San Stomak

SAINT STOMAK DAY
Passeggiata

Naples
17th edition

October 16, 2025
6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Since 2008, every October 16, the FoodCultura Foundation (Barcelona), founded by artist Antoni Miralda and chef Montse Guillén, has activated the collective celebration of Saint Stomak. Coinciding with World Food Day proclaimed by the FAO, this ritualistic and performative celebration, was born with the intention of contributing to the global debate on food and the contradictions present in our societies (hunger–obesity, malnutrition–ultra-processed foods, tourism–migration…), while always taking into account the wide set of beliefs, values, customs, techniques, and representations.

In 2015, Miralda, in collaboration with architects Flores&Prats, designed a reliquary in wood and gold leaf that embodies the figure of the saint. Since then, Saint Stomak has been installed and celebrated in different cities and institutions such as the Boqueria Market in Barcelona, the elBulli Foundation of Ferran Adrià, and at the FoodCultura/Cádiz.

Now in its 17th edition, the celebration of Saint Stomak expands with the intention of making its meaning known to a wider audience. For this reason, the festivities are decentralized and multiplied: in addition to the traditional offering reception that will take place on October 19 at FoodCultura in Barcelona, Saint Stomak also arrives in Naples on October 16, 2025, as the first stop of its STMK TRIP 2025–2026 through several Italian cities.

Based on digestion as a metaphor for the processes of shaping reality, the project proposes an update of the concept of pilgrimage as a dialogue between tradition and contemporary rituals; between the sacred and the profane, between art and popular culture.

“It resembles no other contemporary representation whatsoever, it has nothing to do with the tradition of happenings. In Miralda’s celebrations one invariably rediscovers a whole set of traditional rites that are provocatively projected into the future.” — Umberto Eco, 1988

“Miralda’s artistic practice is above all collective and compensates for the lack of social actions that allow a community to recognize itself. It revives the urban space, too often degraded in our time, restoring to it its dimension as a place of life and relationships.” — François Burkhardt, 1995