The Mariantònia Oliver Company has just received the Toni Catany ARA Balears Culture award, but the person it is named after has been paving the way through dance for over three decades, in the Balearics and abroad. Mariantònia Oliver, an essential choreographer and dancer, has turned the body into a language and dance into a tool for thought and social transformation.

The company Mariantònia Oliver has been distinguished with the Toni Catany de Cultura award at the ARA Balears Awards, a recognition of a career of more than thirty-five years that has decisively contributed to growing, understanding, and sharing contemporary dance in the Islands.

The Toni Catany International Photography Centre already has an Advisory Council, a consultative body provided for in the management agreement signed in 2023 between the Toni Catany Foundation and the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports. Its function will be to advise on matters of artistic and cultural management of the centre.

There are looks that not only document the world, but shake it. This is what we find at the Toni Catany International Photography Centre in Llucmajor, which this Friday, March 27, opened two exhibitions that fully align with this tradition: The insolent revolution of bodies, by Pilar Aymerich –curated by Laura Terré– and Honorary box, by Paula Artés. Two proposals that are part of the cycle Committed female photographers and which, from different times, contexts, and languages, share the desire to make visible that which often remains out of frame or dissolves into normality. From two very different generations and also from two diverse ways of expressing themselves through photography, both Aymerich and Artés understand photography not as a solitary gesture, but as a practice permeated by the relationship with others and with the surrounding context.

Three years after its official opening, and eighteen years after those in charge first began discussing it, the Toni Catany International Photography Center in Llucmajor will experience its definitive consolidation in 2026. This is confirmed by an exhibition program that will fill the center with works by leading figures in contemporary photography such as Joan Fontcuberta, Pilar Aymerich, and Manuel Álvarez Bravo; the addition of a new exhibition space within the center itself, in the former wine cellar; and the organization of activities that will establish partnerships with the Sorbonne University. To round it all out, they are launching a new website, created in collaboration with the Llucmajor City Council, which reflects this stage of maturity.