Cristina Lucas (Úbeda, 1973) has been selected as the winner of the 2025 Idealista Contemporary Art Prize for her project Montañas , distinguished for its visual impact and its ability to provoke reflections on the society in which we live.
The award is an initiative of the leading real estate marketplace in Spain, Italy, and Portugal, with which the company seeks to recognize the talent and vision of young creators, as well as to promote and support contemporary artistic production. The winners become part of the idealista art collection, through which the company has been supporting national and international artists for years, and promoting contemporary creation by acquiring works that explore the impact of urban planning on people's lives.
With the series Mountains , Cristina reflects on how humans have transformed their environment to survive, generating an order intimately linked to productivity. This transformation has shaped the current landscape, with which we must coexist. The series of photographs is deeply linked to the notion that mountains have been shaped by productive demands, that is, that they have been "anthropized." Their nature is ultimately an economic effect. Raw materials accumulate in astonishing quantities, accompanied by their usual inhabitant: a laborer who, with his mere presence, provides us with a reference of scale and reveals the dimensions of the accumulated material. At the same time, as in the works of Caspar David Friedrich, the figure of the man in the solitude of the mountain awakens a state of reflection or an awareness of the world.
For the creation of the idealista Award and the coordination of the award in future editions, idealista has entrusted Elisa Hernando, director of Global Art, who has also curated Cristina Lucas's intervention at SIMA Madrid 2025. An exhibition that included photographs from the series Montañas , along with the sculptural installation Round Around , which represents the main trade routes of the planet.
