Lara Fluxà Wins the Pilar Forcada ART Situacions Prize – ARCOmadrid 2025
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.
A Project of Patronage and Passion for Art
Aware of the scarcity of opportunities facing the youngest sector of contemporary art, ART Situacions, which arose from the personal desire of the Catalan collector couple Pilar Forcada and Marcel Pascual to contribute to invigorating the artistic fabric, was born in 2011 to promote emerging art through economic support for creation. As a result, two editions have already been held. The first took place in 2012 with Portugal as the guest country and featured the participation of Spanish artists Patricia Dauder, Pepe Cifuentes, Francesc Ruiz, Juan López Díez, Miki Leal, Jaime de la Jara, Santiago Giralda, Nuria Fuster, and the Portuguese artists Mauro Cerqueira and Carla Filipe. The second was held in 2016 with the Italian artists Ludovica Carbotta, Gabriele de Santis, Anna Franceschini, Diego Marcon, and Alek O. and the Spanish artists Miren Doiz, José Guerrero, Rubén Guerrero, Teresa Solar Abboud, and Anna Talens. Finally, the third initiative strengthened ties with France and brought together the work of five Spanish artists and five French artists: Elena Aitzkoa, Nora Aurrekoetxea, Lucía Bayón, Aleix Plademunt, and Pablo Capitán del Río, along with the French artists Salomé Chatriot, Marie-Luce Nadal, Benoît Piéron, Elsa Brès, and Yoan Sorin. They were selected by a committee formed by María de Corral, Lorena Martínez de Corral, Chus Martínez, and Vicent Todolí.
Following the passing of Pilar Forcada in 2021, her husband Marcel Pascual, collector and general manager of Honda-Greens, has taken over the direction of ART Situacions with the will to give continuity to the project in memory of his wife and their shared passion for art for over 50 years. “For almost half a century we have built together an eclectic and diverse collection, where alongside renowned artists we incorporate works by emerging promises,” says Marcel Pascual. “It has given us great joy to have contributed with our support to ensuring that a good number of artists have been able to dedicate themselves exclusively to creation.”
In addition, between 2017 and 2022, ART Situacions convened the annual ART Situacions ARCOmadrid award to recognize the best work of emerging art at the fair. Its winners have been: Antonio Ballester Moreno (2017), Carlos Irijalba (2018), Patricia Gómez and María Jesús González (2019), Asunción Molinos Gordo (2020), and Irma Álvarez-Laviada (2022).
