Proyección exterior Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics
Artesantander 2025
Genres: Visual arts
Fechas: Del July 11, 2025 Al July 15, 2025
Lugar: Santander, Spain
The Institute of Balearic Studies (IEB), together with the organizers of the ARTESANTANDER 2025 fair, selects a visual arts project in solo project format for the IEB stand at the ARTESANTANDER contemporary art fair, held from 11 to 15 July 2025 at the Palau de Congressos i Exposiciones de Santander.
The project is accompanied by a small promotional publication with information about the exhibition proposal and the career of the participating artist.
The selection is made through an open call, to which artists or art curators can submit proposals. Artists must be natives of the Balearic Islands or residents of the archipelago. Curators must have led relevant projects in the field of curatorial programming in spaces for the dissemination of contemporary art in Spain or internationally.
The selection committee responsible for selecting the winning project is composed of Mónica Álvarez Careaga, director of the fair; Jan-Philipp Fruehsorge, member of the fair's Selection Committee; Karen Müller, visual arts technician at the IEB; and Llorenç Perelló Rosselló, director of the IEB.
The winning project of the ARTESANTANDER 2025 edition is "Paisajes suspendidos: bodegones marinos", which presents a selection of recent works by the artist Jorge Diezma with a curatorial proposal by Cristina Anglada. The project resumes and resignifies a historical sub-genre of the Baroque: the marine still life, which arose in Italy in the 17th century. Protagonized by pieces and objects linked to the maritime environment, these still lifes are not only a tribute to this tradition, but also a critical reflection on the processes of transmission, vulgarization and reappropriation of the pictorial language over the centuries. As the curator emphasizes, the project offers a vision deeply linked to the territory - the sea as a cultural, economic and emotional landscape - while connecting with transversal issues such as sustainability, tradition and the role of art in times of transformation.
Jorge Diezma (Madrid, 1973)
He lives and works in Bunyola, Mallorca. He graduated in Fine Arts in Cuenca. After an essentially theoretical training, he decided to focus on painting as a way of distancing himself from the contemporary scene. Since then his practice uses as a starting point the revision of some common places of the figurative tradition, emphasizing the baroque legacy.
He has recently exhibited individually in the Union Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Galería Alegría, Barcelona, Spain; Deborah Bowman, Brussels, Belgium; Espacio Valverde, Madrid, Spain; the Plat non-profit space, Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Museo del Reloj Antiguo de la Joyería Grassy, Madrid, and the Botanical Garden, Madrid, Spain. He has participated in exhibitions at the Cerezales Foundation, León; Casal Solleric, Palma, Spain; and in the Responsibility Art Space, Basel, Switzerland. In the last edition of ARCO, he shared the Galería Alegría stand with the sculptor Philipp Röcker. He currently participates in a group at the Alegría gallery in the Florit Florit space, Palma, Spain. In 2026 he will open an individual exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center of Burgos, Spain.
Cristina Anglada (Madrid, 1984)
As an art curator and cultural manager, she advises the recently inaugurated Fundación Calparsoro. She was co-curator of the Opening section of ARCOmadrid in 2025, with Anissa Touati, and in 2024, with Yina Jiménez Surial. From 2022 she works as a guest professor of the Master of Art Business at the Universidad CEU San Pablo, Madrid, Spain. She is part of the jury of the selection process for the participation of Catalan culture in the Eventi Collaterali program of the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2026 and of the second edition of the Biennal for Contemporary Ceramics BCK in Rhodes, Greece. In 2025 she has curated the program of conferences and workshops in Madrid31 (Comunidad de Madrid). She has recently inaugurated the first solo exhibition of Jorinde Voigt at Casal Solleric, Palma, Spain. As part of the curatorial programming team at Es Baluard Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Palma, Spain, she will present an individual show with Mallorcan artist Catalina Obrador. In 2027 he will present an individual exhibition of Elena Alonso at the CA2M, Madrid, Spain.
