my goal
beauty
CONTEXT & INTEREST
The city
MY Identity
Making exciting places
WE ARE STUDIO COMMITTED TO THE CITY AND ITS PEOPLE
Our clients
WE CREATE UNIQUE SPACES TO INSPIRE AND CONNECT
A TEAM
Juanjo Novella and his wife Pilar Gil Lejonagoitia lead this wonderful project together. Their mission is to create unique spaces that awaken emotions, inspire reflection, and reinforce each place’s identity. Through art, they develop environmentally friendly solutions that engage communities, respecting the site, its people, and its landscape while integrating art into daily life.
GLOBAL PRESENCE
We serve you, wherever you are in the world. They give their best.
We have three studios: Bilbao (Portugalete), Qatar – Middle East, and Taipei – Asia.
ESTÍBALIZ PEQUEÑO
Country Manager
MA CHUN CHIH 馬君馳
Project Manager
AMBER黃士芸
Administrative Manager
TSEN-TSU
Architect
JUAN JOSÉ GARRIDO
Constructor and Art Installator
HUANG 黃崇壹
Bussines Development
OUR SERVICES
Identity & belonging
Public Art projects
Places where the city is recognised and its citizens acquire a sense of belonging and pride, reinforcing their identity and contributing personal and distinctive characteristics, always committed to the workplace. Establishing an international dialogue regardless of the size of the city.
Strength & precision
Manufacturing
These are exquisite, highly complex and laborious finishing jobs, where every last detail is taken care of. Being a type of heavy industry manufacturing, where the processes are extremely hard and brutal, our work is characterized by using these same heavy industrial means with the delicacy of a jeweler.
Tailored art
Close to the city
Working closely with the community means understanding each place like a tailor, creating artworks that reflect its physical and emotional identity, treating public space as a whole. To ensure efficiency, we collaborate with local architects and stakeholders, always going beyond simple sculpture placement.
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+40 YEARS EXPERIENCE
Decades of expertise
QUICK TURNAROUND
Fast execution
FULL ASSISTANCE
Complete support
CREDITS
Biography and brief summary of some of the professional experiences.
public art artist
Juanjo Novella - 1961
Artist linked to Public Art since the beginning of his career. His long career in this field, since 1982, has endowed him with a very special criterion about how to intervene in the city as well as various models of action in the public sphere.
CREATOR OF SCULPUTURE PARKS PROJECTS
CAMPAIGNS OF THE URBAN SPACE
He has participated in important regeneration campaigns of the urban space, in Barcelona, Bilbao, and Madrid, such as “Eibar polita jar zaitez” Bilbao, “Espai per la no violencia” Barcelona etc. Also is the creator of sculpture parks projects where he makes a group composition a kind of choral style of all the sculptures. His sculptures are featured all over the world. Novella understands sculpture in the city as a place, beyond the mere artistic object.
SCULPUTURE INSPIRED BY NATURE
protection, prestige and timeless aesthetics
Juanjo Novella creates membranes inspired by nature, where light and sun generate spectacular shadows. His works protect, invite us to look at the environment and transmit prestige, timelessness and close human dialogue. He conceives public art as a social necessity and an antidote to a sustainable globalisation, which beautifies and gives meaning to life.
Awards
* 2022 1st. Prize -Tainan Convention Center Public Art competition TAIWAN 2022
* 2022 1st. Prize -Baogao Intellectual and Science Park public art competition TAIWAN 2022
* 2020 1st Taiwan art creation award for Leaf at Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu Taiwan.
* 2019 Premio Onda Cero Bizkaia al Mérito Artistico 2019
* 2018 Selected Artist, public art competition Pleasant Hill Iowa USA -2018
* 2018 Finalist – Oklahoma City Scisortail Park 2018
* 2018 Finalist – El Paso Texas Tech University 2018
* 2018 Americans For The arts. Sculpture HUG one of the best public art works USA 2018
* 2016 1st. Prize international sculpture competition, LSU- Louisiana State University, LA – USA 2016
* 2015 Finalist at Hazelgrove sculpture project, Surrey, Vancouver, CA (2015)
* 2015 Awared and Commissioned artist for the Marina Heights public art – Tempe, Arizona. USA (2015)
* 2015 1st. Prize Azkuna portrait sculpture at Bilbao. – 2015
* 2014 Finalist, international public sculpture competition. Dallas, TX, USA. (2014)
* 2014 1st prize, international public sculpture competition. Boston, MA, USA. (2014)-
* 2013 1st prize, international public sculpture competition. Lubbock, TX, USA. (2013)
* 2012 Finalist of international competition at Oregon university, Bend, Oregon (2012)
* 2011 Artist selected international sculpture competition. Orchad Park, Cambridge, England. (2011)
* 2011 1st prize, international public sculpture competition. Donostia / San Sebastian. Spain. (2011)
* 2011 1st prize international sculpture competition. Gateway Art. Nelson. New Zealand. (2011)
* 2007-2010 1st prize given by Government of Navarra for the manufacture of a sculpture with the theme of wine.
* 2007 1st prize in competition of public sculpture in Vilanova i la Geltrú Barcelona 2007- international
* 2006 1st. Prize Restricted competition for sculpture – Sant Llorenç d’Hortons 2006 Barcelona
* 1993 1 st Selected on engraving (print) GURE ARTEA 93.
