, La fuga ebria at the Artnueve Gallery in Murcia, El museo insolado Centro José Guerrero in Granada and Casi-invisible in the Permanent Collection of Urban Art of the Cruzcampo Foundation.
He has been awarded the ArtSituations prize, the Certamen Unicaja de Artes Plásticas prize, the Premio a la Creación Artística de la Diputación de Granada and the Premio Arco Comunidad de Madrid for young artists, among others.

Pablo’s works form part of both public and private collections, including the Centre Pompidou, Ca2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Fundación BilbaoArte, Junta de Andalucía and DKV Arteria.

Winner of the fifth edition

(Santiago de Compostela, 1984)

Jesús Madriñán uses large-format analogue photography to reinterpret and update portraiture as an artistic genre. His production stems from the subversion of studio photography, going beyond its usual parameters to feed on the paradox derived from using traditional and meticulous techniques in situations that are inevitably spontaneous and ungraspable. As a result of this contradiction, series such as Good Night London (2011), Boas noites (2013), Dopo Roma (2016), or I Am Light (2019) emerge. The result is a moving generational portrait in which values such as youth, diversity and tolerance prevail.
His career includes numerous solo exhibitions, among which the following stand out: I Am Light -Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea-, Mil noches y una noche -Centre del Carme, Valencia-, Good Night -Photo IS:RAEL, Tel-Aviv- El tiempo revelado -Centro de Arte Alcobendas-, Washington Store -Embassy of Spain in the USA- and those dedicated to his series Good Night London at the Centro Cultural Kavlin in Punta del Este, Uruguay, and at the Spanish Cultural Centres in Mexico D.F. and Montevideo. He has also participated in prestigious festivals and art fairs such as Paris Photo, Unseen Amsterdam, Photo London, ARCO and the International Photography Awards in New York.

Winner of the sixth edition

(Burgos, 1985)

An artist based in Barcelona whose work has been exhibited in La Panera, Lleida, Àngels barcelona, Aksioma Ljubljana; Württ. Kunstverein Stuttgart and Arebyte London, among others. Mario Santamaría has participated in group exhibitions, such as ‘Songs of the Sky. Photography & the Cloud’, C/O Berlin (2022); “Writing the History of the Future”, ZKM Karlsruhe (2021); “Infosphere”, CENART Mexico (2017); “Species of Spaces”. MACBA (2015). Santamaria is a university lecturer at BAU and Elisava, Barcelona, and has also been a visiting professor at universities such as Trinity College Dublin, Universität Bremen, ISIA Urbino and UC Berkeley. Santamaria was awarded the Premi Obra Miquel Casablancas (2020), finalist of the Fotomuseum Winterthur Post-Photography Award (2016) and has completed residencies at Sarai, New Delhi (2012); Hangar, Barcelona (2014-2015) and HISK, Ghent (2016).

Winner of the seventh edition

Madrid (1992)

This artist lives and works in Madrid, although he grew up in the heart of La Mancha, in La Puebla de Almoradiel (Toledo).

Between the domestic and the urban, the public and the private, his projects come from small everyday phenomena of a subtle and marginal nature. Despite being overlooked on a daily basis, they have a great symbolic value, mainly of an identitarian nature. His work focuses on the visual language of this threshold, exploring its material and pictorial possibilities.

This has led him to work with elements as diverse as the doormats of the building where he lives in Madrid and those of his loved ones, the curtains that protect the doors of the houses in the villages of La Mancha, the urban and symbolic imaginary of the city of Madrid through graffiti and night lights, and the figure of the cat as a recurring symbol of the home and the street.

Winner of the eighth edition

(Barcelona, 1992)

Monica Planes lives and works in Barcelona. She holds a Master's degree in Artistic Production and Research (2016) and a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (2014).

She has presented her work individually at the Fundación Suñol (Barcelona, 2017), with Alejandro Palacín at the Fundación Arranz-Bravo (L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 2018), at the Centro Cívico Can Felipa (Barcelona, 2020), at the Galeria Ángels Barcelona (Barcelona, 2021, Art Nou 2017), with Pipistrello (Baixempordà, 2021) and at the Gelateria Sognio di Gicchio in Bologna (Bologna, 2022). She has also participated in group exhibitions at La Casa Encendida (2024), Artiatx (2020), Halfhouse (20219) and Nogueras Blanchard (2019).

In recent years she has received grants from the Felícia Fuster Foundation (2016), Han Nefkens - Potgraduados UB (2016), Guasch-Coranty Foundation (2017), Injuve Grants for Young Creation (2018-2019) and Barcelona Crea 2021 (2022). She was selected for the Art Jove Prize of the Sala d'Art Jove (2018), the III Premio Cervezas Alhambra (ARCO, 2019), the Miquel Casablancas Prize (2020), the Bienal de Arte Ciutad de Amposta BIAM (2020, 2018) and the Premio Generación 2023 of La Casa Encendida. She has recently participated in the group exhibitions 'Lo que pesa una cabeza' at the TEA in Tenerife, 'Remedios. Donde podría crecer una nueva tierra' produced by TBA21 at C3A in Córdoba and 'Turno de réplica. Cuestión de piel' at the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid. Last year she also completed a residency at Bulegoa z/b in Bilbao and at the Real Academia de España in Rome.

Winner of the ninth edition

(Balmaseda, 1992)

Artist and PhD student in Contemporary Art Research at the Universidad del País Vasco, she specialised her studies at the Performance Atelier of the University of Brno (Czech Republic, 2013/14). Selected for the Generation 2024 Prize of the Casa Encendida (Madrid) and Basque Artist Program Guggenheim Bilbao & NY (2024), she won the IX Prize for artistic production of the Fundación Banco Santander with Open Studio 2021 and the Casal Solleric Exhibition Prize 2017 (Palma de Mallorca), as well as being a finalist several years in a row for the Premi Miquel Casablancas (BCN). Her work has been part of Babestu AZ-Alhondiga 2020/21 (Bilbao), Barriek 2020 (Bilbao), INJUVE 2018/19 (Madrid) and Bilbao Arte Fundazioa 2016 (Bilbao). In addition to participating in exhibitions at Intermediae-Matadero (Madrid, 2023/24), Sala Rekalde (Bilbao, 2023), RAUMMG16 (Cologne-DEU, 2022), Ateljéföreningen Hospitalet (Uppsala-SWE, 2022), LOOP Festival (BCN, 2020), Pablo's Birthday (NY, 2019), ZSenne Art Lab (Brussels-BE, 2019), Centro Cultural Montehermoso (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2019), A-DASH Space (Athens-GR, 2018), Okela (Bilbao, 2016) or in Farm Cultural Park (Sicily-IT, 2014) among others.

Winner of the tenth edition

(Bilbao, 1997)

Andrea Aguilera works with the photographic image as an impulse and sculpting out of desire. Her practice is based on researching and exploring the spaces created between the two. Mass production, pattern and repetition are elements that appear in her work materialised through gesture. Andrea questions new ways of approaching the photographic image and its languages, reinterpreting the reading of the subject beyond the intention of the register.

She has a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad del País Vasco and has also trained at JAI, Instituto de Prácticas Artísticas.