Awards and Aquisitions 2025
Piramidón
This award offers a residency to an artist, providing him/her with a space and resources to support and enrich his/her creative process.
Fundació Úniques
Fundació Úniques is the foundation that promotes contemporary women artists living in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands. Promoting women artists and their work, giving them visibility nationally and especially internationally. Its raison d’être is to promote culture, talent and creativity as a means of social and economic transformation of a country.
R.A.R.O.
Casa R.A.R.O. is a center for artistic creation, production, and dissemination located in Barcelona, with a strong track record of fostering spaces for exchange and reflection for both national and international artists.
José Luís Lorenzo Collection
The José Luis Lorenzo Collection is one of the most complete collections of contemporary art in Argentina, with the singularity of being in permanent dialogue with antiques, design objects and handcrafted productions that are also part of the collection.
Benoît Doche de Laquintane
The Benoît Doche de Laquintane Collection focuses primarily on works related to Poetry in its broad meaning. It aims to articulate a relationship with the current times and to bring together artworks that respond to the contemporary moment and engage with the possibilities of a constantly accelerating future.
Mango
Mango reaffirms its commitment to contemporary art by renewing, for another year, its active participation in Swab Barcelona 2024, where it awards the best emerging artist.
Swab Committee Members
The award, granted by Swab Barcelona’s selection committee, formed by Omar López Chahoud, Isa Natalia Castilla, Jérôme Pantalacci, Jesper Stieler, Juan Manuel Elizalde, Choli Fuentes and Laura Peh recognises the best stand proposal presented at Swab 2025.
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Fundació Vila Casas
The Fundació Vila Casas, created in 1986 by the pharmaceutical entrepreneur Antoni Vila Casas, is a private non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of contemporary Catalan art.
Kells Art Collection
The Kells art collection was born in 1996, as a result of the approach of Juan Manuel Elizalde and Choli Fuentes to the world of Art.
Diezy7
Created in 2008, the Diezy7 Award reflects Joaquín Díez-Cascón’s tireless commitment to the support and visibility of emerging artists, channeling his deep passion for painting and drawing into an initiative that has become a benchmark within contemporary art.
Carmen & Lluís Bassat Collection
The Bassat Collection is one of the most representative collections of what has been the Catalan art of the second half of the twentieth century. The intention of the Collection is to contribute, through the exhibition of its collections, to the explanation of the events and movements that have given rise to the art of our time.
Art Emergent Sabadell
A collective contemporary art exhibition held through an annual call, inviting artists working in any discipline within the visual arts to submit a piece for potential selection in the show. This selection of 30 works is made by a specialized jury, and from these selected pieces, artists will compete for awards granted by the Banc Sabadell Foundation, Estruch, Escola Grisart, and the Academy of Fine Arts.