The Convocatòria d’Arts Visuals Miquel Casablancas is a national young art award that includes four modalities: work, project, research, and graphic communication. Last Friday, La Fabra Centre d’Art Contemporani, in the Sant Andreu neighborhood of Barcelona, awarded this year's prizes and, in addition, premiered Encarnar-se en la demora, the exhibition that brings together all the finalist works in the work modality, as well as the finalist dossiers of the other modalities and which can be visited until July 19.
The exhibition is organized by Sant Andreu Contemporani, a public program articulated around the Miquel Casablancas Visual Arts Call dedicated to young art and critical thinking within the Sant Andreu district, with the support of the Barcelona Institute of Culture (ICUB). The program fosters experience in the artistic professionalization stage through the production of exhibition projects, residencies for artists and curators, and the programming of activities.
In this edition, the Miquel Casablancas Award received 222 applications, which were reviewed by a jury composed of Carolina Ciuti (independent curator), Ángel Calvo Ulloa (critic and independent curator), Irene Coscarella (curator winner of SAC International Curatorial Residency Program 2026) and Claudia Segura (MACBA).
This year the finalists in the work modality were Mariona Cañadas and Pedro Murúa, Viva, Mario Manso, Martaroc.work, Usama Mossa Chaty, Mourae, Laura Palau Barreda, Helena Ripoll, Francesc Ruiz Abad, Marta van Tartwijk. Those in the project production category were Marc Anglès, Elsa Casanova, Lucas Marcos Barquilla, Aura Roig. And those in research were Maria Rosa Aránega, Aïda Escarré, Lior Zalis Graphic communication: MARGEM, Marian Vélez, Miguel Vides.
The winners were Helena Ripoll for the Work Award; Marc Anglès for Project Production; Aïda Escarré and Lior Zalis for the Research Award and MARGEM for the Graphic Communication Award.
