Cristina Iglesias (b. 1956, San Sebastián) is one of Spain’s most celebrated contemporary artists. Her work in sculpture explores the need for intimacy within the built environment; architecture as a second skin which mediates the relationship between inside and outside, public and private, and ultimately nature and culture. Using concrete, iron, alabaster, glass, and textiles, Iglesias constructs shallow shelters that rely on existing architectural elements of a given space. By introducing these elements as architectural figments and fragments, Iglesias’ extensions and alterations often suggest a beautiful in-between or a temporary but quite consciously introduced nowhere in the middle of somewhere.

Iglesias had a solo exhibition at The Renaissance Society in 1997, a few years after she represented Spain in the Venice Biennale for the second time. Her work is collected by major institutions worldwide, such as MoMA, Tate, Guggenheim, Reina Sofía, and many more.

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