June 22, 2022
Wet Labyrinth (with Spontaneous Landscape)
2020-2022
Phyllite stone, bronze powder with resin, stainless steel, mineral draining floor,
closed hydraulic circuit mechanism, water and landscape.
Installation at the Royal Acdemy’s Annenberg Courtyard. (@royalacademyarts)
On view until August 21st.
Photo credits: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. Courtesy of Gagosian.
June 2, 2022
We are thrilled to announce the unveiling of the newly commissioned public art installation titled “Landscape and Memory” at Madison Square Park, New York.
The installation will be on view from June 1 through December 4.
For further information click here.
Landscape and Memory
2022
Bronze, mirrored stainless steel, hydraulic system, water and grass
Photo credits: @rashmigillphotography /Madison Square Park Conservancy.
June 2, 2022
An exhibition of new and recent works by the renowned Spanish sculptor Cristina Iglesias (@cristinaiglesiasestudio) opens today, May 14, at Gagosian, Davies Street! The show features works from the ongoing “Entwined” and “Growth” series, dense cyborg accumulations of foliage cast in aluminum and studded with cabochons of colored glass.
Click here for further information.
#CristinaIglesias #Gagosian
Installation views, “Cristina Iglesias,” Gagosian, Davies Street, London, May 14–July 30, 2022. Artwork © Cristina Iglesias. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates
October 27, 2021
Sea Cave (entrance), commissioned by the Malta International Contemporary Art Space (Micas), is now unveiled.
The work is open for public viewing from the 16th of October onwards.
Location: Hastings Gardens, Sappers Street, Valletta, Malta. Will eventually be relocated to the MICAS Sculpture Garden on the San Salvatore Counterguard overlooking Marsamxett Harbour.
For further information click here.
September 15, 2021
September 5, 2021
Opening: Cristina Iglesias at Skulpturenhalle – Thomas Schütte Foundation
3.9. – 12.12.2021
The Skulpturenhalle, Neuss
Berger Weg 16
41472 Neuss/Holzheim
Click here for further information.
July 9, 2021
Albion Fields is a sculpture park set within 50 acres of Oxfordshire countryside, parts of which have been rewilded – restored to their natural, uncultivated state. The grounds provide unique installation sites for artworks, spanning from open vistas to secluded woodland areas and positions beside a natural lake. Monumental and discreet artworks will be showcased in harmony with the flora and fauna, the diversity of which is as integral to the ecosystem as much as the experience. Roe deer, badgers, green woodpeckers, owls and hares have taken up residence since the land was taken out of agricultural use.
The first installation of artworks at Albion Fields will be on view from 9 July – 25 September 2021 after which the works will be rotated biannually. Albion will welcome visitors to stroll along landscaped pathways to vantage points around the site.
For further information on how to visit click here.
July 1, 2021
La Radio tiene ojos – Cristina Iglesias, Radio Nacional de España
Coinciding with the collection of the National Prize for Graphic Art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando Cristina Iglesias sits with Ana Morente at the program “La Radio tiene ojos” of RNE about the graphic work that she has developed in parallel to her career as a sculptor.
Click here to listen to the interview.
July 1, 2021
Cristina Iglesias joins in conversation with Whitechapel Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick and Richard Noble to discuss her new monograph, Liquid Sculpture, and her latest commissions.
Click here to watch full interview.
July 1, 2021
Cristina Iglesias sits down with Ben Luke for an episode of “A brush with…,” an audio series by @theartnewspaper.official. Listen to Iglesias talk at length about her career, from her interest in architecture and natural forms to her creation of public and immersive sculptural environment.
You can download and subscribe to the podcast here.
Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Julia Michalska, David Clack and Aimee Dawson.
June 10, 2021
On the occasion of the awarding of the National Prize for Graphic Arts in 2019 today is the opening of the exhibition “Cristina Iglesias: Una trayectoria” at the National Calcography that holds Francisco de Goya’s cabinet, located in @rabasf , Madrid. Throughout her career, Cristina has worked with different mediums such as: copper, aluminium, silk and paper. In this exhibition we will be able to look at a selection of works on copper and paper from the 90s to today.
Venue: Calcografía Nacional, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid
Click here for further information
June 8, 2021
We are very happy to finally announce the public opening of Hondalea (Marine Abyss), the permanent piece that transforms the Santa Clara Island Lighthouse in the Donostia-San Sebastián bay. The piece is a place that represents the remoteness within the city, a meeting point for citizens to observe, think and reflect on nature and the importance of its conservation.
After 5 years of work with a great team (the foundry @alfaarte, the structural engineers of FHecor, hydraulic engineers of LKS @kreangroup ,architects,the City Council @donostia_udala ,Moyua, Giroa, Uxama and Inelcom) Hondalea is finally open to the public from June 5 to complete the total experience of the work.
June 3, 2021
Through preparatory drawings, new works on copper plates, a sculpture and a video that evokes the journey from the city to the island, the exhibition introduces some of the central ideas and creative process of “Hondalea”.
From June 3 to September 26, 2021.
