Music Gustavo Gimeno Destined to hold the baton The baton of Gustavo Gimeno, one of the greatest Spanish orchestra conductors, is at the service of Teatro Real. Since last September, he works as the musical director of this Spanish institution.
Fashion Regina Polanco The fabric alchemist The future of fashion requires producing more environmentally friendly fabrics. This is the way Regina Polanco, winner of the Premio Mujeres a Seguir 2025 in the Entrepreneurship category, is rethinking this industry.
Sport Andrea Fuentes Swimming in medals This Spanish athlete with the most Olympic medals in history—four, an honour she shares with Mireia Belmonte and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario—wants to keep adding to her medal display case, now as a coach.
Art Erika Ewel The invisible thread Bolivian artist Erika Ewel transforms everyday materials, like textiles, into tools to shed light on stories combining the intimate and the collective. Now, the exhibition ‘De los retazos me construyo’ brings together a selection of her works.
Art Solimán López The (intangible) art of the future He will go down in history for being the first artist to sell a work of art in NFT (Non-Refundable Token) format at ARCO, for founding the incomparable Harddiskmuseum, and for interpreting art as an intangible concept of infinite resources.
Literature Mónica Rouanet The lady of the crime novel Seeing the world through the eyes of others, even a murderer, allows us to check ourselves. This is the journey writer Mónica Rouanet takes the reader on in her latest work: ‘Nada importante’.
Cinema and theatre Edu Soto An endearing Willy Wonka Playing Willy Wonka, the leading role in the Spanish version of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, is Edu Soto’s latest challenge. He leads the audience into a fantasy world where everything is possible.
Photography Music photographers Capturing the beat Adrenaline rushes. Emotional highs. Collective bliss. Given the abundance of festivals, Spain has turned into a paradise for these kinds of photographers. Do you want to get to know their work?
R&D Sonia Fernández-Vidal Entertaining science Sonia Fernández-Vidal’s great passion is science. And it shows. Her eagerness for bringing science closer to the general public has led her to teach at university, give talks at international symposiums, and even publish several successful books.
Design Del Hambre Illustrator in all caps Being an illustrator means more than drawing well, it means conveying an idea or telling a story in the simplest and most direct way possible. This goes beyond style, technique, or aesthetics, according to Del Hambre.