Lara Fluxà Wins the Pilar Forcada ART Situacions Prize – ARCOmadrid 2025
Sponsored by Honda – Greens, the prize recognizes the best emerging artwork at ARCOmadrid 2025.
The prize, valued at €15,000, was awarded on Thursday, March 6, at 4:30 PM in the AVWL Room (Hall 9).
Madrid, March 6, 2025 – This afternoon, the Pilar Forcada ART Situacions Prize – ARCOmadrid 2025, valued at €15,000, was awarded to the Mallorca-born and Barcelona-based artist Lara Fluxà.
The prize was presented on Thursday, March 6, in the AVWL Room by Maribel López, Director of ARCOmadrid; Marcel Pascual, Director and Sponsor of ART Situacions; and jury members Lorena M. de Coral and Ferran Barenblit. The winning piece will be added to the ART Situacions collection.
Established in 2017, the prize was renamed the Pilar Forcada ART Situacions Prize in 2022, in memory of the founder and director of ART Situacions. Her husband, Marcel Pascual, General Director of Honda – Greens, has taken over to continue this initiative, which his wife led with great passion and success.
About the Winning Artwork
The prize was awarded to the piece Flure, by artist Lara Fluxà, presented at ARCO by the Catalan gallery Bombon Projects – Art Gallery. The artwork is crafted from iron and glass.
Lara Fluxà works with fragile materials such as water, air, salt, tar, light, and glass to reflect on the delicate balance of ecosystems. Her work highlights the importance of care in contrast to the omnipresent development of extractive and exploitative activities. It invites us to rethink our relationship with the environment and to build new integrated and collaborative ways of existence. Through her artistic practice, she questions our approach to production and our response to the ecological crisis, placing the viewer in a position where awareness and responsibility become inescapable.
About the Artist
Lara Fluxà holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and a Master’s in Artistic Production and Research.
Her solo exhibitions have been held at Bombon Projects (Barcelona, 2024), the Catalan Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (Venice, 2022), Es Baluard (Palma de Mallorca, 2021), ProjecteSD (Barcelona, 2019), Espai 13 at the Miró Foundation (Barcelona, 2018), Lo Pati (Amposta, 2017), and Fundació Felicia Fuster (Barcelona, 2015), among others.
Her group exhibitions include shows at MACBA (Barcelona, 2024), Patio Herreriano (Valladolid, 2024), Casal Solleric (Mallorca, 2024 and 2021), Espai Zape (Valencia, 2022), Tecla Sala (Hospitalet, 2020), La Capella (Barcelona, 2020), Museu Contemporani d’Eivissa (Ibiza, 2020), La Casa Encendida (Madrid, 2020), AND Platform (Barcelona, 2019), Bombon Projects (Barcelona, 2019), and MUU Kaapeli (Helsinki, 2014), among others.
Her work is part of public collections such as MACBA (Barcelona), Es Baluard (Mallorca), and FRAC Corse (France). She has received the Ciutat de Palma Antoni Gelabert Prize for Visual Arts (2023) and a prize from the Catalan Association of Art Critics (2019), among others.
