The project features the latest productions by the fourteen resident artists at the BilbaoArte Foundation on grants with loan of studio in 2024/25. In total, around thirty works have become part of the BilbaoArte Collection. The pieces by the artists of different ages and from different backgrounds together make up a representative sample of contemporary art’s latest trends, methods and work processes. During 2023/24, the artists have produced an important body of work in the artists’ studios at the Urazurrutia headquarters and the Open Gela studios in Otxarkoaga; they were also mentored by the BilbaoArte the technical team, and received training from external professionals, thanks to the specialised courses and seminars run throughout their residencies.
The pieces by the artists of different ages and from different backgrounds together make up a representative sample of contemporary art’s latest trends, methods and work processes. Working to push one’s body to breaking point; experimenting with abstracting photos or videos at odds with the intrinsic narrative of both media; sculptures akin to the skill of transforming metal and its ability to steer the Eibar arms industry to other products, such as bicycles; projects including de-constructing the artist’s identity; installations that are the outcome of the art investigation process where the different flat bodies and images take shape as ‘tactile figures’ straddled between dimensions; human emotions captured in sculpture and performance; videos as staged pieces that condense the performance of swimming and body exercises with the voice tract and respiratory system that regulate accents, voice levels, intonation, speed or pace; geometric compositions that resonate in space; interdisciplinary works that draw on technological innovation in pursuit of rethinking urban spaces and transforming them through artefacts that enable their liveability; or images, in the form of a dismembered body, which are drawn together using different techniques and materials, are some of the artists’ initiatives.
To help enhance their creative processes, the exhibition includes fourteen special editions that expand the possibility of the artist book as format and which forms part of the language and practice of each of the artists, thanks to their work alongside the artist Roberto Aguirrezabala.
EXHIBITION TECHNICAL SHEET
Title: Artists in Residence 2024/25. New Acquisitions (BA Collection)
Artists: Benito Píriz (Durango, 1992), Leo Burge (Londres, 1991), Ana Busto (Igorre, 1952), Almudena Crespo (Madrid, 1957), Miren Doiz (Pamplona, 1980), Hodei Herreros (Vitoria-Gasteiz/Granada, 1997), Marta Lorenzana (Asturias, 1987), Pablo Marte (Cádiz, 1975), Yon Matauko (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1987), Gabriele Muguruza (Donostia-San Sebastián, 1992), Joey Ordoñez (El Puerto De Santa María, 1985), Javier R. Peréz-Curiel (Oviedo, 1978), Marc Vives (Barcelona, 1978), Judith Voet (Bélgica, 1993).
Venue: URIBITARTE40 Hall (Paseo de Uribitarte, 40. 48009 Bilbao).
Dates: June 27, 2025 – September 7, 2025
Opening program: June 27, Friday, 7:00 pm. Opening.
Opening hours: From Tuesday to Saturday from 11:00 to 14:00 h. and from 16:00 to 20:00 h. Sundays and holidays from 11:00 to 14:00 h. Mondays closed.
OPENING: friday, june 27, 2025, 7:00 pm
Free admission.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
OPENING PROGRAM
Opening and public presentation
Date: friday, june 27
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Free admission
GUIDED TOURS
Guided tours for the general public in Spanish and Basque, accessible to people with hearing impairments (simultaneous in LSE).
Wednesdays, July 9th and august 6th* (Basque), 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, July 30th and august 27th* (Spanish), 7:00 p.m.
*The guided tours on 6 and 27 August will not be accessible to people with hearing impairments.
Free admission.