Sergio Prego

In his work, Sergio Prego (Donostia-San Sebastian, 1969) redefines the relationship between art and exhibition space, the artistic object and the aesthetic experience. The artist pushes the limits of sculpture with generally ephemeral or removable constructions, basic geometric volumes and unconventional materials, which he often fabricates in situ. His works made with pneumatic membranes - like poems in space, breathing - explore the nature of the ties that unite sculpture and architecture, questioning materiality due to their elaboration with flexible and light materials that allow the existence of form only in a specific state, or as a consequence of a continuous action on the materials that compose it. Air becomes a tool that molds forms. Also water, cement or synthetic resin. Pneumatic sculpture has to do with the emptying of space; how an element occupies a space that is simultaneously being vacated, emptied, allowing its occupation by people and spectators.

Sergio Prego (Donostia-San Sebastian, 1969) lives and works in New York and Bilbao. He began his training at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the EHU-UPV, and continued it at Arteleku, in San Sebastian. His work has been exhibited in museums and art centres internationally such as the Baffler Museum Houston, the Graham Foundation Chicago, the Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea di Siena, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, PS1 in New York, the Art Unlimited programme at Art 41 Basel and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. His work is represented in collections such as the Fundación La Caixa, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, DA2 - Domus Artium Salamanca, ARTIUM de Vitoria and Museo Guggenheim Bilbao. In 2019, together with Itziar Okariz, he occupied the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with a project entitled Perforado por... curated by Peio Aguirre.