Nerea Santisteban Lorences
Born in Somiedo and a graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo specialising in sculpture. In 2006 she won a grant for an Erasmus exchange programme at Fontys Hogesscholen Tilburg in the Netherlands, and in 2009 she received a Leonardo da Vinci grant to study in Augsburg, Germany, where she worked as a prop woman at the town’s theatre. During 2010 she followed a Master in Performing Arts and Sciences and began her research into stage possibilities for spaces in decline and their revival through artistic intervention. In 2011 she exhibited at Sala Borrón, Oviedo, as an artist selected in the Culturaquí programme of the Government of Asturias, and in 2012 she won the Casa Pintada Cristobal Gabarrón Foundation’s award for emerging art. Currently, she continues focusing on non-places and post-it phenomena in her performances, installations, interventions and various exhibitions.