For museum members, opening on June 2, 10: 00-17: 00
Tuesday to Sunday, 10: 00-20: 00.
Free entrance
Click here for further information
June 1, 2021
BBC’s in the studio with Cristina Iglesias – just released. Click here for an in-depth story about “Hondalea” .
Reporter Kristina Zorita travels with Cristina by boat to the island for a day to find out how she and a team of specialists work on creating the wave effects. Will the timings of the water sequences work as Cristina has imagined?
We also hear about the significance of the lighthouse and the island in Cristina’s artistic imagination and the life of the community.
Reporter : Kristina Zorita
Produced by Emma Kingsley for the BBC World Service
May 28, 2021
Cristina Iglesias will unveil Hondalea (Marine Abyss), a new site-specific sculpture that will permanently transform the lighthouse on the island of Santa Clara in the Bay of Donostia-San Sebastián. Commissioned by the city and developed by the artist over the past five years, Hondalea is Iglesias’ first sculpture in her native city and one of her most transformative public projects and interventions to date.
The public opening of the sculpture Hondalea will be launched with a symposium, The Rocky Coast: Cristina Iglesias’ Hondalea in San Sebastián: Ecology, Geology and Sculpture at the University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV) on 3 & 4 June 2021, which is available to join online. Informed by the interconnecting themes in Iglesias’ work, this symposium will be a multidisciplinary forum for participants to exchange their ideas on intersecting practices, from art and literature to geology and ecology.
James Lingwood (Co-Director, Artangel)
Cristina Iglesias
Penelope Curtis (Curator and Art historian)
Carlos Duarte (Marine scientist)
Russell Ferguson (Curator and Professor, UCLA)
Beatriz Herraez (Director, Artium, Basque Museum of Contemporary Art)
Asier Hilario (Geologist, Basque Coast UNESCO Global Geopark)
Lisa Le Feuvre (Director, Holt/Smithson Foundation)
Venue
Aquarium San Sebastián Auditorium
May 14, 2021
Recently published by Hatje Cantz: Liquid Sculpture. The Public Art of Cristina Iglesias.
Edited by Iwona Blazwick and Richard Noble.
Contributions by Brian Dillon, James Lingwood, Michael Newman, Jane Rendell, Andrea Schlieker, Iwona Blazwick, Estrella de Diego, João Manuel Fernandes, Luis Fernández-Galiano Ruiz, Lynne Cooke, Richard Noble, Jane Withlers, T. J. Demos, Octavio Aburto, Andrew Benjamin, Exequiel Ezcurra, Russell Ferguson.
| Public Art and Society Today
Can a sculpture be a river? Can contemporary art unite conflicting systems of belief? Do other species appreciate culture? And can public art revive communities and ecosystems? Cristina Iglesias’ horizontal fountains, submerged rooms and tropical mazes bring together language, architecture and botany to create immersive spaces of contemplation. In this publication an international roster of curators, art critics, philosophers, architects and scientists discuss the social and ecological potential of art in urban and rural space.
December 21, 2020
On 3 December 2020, we celebrated the RA Architecture Awards with a conversation between Cristina Iglesias, the 2020 RA Architecture Prize winner, and Norman Foster RA, the chair of the jury.
Cristina Iglesias explored her work and its connections to public space. The conversation ranged from gallery spaces to city squares, charting the important public aspects of Iglesias’ work.
November 26, 2020
Cristina Iglesias, “Inner Landscape (the lithosphere, the roots, the water)”, 2020, bronze bas relief pool, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, museum commission funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund. © 2020 Cristina Iglesias
November 18, 2020
November 18, 2020
More information: https://sainsburycentre.ac.uk/whats-on/cristina-iglesias/
November 18, 2020
The exhibition “DE MIRÓ A BARCELÓ. UN SIGLO DE ARTE ESPAÑOL” at Pompidou Málaga is extended until 01/11/2021.
September 21, 2020
Cristina Iglesias’s public realm installations are at once acutely place-sensitive and somehow unearthly. These vegetal formations – in bronze, steel or cement, and often in flowing water – are, the artist says, ‘fictions that bring nature to the constructed world’.
Link to the article:
https://online.fliphtml5.com/byhn/uipb/#p=95
September 10, 2020
This year’s award has gone to an artist who thinks big, and whose work is unsettling and mysterious in nature.
Link to the article: https://www.ft.com/content/50b73862-5cab-11ea-b0ab-339c2307bcd4
March 11, 2020
Mañana, jueves, 12 de marzo, os esperamos a las 20h en la inauguración de la nueva colección semipermanente de #CentrePompidouMálaga, ‘De Miró a Barceló. Un siglo de arte español’. ©Cristina Iglesias. Corredor Suspendido I y III, 2006.
January 16, 2020
Cristina Iglesias been announced as the winner of the 2020 RA Architecture Prize. The jury were blown away by the way her work makes us look at the spaces between buildings, the civic corners that are essential for our increasingly urbanised exisence.
January 16, 2020
For three years, the Royal Academy Architecture Prize has been awarded to an individual whose work inspires and instructs the discussion, collection or production of architecture in the broadest sense.
