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This morning the museum’s acquisitions were presented in the framework of the Shared Collection, a project promoted by the Basque Government’s Department of Culture, in which the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao, Tabakalera and the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country-Artium Museoa participates.
The three artistic institutions have worked in an interinstitutional committee for the acquisition of the pieces presented today in the museum, a fund constituted by 26 works or sets of works belonging to 18 artists, 10 women and 8 men.
The artists with works integrated in the Shared Collection 2022 are José Ramón Ais (Bilbao, 1971), Nora Aurrekoetxea (Bilbao, 1989), Josu Bilbao (Bermeo, 1978), Leo Burge (Londres, 1991), Esther Ferrer (San Sebastián, 1937), Elena Goñi (Pamplona, 1968), Ibon Landa (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1994), Laida Lertxundi (Bilbao, 1981), Inés Medina (Cáceres, 1950), Damaris Pan (Mallabia, 1983), Alberto Peral (Santurtzi, 1966), Txuspo Poyo (Alsasua, 1963), José Antonio Sistiaga (San Sebastián, 1932), Susana Talayero (Bilbao, 1961), Begoña Zubero (Bilbao, 1962), Alazne Zubizarreta (Arrasate, 1994).
Sahatsa Jauregi (Itaparica, 1984) presents a series of works in this exhibition that form a set of various assemblages of objects, some found and others manufactured by the artist. Supported by tensile forces that shape them, the assemblages bring together silhouettes of body parts made from cut-out metal sheets that often stretch or are supported by textile elements. Their composition stems from a specific temporality and the possibility of transformation is always latent in the pieces. This potential and the relationship established by the artist with her work endow them with a performative nature.
The exhibition’s title refers to a type of welding wire that does not require the propulsion of an external gas as it is already built in. This idea of internalised technology becomes part of the bodies assembled in Flux Cored. Jauregi creates a succession of suspended characters, created as transitory bodies that parade through the exhibition space. They are bodies made up of various technologies: prosthetic, muscular, decorated, at times excessive. Often based on photography, Jauregi's “plain sculptures” express the desire to create and materialise situations that she finds stimulating.
Sahatsa Jauregi lives and works in Bilbao. She currently lectures in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) and was a member of the Okela independent space, located in Bilbao, during the years 2017-2022.
She has had solo and group exhibitions in a variety of spaces, such as The Ryder (Madrid, 2022), Aparador Monteleón (Madrid, 2022), The Goma (Madrid, 2022), Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao), Artiatx (Bilbao, 2021), Tabakalera (Donostia-San Sebastián, 2021), Fran Reus Gallery (Palma de Mallorca, 2021), Palacio Horcasitas (Balmaseda, 2021), Halfhouse (Barcelona, 2019), Swamp Horses (Espinavessa, 2019) and Carreras Múgica (Bilbao, 2016).
She has also won several prizes, including the Gipuzkoa New Artists Programme Award 2013, Ertibil Award 2017, Gure Artea Award 2019 and ARCO Madrid Community Award, and has had residencies at Tabakalera (Donostia-San Sebastián, 2019), Halfhouse (Barcelona, 2019), Fundación Bilbaoarte (Bilbao, 2016) and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley 2012).
Contexts from a Collection is a programme of exhibitions that aims to showcase the work of artists that has recently been incorporated into the museum’s collection. It is an additional proposal to other initiatives that aim to raise awareness of the Artium Museoa Collection, an outstanding contemporary public collection comprising almost 2,800 works of art.
La muestra recoge una veintena de piezas de los años 80 y 90, ejemplo de la pluralidad de lenguajes, propuestas y debates abiertos en el ámbito del arte en el País Vasco. Los Premios Gure Artea cumplen en 2022 el 40 aniversario desde su creación
101 is the number of pieces that were added by 2021 to the Artium Museum Collection in the form of a commodate by the Basque Government.
Most of them are works from the Gure Artea Awards between 1982 and 1995. A total of 96 prizes were awarded in the editions held between these years, divided into disciplines – painting and sculpture in their first edition, to which were added engraving from their second edition and photography from 1989 onwards. These works were included in exhibitions aimed at local audiences, outlining the ways of doing of a time and later being incorporated into the collections of the Basque government.
