Madrid,
The BMW Painting Awards, which are also digital art awards, have been established for four decades as one of the most powerful calls for supporting the careers of artists residing in Spain and, from today until February, that anniversary is celebrated in Conde Duque.
Nearly 29,000 works have been submitted since 1986 to this contest, which accepts pieces of free themes and techniques in all trends and is currently endowed with 25,000 euros in its pictorial modality and 6,000 in its digital art modality.
In its latest edition, the jury of the award was made up of Antonio López, Miguel Zugaza, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guillermo Solana and Lucía Casani, in charge of selecting winners and finalists among 1,900 participants of 38 nationalities, the largest number in these forty years – it has doubled since 2015.
As we advance, in the painting category the prize has gone this time to the Navarrese author Amaya Suberviola, for ST25061 (Pick up an eyelash with your fingers)a piece made in oil and marker on canvas whose composition was constructed and destructured through decisions that replicated digital gestures: copy, paste, rotate or move. No external elements were incorporated into it: only the existing ones were reorganized, as if the painting as a format were an editable file. Its creation started from a recognizable scene that, intervened with cumulative errors and successes, becomes something new, halfway between the accidental and the intentional.
Suberviola, by the way, already received a Mario Antolín grant for Pictorial Research from BMW three years ago: we can deduce that that help has borne fruit.
For his part, the Digital Art award went to Madrid-based Chino Moya for Metapope, a creation in single-channel video format in 4K and with looped sound. He produced it with a team of more than thirty people, including a director of photography, camera operators, costume designers, a makeup artist, a hairstylist, a set builder, a prop maker, a digital ·D modeler and a music composer. The actor who appears in this piece was filmed against a blue chroma key background with an Alexa digital cinema camera, and those backgrounds were constructed entirely in 3D.
These works, along with the finalists, can be seen for the first time in the rooms of the aforementioned Conde Duque Center, in order to bring a wide audience closer to the directions of the new creators working in our country; also some already established ones, since the call has no age limit.
The finalists, we recap, were Abel Jaramillo, Amaya Hernández, Andrea Leria, An Wei Lu Li, Carlos Cañadas, Clara Sánchez, Cristina Mejías, Daniel De La Barra, Elaia Blades, Elisa Pardo, Elisa Villota, Elvira Amor, Fermín Moreno, Guillermo Velasco, Ignacio García, Imon Boy, Irati Cano, Jorge Otero, José Castiella, José Ramón Amondarain, Juan Carlos Bracho, Judas Arrieta, Katherinne Fiedler, Kepa Garraza, Marc Badia, Marta Beltrán, Nacho Vergara, Natalia Suárez, Óscar Seco, Pedro Gamonal, Pepe Baena, Santiago Colombo, Silvia Olabarría, Simón Sepúlveda, Taxio Ardanaz, Txus Meléndez, Víctor González and Yese Astarloa.
Among the historical winners of the BMW Award are the already well-established Sonia Navarro, Santiago Ydáñez, Miki Leal, Ángeles Agrela and Rafael Macarrón.
40th BMW Painting Award
COUNT DUKE
C/ Conde Duque, 11
Madrid
From November 20, 2025 to February 1, 2026
