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This publication was published within the framework of the 11th Meeting of Contemporary Art Documentation Centres, organised by the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country - Artium Museoa, in November 2022.
During two days, the development of projects in heritage centres, the management of archives and special collections, comprehensive access to information and the gender perspective in documentary collections, among other topics, were discussed.
This publication is the compilation of lectures that were given at Feminist Gaze course at Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country in 2019 and 2021.
The book has been published as part of the actions developed by the Research and Documentation Centre for basque women artists, feminist artistic practices and art theories at Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country, a space specialising in feminist art and thought that provides a platform for researching, preserving and disseminating the work of Basque women artists and the ones linked to the institution’s programmes and collection.
Texts: Xabier Arakistain, Monica Bonvicini, Anna Caballé, Mari Chordà, Erreakzioa (Azucena Vieites and Estíbaliz Sádaba), Carmen Gaitán Salinas, Gema Intxausti, Elke Krasny, Lourdes Méndez, Elena Mendizabal, Lara Perry, Rosa Rius, Amy Tobin, Giovanna Zapperi.
Graphic Deseign: Habemus
Edited on the occasion of the exhibition Land of Friends by Carolina Caycedo, which has held in Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz, from 6 October 2023 to 7 April 2024.
Texts: Manuela Ochoa, Carolina Caycedo, Catalina Lozano
Graphic Design: Olga Casellas Badillo
Edited on the occasion of the exhibition Soneto de alimañas by Naomi Rincón Gallardo, which has held in Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz, from 6 Octuber 2023 to 7 January 2024.
Text: Itala Schmelz, Mauricio Marcin
Graphic Design: Azul Prusia
This edition has been published to mark the exhibition Idealak / Ideales by Nerea Lekuona, produced at Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country, which was held in Vitoria-Gasteiz from 22 September to 10 December 2023.
Text: José Ramón Cuesta Astobiza
Graphic Design: Gorka Eizagirre
In Idealak / Ideales, Nerea Lekuona (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1976) presents a dialogue between two of her most recent works, two large murals made up of the sum of items and concepts, artistic elaborations situated in the space created between various conflicting narratives surrounding the political period of Spain’s transition to democracy.
Following an investigation into the different documentary collections of the Civil Government of Alava, Lekuona produced her work entitled Laboratorio en Transición (Laboratory in Transition), a collection of more than a hundred objects, memory materials such as photographs, documents, plans and maps of the peninsula, which are used as a testing ground for the artist’s intervention. Works that play with the political imaginary and the messages issued by the government during these transitional years.
In Consignas (Slogans), produced on the occasion of this exhibition, Lekuona manually designs and formalises signs with words taken from the demands and protest calls that were chanted in the streets of the Basque Country during this period. Memory of a moment, which the artist situates in the present as part of her study of collective emancipation projects and their resources.
This exhibition is part of the programme Contexts from a collection, which showcases the practice of artists whose works have recently been added to the museum’s collection.
Edited on the occasion of the exhibition Everything Near Me, which has held in Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz, from 24 June to 24 September 2023, as a part of Z Gallery programme.
Text: María Palacios
Graphic Design: Azul Prusia
Edited on the occasion of the exhibition Mechanical Bonds. Performative practices in the museum, which has held in Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz, from 10 June to 30 July 2023.
Texts: Itziar Okariz, Catalina Lozano
Graphic Design: Habemus Estudio
On the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition Everything Near Me, the museum will host a conversation between the artist and filmmaker Laida Lertxundi and the Chief Curator of Artium Museoa, Catalina Lozano and the screening of the exhibition's films.
24 June, 5 pm
Conversation between Laida Lertxundi and Catalina Lozano
Z Gallery. Free entrance until full capacity
Reservations: 945 20 90 20 and artium.eus
Edited on the occasion of the exhibition Persona, foto, copia by Julia Spínola, which has held in Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz, from 24 March to 18 June 2023, as a part of Z Gallery programme.
Texts: Marc Navarro, Catalina Lozano
Graphic Design: Álvaro Cánovas, Ignasi Ayats
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