Antoni Muntadas, Jaume Claret Muxart and the redevelopment of the Glòries: these are the Ciutat de Barcelona Awards 2025

BarcelonaThe Barcelona City Council has announced the winners in the 19 categories of the 76th City of Barcelona Awards, which recognize the best work in culture, education, and science in 2025. The list of winners includes established artists like Antoni Muntadas, for his project that blends art and iconography. Tasmanian Tiger...until the first work of a filmmaker like Jaume Claret Muxart, director of the breakthrough film of the year, Strange riverThe prizes, awarded by specialized and independent juries, each worth 9,500 euros, will be presented on February 11th in the Saló de Cent. In the literary field, the winners have been Joan Todó for his short stories... The sweetness of living (the Brief); in Spanish, Samanta Schweblin for the book The good bad (Seix Barral); Arnau Pons for the translation of Nobody's Rose, by Paul Celan (laBreu), and Neus Moran Gimeno for the essay The general plunder: The Francoist requisition of the assets of the associative and workers' movement in the Catalan-speaking territories (1939-1978) (The Advance).

In architecture, the team behind the redevelopment of Plaça de les Glòries, UTE Agence Ter, has been awarded. architect Ana Coello and Meta Engineering, and in design and fashion the design of austere and modular furniture has been celebrated Wally, by Marc Morro.

In music, El Petit de Cal Eril has been awarded for the album Eril Eril Eril (Bankrobber); in theater, the company La Mula by Manual for living beings, seen at the Grec Festival; in visual arts, Mar Arza for the anthological exhibition Underspeaker, a visit to La Virreina; and in digital culture, Joana Moll by The user and the beast, Viewed specifically at the CCCB in the Civic Agora.

In the educational field, the prize went to the artistic project of the Josep Maria de Sagarra School, and in popular culture, to the 40th anniversary of dances in Plaça del Rei, by the Balls en la Plaça del Rei Association; the First Meeting of Musicians of the Colles Castelleres of Pla de Barcelona also received a mention.

In the scientific field, the awards recognized the work of Arnau Sebé-Pedrós for his leadership of the Atlas of Cellular Biodiversity and the evolution of genomic regulation; the work of Lucía Espasandín with the Institute of Marine Sciences for her work on the effects of the tropicalization of the Mediterranean; and a mention was made of the work on the benefits of green corridors carried out by the Institute of Global Health and Pompeu Fabra University. In fundamental sciences and mathematics, the award went to Xavier Tolsa; In applied sciences and engineering, Virmedex was awarded for its innovative AI-based tools applied to medicine. Giacomo AM Ponzetto and Ugo Antonio Troiano received the award in social sciences and humanities for an article arguing that social capital improves public investment.