ARCOmadrid 2026
ARCOmadrid 2025 Awards
The ARCO/BEEP Electronic Art Award, awarded by .NewArt { foundation;}, celebrates its 20th edition at ARCOmadrid 2025 in collaboration with the Arts Connection Foundation. Thanks to the latter, the prize money has been increased to €30,000. This award seeks to promote the production and exhibition of art linked to new technologies or electronic art.
The award will be announced during ARCOmadrid 2025 by a panel of experts. The winning artwork will be added to the .NewArt { collection;} and will be exhibited at the next edition of the Miami New Media Festival.
The 18th illy SustainArt Award,reiterates illycaffè'scommitment to promoting contemporary art, especially among emerging artists in the international community. As is customary, the illycaffè award recognises the work of a young artist under the age of 40, whose work is exhibited in one of the galleries participating at ARCOmadrid 2025.
The artist will be chosen by the panel of judges made up of Javier Diez- Guardiola (journalist), Mariano Mayer (art curator) and Imma Prieto (director of the Fundación Tàpies). The winner will receive €15,000 to create a work of art to be exhibited at the illycaffè booth at the next edition of the fair.
The Opening Award is now in its 11th edition. New galleries, awarded by ARCO, will once again recognise the best booth in this section at ARCOmadrid 2025. In the next edition, the panel of judges, made up of por Abdellah Karroum (curator and Artistic Director), Hela Djobbi (director of the 32Bis Foundation), Arnaud Morand (head of art and innovation for the AlUla development project), Julio César Morales (executive director & co-chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson MOCA) and Julia Morandeira (director of studies at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía), will decide on the award-winning gallery and the special mentions among the participating projects.
Yet again, the Cervezas Alhambra Award For Emerging Art brought together the best emerging artists from the national scene.
The brand's concept "Sin prisa" (No Rush) was the source of inspiration.
For the ninth consecutive year, Cervezas Alhambra presented the Cervezas Alhambra Award for Emerging Art at ARCOmadrid, highlighting the link between craftsmanship and contemporary art. This competition seeked to acknowledge the talent of emerging artists who find their source of inspiration in artisanship.
In this new edition, artists were invited to present projects that embody the relationship between craftsmanship and contemporary art. They were assessed by an international panel of judges who took into account both the artist’s career and previous projects, as well as the project presented. The winning entry, Mónica Mays’s Conveyors, was announced at ARCOmadrid 2025, it will be produced throughout the year and exhibited in the brand's space at ARCOmadrid 2026.
The Cervezas Alhambra Award for Emerging Art invites participants to seek inspiration using its philosophy of “No Rush”. It encourages creations that focus on details and on the time taken to highlight quality. All projects must reinterpret traditional artisanal processes through a contemporary lens, with an emphasis on techniques such as embroidery, ceramics, glasswork or woodcarving.
The designer Catalina D’Anglade awarded the 8th Catalina D’Anglade Art Award to Álvaro Urbano (1983) with his artwork VEINS (represented by the Travesía Cuatro gallery). He was an artist taking part in ARCOmadrid 2025. Previous recipients of this award include Susana Solano (2024), Ester Partegàs (2023), June Crespo (2022), Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (2020), Luis Gordillo (2019), Secundino Hernández (2018) and Fernanda Fragateiro (2017).
Lexus is the official car and mobility solutions provider for ARCOmadrid 2025, and its involvement is part of the brand’s actions to support art and contemporary creation.
For the fifth consecutive year, Lexus was also the patron of the Lexus Award for the Best Booth at ARCOmadrid 2025. Juan Atonio Álvarez-Reyes and Tayana Pimental judged the competition, and the winner, the Meessen gallery was announced at the fair.
In 1992, the winemaker ENATE started to build a contemporary art collection that included works by both Spanish and international artists. Since then, each of the brand’s wines has been associated with a renowned artist who has created a piece of art to be used exclusively on the winery’s label. This commitment to contemporary art has led the prestigious Somontano winery to join ARCOmadrid 2025.
ENATE will spend €5,000 on the purchase of an original work of art on show at ARCOmadrid 2025, which will then become part of the ENATE collection, in recognition of its artistic value. The artwork will be displayed in ENATE’s space in the Guest Lounge at ARCOmadrid, together with other artworks from their collection. In collaboration with the selected artist, their artwork will also become the label of a special edition bottle designed as a tribute to the fair.
Tania Pardo and Candela Álvarez Soldevilla will decide on the winning work of art at the 2nd ENATE-ARCOmadrid Award 2025.