The Gure Artea Awards will celebrate their 40th anniversary in 2022. During their journey to their current triple recognition format – to an artist, to management and to a career – these awards have been the subject of diverse negotiations, but they have undoubtedly served to create a unique space of visibility in which a variety of languages and proposals converge that reflect the ongoing discussions in the field of art in the Basque Country.
101 also implies a major step towards conserving and studying heritage as well as recent history. The large group of artists and works pertaining to this award, of which a first selection is now presented, reflects a committed period of time that eagerly sought definitions. A period during which cultural renewal and social demands coincided, as well as a political desire to understand artists as fundamental agents in building a new common imaginary.
101 underscores one of the main lines of work in the museum, which highlights its tasks of conserving, researching and disseminating contemporary public heritage. The addition of these 101 works into the exceptional heritage collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country, comprising almost 2,500 works of art, represents a further step in the mission of helping to study and reflect on the present.
Image: Untitled, 1985. Juan Luis Moraza
The centrepiece of the exhibition is Lucía con zeta, a video from 1998 in the museum’s collection that is shown in context with two other works by Munduate.
Contexts from a Collection, in addition to the case studies and rotations as part of the exhibition Zeru bat, hamaika bide, aims to raise awareness of the museum’s exceptional contemporary collection.
Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country presents the exhibition Cuerpos por un momento by Ion Munduate (A02 Gallery, until 29 May 2022) as part of its Contexts from a Collection programme. The centrepiece of the exhibition is Lucía con zeta, a video from 1998 that was acquired in 2020 as part of the Shared Collection initiative. Artium Museoa has produced a publication with a text by Sergio Prego to accompany the exhibition. One of the aims of Contexts from a Collection, alongside other initiatives, is to promote knowledge of the Artium Museum Collection by presenting recently acquired works alongside other pieces by the same artist.
The works that comprise Cuerpos por un momento share drawing and annotation as the origin of their execution, videos that have been made at various moments in the artist’s career. The beginning of each process, performance or video begins with drawing and is developed in various formats revolving around working from the body, text and space.
A thing becomes something else because it is moving, because it is situated between a moment immediately before and another immediately after. Each movement is based on a counter-movement, or on the fact that, in recovering movement, a trade-off or “breather” takes place, and this is what leads to its volume. From a situation of immobility produced by learning to dance, the artist had to rethink movement and its practice, to find the lost body.
The beginning of each process, performance or video commenced by drawing. The first being drawn, called Personne (Nobody), in his work Lucia con zeta (1998), was learning to walk. The series of drawings insisted on moving, on producing phrases of movement. The notion of notation and writing is what leads to the movement of this piece. This would be his first movement score as he attempted to trap time, the time of being.
He prioritised the notion of being a drawing, not a subject, during the reading of these drawings, thinking of the body in movement as a stroke. Thinking of a movement away from something, and towards something, the notion of interval. Interval understood in the sense of writer and translator Ashkan Sepahvand: “(...) as a process of hybridisation and mutation rather than that of separation, an act of renewal, not of transference”.
Ion Munduate (San Sebastian 1969) is trained in dance and performance, and he uses video in his work in addition to installations and performance. He was co-director of Mugatxoan between 1998 and 2012.
Contexts from a Collection
Thus, in addition to the permanent exhibition of the Artium Collection, Zeru bat, hamaika bide, the A01 Gallery generally hosts case studies and exhibitions linked to research work and the 1977-2002 period displayed in this exhibition. The Zeru bat, hamaika bide exhibition is periodically changed to add new internal routes. The creation of the #Bilduma series in Artium’s publications programme shares this same goal.
Artium’s acquisition programme helps to explore and report on the debates and practices taking place in the field of art today, as well as being an essential tool for sounding out a moment characterised by its dynamism and complexity. This is one of the basic tasks of the museum: to encourage the production of contemporary heritage and promote artists and their productions.
Artium Museum added Ion Munduate’s Lucía con zeta to its collection in 2020 as part of the Shared Collection acquisition programme promoted by the Basque Government.
Munduate begins the Contexts from a Collection programme in 2022. Daniel Llaría, Nadia Barkate and Lorea Alfaro were the artists forming part of the series in 2021.
