Manu Arregui (Santander, 1970) lives and works in Bilbao. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country. His artistic practice explores the tensions between abstraction, affective memory, and the representation of the body, articulating sculptures, images, and audiovisual devices where modern geometries function simultaneously as structures of order and as mechanisms of sensitive containment. Drawing on personal archives and cultural references linked to dance, film, ornamentation, and certain historical forms of non-normative sensibility, his work explores how certain visual and architectural systems organize, regulate, or interfere with the emergence of the intimate, the vulnerable, and the improper. Her work has been included in major exhibitions such as Trans-sexual Express International, curated by Xabier Arakistain and Rosa Martínez; Bad Boys, a project by Agustín Pérez Rubio created for the 50th Venice Biennale; Monocanal Video: 1996-2002, curated by Juan Antonio Álvarez-Reyes and Berta Sichel for the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Animated Sessions, a project by Juan Antonio Álvarez-Reyes for the same museum and the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas; Chacun à son Goût, curated by Rosa Martínez for the tenth anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; and España. Arte Español 1957-2007 at the Palazzo Sant’Elia in Palermo. She has participated in major international contemporary art fairs such as ARCO (Madrid), Art Basel Miami Beach (Miami), and Frieze (London). In 2002, she received the Marcelino Botín Foundation’s Visual Arts Grant, which allowed her to complete her studies at the ISCP in New York. In 2004, she won the Caixa Galicia First Prize for Video Creation and Digital Formats, and in 2007, the Altadis Visual Arts Prize. In 2014, she received the Arco Electrónico Prize, and in 2018, the BBVA Foundation’s Multiverso Grant. Her work is represented in the collections of, among others, the ARTIUM Museum in Vitoria, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the MUSAC in León, and the Reina Sofía National Art Centre in Madrid.