- The exhibition, which is free to enter, will be open until Sunday 31 May.
- The Navarran artist works with materials found and salvaged from the street. Materials that speak to us of what is happening in today’s society from a political, social and ecological perspective.
- The exhibition is complemented by guided tours in Basque (22 April) and Spanish (29 April), a performance (14 May) and the launch of a book about the exhibition (21 May).
(Bilbao, 13 April 2026). BilbaoArte, the Bilbao City Council’s arts production centre, presents ‘Some possibilities (based on rubbish and simulation)’, the title of the latest work by the artist Miren Doiz (Pamplona, 1980). The exhibition will be open to the public, free of charge, from Friday 17 April to Sunday 31 May, at the URIBITARTE40 Gallery.
Some Possibilities (Using Rubbish and Simulation) starts from the works produced during her residency at BilbaoArte from 2024 to 2025; they emerged from her personal concerns as a precarious artist as regards what is happening in the world from an environmental, social and political perspective. Thus, availing herself of items she has found (Objet trouvé) and retrieved from the street, she explores housing speculation, reforms, evictions and waste generation, along with simulation and our impact on the environment.
The project is rounded off with several guided tours in Basque (22 April) and Spanish (29 April, with Spanish Sign Language interpretation). Furthermore, in May there will be a performance by Itsaso Iribarren and Germán de la Riva (14 May) and the launch of the book on the exhibition, featuring Miren Doiz alongside art historian and curator Emma Brasó (21 May).
LA OBRA DE MIREN DOIZ
Miren Doiz’s work starts from the pictorial and then goes beyond its limits, expanding in space and including the event and the viewer. She constantly questions her own artistic practice, which has recently moved close to sculpture and a critical position on the continuous production/destruction of goods/materials that characterise our era. The artist uses material she comes across and collects from the street. Material that tells us about what is happening in today’s society from the environmental, social and political perspectives, including housing speculation and greed, the ongoing reforms and evictions, waste generation, and the status of the artist.
While at university, she began to deconstruct the canvas with the aim of expanding the painting in space. Drawing on her pictorial vocation, she sought to subvert the traditional manner of painting and to overcome its two dimensionality by shifting towards sculpture. Changing her usual way of working, the way she had learned to paint. She ditched paint as a material, which resulted in pictorial works in some cases, but in which she did not use it and even relinquished the stroke and the brush. At other times, paint appears directly on the space and recalls the notion of expanded painting, where we are invited to experience it from within, not from outside. In short, to inhabit the painting.
Resorting to items recovered from waste and then stripping them down or simplifying their forms recalls the recycling process and raises concern for the environmental problem and ecological aspects. Using dry paint and empty pots recalls the circular economy and, to quote the artist, ‘working with what I have and what I am’ or ‘dealing with mine’. Discarded glass that becomes works of art, easily available poor or precarious materials that act as the starting point or material for projects, and even items she has found whose function changes in a new life.
THE EXHIBITION
Title: Some Possibilities (Using Rubbish and Simulation)
Artist: Miren Doiz (Pamplona, 1990)
Where: URIBITARTE40 Gallery (Paseo de Uribitarte, 40. 48009 Bilbao)
Dates: 17 April – 31 May
PUBLIC PROGRAMMES
Guided tour with the artist
Friday 17 April, 6.00 p.m.
Public presentation and opening
Friday 17 April, 7.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m.
GUIDED TOURS
Guided tour simultaneously in LSE (Spanish sign language) and spoken
- Wednesday 22 April, 7.00 p.m. (Basque)
- Wednesday 29 April. 7.00 p.m. (Spanish)
PERFORMANCE
Itsaso Iribarren & Germán de la Riva
Thursday 14 May, 7.00 p.m.
CONVERSATION / BOOK PRESENTATION
Participants: Miren Doiz, artist, and Emma Brasó, art historian and curator
Thursday 21 May, 7.00 p.m.
Free entrance
MIREN DOIZ
Pamplona, 1980
Doiz lives and works in Madrid.
Artist in residence at BilbaoArte in 2024-25
After studying at the Pamplona School of Arts and Crafts, she graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country in 2003. She furthered her studies at the Escola Massana, Arts and Design School in Barcelona.
Her accolades include the Pamplona Young Artist Award in 2003, Navarrese Young Artist Encounters Award 2005, Estampa DKV Prize 2015 and the grant from the Pollock- Krasner Foundation in 2014/2015.
Her many group exhibitions include Art Situations, curated by Vicente Todolí, María de Corral, Lorena Mtez de Corral and Ilaria Gianni at Villa Croce in Genoa, at MACRO in Rome and at Matadero Madrid in 2015. 8 Extraordinary Spatial Questions, curated by Virginia Torrente at Tabacalera Madrid in 2014. Before Leaving. Ideas on Painting, curated by David Barro at MAC Unión Fenosa, or A Shot at Cursed Painting!! A Proposal of Juan Ugalde at 2011 at MUICO, A Warning Shot, curated by Ángel Calvo Ulloa and On the Tightrope, curated by Pablo Flórez at the Heinrich Ehrdhart Gallery in 2009. Doiz has had two solo shows at the Moisés Pérez de Albéniz Gallery. Her work has been shown in Berlin, Mexico City, São Paulo, Bogota and Rome; it is in collections such as those of the Coca-Cola Foundation, the Contemporary Art Collection of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, the Contemporary Art Collection of Pamplona City Council, the ICO Museum Collections and the DKV Collection.