The exhibition do mess with me includes the videos <3 S P S <3 BLOOD and <3 S P S <3 INK, acquired in 2020 as part of the Basque Government’s support plan for the artistic sector.
In the same manner as the case studies and rotations within the exhibition Zeru bat, hamaika bide, Contexts from a Collection aims to increase the visibility of the museum’s outstanding contemporary collection.
As part of its Contexts from a Collection exhibition programme, Artium Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country presents two videos by the artist Lorea Alfaro: <3 S P S <3 BLOOD and <3 S P S <3 INK, which have been recently added to the museum’s collection (A02 Gallery, until 16 January 2022). The exhibition do mess with me also includes a selection of works by Alfaro alongside these two pieces, including works made with wallpaper, Paski and Paretara, and the video Tú re-post. The exhibition is accompanied by the publication do mess with me, which contains a conversation between Lorea Alfaro and the photographer Rafa Castells. Contexts from a Collection is a series of exhibitions dedicated to showcasing the works of artists that have recently been added to the museum’s collection.
<3 S P S <3 (2016-2017) is a portrait and part of the design of a tailor-made silk shirt for the sitter, a singer from the Spanish trap scene. Lorea Alfaro views the design of the shirt like the making of a mould: “A mould is a piece [SHIRT], or number of coupled pieces [PATTERN], internally hollow but with the external details and imprints of the future solid that one wishes to obtain [HIM]. A flexible mould [SILK] is usually assembled with a rigid counter-mould [VIDEO] or ‘mother’ [MOTHER] that holds the shape to prevent its deformation [VIDEO]. The advantage of flexible moulds is that they can be removed more delicately [SILK], leading to a better result for the piece. It is also lighter [SILK] and more durable [ARTE]”.
The print on the shirt is a repeated motif of a tattoo that was on the forearm of one of her relatives. This same motif has had other bodies in previous works such as Paretara (2014) or the Paski #mablood scarf (2015). These repetitions, present in all her work, signal the artist’s interest in seeking ways of incorporating elements into life that stem from a type of attention, care and time, different from those found in everyday objects.
Lorea Alfaro (Estella Lizarra, 1982) is an artist. Her most recent works can be seen in the exhibitions 2020, together with Jon Otamendi (Fundación Joan Miró, 2021), Un mundo sin cualidades (Galería CarrerasMugica, 2020) or No lo banalices (Galería CarerrasMugica, 2018, 948 Merkatua, 2019). She has been working through the hollow brand LA (3l3a) since 2014.
This is a major group of drawings and sculptures, five of which are watercolours in various formats belonging to the series Tuya gigante, tuya occidental that have recently been added to the Artium Collection.
Contexts from a Collection, as well as the case studies and rotations within the Zeru bat, hamaika bide exhibition, aims to increase the visibility of Artium’s outstanding contemporary collection.
Artium Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country presents, as part of its Contexts from a Collection programme, a group of five recently acquired watercolours in various formats by the artist Nadia Barkate belonging to the series Tuya gigante, tuya occidental (A02 Gallery, until 5 September 2021). These pieces are contextualised with a selection of works by Barkate, watercolours and blown glass sculptures produced over the past three years. Contexts from a Collection is a series of exhibitions dedicated to showcasing the work of artists who have recently been added to Artium’s collection of works.
Nadia Barkate’s work refers to the space-time of drawing and its inertias. It also refers to the flow between technique and desire, the imprint that experience leaves on the body and notions of identity, interiority and otherness, among other things. There is a certain narrative will that links the everyday, the manual and the word in her practice. She deals with traditional gestures and techniques that go beyond the edges and lose form or sharpness, lucidity or hallucination.
Tuya gigante, tuya occidental belongs to a group of small and large format watercolours that Barkate produced throughout 2018. They emerged, according to the artist, from moments of self-absorption in her studio in which she became aware of the gestures she would make with her hands while she was concentrating.
