Cristina Iglesias

Cristina Iglesias is a Spanish sculptor, born in San Sebastián in 1956. She studied at Chelsea School of Art in London, and since the 1980s she has developed a practice focused on the relationship between sculpture, architecture, space, and perception.

Her work combines materials such as bronze, steel, resin, glass, and water to create immersive structures, passages, screens, pavilions, fountains, and spaces of transition. In many of her pieces, nature appears through organic motifs, plant-like textures, reflections, and moving water, creating an experience between the built and the natural.

Her best-known public projects include the doors of the Museo del Prado’s new building, Tres Aguas in Toledo, Forgotten Streams at Bloomberg’s headquarters in London, and Deep Fountain, in front of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. She also represented Spain at the Venice Biennale in 1986 and 1993. Her works are part of collections such as the Museo Reina Sofía, Tate, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and Museo Guggenheim Bilbao. Her awards include the National Prize for Visual Arts in 1999, the Berliner Kunstpreis in 2012, the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts in 2015, and the Royal Academy Architecture Prize in 2020. Leer menos