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Sara Bonache Ríos receives the Antoni Vila Casas de Pintura 2025 Award for 'Nocturnes'
The Vila Casas Foundation has awarded the Antoni Vila Casas Painting Prize 2025 to the artist Sara Bonache Ríos (Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, 1991) for her work Nocturnes, 2025, a piece that stands out for its ecological vision, capable of updating an ancestral theme and projecting it beyond its original meaning.
The announcement was made public on Monday, September 22 at the Can Framis Museum, coinciding with the inauguration of the exhibition of the finalists of the Antoni Vila Casas Painting Award 2025. The exhibition, open until October 26, presents the 29 works selected by the jury from among all the candidates for this edition. This is an annual award that aims to give visibility to contemporary artists and promote the dissemination of their work.
His work explores the relationship between nature and the body, with a special interest in the organic and instinctive. His paintings, drawings and engravings combine the seductive and the disturbing, creating images that simultaneously attract and disturb. This contrast is seen in his recent projects, where the plant, animal and human worlds blend in dreamlike and intense atmospheres.
The first prize winner, Sara Bonache, will receive a grant of €12,000 and will hold a solo exhibition at Can Framis in 2026. In addition, the two distinguished works will be incorporated into the collection of the Vila Casas Foundation. The jury formed by Bernat Daviu, Claudia Elies, Mariana Draper, Bernat Puigdollers and Montserrat Pascual, unanimously decided to award a second prize to the work Los sueños de derrumbe (2024) by Gonzalo Elvira (Plaza Huincul, Argentina, 1971), highlighting both the quality of the piece and the recognition of her solid artistic career.
