Artium Museoa presents its 2025 program

On February 28, Artium Museoa will present a survey of the work of painter Inés Medina (Cáceres, 1950), that encompasses her work from her early monochromatic experimentations in the late 1970s to the beginnings of her computer-generated work in the mid-1990s.

On May 30, two new projects will open to the public: an exhibition by late Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (Brussels, 1950 - Paris, 2015). Curated by long-term collaborator Claire Atherton, 'Facing the Image', explores Akerman’s film installations developed in collaboration with Atherton over several years, unfolding the sequential dimension of the moving image into three-dimensional space. This exhibition follows a presentation at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona in 2023. Simultaneously, the museum will present a solo exhibition by Josu Bilbao (Bermeo, 1978) whose work anticipates language and form without fully realising them as stable enunciations, leaving them in a state of latency, in dialogue with the exhibition space.

During the summer, educational practices will become protagonists with the presentation of the latest in a series of exhibitions that the museum has been producing on art education in the Basque Country. The new exhibition will focus on the experimental methodologies and the transmission of knowledge through practices that characterised the 1990s and will be curated by Mikel Onandia, Sergio Rubira and Leire Vergara.

Also in summer, Artium Museoa will organise together with CICC Tabakalera and in the collaboration of Museo Oteiza, the sixth edition of JAI—Institute for Artistic Practices, a space to exchange and disseminate artistic methodologies taking as a point of departure the methodologies of the artists participating in the programmes of the leading institutions. Regulations will be available on the Artium Museoa website.

In addition, Artium Museoa will organise 'Mechanical Bonds', a programme devoted to performative practices curated by Iñaki Martínez Antelo and Catalina Lozano, as well as 'Trama', an interdisciplinary programme that considers the moving image in relation to other art media and areas of knowledge, curated by Garbiñe Ortega and Arantza Santesteban.

The autumn season will open with two new exhibitions. On one hand, a solo presentation by Lebanese artist Marwa Arsanios (Washington D.C., 1978), focusing on her 'Who is afraid of ideology?' series where she explores internationalist decolonial feminist and ecological struggles. The exhibition is curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio. On the other hand, and following the interest on moving image practices and the technologies that make them possible, the museum will present a project focusing on the relationship between moving image, ethnography and the ghostly blind spots inherent in colonialism.