The winner of this year’s Royal Academy architecture prize – Cristina Iglesias – invites us to look, not just at buildings, but at the spaces between them.
With cities home to more and more people, generous public space is increasingly necessary for reflection and respite. Iglesias’s works exist in dialogue with the buildings around them, but go further in inviting their audiences – city dwellers – to contemplate their surroundings through the introduction of water and abstract plant fictions.
Read more about it here
December 19, 2019
November 7, 2019
November 6, 2019
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, will open its Steven Holl-designed Nancy and Rich Kinder building in fall 2020. Cristina Iglesias has been commissioned to make a site-specific work along side international artists El Anatsui, Byung Hoon Choi, Carlos Cruz-Díez, Olafur Eliasson, Trenton Doyle Hancock and Ai Weiwei.
September 16, 2019
MAGNETFILM · YouTube
June 5, 2019
Cristina Iglesias will take part in ‘Innovating Public Art’, a symposium organized by the Madison Square Park Conservancy and School of Visual Arts present on June 21, 2019 which will examine how the commissioning and creation of public art has evolved from being a form for commemoration into a catalyst for conversation, focusing on work that challenges the public and incites debate.
The event will conclude with presentations by Stéphane Aquin, Chief Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. and artists Abigail DeVille, New York; Leonardo Drew, Brooklyn; and Cristina Iglesias, Madrid. Drew’s City in the Grass is on view in Madison Square Park.
Read more about the event here.
May 8, 2019
No picture can describe this “Maqueta”, by Cristina Iglesias. Don’t forget to check this and other amazing works by the artist at “Life, still life”, curated by Alexandre Melo – also with artworks by @vascoaraujo @lia_chaia
May 4, 2019
Today, the 4th of May, is the opening of the exhibition “Life, Still Life” in the Presença Gallery ( @galeriapresenca ) in Oporto, Portugal. There are shown pieces from Vasco Araújo, Cristina Iglesias and Lia Chaia.
The exhibition will be opened until the 22nd of June 2019.
March 4, 2019
Entwined growth VI, 2019. This piece has been shown at the stand of @galeria_elba_benitez last week in ARCO2019. Photo taken by Oak Taylor-Smith.
February 26, 2019
This weekend is the closing of the exhibition INTERSPACES of Cristina Iglesias at the Botin Centre. It is about a selection of works between 1992 and 2018.
February 19, 2019
> The 27th of February, @ivorypress organizes the panel discussion “Artists and Books”, with the participation of Christian Boltanski, Cristina Iglesias, Koo Jeong A and Jorge Méndez-Blake. The panel discussion will be moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
February 7, 2019
Synopsis: Temporality and aging are inherent in every thing and being and transcend, depending on intuition, into the infinite. How can this be thought? What’s beyond that? In his personal journey through time and space, filmmaker Christoph Schaub begins with his childhood when his fascination for sacred buildings began. And his amazement about the beginning and the end. Architecture helps to separate the finite from the infinite. It provides protection from the strandless and at the same time creates a feeling of space, according to the narrator. Together with the architects Peter Zumthor, Peter Märkli and Alvaro Siza Vieira, the artists James Turrell and Cristina Iglesias and the drummer virtuoso Jojo Mayer, Schaub explores the magic of sacral spaces, the definition of which goes far beyond ecclesiastical buildings. Who owns spirituality? The film goes after “spiritual life” in building and visual arts, but also in nature and literally lifts it beyond the boundaries of thought. A slightly hovering camera lets us immerse ourselves in dreamlike pictures, takes us on a (be) sensual journey into spatial expanses, leads our view into the infinity of the starry sky and into the depths of the sea. Past and future, prehistoric times and light years. Everything is here. – Read more
February 4, 2019
Last Friday was the premiere of “Architecture of Infinity “, a film by Christoph Schaub @schaubchristoph. The film talks about the magic of sacred spaces.
November 2, 2018
Fundación Botín · YouTube
October 9, 2018
“Todo en mi obra tiene que ver con pensar espacios, que suelen ser ambiguos, y donde nada es lo que parece. Son lugares inventados que me sirven para reflexionar sobre la escultura y su relación con el espacio, sobre la ausencia y el deseo, la insatisfacción de no llegar a lo que quieres o la imposibilidad de verlo todo”.
October 6, 2018
March 14, 2018
Hoy, 14 de marzo, queda inaugurada la pieza “A través”, en la Fundación per Amor a l’Art de Valencia. @bombasgens
March 14, 2018
January 9, 2018
Today, 9th of January, is the opening of our solo exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery New York. It will be opened until the 10th of February.
January 9, 2018
December 4, 2017
Engineering of “Forgotten Streams” in London.
More than 250 pipes under the piece.
Photo taken by Alfaarte during the installation (October 2017)
October 25, 2017
A river runs through it …. Cristina Iglesias, Forgotten Streams @bloomberg new European HQ in London. Water runs over multiple layers of cast bronze. The work is inspired by the ancient Walbrook river which flowed on this site.
October 24, 2017
April 18, 2017
