The culture digital Núvol gives its "out of the algorithm" awards
The awardees, creators under forty years old, thank the work of a medium attentive to new voices
BarcelonaThe Centre Artesà Tradicionàrius hosted the awards ceremony for the Premis Núvol 2025 on Thursday evening, the annual awards from the culture digital platform, which have recognized, since 2017, works and artists under forty years of age who stand out in the fields of literature, art, jazz, classical and popular music, performing and audiovisual arts, illustration, language, and humor. Ten categories corresponding to the ten original sections of Núvol, a project started in 2012, created and directed by Bernat Puigtobella.
The awardee Marina Laboreo (Homo Fabra translation award) took advantage of her acceptance speech to recall the crisis that was happening at that moment, just when she graduated in journalism, but seeing that Núvol was being born gave her the hope that perhaps "one old world was dying so that another was making its way".
The Tradicionàrius ceremony was hosted by Oriol Puig Taulé, critic, chronicler, and head of Núvol's performing arts section, who, when he takes the stage, reveals his most comedic side and delights us with a string of jokes as daring as they are unexpected. Humor enlivened an evening that lasted an hour at most and featured musical performances by awardees Laura Farré Rozada (Cast@fiore award) and Anna Andreu (Calàndria award). Farré Rozada dedicated the award to Armenian women composers and performed a piano piece by Gayane Chebotarian, 'Prelude No. 6 Allegro', included in her latest album Araspel (2025). Andreu thanked Núvol for noticing projects like hers, which "fall outside the algorithm," and performed Sencera, one of the songs from her latest album, Vigília (2025).
Since 2023, each awardee receives, as a physical representation of the award, a badge specially designed for the occasion, called Núvol d’Argent (Silver Cloud). This year, they were also presented with a copy of the culture digital platform's annual magazine. Jaume Claret Muxart, winner of the Pantalles award for his debut feature film Estrany riu (2025), explained that he is particularly excited about the award because "he had been reading Núvol's articles for many years," and pointed out that shooting a film or an awards gala like the one experienced "generates a cultural and economic richness that is impossible to quantify." The writer Albert Pijuan, winner of the Punt de Llibre award for his humorous essays, confessed the satisfaction the award gave him, an "incorrect feeling," as he put it, because it "paralyzes."
The evening also featured a monologue by actor and playwright Marc Buxaderas (El Web Negre award), who thanked them for not giving him this award for "occupying a quota" but because –"why not say it?"– he deserves it: "I've worked very hard to get here". Marc Salicrú, winner of the L’Apuntador award, which was slightly delayed, emphasized the paradox of arriving late to collect an award for Teatres de campanya, a project he carried out to think about "how I could stop time and space to meet and celebrate together". Laia Abril (Galeries award), Lluc Casares (La Ruta del Jazz award), and Berta Cusó (Sa Il·lustríssima award), who could not attend the gala due to scheduling conflicts, complete this year's list of awardees.
Bernat Puigtobella closed the event with a speech in which he related the blind spots of culture, "that which no one sees," with the need to look at things with new eyes. For this reason, he cited the artist Lúa Coderch and her interpretation of a portrait of Saint Lucia of Syracuse, by the 15th-century Renaissance painter Francesco del Cossa. Saint Lucia does not appear with eyes on a platter, as is customary in Christian iconography, but is depicted with a branch in her fingers, from which eyes sprout. "These new eyes are not ours but those of the ones coming after us, of the new generations that are rising," explains Coderch, and Puigtobella relates this to Núvol's mission, "to point out those new talents that remain hidden and to find revelations in the blind spots that escape us".
Núvol is a digital media outlet that, every day since 2012, publishes reviews, critiques, and interviews with emerging and established new and veteran writers, musicians, and actors, directors of cultural institutions, filmmakers, and other personalities from the eclectic cultural sector. The consistency that characterizes Núvol, governed "day in, day out" by Puigtobella, is one of its main values, as is its commitment to the language and to covering cultural events that fall outside the radar of mainstream media.
Puigtobella is an inquisitive and cultured editor with great sensitivity for detecting, encouraging, and promoting new talents, both inside and outside the newsroom. The closing of the event led to a period of camaraderie where guests and awardees could greet each other and chat in a festive and informal atmosphere.
