ARCOlisboa 2026 | Opening Lisboa | Booth OP2
Curated programe by Sofía Lanusse, Diogo Pinto & Sofia Montanha
Andrea Davila Rubio | Andrés Rodís
For ARCOlisboa, NÉBOA presents a curated selection of works by Andrea Davila Rubio (Boiro, Spain, 1995) and Andrés Rodís (Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2000), two young Galician artists whose practices reflect the diversity and complexity of emerging contemporary art.
Andrea Davila Rubio approaches the body as a territory shaped by the intersecting logics of care, discipline and defence. Her new sculptural works, developed during her first year at the Institute Art Gender Nature (IAGN) at HGK–FHNW in Basel, depart from the notion of the clean look: the aesthetic regime of smoothness, uniformity and erased imperfection that wellness and fashion cultures have elevated into an ideal. Davila Rubio reads this ideal not as neutral but as a disciplinary language, one that traces its genealogy through eugenic thought and the interiorised self-regulation of contemporary life, and that falls disproportionately on female-identifying bodies. In the Daily Protection series, chainmail-like stainless steel sculptures evoke both medieval armour and contemporary garments: metallic second skins designed to envelop and contain. Small amulets shaped as stars and keys pierce this defensive logic, introducing vulnerability and fragility into its grammar. In Clean Look, head-like forms cast in epoxy resin through moulds derived from cosmetic face masks appear sealed and expressionless, encircled by aluminium belts fastened with ceramic buckles. Facial skin becomes a surface to be regulated rather than a mirror of inner life.
Andrés Rodís works inward, into the pictorial surface itself. His practice is grounded in a sustained investigation into translation, inscription and the construction of images, where the surface operates as a permeable, somatic field that records everything passing through it: dust, accident, time, and the ghostly presence of found materials. His large-format canvases are built through accumulation and duration, layers of oil, enamel and wax absorbing traces of the studio, technical drawings, and fragments salvaged from notebooks and letters that have lost their original function. Forms emerge—geometric and atmospheric—only to be partially obscured, overlaid and displaced. Each surface functions as a record, a material chronicle of every decision, accident and revision that precedes the moment of encounter. Time, in his paintings, is deposited rather than depicted. Each piece remains open and susceptible to further evolution, inviting a reconsideration of the artwork as a dynamic entity in which every layer adds new strata of meaning.
Where Davila Rubio's sculptures press against the body, worn and handled and implicated in daily rituals of care and concealment, Rodís's canvases open outward, absorbing context and the slow sediment of use. Both practices resist the immediate and the legible. Both ask what it means for a surface to hold something, and what it means to look long enough for that holding to become visible.
Andrea Davila Rubio (Boiro, Spain, 1995) holds a PhD in Creation and Research in Contemporary Art from the University of Vigo (2025). In 2021, she completed part of her predoctoral research training at the Department of Philosophy at Boston College (Boston, USA), supported by a Fulbright–Xunta de Galicia scholarship. In addition, in 2025 she was awarded a grant by the María José Jove Foundation Art Centre to undertake the Master of Fine Arts programme at the Institute Art Gender Nature (IAGN) of HGK–FHNW University in Basel (Switzerland) during the 2025–2027 academic years.
From a critical and situated perspective, her work proposes a break with traditional hierarchies between the human and the non-human, putting forward forms of coexistence and care in which the body and its environment share the same logic of mutual transformation. Through her practice, the artist explores how sculpture can become a way of being in the world, and how the body is capable of activating affective and material bonds when it intertwines with elements of the landscape as well as with aspects of everyday life.
In her works, the body leaves traces, but is also shaped by what it touches, becoming a living surface that both receives and allows itself to be affected. Her most recent production delves deeper into this connection between body and matter, proposing new ways of imagining interspecies coexistence through artistic practice.
Selected exhibitions include: A sweaty dispersal into the fog, Galería NÉBOA (Lugo, 2025); A Friend of a Friend of a Friend, der TANK (Basel, Switzerland, 2025); A que me refiero cando falo de corpo, Sarao Studio (Ferrol, 2025); Algo que brilla… ao final do bosque, Bienal de Arte Contemporánea, Fundación Sales (Vigo, 2024); atravesar o xardín / entre as dúas esquinas, Feira de Arte Culturgal (Pontevedra, 2023); Corpo, afectos, territorio, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Huarte (Pamplona, 2023); Snapshots de Chantada, Os Casares, Galería Vilaseco (Lugo, 2022); Centro Cultural Marcos Valcárcel (Ourense, 2022); Feira de Arte Culturgal (Pontevedra, 2021); Novos Valores, Museo de Pontevedra (Pontevedra, 2020).
She has also undertaken artist residencies at the Walter & Nicole Leblanc Foundation in Brussels (Belgium); the Matadero Madrid Artist Residency Centre, supported by the Provincial Council of Pontevedra in collaboration with the 32nd Pontevedra Art Biennial; Atelier Mondial in collaboration with the Institute Art Gender Nature (IAGN) at HGK Basel (Switzerland) through the international arts programme of the Museo de Pontevedra; 12Miradas at Galería Vilaseco in collaboration with the María José Jove Foundation (Lugo, 2021); and Residency Unlimited (New York, 2021). In 2025, she was awarded the Celestino Cuevas Artist Residency Prize at Artesantander through Galería NÉBOA. She has also received grants and awards from the University of Vigo (predoctoral grant, 2020–2023), the Provincial Council of A Coruña (research grant, 2023–2024), the Provincial Council of Ourense (First Prize, 16th Fine Arts Competition, 2021) and the Provincial Council of Pontevedra (Prize, Novos Valores Fine Arts Competition, 2020).
