ARTESANTANDER 2025. Jorge Diezma's exhibition at the IEB Space

The Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics (IEB) is sponsoring the exhibition Suspended Landscapes: Marine Still Lifes at ARTESANTANDER, a selection of recent works by Jorge Diezma. The project revisits and redefines a historic subgenre of the Baroque: the marine still life, which emerged in 17th-century Italy. Featuring fish and objects linked to the maritime environment, these still lifes are not only a tribute to this tradition but also a critical reflection on the processes of transmission, popularization, and reappropriation of pictorial language over the centuries. As the curator emphasizes, the project offers a vision deeply connected to the territory—the sea as a cultural, economic, and emotional landscape—while also connecting with cross-cutting issues such as sustainability, tradition, and the role of art in times of transformation.

Jorge Diezma (Madrid, 1973) lives and works in Bunyola, Mallorca. His practice uses as a starting point the revisiting of some of the commonplaces of figurative tradition, emphasizing the Baroque legacy. He has recently held solo exhibitions at the Union Gallery, London; Galería Alegría, Barcelona; Deborah Bowman, Brussels; Espacio Valverde, Madrid; the non-profit Plat, Amsterdam; the Museo del Reloj Antiguo de la Joyería Grassy, ​​Madrid; and the Botanical Garden, Madrid. He has participated in exhibitions at the Fundación Cerezales, León; the Casal Solleric, Palma; and the Responsibility Art Space, Basel.

Cristina Anglada (Madrid, 1984) is an advisor to the Calparsoro Foundation. She co-curated the Opening section of ARCOmadrid in 2024 and 2025. Since 2022, she has been a visiting professor for the Master's in Art Business at the CEU San Pablo University, Madrid. She is a member of the jury for the Catalan cultural participation program in the Eventi Collaterali program of the 2026 Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition and the second edition of the BCK Rhodes Biennial.

This project was the winner of an open call whose selection committee was composed of Jan-Philipp Fruehsorge, curator; Mónica Álvarez Careaga, fair director; Karen Müller, visual arts technician at the IEB; and Llorenç Perelló Rosselló, director of the IEB.

On the cover: JORGE DIEZMA. Bodegón marinero con sandía, 2023. Oil on canvas

Source: ARTESANTANDER