Eugenio Ampudia

Concern for nature is a quality that has permeated much of the career of Eugenio Ampudia (Valladolid, 1958). He was able to share that special sensitivity with millions of people when he gave a Concert for the Biocene at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu. On 22 June 2020, to mark the theatre’s return to normality after the national state of emergency declared due to Covid-19, 2,292 plants enjoyed a performance of Giacomo Puccini’s Crisantemi, a symbolic act that posited a necessary paradigm shift: we have to de-anthropologise our perspective.  

Ampudia’s works have been exhibited across the globe and can be found in leading private and public collections and museums. The artist has spent several decades expressing himself through videos, installations, advanced technology management, relational architecture and spatial intervention, often explicitly inviting viewers to participate in his creations.

He won the AECA Award for Best Living Spanish Artist at ARCO 2008 and 2018, the same year one of his works also won the Beep Award for Electronic Art. In 2008, he received a residency grant from the London-based Delfina Foundation.