El Anatsui

Born on 4 February in Anyako, Ghana

Completed his postgraduate diploma in Arts Education with Honorary Mention at the Kumasi University of Science and Technology, Ghana.

After six years teaching at the university where he graduated in Ghana, he joined the Fine and Applied Arts Department at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he has held various teaching positions until now.
First solo exhibition in Nsukka, at the Acele Art Gallery, entitled Wooden Wall Plaques.

First group exhibition in New York, at the Studio Museum in Harlem; he was also one of three artists whose work was exhibited at the Contemporary African Artist: Changing Tradition exhibition, which was so successful it ran for five years. Also in 1990, he participated in the Venice Biennale in a group exhibition with other African artists; the show was awarded with an Honorary Mention, elevating El Anatsui to a new level of international recognition.

First major solo exhibition at the National Museum of Lagos, Nigeria, entitled Old and New: An Exhibition of Sculpture in Assorted Wood by El Anatsui.

Developed the wood-based sculpture entitled Erosion at a workshop of international artists in Brazil, coinciding with the International Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro. This boosted his career visibility and strengthened his position as an acclaimed artist of recycled art. Erosion became part of the African Art collection at the Smithsonian National Museum, USA.

First solo exhibition outside Africa, at the October Gallery in London, UK.

Participated in the 9th Sculpture Triennale in Osaka, Japan, where he won the bronze award.

A crucial year for El Anatsui, as he found a bag full of metal seals and African liquor bottle caps, marking the start of a crucial material and aesthetic journey in the development of his artistic language. This new vocabulary gave rise to colossal installations made with crushed bottle tops and necks, cut-out and strung together with copper wire.

He exhibited his new sculptures Man’s Cloth and Woman’s Cloth at the October Gallery in London. They were the first where liquor bottle caps instead of wood were used. In his sculptures, the artist pursued the themes of memory and loss, especially the damage caused during the colonial period and the traumatic post-colonial scars left behind. He used the concept of “fabric” as a metaphor, both of fragility and of the dynamism and strength of tradition. El Anatsui worked on these two sculptures simultaneously, developing their subtle differences.

Exhibition at the Skoto Gallery in New York, Danudo, the first presentation of his metal pieces in an American city. This exhibition popularized his works with bottle caps, as the artist progressively gained greater recognition in the press.

El Anatsui began to test the physical limits of his work through the series Bleeding Takari and Bleeding Takari II, both 2007, the latter of which is now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In this series, the artist began to develop a change of language, which evolved from the strip compositions of his earliest pieces that function almost like a tapestry, allowing his work to enter a more sculptural arena. That year he participated once again in the Venice Biennale.

He personally installed his hanging sculpture Between Earth and Heaven, 2006, in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the first large-scale work of contemporary African sculpture acquired by the institution.

With Ink Spill, he embarked on an experimental series that produced spectacular and iconic pieces such as Ink Splash II, part of the Tate Modern collection. The works in the Ink series testify to El Anatsui&#8217;s interest in pure abstraction, not necessarily mediated by ethnographic references to his culture of origin.

Retrospective of his work at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, entitled When I Last Wrote to You about Africa, which traveled around various museums in the US for three years. The exhibition included both large-format metal sculptures and earlier works including ceramic and wooden pieces. It showcased the evolution of El Anatsui&#8217;s artistic practice over four decades, reflecting his concerns about social and cultural issues, along with historical identity.

Major exhibition of recent work by El Anatsui at the Brooklyn Museum in New York entitled Gravity &amp; Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui. Originally organized by the Akron Art Museum in 2012, it then traveled to the Des Moines Art Center (2013–14) and the Bass Museum of Art in Miami (2014).

The Venice Biennale awarded El Anatsui the Golden Lion for his artistic career.

He received an Honorary Doctorate from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Kumasi, Ghana).

He received an Honorary Doctorate from Harvard University and was awarded the Praemium Imperiale, making him the first Ghanaian artist to receive this award.