Her works form part of the collections of the Provincial Council of Ourense and the Provincial Council of Pontevedra.
Andrés Rodís (Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2000) develops his artistic practice between Galicia, Valencia and the Basque Country. His work stems from a plastic investigation into language, the pictorial surface and the construction of images, often approached from a conceptual and process-based perspective.
He holds a BA in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2022) and an MA in Research and Creation in Art from the University of the Basque Country (2024). He is currently undertaking doctoral studies at the University of Vigo and has been artist-in-residence at Piramidón Centre d’Art Contemporani (Barcelona, 2025) and at the Celestino Cuevas Artistic Residencies (Reinosa, 2025).
In recent years, he has received several distinctions, among them being a finalist for the 14th Auditorio de Galicia Prize for Emerging Artists (2025), the Premio Gaztea awarded by the City Council of Leioa (2024), and the Cátedra Bodegas Faustino & Willy Ramos Award (Paris, 2022) for his project Luz negra. He was also a finalist in the Xuventude Crea competition (2020 and 2021) and selected for the Encontro de Artistas Novos EAN11 at the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia, coordinated by Rafael Doctor.
Selected exhibitions include Isabelle Dinoire at Espacio Peculiar (Oleiros, A Coruña, 2025); Gramática de superficie at Galería NÉBOA (Lugo, 2024); Territorio Contemporánea 2025, ABANCA (Santiago de Compostela, 2025), the group exhibition of awardees of the Cátedra Faustino & Willy Ramos at Galería Lupe Fullana (Valencia, 2023); XXVI Certamen Jóvenes Pintores at Fundación Gaceta (Salamanca, 2023); Paisaxe_0 at Galería Metro (Santiago de Compostela, 2022); La imagen de la memoria at Biblioteca Azorín (Patraix, Valencia, 2022); Xuventude Crea at the Church of the University (Santiago de Compostela, 2021); and Hidden Sessions with the collective Orbis Vacui at Centro Cultural Escuela de Ruzafa (Valencia, 2020). In 2024, he was selected for the exhibition PLURI-IDENTITATS. IV Convocatòria Biennal d’Arts Visuals at the Museu de la Universitat d’Alacant (Sala Sempere, 2025), as well as for the group show Tres o Cuatro Metros, organised by UPV/EHU in collaboration with the Juntas Generales de Bizkaia.
His work is represented in both public and private collections, including the Colección Norte of the Government of Cantabria, Fundación Campocerrado, and KELLS Art Collection.
Andrea Davila Rubio
Clean Look, 2026. Vidro, alumínio e cerâmica | Glass, aluminium and ceramic. 50 x 50 x 3 cm
Upon request
Andrea Davila Rubio
Daily Protection, 2026. Malha de aço inoxidável | Stainless steel mesh. 95 x 10 cm
600 EUR + VAT
Andrés Rodís
S/T, 2026. Óleo sobre tela | Oil on canvas. 200 x 300 cm
3600 EUR + VAT
Andrés Rodís
S/T, 2025. Esmalte, óleo, ceras e colagem sobre painel | Enamel, oil, wax and collage on panel. 156 x 211 cm
2200 EUR + VAT
Andrés Rodís
S/T, 2026. Esmalte e ceras sobre tela | Enamel and waxes on canvas. 200 x 150 cm
2200 EUR + VAT
Andrés Rodís
S/T, 2026. Esmalte e ceras sobre tela | Enamel and waxes on canvas. 195 x 145 cm
2200 EUR + VAT
Andrés Rodís
S/T, 2026. Esmalte e ceras sobre tela montada em painel | Enamel and waxes on canvas mounted on panel. 40 x 57,5 cm
1000 EUR + VAT
Andrés Rodís
S/T, 2026, Óleo sobre painel de madeira | Oil on panel. 30 x 39 cm
750 EUR + VAT
Andrés Rodís
S/T, 2026. Esmalte e ceras sobre tela montada em painel | Enamel and waxes on canvas mounted on panel. 30 x 23 cm
500 EUR + VAT
Andrés Rodís
S/T, 2025. Óleo sobre papel colado em painel de madeira | Oil on paper mounted on panel. 30 x 21 cm
500 EUR + VAT
Andrés Rodís
S/T, 2025. Técnica mista sobre papel | Mixed media on paper
450 EUR + VAT (each)
Andrés Rodís
Atlas/Forêt, 2025. Óleo, esmalte, cera e colagem sobre tela | Oil, enamel, wax and collage on canvas. 240 x 290 cm
3500 EUR + VAT
Andrés Rodís
S/T, 2024. Esmalte, óleo e ceras sobre tela | Enamel, oil and wax on canvas. 146 x 195 cm
2200 EUR + VAT
Andrés Rodís
S/T, 2024. Esmalte, óleo e ceras sobre tela | Enamel, oil and wax on canvas. 195 x 146 cm cm
2200 EUR + VAT
Andrés Rodís
S/T, 2025. Técnica mista sobre painel de madeira | Mixed media on panel. Tríptico. 30 x 60 cm cm
1300 EUR + VAT