Esteban Torres (Vitoria, 1964) lives and works in Bilbao. In 1989 he earned a degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country.
His work is divided between artistic practice and the conceptual and project-based direction of architectural, engineering, and other public projects. His practice has developed through installations, sculptures, videos, and writings, as well as collaborative works; sometimes as an autonomous creative body and at other times supporting—generally through expanded conceptual writings and videos—external projects in urbanism, art, architecture, audiovisual media, or literature.
He began his career in the 1990s with interventions such as La piel falsa (1994, Water Depot, Vitoria-Gasteiz), and projects at the Basauri Cultural Center (1997) and the Convent of the Carmelites in Cuenca (1998). Among his exhibitions and collaborations, notable examples include his collaboration with Charo Garaigorta in Science is Fiction (2011) and Muro de Maravillas (2015, La Taller). In 2015 he presented the video Sweet.Documents in Colonia Apócrifa (2015, MUSAC, León), and later published Navidad en Moscú (2016, CUNY, New York) and collaborated with Manu Uranga on projects such as Koskorrak (2017), among others.
He has received grants and awards such as the BilbaoArte and Artium grant (2008), the 2nd Lanekintza Prize (2003), and Eremuak (2024).
In 2022 he created the project 2 Ordu, an urban ideation space in Bilbao la Vieja that functions as a private laboratory with public participation, where Bilbao and its territory are considered through non-normative strategies of approach.
