Empar Juanes, 1990 Valencia,  has developed her professional career on two very different scales: one in architecture and the other more intimate and personal, dedicated to contemporary jewelry.
In 2024 she was awarded with the Herbert Hofmann Prize, held during the special exhibition “Schmuck,” during the “Internationale Handwerksmesse” in Munich.
Constantly pushing the boundaries of stone as a material, her work is all about resistance, tension, and volatility, where taking risks is essential. Beyond her work with stone, Empar Juanes expresses her inner world between the material and the immaterial. With this multidisciplinary approach, her media range from artistic jewelry to sculpture, analog photography, and sound art.
After spending a decade living abroad between Germany and the Netherlands, combining her practice between architecture and art, in 2022 she returned to her village near València and renovated a 200-year-old house, transforming it into her home and studio where she founded PEDRA, an educational project about stone carving and contemporary jewelry.


About Empar Juanes Artworks:
Stone is meticulously shaped to evoke architectural forms—minimalist yet complex. They inhabit a dimension that both embraces and transcends the body. She patiently selects and opens raw stones, to find one that has enough size, uniformity, absence of veins, inclusions, or fractures, suitable for a three-dimensional work. Taking great risks, she cuts each stone with precise accuracy, followed by a meditative carving process where her deep understanding of geometry guides her hands into fluid movements. Through this careful craftsmanship, she pushes the material boundaries of stone, transforming it into ethereal, almost immaterial jewelry pieces.
Empar Juanes’ work is a spatial experience—an intimate architecture that exists in the tension between the stone and lightness, between the body and the space created by the void.