On Friday, September 26, 2025, at 7:00 p.m., the URIBITARTE40 Gallery at BilbaoArte will open the exhibition NOMADIC PRACTICES 2023/25.
As part of the opening program, the performance and activation of RESPIRO – PROY [GIGIA] by Matteo Vettorello will take place at 7:15 p.m. As part of the opening, Italian artist Matteo Vettorello will activate RESPIRO – PROY [GIGIA], a biometric installation produced as part of his residency at BilbaoArte. This installation connects human breathing with an interactive sculptural body, thanks to the active participation of the audience and through coordinated and conscious breathing exercises.
The exhibition will be open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., and Sundays and holidays from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. until September 8. Free admission.
Sala URIBITARTE40 is providing the venue for the exhibition Nomadic Practices 2023/25, a collective exhibition of work by artists Juana García-Pozuelo, Harald Gmeiner, Helena Guy Lhomme, Victor Ortuño, Caterina Morigi, Javier R. Pérez-Curiel, Saray Pérez Castilla and Matteo Vettorello. The exhibition runs from 26 September to 9 November.
Colabora: 
HARALD GMEINER
Dornbirn, Austria, 1960
Harald Gmeiner (Dornbirn, 1960) studied painting and drawing with Hermann Nitsch, the Zhou Brothers, Herbert Brandl, Jerry Zenuik, and Ingrid Floss, and printmaking at the Fayoum Art Center in Egypt with Mohamed Abla. Through his practice, he explores notions and interpretations of human beings in relation to their living environments, as well as their expansion and/or disruption. Collective fundamental patterns significantly influence and shape the artistic content in this process. In terms of artistic technique, painting and drawing/graphics occupy a central place. Alongside various artistic series, performances, videos, and “Open Studios”—specific collaborative works in everyday locations—serve as a starting point and experimental field for his broad oeuvre.
JUANA GARCÍA-POZUELO
Logroño, 1978
Juana García-Pozuelo (Logroño, 1978) is a visual artist who has lived in Bilbao since 1996. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country and is also pursuing a Master’s degree in Art Creation and Research from the same institution. She has furthered her training at international centers such as the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Summer School of Fine Art in Salzburg. Since 2001, she has developed a figurative painting style focused on various conceptual themes. Her work has been exhibited in twelve solo shows at various galleries and institutions in Spain, and she has participated in numerous group exhibitions since her inception.
HÉLÉNA GUY LHOMME
Héléna Guy Lhomme is a visual artist with a degree in Fine Arts from HEC, the École du Louvre, and the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC). She has recently completed a one-year residency funded by the DRAC Île-de-France.
Her artistic work focuses on deconstructing myths, uncovering what certainties and automatic modes of thinking obscure and leave implicit, to the point that their disruptive power is experienced in consciousness. The creation of forms and the use of wool, a material that establishes an almost metonymic relationship, gradually transforms a sense of distance into civic and political engagement. To this end, she focuses on the merino wool sheep of Extremadura (the result of centuries of crossbreeding with animals whose fleeces contain that strange fiber known as wool) and the fighting bulls raised in the same dehesas south of Salamanca (from which any lack of fighting spirit is systematically eliminated by selecting the wildest and most aggressive animals).
CATERINA MORIGI
Ravenna, Italy, 1991
Caterina Morigi is a visual artist. She teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and Genoa, and studied at the IUAV University in Venice and Paris 8 – Saint-Denis. In her research, she focuses on matter and the boiling point of life, considering it a territory of union and exchange. To address the substance of things, she uses a close and timeless gaze. The work becomes a changing device used to generate inversions between subject and frame, center and margin, and to initiate a multitude of fluid, diverse, and subjective images.
SARAY PEREZ CASTILLA
Bilbao, 1987
A multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Bilbao, she holds a degree in Fine Arts (2012) and a Master’s degree in Ceramics: Art and Function (2014) from the EHU (University of the Basque Country). Her practice explores the perceptual landscape in territories of sensorial invisibility, addressing memory and territory through a delicate use of technology/ceramics and archives (MediaArt). Since 2016, she has been conducting research titled Landscapes of Dialogue in the Age of Complexity, focusing on historical memory and ceramic-technological devices. She also integrates her artistic methodology into socio-community projects that generate collaborative networks around collective memory and silenced narratives, such as Invisible Landscapes, developed in Western Sahara, Guayaquil/Galápagos, and the Basque Country.
VICTOR ORTUÑO SÁNCHEZ
Yecla, Murcia, 1995
Víctor Ortuño (Yecla, Murcia, 1995) resides in Bilbao as an artist. He studied at the University of the Basque Country, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts and a Master’s Degree in Artistic Research and Creation. His works have been exhibited at ARCO Madrid 2025, the Centro Párraga in Murcia, the Sala Rekalde through the Ertibil program in Bizkaia, and the Artnueve Gallery in Murcia. He received the Eremuak grant for the Ondoko project and the BilbaoArte Foundation grant, and participated in the Skulpturen Park residency program in Germany. She also received the Otaola Scholarship for collaboration between the Bilbaoarte Foundation and the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice, Italy, and participated in group exhibitions such as the La Rioja Young Art Showcase and the Ourense Provincial Council’s Plastic Arts Competition.
JAVIER R. PERÉZ-CURIEL
Oviedo, 1978
Javier R. Pérez-Curiel (Oviedo, 1978) is an artist and researcher with a degree in Fine Arts and a Master’s degree from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), where he will present his doctoral thesis in 2025. He is currently a student at the Dutch Art Institute (DAI). His training has been marked by participation in experimental programs dedicated to contemporary artistic practice. In 2019, he attended a workshop taught by Itziar Okariz and Jon Mikel Euba at Tabakalera, and in 2021 he participated in JAI, the Institute for Artistic Practice, also at Tabakalera and Artium, under the guidance of Itziar Okariz, Asier Mendizabal, and Ibon Aranberri. In 2022, he participated in the PEEPA (Program of Education for Artistic Practice) program at Matadero Madrid, directed by Jon Mikel Euba and Azucena Vieites. In 2023, she participated in the workshop led by Roni Horn and Isabel de Naverán at the Botín Foundation.
MATTEO VETTORELLO
Venice, 1986
Matteo Vettorello (Venice, 1996) lives and works between Milan and Venice. He studied Visual Arts at the IUAV University of Venice and subsequently graduated in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in 2017. He has participated in numerous internationally renowned exhibitions and residencies, including: Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice (2018); VIR ViaFarini-in-residency, Milan (2019); BJCEM, Mediterranean Biennale 18, Tirana (2017); Art Stays Festival, Ptuj (2019); In – Edita, Venice (2020).