Nadia Barkate has recently had exhibitions in venues such as Okela (Bilbao), Galería MPA (Madrid), Galleria Nappa and Studio Mustanapa, (Rovaniemi, 2021), Lìtost Gallery (Prague, 2020), Bombón Projects (Barcelona, 2019), Westfälischer Kunstverein (Münster, 2019), Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao (2018), Tabakalera (San Sebastián, 2018), Ethall (Barcelona, 2018), Alhóndiga (Bilbao, 2018), Carreras Múgica (Bilbao, 2015), Altes Finanzamt (Berlin, 2015), Espai 01 (Olot, 2012) and Montehermoso (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2010), among others.
Contexts from a Collection
Thus, in addition to the permanent exhibition of the Artium Collection, Zeru bat, hamaika bide, the A01 Gallery generally hosts case studies and exhibitions linked to research work and the 1977-2002 period displayed in this exhibition. The Zeru bat, hamaika bide exhibition is periodically changed to add new internal routes. The creation of the #Bilduma series in Artium’s publications programme shares this same goal.
Artium’s acquisition programme helps to explore and report on the debates and practices taking place in the field of art today, as well as being an essential tool for sounding out a moment characterised by its dynamism and complexity. This is one of the basic tasks of the museum: to encourage the production of contemporary heritage and promote artists and their productions.
Nadia Barkate’s work refers to the space-time of drawing and its inertias. It also refers to the flow between technique and desire, the imprint that experience leaves on the body and notions of identity, interiority and otherness, among other things. There is a certain narrative will that links the everyday, the manual and the word in her practice. She deals with traditional gestures and techniques that go beyond the edges and lose form or sharpness, lucidity or hallucination.
Tuya gigante, tuya occidental belongs to a group of small and large format watercolours that Barkate produced throughout 2018. They emerged, according to the artist, from moments of self-absorption in her studio in which she became aware of the gestures she would make with her hands while she was concentrating.
Nadia Barkate has recently had exhibitions in venues such as Okela (Bilbao), Galería MPA (Madrid), Galleria Nappa and Studio Mustanapa, (Rovaniemi, 2021), Lìtost Gallery (Prague, 2020), Bombón Projects (Barcelona, 2019), Westfälischer Kunstverein (Münster, 2019), Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao (2018), Tabakalera (San Sebastián, 2018), Ethall (Barcelona, 2018), Alhóndiga (Bilbao, 2018), Carreras Múgica (Bilbao, 2015), Altes Finanzamt (Berlin, 2015), Espai 01 (Olot, 2012) and Montehermoso (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2010), among others.
Works in exhibition Publication
Contexts from a Collection is a series of exhibitions that aims to showcase the works of artists that have recently been added to the Collection. The activity joins other initiatives whose purpose is to raise awareness of the Artium Museum Collection, an exceptional contemporary public collection comprising almost 2,400 works of art. Within this context, the incorporation of pieces, documents and archives into the museum’s collection of works helps to explore and recount the debates and practices currently taking place in the field of art. This is undoubtedly one of the museum’s most important functions: to encourage the production of contemporary legacy and to foster artists and their productions. Artium’s programme of new acquisitions helps achieve this goal and is also an essential tool for keeping a finger on the pulse of a moment characterised by its vitality and complexity. We hope that this new initiative will function as a meeting point between audiences and artistic practices from which to develop new strategies for seeing and trying to understand our present.
Con motivo de la celebración del Día Internacional de la Mujer, el Museo Artium presenta un programa que permite reflexionar sobre diferentes aspectos de la cuestión de la presencia de las mujeres en el ámbito de la práctica del arte, uno de los ejes transversales del Proyecto que desarrolla el Museo y que es transversal a todos sus ámbitos de trabajo e investigación. En ese sentido, abre al público Bigarren bidea (segunda vía), el primero de una serie de recorridos dentro de la exposición de la Colección Zeru bat, hamaika bide, centrado en esta ocasión en los vínculos entre arte y pensamiento feminista. Paralelamente, Artium abre el Centro de documentación de artistas vascas. Prácticas artísticas y teorías del arte feministas, un espacio especializado dedicado a reunir, conservar y difundir fuentes bibliográficas y documentación que contribuyan a la investigación sobre prácticas artísticas vinculadas movimiento feminista y a las producciones de las artistas vascas de distintas generaciones.
