The BilbaoArte Collection comprises over 600 pieces and covers all contemporary practices and disciplines. It closely reflects BilbaoArte’s mission as an art production centre. Since 1998, the artists in residence leave one or several pieces in the Collection at the end of their stay and training at BilbaoArte in return for the support received.
Overall, the BilbaoArte Collection reflects the contemporary art scene of recent years, and boasts an important selection of high-quality works by international, Spanish and Basque artists. This intrinsic nature of peer growth through its artist production is a unique feature as an expression of the art of the present.
Regular group exhibitions of the Collection are organised in a bid to showcase the artists in residence and to offer new readings and interpretations of the vision that the works and artists offer overall.
In April 2023, the BilbaoArte Collection was recognised by the Basque Government in the Register of Museums and Collections of the Basque Country. That authority has awarded two subsidies for the municipal project: one for the professional photographic recording, cataloguing and documenting of the collection, and the other for the first exhibition.
Alkarren atzetik jolaska dabiltza tximistazko suge gorriak IV [Red Lightning Snakes Playing Chasing Each Other] (2025)Sculpture. Laid paper, ballpoint pen, oil pastels and methacrylate80 x 51 x 27 cmBA CollectionRegistration No..:2025.612.2 Murugurza’s work is noted...
Borobila II [The Circle II] (2025) Artist’s book Card, microflute cardboard, magnets, digital printing 21 x 43 x 42,5 cm BA Collection Registration No.:2025.612.1 Murugurza’s work is noted for the use of abstract language, and mainly pivots around the...
Burros muertos y dedos perdidos [Dead Donkeys and Lost Toes] (2025)Artist’s book. Printed on Hahnemühle 100g rice paper30,5 x 22,5 cm (closed); 61 x 84 cm (open)BA CollectionRegistration No.: 2025.616.1 Ordóñez’s artwork is focused on exploring working spaces and...
Uno que mira al otro mirar al otro [Someone Looking at Somebody Looking at Someone] (2025)Sculpture. Iron and foundry zinc301 x 2 x 14 cmBA CollectionRegistration No.: 2025.615.1 Ordóñez’s artwork is focused on exploring working spaces and bodies, addressing the...
Van a cuerpo, no caída [In Shirtsleeves, Not Fallen] (2025)Colour photograph72 x 90 cmBA CollectionRegistration No.:2025.614.1 Ordóñez’s artwork is focused on exploring working spaces and bodies, addressing the relationship between production, repetition and...
Cuenta atrás / cuenta reloj (2025) Sculpture. Bicycle rim without spokes 67 cm (Ø)BA CollectionRegistration No.: 2025.608.1 Fragments of bicycles originally from Eibar, heirs of an arms legacy, find a new life in this project. The metal, which had...
HP (2025)Sculpture. Welded bicycle forms and saucer138 x 56 x 15 cmBA CollectionRegistration No.: 2025.607 Fragments of bicycles originally from Eibar, heirs of an arms legacy, find a new life in this project. The metal, which had previously been complicit in...
Febrero 2025. Muriola-Gorliz [February 2025. Muriola-Gorliz] (2025)Installation. Door with recording, mobile phone videos, watercolour, food packages with painted ideograms, collages with added clothing, and 28 pieces of bread, pasta and rice crumbsSite specific...
Fichas de cantar y nadar [Singing and Swiming Records](2025)Artist’s book Digital printing, colour [playing cards]16 elements; 10 x 15 x 4 cm eachBA CollectionRegistration No.: 2025.638.16 His practice shifts between visual art, performance, videoart, installations...
