THE COMMUNITY OF MADRID PRESENTS ARTIST ELENA GOÑI WITH THE 2026 APERTURA AWARD

11 September de 2026.- The Community of Madrid presented artist Elena Goñi with the 2026 Apertura Award for her paintings Autorretrato con Beatriz (2026) and Pendientes (2025), exhibited at Fernández-Braso gallery. The works will be acquired by the regional government and will become part of the collection of Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Móstoles. The award is presented to coincide with the opening of the new exhibition season at Madrid’s galleries and forms part of the regional government’s programme of support for artistic creation, the visual arts and the art market. The Community of Madrid Apertura Award, which carries a prize of €15,000, recognises the quality of one or more artists participating in the annual editions of Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend, the event with which the Arte Madrid Association of Galleries launches the exhibition season.

The jury comprised José Lebrero Stals, member of the Community of Madrid’s Advisory Committee for the Acquisition of Works of Art; Lorena Martínez de Corral, art historian and independent exhibition curator; María Asunción Lizarazu de Mesa, museum specialist at Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo; Tania Pardo, Director of the Community of Madrid’s Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo; Juana Arana, Visual Arts Adviser at the Regional Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sport; Asunción Cardona Suanzes, Deputy Director-General for Fine Arts at the Community of Madrid; and Manuel Lagos Gismero, Director-General for Culture and Creative Industries at the Community of Madrid.