El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del País Vasco, Artium se inaugura en 2002 a partir de una colección compuesta por fondos de la Diputación Foral de Álava, del Gobierno Vasco, del Ayuntamiento de Vitoria-Gasteiz y del Parlamento Vasco. Fondos a los que se irán incorporando las obras adquiridas por el museo desde su fundación. En 2018 la colección, que cuenta con cerca de 2400 obras de arte, se sometió a un análisis confirmando la escasa presencia de artistas mujeres en sus fondos, un 20,8 %. Desde esa fecha, y en su calidad de institución pública preocupada por ofrecer el mejor servicio al conjunto de la ciudadanía y atendiendo, tanto a la realidad vasca, como a las nuevas corrientes museográficas internacionales, el Museo implementa una línea estratégica que aboga por la incorporación de las artistas en las historias del arte y que destaca que sus obras son parte fundamental del patrimonio.
El desarrollo de esta nueva línea de trabajo, que impulsa iniciativas como las del recorrido de la Colección, Bigarren Bidea, que se inaugura en el marco de la celebración del 8 de marzo, incorpora a la exposición de los fondos del Museo los depósitos y las adquisiciones de artistas mujeres claves para entender el desarrollo de los debates del arte contemporáneo en el contexto. En este recorrido se han expuesto, por vez primera, un conjunto de obras adquiridas con los fondos destinados por el Departamento de Cultura del Gobierno Vasco en el año 2020 a un Colección compartida entre esta institución, el CICC Tabakalera y el Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, así como obras adquiridas por la Diputación Foral de Álava. Entre otras, se podrán ver expuestas en las salas de Artium las obras de las artistas Azucena Vieites, Estíbaliz Sádaba, Ana Isabel Román y Lucía Onzain. Se ha dedicado un espacio central a la obra de la artista Juana Cima, presentando una pieza mural que procede de la colección del Ayto. de Vitoria-Gasteiz y que fue premio de la IV Bienal de Pintura y Escultura en 1980.
Coincidiendo con este nuevo recorrido, el 5 de marzo se presenta el Centro de documentación de artistas vascas, y prácticas artísticas y teorías del arte feministas, un espacio especializado adscrito al Servicio de Biblioteca y Documentación del Museo. Un proyecto que refuerza una línea estratégica del Museo y que tiene como objetivo el trabajo desde la paridad. Este centro es además un archivo documental de las obras de las artistas del País Vasco presentes en la colección del Museo, así como de las artistas con las que se establecen diálogos en la institución a través de sus diferentes programas expositivos.
De este modo, el Centro de documentación cumple una doble función; por un lado, muestra los avances realizados por el museo para completar su colección incluyendo a las artistas en sus fondos y archivos; y, por otro, facilita tanto a la comunidad artística, como al conjunto de la ciudadanía, la posibilidad de acceder y estudiar los trabajos y las figuras de las artistas del contexto.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country presents a programme of solo and group exhibitions that develop its main strands of work. Two of its core principles in 2021 will continue to be the inclusion of women artists in its temporary exhibition programme and Permanent Collection and its public legacy conservation and research.
Artium Museum will this year also focus on studying the links between artistic and educational practices with two group exhibitions on the crossovers and exchanges between art and pedagogy in the Basque Country since the 1960s and various historical experiences that have had a bearing on learning and art’s capacity to be an element of change. The second edition of the JAI (Institute of Artistic Practices) study programme will take place within this context in collaboration with CICC Tabakalera.
Film and moving images will also be major strands in its 2021 programme with the launch of an exhibition project of films produced by artists and filmmakers in a new exhibition space –Gallery Z– beginning in May with a line-up of international guest artists visiting the Museum.
Lorea Alfaro | Gerardo Armesto | Txaro Arrazola | A Place to Think: Experimental Art Practices and Schools in the Basque Country (1963-73) | Antonio Ballester Moreno | Juncal Ballestín | Maddi Barber+Marina Lameiro | Nadia Barkate | Eric Baudelaire | Katinka Bock | Mariana Castillo Deball | June Crespo | Moyra Davey | Patricia Esquivias | José Félix González Placer | Daniel Llaría | Rosalind Nashashibi | Xabier Salaberria | Zeru bat, hamaika bide. Bigarren bidea / Constructing a Public Legacy
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