To recognise the journey alongside ARCO over the years, and its commitment to the fair, ARCO awarded the 1st Juana de Aizpuru Prize to one of the galleries participating in ARCOmadrid 2025. In this first edition of the award, the prize went to the Krinzinger Gallery for its long-standing support of the fair.
To recognise the journey alongside ARCO over the years, and its commitment to the fair, ARCO will award the 1st Juana de Aizpuru Prize to one of the galleries participating in ARCOmadrid 2025. In this first edition of the award, the prize will go to the Krinzinger Gallery for its long-standing support of the fair.
In ARCOmadrid 2025, the I Young Talent Award in Opening. New Galleries was awarded to Jeanne Gaigher (Reservoir Gallery) and Omar Castillo Alfaro (Sissi Club Gallery) present in the section. The two artists are under the age of 40 were awarded €10,000 each. The Prize has the collaboration of the Banco Sabadell Foundation.
The panel of judges, made up of Abdellah Karroum (curator and Artistic Director), Hela Djobbi (director of the 32Bis Foundation), Arnaud Morand (head of art and innovation for the AlUla development project), Julio César Morales (executive director & co-chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson MOCA) and Julia Morandeira (director of studies at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía), selected the two winning artists. Thet were presented on 6 March at a special event within the FORO space of the fair.
Between 2017 and 2022, ART Situacions awarded the annual ART Situacions Prize at ARCOmadrid in recognition of the best emerging artwork at the fair. Past winners are: Antonio Ballester Moreno (2017), Carlos Irijalba (2018), Patricia Gómez and María Jesús González (2019), Asunción Molinos Gordo (2020) and Irma Álvarez-Laviada (2022).
As part of ARCOmadrid 2025, this prize was resumed, consolidated and renamed as the Pilar Forcada ART Situacions Prize in memory of the founder and director of ART Situacions, who was the soul of the project.
The prize awarded €15,000 to Lara Fluxà (Bombon Projects Gallery), the winning artist and was presented on Thursday, 6 March at 5p.m. in the AVWL Room – A Very Welcoming Lounge at ARCOmadrid. The event was open to the public and was attended by Maribel López (director of ARCO), Marcel Pascual, (director and sponsor of ART Situacions), with Lorena M. de Coral and Ferran Barenblit judging the artworks. As in all previous editions, the winning artwork became part of the ART Situacions collection.
As part of its founding objective of promoting contemporary Catalan art, the Fundació Vila Casas is expanding its presence in the region by participating for the first time in one of Spain’s most visible showcases: the ARCOmadrid fair. Furthermore, and following its key principles, we are also pleased to announce the Antoni Vila Casas Prize at ARCOmadrid 2025, an acquisition award together with an exhibition of the winning artist, Lúa Coderch’s work at the Can Framis Museum.
The Fundació Vila Casas, founded in 1986 by the pharmaceutical entrepreneur and collector Antoni Vila Casas, is a private, non-profit institution dedicated to promoting and disseminating contemporary Catalan art, as well as to raising public awareness in the field of health. With four exhibition spaces, two in Barcelona, and one each in Torroella de Montgrí and Palafrugell, the foundation works to showcase the work of local artists, both through its permanent collection and by organising temporary exhibitions. Via its Punts de Fuga programme, the foundation also promotes the work of talented artists from its collection by organising exhibitions in leading centres in Spain and abroad.
The Emerige Endowment Fund and the French Committee of Art Galleries partnered for the third time to organise the Emerige/CPGA Prize, awarded to a living artist active in the French art scene and exhibiting at ARCOmadrid 2025. The prize aims to reward the quality of a work of art and celebrate the relationship between the exhibited artist and their gallery.
The winners, Mathilde Denize and Perrotin Gallery will receive a prize of €7,000, to be split equally between the artist and the gallery exhibiting their work at ARCOmadrid 2025.
Other programmes
anonymous art project, launched in January 2023, unites collectors, gallerists, curators, artists, and museums to support contemporary Japanese artists. Operating nationally and internationally, it sponsors exhibitions, collects artworks, and donates them to public museums. We introduce Kei Takemura, born in Tokyo in 1975 and based in Takasaki, Gunma. Since the 2000s, Japanese art has developed a localized visual language, reflecting global trends and domestic critiques. Part of this evolution, she worked in Berlin (2000–2015), cultivating her style beyond Japan’s local context and resonating globally.Her art bridges past loss and future hope, reflecting resilience and a commitment to sustaining hope amid today’s fragile world.
Image: Kei Takemura, "Gone Ginkgoes in Tokyo and Takasaki", 2019, Gunma silk thread dyed with ginkgo, Inkjet print on cotton cloth, Italian synthetic fabric, Japanese silk thread, 335 x 220 cm.