* 1990-2000 1st. Prize Tourism Award logo contest for Santurtzi
* 1990-2000 1st. Prize Restricted competition for sculpture in Iurreta.
* 1990-2000 1st. Prize competition pediment projects Fronton of Zamudio.
* 1990-2000 1st. Prize competition of ideas and projects – Munguia.
* 1990-2000 1st. Award of the VIII International Art Biennial Etxano AMOREBIETA
* 1990-2000 Prize Restricted competition for mural projects Sondika
* 1990-2000 1st prize on the competition logo for the Commonwealth of Txorierri.
* 1988 1st prize Red Cross – painting 88. (State level)
* 1987 1st. prize ABANTO and CIERBANA painting. 1987
* 1984 1st prize in III national painting contest, Santurce.
* 1983 1st prize Ertibil 83.
Collaborating campaigns for the improvement of the urban landscape
* Barcelona Posat guapa, City Council of Barcelona
* Art to Street, Bilbao City Council
* On the improvement of the urban landscape, Vitoria.
* Creator of the campaign Eibar polita ipiñi Zaitez at Eibar Gipuzkoa.
* Chairman of NOVELLA ART CENTER (1994 – 2012)
* Director from 1994 to 2001
* Director of Felix Alsina Bosc, Espai per la non-violence, a forest of sculptures.
Public Art Works - (Brief) only since 2006
* 2006 -Aterpe’s production, sculpture – steel in Artxanda’s Balcony, Bilbao
* 2006 Pampol’s production, great sculpture of steel in Sant Llorenç d’Hortons, Barcelona.
* 2007 – «Coral» sculpture painted steel – Santoña – Cantabria.
* 2007 integral design and execution of » Espai per not violence «
* 2007 » Gurasoeen Etxea » sculpture placed at the Maritime Walkway – La Benedicta, Basque.
* 2008 installation of sculpture in Vilanova i the Geltrú, Plaça of les Casernes. Barcelona
* 2008 » Door to the sea » sculpture in Painted steel Maritime Walk of Almeria.
* 2008 “ Arch”, sculpture in steel in Torrejón de Ardoz
* 2008 Rosa Blanca, sculpture in Painted steel in Torrejón de Ardoz., Madrid
* 2008 Tower, sculpture in steel, awarded by the Government of Navarre, Corella, Navarre.
* 2009 – Ostoa, sculpture – steel – Leioa, Biscay – Consejo Regulador Txakolí
* 2009 The Emprenta del’s Temps – Termens – great sculpture – steel – Lleida
* 2010 – OGNARUD, sculpture – painted steel, – Durango, Bizkaia
* 2010 DURANGO, within ADISS Simposium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
* 2011 Hoja-la , steel sculpture, Asan-Si, South Korea.
* 2011 -Block, sculpture – roundabout Alicante University, Alicante Spain.
* 2011 – Urte Haietan, sculpture – Aiete Palace ́s garden. Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain.
* 2011 – Cipres Truncado, sculpture placed on Montjuic, Barcelona, Spain.
* 2012 -Nau Mai Ki Toku Ahuru Mowai – ( WELCOME TO MY SAFE HOME, TO MY SHELTERED
HAVEN ) sculpture steel – Neale Park, Nelson Gateway, New Zealand.
* 2013 -GINKO , steel sculpture. Qing Tao – China
* 2013 – Six medium size sculptures to the private collection of H.H. Sheick Muhamad Bin Zayed Al
Nayan, Abu Dhabi Prince Crown . UAE
* 2014 -FOUNTAIN , large steel sculpture placed on Petroleum Research Building. Texas Tech
University – LUBBOCK, TX
* 2016 – Complex of 7 medium sculptures for Royal family private collection – Abu Dhabi UAE
* 2016 – STREAM sculpture – Painted Steel at Marina Heights, Tempe – Phoenix – Arizona
* 2017 – Large sculpture, COMPAÑIA BODEGUERA DE VALENCISO – La Rioja Spai
* 2017 -Leaf / Falcon, steel sculpture – Dallas TX – US
* 2017 -Hug – steel sculpture, Baton Rouge, LA – LSU Universit
* 2017 -tsinghua Leaf, steel sculpture- tsinghua University – Hsinchu – Taiwa
* 2018 -Tempus Fugit (bell tower) painted steel sculpture, Dallas TX, US
* 2021 -Courtain – Painted steel – Leeds University – Leeds, United Kingdom
* 2021 -Pleasant Hill Gate, steel, Hickory Park – Pleasant Hill, Iowa – US
* 2021 -Threshold – sculpture – Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden, Iowa – US
* 2022 – TAINAN SEA GATE – Tainan Convention Center – sculpture- steel -Taiwa
* 2022 – NATURE SPREADS – Tainan Convention Center – sculpture- steel -Taiwa
* 2022 – SKY AND EARTH – Baogao Intellectual and Science Park – Taipei -Taiwa
* 2022 – WIND AND WATER – Baogao Intellectual and Science Park – Taipei -Taiwan
* 2024 – HH SHEIKH ZAYED BIN SULTAN AL NAHYAN PORTRAIT – Erth Hotel – Abu Dhabi
* On progress 2024 – ROOTS – The New Taipei City Art Museum – New Taipei
* On progress 2024 – TARGET – National Biotechnology Research Park, Academia Sinica – Taipei
* On progress 2024 – ORIGIN – National Biotechnology Research Park, Academia Sinica – Taipei
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