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Edited on the occasion of the peeformace cycle Mechanical Bonds. Performative practices in the museum II, which has held in Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz, from 27 to 29 September 2024.
Text: Iñaki Martínez Antelo
Graphic Design: Dardo (Cristina Moralejo)
On 20 December 2021, the Anesvad Foundation and the Artium Foundation signed an agreement whereby Anesvad donated the artistic and documentary legacy of Juncal Ballestín (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1953-2015), to the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country, Artium Museoa, to which the NGO was heir. This publication is the result of the work carried out by the museum's Documentation Centre to organise, digitise and catalogue the artist's personal archive.
Texts by Fernando Illana, Entique Martínez Goikoetxea and Elena Roseras (includes facsimilated texts by Juncal Ballestín, Sara González de Aspuru, Conchita Igartua, José Ramón Morquillas, Daniel Castillejo, José Ángel Artetxe and Iñigo Sarriugarte)
Graphic Design: Hélice Creativos
This booklet is published on the occasion of the exhibition Joëlle Tuerlinckx. El caso de l(a casa) museo(a), produced by and presented at Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz from 15 November to 27 April 2025.
Concept and Texts: Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Graphic Design: Adriaan Van Leuven
This booklet is published on the occasion of the exhibition joxerra melguizo. refugios-diarios (lerro galduak), produced by and presented at Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz from 31 October to 9 February 2025.
Text: Enrique Martínez Goikoetxea
Graphic Design: Habemus Estudio
This booklet is published on the occasion of the exhibition Chillida. Applied uses, produced by and presented at Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz from 25 October to 2 February 2025.
Text: Peio Aguirre
Graphic Design: FFraca (design office)
boz. is a collection of books associated with the Research and Documentation Centre for Basque Woman Artists, Feminist Artistic Practices and Art Theories. It comprises a series of publications that compile texts and writings authored by women artists, theorists and other prefessionals who are part of the museum's programmes and collection.
Gema Intxausti (Gernika, 1966) inaugurates the series with a volume on the artist's work during her residency at the museum from September to November 2022.
Texts: Gema Intxausti, Ana Arregi
Graphic Design: Maite Zabaleta
This exhibition is dedicated to the work of Joxerra Melguizo (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1968), and covers the artist's work over the last 10 years. His work emphasises the idea of process, manifesting as a trace of day-to-day work in the studio, focusing on methods of creation and thought through drawing, line, and colour. It forms a kind of diary, an alphabet of symbols, abstract forms, images, and texts.
At the heart of the exhibition is a large mural installation, consisting of nearly a thousand drawings and square-format paintings arranged in a pattern that organises the different sizes. These works break away from the idea of representation and landscape, placing the focus instead on a reflection of the artistic process—examining technique, function, and its relevance both to the artist individually and within the broader context of art, as well as the ideological and social connections tied to his practice.
The project is complemented by two installations that showcase the remnants left behind by the creative process. In one, a set of test tubes hanging from the ceiling collect and categorise the residual materials used; in the other, the masking tapes used to block out areas of colour form a chromatic palimpsest—an accidental accumulation of lines that poetically and obsessively transfer the process onto the walls. The exhibition also presents one of the key pieces in Melguizo's artistic journey, La medida del espacio III (1997), which contrasts nature with the human scale.
This booklet is published on the occasion of the exhibition Néstor Basterretxea. The Archive, produced by and presented at Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz from 10 May to 22 September 2024.
Texts: Peio Aguirre, Matías Fajn and Elena Roseras
Graphic Design: Maite Zabaleta
This booklet is published on the occasion of the exhibition Unform by Patricia Dauder, produced by and presented at Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz from 26 April to 29 September 2024.
Text: Juan de Nieves
Graphic Design: Ariadna Serrahima
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Between April and June, the Basque Film Library, in collaboration with the San Sebastian Festival, will invite you to revisit and discover twelve films to be screened in Vitoria, San Sebastian, Bilbao, Pamplona and San Juan de Luz.
Following the successful cooperation with the Institut Lumière de Lyon, which resulted in the Lumière Sessions held over the last two years, the Filmoteca is once again looking at twelve titles, some of which are well known and others yet to be explored.
Organised by Basque Filmoteca
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