The jury of the Juncal Ballestín International Research Grant, organised by Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country, has unanimously decided to award the 2025 grant to Julia Martos Ramírez’s project entitled Inscripciones feministas en el remontaje del archivo audiovisual en Euskal Herria (Feminist reinscriptions in reassembling the audiovisual archive in the Basque Country). The job involves constructing a Basque feminist film narrative by studying the processes involved in film rewriting employed by women artists and filmmakers working with a variety of archival materials. The Juncal Ballestín International Grant is affiliated with the Artium Museoa’s Research and Documentation Centre for Basque Women Artists, Feminist Artistic Practices and Art Theories. It aims to support the development of a historiography of feminist art within both Basque Country and international contexts, as well as to study the production of women artists and thinkers linked to the museum’s programmes and collection.

The project by Julia Martos Ramírez (Córdoba, 1989) selected in the 2025 call for the Juncal Ballestín Research Grant aims to contribute to the construction of a Basque feminist film narrative by studying the processes involved in film rewriting employed by women artists and filmmakers working with a variety of archival materials. Her specific interest lies in examining audiovisual pieces in which archival additions examine, question or shatter a cultural framework that operates as a sounding board for gender values.

Julia Martos is an artist, programmer and researcher based in Bilbao. With an interest in the politics of archives and their narratological and exhibition potential, she completed her training in Film Programming and Curating at Birkbeck, University of London in 2021 thanks to a grant from the Botín Foundation for Museum Management and Exhibition Curation. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis on feminist reinscriptions in documentary film made with family film archives.

This year’s Juncal Ballestín International Grant Evaluation Commission comprised Agar Ledo Arias, research process technician at the Museum of Pontevedra; María Rosón, researcher and lecturer in Contemporary Art History at Complutense University of Madrid; Catalina Lozano, Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country-Artium Museoa; and Elena Roseras Carcedo, Head of the Archive and Documentation Centre at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country-Artium Museoa.

The Juncal Ballestín International Grant aims to support research projects that contribute meaningful content to the historiography of feminist art within both Basque Country and international contexts, as well as to study the production of women artists and thinkers linked to the museum’s programmes and collection.