The Haus der Kunst in Munich inaugurated the exhibition entitled Triumphant Scale, which looked back over his entire career and was organized by Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu. The show attracted a record number of visitors. Triumphant Scale later went to the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha (Qatar) and the Kunstmuseum Bern (Switzerland) in 2020.

El Anatsui: Day After Night opens at Barakat Contemporary in Seoul, South Korea.
Shows works at The Arts Club in Dubai, Goodman Gallery in Cape Town, and Efie Gallery in Dubai.
Participates in Sections/Intersections. 25 Years of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection, an exhibition of works from the Museum Collection staged to celebrate the Museum’s 25th anniversary. Perspectivas, the 25th-anniversary documentary produced by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and La Caixa Foundation, includes a section about El Anatsui.

Makes Behind the Red Moon, a monumental sculptural installation for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.
TimeSpace solo exhibition opens at October Gallery in London.
Is featured on the Time Magazine list of the 100 Most Influential People.
Participates in Chaleur Humaine: Triennale Art &amp; Industrie, a large-scale group exhibition held in Dunkerque, France; in Collection Highlights at the Rubell Museum in Miami; and in Accra! The Rise of a Global Art Community, an exhibition showcasing the work of eighteen artists with deep connections to Accra, Ghana, including Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, among others.

Shows his work in Music, Fluidity and Reinvention: El Anatsui’s Record Collection at Efie Gallery, Dubai.
Takes part in the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale in Saudi Arabia.

Anatsui, El

Rising Sea

El Anatsui’s biography and works on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Biografía y obras: Anatsui, El | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Elssie Ansareo

Moves from Mexico City to Bilbao to study fine arts at the Universidad del País Vasco, earning a degree in 2003.

Takes part in El cuerpo como obsesión, a photography workshop organized by the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City. 
Wins second honorable mention in a competition sponsored by Fundación Bilbao Arte Fundazioa for photography projects based on Basque capital cities. 
Presents the exhibition Variaciones de piel at Elgoibar Ongarri Kultur Etxea, Elgoibar, Spain.

Takes part in El desnudo naturaleza viva, a workshop organized by Huesca Imagen in Huesca, Spain.

Receives a grant for studio space at Fundación Bilbao Arte Fundazioa. 
Awarded a fine arts grant by Fundación Endesa. Ansareo&#8217;s series Vuela Eolo (2003) is presented at the Fàbrica de Licors Espai Fotogràfic in Palma de Mallorca and her series Mayo (2003) is presented at Espacio Marzana in Bilbao. 
Her work is featured in the exhibition Dosmil3 dePRESIÓN at Galería Windsor Kulturgintza in Bilbao and in El paisaje at Espacio Marzana in Bilbao.

Enrolls in the doctorate program in contemporary art “Pensamiento y praxis en el arte contemporáneo” at the Universidad del País Vasco. 
Exhibits at the Aula de Cultura Ignacio Aldecoa in Vitoria, the Centro Cultural Bastero Kulturgunea in Andoain, Galería Arteko in San Sebastián, and the Aula de Cultura in Amorebieta, Spain.

Awarded a special mention in the Libros Únicos photography competition, sponsored by Fundación Cajamurcia as part of Fotoencuentros 05 in Murcia, Spain. 
Ansareo&#8217;s work is selected for Generación 2006, organized by Obra Social Caja Madrid. 
Receives an Ayudas a la Creación grant from the Centro Cultural Montehermoso in Vitoria, Spain, to create her series Relatives (2006). Her work is featured in the exhibition Síntesis: 15 años de Becas Endesa at the main headquarters of Endesa in Madrid.

Receives a grant from the provincial government of Vizcaya. 
Wins the ALBIAC Prize for photography at the I Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo in Almería, Spain. 
Ansareo&#8217;s work is selected for Muestra Itinerante de Artes Visuales Ertibil, organized by the Vizcayan government. 
Exhibits at Espacio Marzana in Bilbao and the Centro Cultural Montehermoso in Vitoria, Spain.

Ansareo&#8217;s work is featured in the exhibitions Chacun à son goût at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Objeto de réplica: La colección VII at Artium, Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo in Vitoria, Spain, and Oasis at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga in Málaga, Spain.

