CATALINA D'ANGLADE

Catalina D’Anglade ART: A Visionary Lab of Art & Design

Catalina D’Anglade ART is a groundbreaking ideas lab where art and design converge to spark innovation.

At its helm is Catalina D’Anglade, a Madrid-born creative with international expertise, who sees cultural creation as a powerful tool for social enrichment and artistic awareness. As a designer and devoted art collector, she led one of Spain’s most prestigious sculpture biennials before setting out to build her own creative universe in 2015.

Her first collaboration in the art world was with Rafa Macarrón, an artist whose boundless talent she has admired since his early days. Together, they crafted FAMILY, a limited and numbered carpet collection where their artistic worlds seamlessly blend. This exclusive piece debuted at the ARCOLunch hall during the 2017 ARCOmadrid Contemporary Art Fair.

The Catalina D’Anglade ARCOmadrid Award

In 2017, Catalina D’Anglade ART launched the Catalina D’Anglade ARCOmadrid Award to support visionary artists eager to push their creative boundaries beyond traditional settings. The initiative bridges art and design, integrating bold artistic visions into everyday life.

This prestigious award unfolds in two phases:

1. Recognition & Acquisition – The winning piece is selected and acquired.
2. Creative Expansion – The artist develops a new, unpublished project where art and design intersect.

Since its inception, the award has spotlighted groundbreaking talent:

• 2017 – Fernanda Fragateiro: A sculptural stainless steel bookcase.
• 2018 – Secundino Hernández: A stunning collection of 24 exclusive lamps.
• 2019 – Luis Gordillo: A set of 12 unique tiles based on unpublished drawings.
• 2020 – Daniel Steegmann: A striking ensemble of seven brass oil lamps.
• 2022 – June Crespo: A bold concrete seat with interchangeable cushions.
• 2023 – Ester Partegàs: A mirror featuring printed photographs of breadcrumbs with a mesmerizing moon-like effect.
• 2024 – Susana Solano: A table made of steel and wood with movable wings.
• 2025 – Álvaro Urbano: His creation will be unveiled later this year.

With each edition, the Catalina D’Anglade ARCOmadrid Award continues to push the boundaries of artistic innovation, merging the worlds of fine art and functional design in unexpected and exciting ways.

In 2019, Catalina D’Anglade Art connected art and design through Project Room–Cabinet Bauhaus, a tribute to the revolutionary school, featuring works by four outstanding artists that engage in a dialogue between artistic creation and functional design. D’Anglade selected four artists to conceive objects inspired by the principles of the Bauhaus. Now key figures on the international emerging art scene, Guillermo Mora, Núria Fuster, Karlos Gil, and Leonor Serrano Rivas created four objects that pay homage to the experimental school, which celebrated its centenary that year.

Guillermo Mora.
His proposal, titled Punto y línea sobre tabla, extends his painting practice onto a linen tablecloth on which he translates the three basic Bauhaus forms—triangle, circle, and square—as well as the three pure colors. A play of forms that multiplies across the napkins, bringing geometry into the informality of a gathering around a table.

Núria Fuster names her lamp Bubblehaus, merging two ideas: the philosophy of the Bauhaus and Peter Sloterdijk’s theory of spheres, a reading that accompanies her most recent works. It is a table lamp that establishes a connection between the industrial and the cosmic. Its spherical form generates a play of luminous eclipses and rotating orbits that reconnect us with the most essential and fundamental element: the cosmos. From a functional perspective, it allows the larger metal plate to be placed in front of the bulb, preventing direct exposure to the light and enabling it to be directed at will. The two iron sheet circles remain suspended in balance, creating a kinetic interplay in space. The central axis is rotatable and sensitive to any movement occurring around it, which results in a change of position. It is, in itself, an object that expands and actively participates, generating different states and working with the dimension of time.

Karlos Gil proposes a diffuse network of connections, a “collage” made within the three-dimensional space of the exhibition site and the time of representation. Inspired by the Triadic Ballet developed by Oskar Schlemmer, his proposal, titled Ghost Whisper, presents two vase-like objects whose structures analogously follow the mechanisms of Schlemmer’s costumes. This methodology adheres to several geometric principles of formal synthesis, taking as its starting point six fragments of vases from different historical periods. Each fragment has been individually designed and can be combined with two other parts to generate a different composition, playing with the glazing of the vases.

Leonor Serrano Rivas follows the principles that shaped Bauhaus furniture in her proposal for a glass jug. Her work consists of two parts. On one hand, there is a glass piece made artisanally using the blown-glass technique, meaning that each glass base is unique. In its multiple versions, each one features one of the primary colors—yellow, blue, or red—as a nod to Bauhaus ideology. On the other hand, there is an iron shell: a serial, standardized piece that acts both as an adaptable clamp for the different glass bases and as a counterpoint to the initial focus on craftsmanship.