Artium Museoa’s AMA Study Centre has been set up as a space for critical, situated reflection, research and speculation on contemporary art, its potential and openings.
Designed as a study platform closely tied to the museum’s exhibition programme, the AMA Study Centre offers a place where artistic practices, research processes and knowledge production converge and are collectively activated.

The AMA Study Centre is viewed as a continuously evolving working framework that considers the issues that cut across artistic contexts: ways of constructing political memory and imagination, modes of inhabiting the commons, languages of criticism and writing, and the possibility of reflecting on and rehearsing desirable futures from a constantly shifting temporality.

The Centre has therefore been structured as a space for situated research, where knowledge unfolds through sustained dialogue and collaborative, making room for collaborative and at times disruptive forms of research that intertwine the joint efforts needed for reflecting from the present.

It’s activities are developed as part of a dialogue with Artium Museoa’s resources, collections and exhibitions, while also activating a network of collaborations with external partners: artists, researchers, curators, writers, cultural and academic institutions, social collectives and entities, both locally and internationally. These partnerships allow the museum to broaden its research frameworks and circulate diverse knowledge and shared methodologies.

The AMA Study Centre’s programme is continuously developed and structured around three lines of research that take shape through seminars, workshops, curated sessions, publications and activations of the museum’s archive.

In 2026, the AMA Study Centre will take a cross-disciplinary approach to address issues related to memory, image and political imagination, forms of communal living and related questions, as well as the production, writing and criticism processes of contemporary art.

Memory, Imagination and Image addresses the relationships between artistic practices, the politics of memory and forms of representation, focusing on the ways in which images and narratives shape our understanding of the past and open up possibilities for envisioning other present realities. Participants in this line of research will include Marwa Arsanios, Nader Koochaki & Kimia Kamvari, Françoise Vergès, María Rosón, Paco Ferrándiz, Germán Labrador, Carolina Cappa, Ana Pi and Louidgi Beltrame, as well as collectives and individuals involved in memory processes.

These seminars will take place on 29 and 30 January, 26, 27 and 28 February, and 12, 13 and 14 March.

Inhabiting the Commons: How to Live Together revolves around forms of shared living, the politics of care and the ways in which art can contribute to imagining and rehearsing others ways of living together. This line of research will feature the participation of Ros Murray, Rosalind Nashashibi, Amador Fernández Savater and other invited speakers working from the fields of thought, art and situated knowledge.

These seminars will take place on 14 and 15 May, and 19 and 20 June.

Production, Writing and Criticism Processes of Contemporary Art offers a space to reflect on ways of making, narrating and thinking about art today, considering both creative processes and tools for analysis, mediation and critical writing. This line of research will include encounters with artists, writers and curators, as well as initiatives such as TRAMA and collaborations with the Huarte Contemporary Art Centre and the University of the Basque Country (EHU).

These seminars will take place on 2 and 3 October, and 18 and 19 December.

Registration procedure
The sessions will remain open until capacity is reached. Registration will only be required in the case of workshops.

Workshop registration: send a letter of motivation to ikasketazentroa@artium.eus (maximum 200 words)

Certificate of participation
The possibility exists to request a certificate proving participation in the programmes in the case that one is required. The request must be made to ikasketazentroa@artium.eus prior to the start of the corresponding programme.