The resident artists, 24 in all, are the winners of the annual competition organized by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and have been asked to carry out a project dedicated to Italy and in particular to the city that hosts them. Rome remains at the center of their artistic research, which this year ranges from figurative art to multimedia technologies, from photography to fashion, from literature to illustration, passing through painting and architecture.
Since 1873, the year in which the Real Academia de España de Roma was founded, 1050 scholarship holders have lived in Rome, giving life to important projects during their stay in the city and increasingly consolidating the Academy's role as a center of Spanish culture abroad.