{"id":3270,"date":"2026-03-05T20:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsituacions.com\/en\/?page_id=3270"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:35:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:35:37","slug":"art-situacions-arcomadrid-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.artsituacions.com\/en\/art-situacions-arcomadrid-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"ART Situacions ARCOmadrid 2026 Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sponsorship and direction:<\/strong>\r\nMarcel Pascual\r\n
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Previous editions:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n2025<\/a>
\r\n 2022<\/a>
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\r\n 2018<\/a>
\r\n 2017<\/a>
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Cristina Lucas receives the Pilar Forcada ART Situacions – ARCOmadrid 2026 Prize<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n

Sponsored by Honda \u2013 \r\nGreens, the award \r\nrecognizes the best \r\nemerging artwork at \r\nARCOmadrid 2025.\r\n<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

With a prize of \u20ac15,000, \r\nthe prize was presented \r\non Thursday, March 5, at \r\nthe gallery Albarr\u00e1n \r\nBourdais stand. \r\n<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Madrid, March 5, 2026.- <\/strong>Today the \r\nPilar Forcada ART Situacions \u2013 \r\nARCOmadrid 2026 Prize, worth \r\n\u20ac15,000, was awarded to Cristina \r\nLucas, an artist born in Ja\u00e9n and based \r\nin Madrid. \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The prize was presented to Galer\u00eda Albarr\u00e1n Bourdais, which represents the award-winning artist, during a very emotional ceremony that paid special tribute to the memory of its founder, Pilar Forcada. The event featured remarks from Maribel L\u00f3pez, Director of ARCOmadrid; Marcel Pascual, Director and Patron of ART Situacions; and jury members Lorena M. de Coral and Ferran Barenblit. The winning work will be incorporated into the ART Situacions collection. \r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The prize, first established in 2017, has taken on a particularly special significance since its most recent edition, when it was renamed the Pilar Forcada ART Situacions Prize in memory of the founder and director of ART Situacions, the driving spirit behind the project, who sadly is no longer with us. Her husband, Marcel Pascual, Managing Director of Honda-Greens, has taken up the mantle to continue this initiative, which his wife led with great enthusiasm and success. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Maribel L\u00f3pez, Lorena M. De Corral, Cristina Lucas, Marcel Pascual i Ferran Barenblit a la cerim\u00f2nia de lliurament. Foto: David Nieto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

 
About the winning work <\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The prize has been awarded to the work D.A.N.C.E (Dynamic Algorithm, Neural Creative Evolution) 3, which is part of a larger series by the artist Cristina Lucas. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The transparent series \u201cComposiciones\u201d refers to the revolution of big data: data processing, the loss of privacy, and the exponential use of screens and camera-equipped devices that enable constant surveillance. The works are assembled from key elements used in the manufacture of screens, such as cobalt, manganese, nickel, zinc, and lithium. Through the use of these materials\u2014linked to geopolitical conflicts, child labor, and pollution, as well as to the vital development of the human body\u2014Lucas reminds us that materiality is not abstract, but concrete. \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

D.A.N.C.E (Dynamic Algorithm, Neural Creative Evolution) 3, de 200 x 150 cm, measuring 200 \u00d7 150 cm, is a unique piece made with next-generation electronic components, cobalt, lithium, nickel, manganese, silicon, copper, and resin on transparent acrylic. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

 
About the artist <\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Through her work, Cristina Lucas reminds us that art is a form of seduction that helps make us aware of what is happening in our society. Interested in the mechanisms of power, she analyzes political and economic structures, dissecting them to reveal the contradictions between official history, reality, and collective memory. \r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Working across a variety of media\u2014including sculpture, video, painting, photography, and performance\u2014Lucas confronts the flow of information and structures it into cartographies, installations, or images, creating possible interpretations that nevertheless always remain unfinished. \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Works by Cristina Lucas include the performance \u201cHabla\u201d (2008), in which the artist strikes with a hammer a reproduction of Michelangelo Buonarroti\u2019s Moses, alluding to the legend that the artist carved into the knee of his sculpture; as well as pictorial compositions made with the same chemical elements that constitute the human body, produced through the uncontrolled chemical reactions of those elements. With a distinctive satirical style, the artist interprets cultural and political stereotypes and broadens perspectives to incorporate viewpoints drawn from intimacy and everyday life. \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Her work is included in international collections such as the Centre Pompidou (Paris); Fundaci\u00f3 \u201cla Caixa\u201d (Barcelona); Banco de Espa\u00f1a (Madrid); Mudam (Luxembourg); FRAC Lorraine (Metz); IVAM \u2013 Institut Valenci\u00e0 d\u2019Art Modern (Valencia); Kiasma \u2013 National Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki); Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven); Fundaci\u00f3n NMAC Montenmedio (C\u00e1diz); The Coppel Collection (Mexico); and the Bulgari Collection (Rome), among others. \r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n