The AMA Study Centre at Artium Museoa is a platform that works in close relation with the museum’s exhibition programme to provide a space for research in the contemporary art and the formats of production and expansion of knowledge and  critical research methodologies based on collaboration and experimentation.

The programme Memorias que vibran: los soportes de la memoria (Vibrant Memories: The Supports of Memory) by the Centre for Studies proposes a collective reflection on the forms of memory and and the construction of the image, in which experts in memory studies and art history will take part. This seminar coincides with the 50th anniversary of the events of 3 March 1976 in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

With Carolina Cappa (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1982), Paco Ferrándiz (Oviedo, 1963), Germán Labrador (Vigo, 1980), María Rosón (Madrid, 1981) and Nerea Lekuona (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1976) in collaboration with the Association of Victims and Families of Victims of 3 March, Martxoak 3 Elkartea.

PROGRAMME

26 February
6-7.30 pm. Auditorium
Carolina Cappa. Lecture: Poder local, poder popular. Notas sobre la preservación de cines periféricos en Latinoamérica. Screening of Sara Gómez's (1942–1974) films

7.30-8.30 pm. Auditorium.
María Rosón. Lecture: Memoria y deseo

27 February
11 am to 1 pm. Plaza Gallery.
Paco Ferrándiz
Workshop: Las texturas de la memoria: del cuerpo poseído al cuerpo fusilado. Registrations: ikasketazentroa@artium.eus

6-7 pm. Auditorium
Germán Labrador. Lecture: Estéticas de la transición. Fantasmas de la historia y genealogías rotas

7-8 pm. Auditorium.
Paco Ferrándiz. Lecture: Cuelgamuros disonante

28 February
10 am to 1 pm. A4 Gallery
Workshop with Nerea Lekuona in collaboration with Martxoak 3 Elkartea. Registrations: ikasketazentroa@artium.eus

Carolina Cappa (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1982) works in the field of film archives. As an archivist, she worked at the Buenos Aires Museum of Cinema, the Bolivian Cinematheque in La Paz, and more recently in film preservation in collaboration with various institutions such as the Arsenal in Berlin and the Cuban Cinematheque. She directed the preservation project Argentine Nitrate, focused on surviving films from early Argentine cinema. As a researcher, she coordinated the project Second Hand, focused on found-footage films made in Latin America and Spain. She is currently Head of the Research Department at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE) in Donostia–San Sebastián.

Paco Ferrándiz (Oviedo, 1963) (PhD UC Berkeley) is a researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Since 2002, he has coordinated multidisciplinary research projects on the exhumation of mass graves from the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), from a transnational and comparative perspective. From 2020 to 2023, he served as an advisor to the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory. He is the editor of Disparidades. Revista de Antropología. He is the author of El pasado bajo tierra: exhumaciones contemporáneas de la guerra civil (Anthropos, 2014), and co-editor (with A. Robben) of Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), and (with E. Anstett) The Routledge Handbook of Necropolitics (forthcoming).

Germán Labrador Méndez (Vigo, 1980) is a Distinguished Researcher (ATRAE) at the CSIC, at the Institute of Language, Literature and Anthropology (ILLA). He was Professor at Princeton University until 2024 and Director of Public Activities at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid (2021–2023). He is currently developing a research project on the relationships between culture and democracy in Spain (1868–2024). He has curated exhibitions such as Esperpento. Arte popular y revolución estética (MNCARS, 2024) and Ollos de vidro. Formas para outra historia de Galicia (Auditorio de Galicia, 2025). Among his publications is Culpables por la Literatura. Contracultura e imaginación política en la transición española (Akal, 2017).

María Rosón (Madrid, 1981) is, in her own words, a historian of wardrobes, photo albums, and other paper-based artefacts. She is professor of Contemporary Art History at UCM. Her research connects twentieth-century Spanish visual and material culture with perspectives from intersectional feminisms, dissident memories, and archives. She has worked at UAM—where she earned her PhD—as well as at the Reina Sofía Museum (Collections Department) and the University of Valencia. Her research is grounded in close attention to objects from the realm of intimacy and everyday life. Her main research areas include the cultural history of the Spanish Civil War, exile, and the early Franco regime, approached from feminist and queer perspectives. 

Nerea Lekuona (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1976) develops an artistic practice centred on the hybridisation of image, text, action and installation as a strategy to critically interrogate contemporary realities. Her work articulates visual dispositifs that activate reflection, question conventions and reveal latent tensions in everyday life, understanding the mixing of formats as a discursive positioning. Starting from graphic and visual aspects, her artistic project has increasingly embraced installation, intervention and expanded formats, in which all her expressive resources coexist with a critical perspective on the world we share.

Martxoak 3 Elkartea. The Association of Victims of March 3rd was founded out of the commitment of the victims and society to keep alive the memory of the massacre of March 3rd, 1976, in Vitoria-Gasteiz. 

All activities in this public programme are free to attend until full capacity is reached, except for the workshops, for which prior registration is required at ikasketazentroa@artium.eus with a letter of motivation (200 words).

Certificate of participation
It is possible to request a certificate attesting to participation in the programmes required.
The request must be made to ikasketazentroa@artium.eus prior to the start of the corresponding programme.