The Juncal Ballestín International Research Grant supports research projects on feminist historiographies and on women artists linked to the museum’s collection. The object of this call for proposals is to select a project that aims to develop research within both Basque Country and international contexts.
This initiative usually opens its call for applications in the first month of the year.
Organised by Artium Museoa, the international research grant is named after the artist Juncal Ballestín (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1953-2015). In 2021, the museum received a donation of the artist’s work and archive from the Anesvad NGO, heir to her legacy. In that same year, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country created the research grant that bears her name to commemorate her.
In its 2025 edition, the grant was awarded to artist, programmer, and researcher Julia Martos Ramírez (Córdoba, 1989), who proposed a study of the processes of film rewriting carried out by artists and filmmakers working with archival materials in the context of the Basque Country
Awarded to a project by the researcher Andrea Valdés Vigil entitled Alina Szapocznikow. Esculpir en cuenta atrás y hacia adelante (Alina Szapocznikow: Forward Countdown Sculpting).The work will relate the career of this Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow (1926 - 1973) to those of Itziar Okariz (San Sebastián, 1965) and Ana Laura Aláez (Bilbao, 1964), both of whom are represented in the museum’s collection
Awarded to a project by the artist and researcher
Estibaliz Sádaba Murguia (Bilbao, 1963), entitled
Voces resilientes. Prácticas artísticas feministas individuales y colectivas, la irrupción en los 90.
The research involves a number of interviews with different artists and collectives that emerged in the 1990s. Based on the experiences of their personal creative processes, the researcher is proposing a new way of looking at the intersection between art and feminism.
Estibaliz Sádaba Murguia is an artist who holds a PhD in Art and Research from the EHU/UPV and a Master in Art Research and Creation from the same university.
The researcher and editor
Leah Whitman-Salkin was selected from the call for proposals for the Juncal Ballestín International Grant in 2022.
The editor Leah Whitman-Salkin is developing the Montana publishing project, a series of books dealing with translation, fiction, poetry and social and literary essays. A series of publications which, as the researcher indicates “form an ecology of thought that is connected in spirit, practice, and language, yet distinct and diverse, spanning geographies and time”. Following a research stay at the museum, Whitman-Salkin is planning an extension of this research work in the Basque Country aimed at the translation of texts and writings by women authors in the Basque context.
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