Participates in the group exhibitions Calypso: Procesos de aprendizaje artístico at the Sala Rekalde in Bilbao and Egoileak—Residentes 2008 at the Fundación Bilbao Arte Fundazioa in Bilbao. 
Awarded the Premio Injuve para la Creación Joven by the Instituto de la Juventud, Ministerio de Igualdad. The awarded work is featured in the exhibition Muestra de Artes Visuales Creación Injuve at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.

Awarded the Ayuda a la Creación Artística by the Basque government. 
The video E&amp;E, made with Eduardo Sourrouille, is selected for inclusion in the VIII Premio y Concurso de Artes Plásticas Gobierno de Cantabria in Cantabria, Spain. 
Participates in Zinebi ‘09, Festival Internacional de Cine Documental y Cortometraje in Bilbao.

Exhibits at Espacio Marzana in Bilbao and at Galería Cubo Azul in León, Spain. 
Participates as a guest artist in an educational workshop and seminar entitled Art and creativity IV: perceive, think, feel, sponsored by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in collaboration with the Universidad del País Vasco.

The Diputación Foral of Biscay presents the traveling exhibition Bosteko 2011, which includes Ansareo’s works.

Her exhibition El Observatorio opens at Sala del Horno de la Ciudadela &#8211; Sala de Exposiciones Municipal, Pamplona. She participates in the shows Alma de Entraña (Tirar del Hilo. Colección Artium) at Artium Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain), and Estaciones at Fundación BilbaoArte, which will then travel to the Sala de Exposiciones CajaSur, Córdoba, and to Palacete del Embarcadero, Santander (Spain).

Presents El observatorio at Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa in Bilbao.

(Preposición) La habitación, an audio visual work in collaboration with Alaitz Arenzana, is premiered at Es Baluard in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Bilbao’s Azkuna Zentroa hosts the exhibition 321 maneras de decir tresdosuno .

(Preposición) La habitación is selected to be shown in the film season BIdeOtik at Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao.

(Preposición) La habitación is screened at Horno de la Ciudadela in Pamplona.

Participates as a speaker in Arte y mujer, a symposium held in Bilbao in the context of the International Print Festival (FIG).

Nfoni/Islada opens at the Euskal Museoa Bilbao Museo Vasco in Bilbao.

Tu nombre está seguro en mi boca is staged at El Sario in the Public University of Navarre, Spain.
Is part of the staff of Learning through Art, the art-in-schools program of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Makes BIO/INT/DÍA, an installation for Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao. It is her first work after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Is one of the artists featured in Insights, a series of interviews from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Participates in Tradizio moderno bat (Una tradición moderna/A Modern Tradition), a group exhibition organized to celebrate the 25th anniversary of BilbaoArte and the opening of the Uribitarte 40 Hall.

Ansareo, Elssie

The Dance of the Flâneuses

Elssie Ansareo’s biography and works on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Biografía y obras: Ansareo, Elssie | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Ibon Aranberri

Begins studying fine arts at the Universidad del País Vasco, earning a degree in 1994.

Wins second prize in the XXXVI Certamen de Artistas Noveles de Guipúzcoa in San Sebastián. 
Aranberri’s work is shown for the first time at AKA– Arriola Kultur Aretoa in Elorrio, Spain.

Receives a grant from the provincial government of Guipúzcoa.

Takes part in XIII Muestra de Arte Joven, organized by the Instituto Nacional de la Juventud in Madrid.

Receives a Juan de Otaola y Pérez de Saracho grant, awarded by the city of Basauri, Spain. 
Espacio Abisal in Bilbao mounts the solo exhibition Ethnics.

Takes part in research program workshops at the Center for Contemporary Art in Kitakyushu, Japan. PresentstheexhibitionHome&amp;CountryatCasaTorre de Ariz in Basauri, Spain.

The solo exhibitions Everything Is Decided and Light over Lemoniz are presented at Maeda Studio Exhibitions in Kitakyushu, Japan, and Consonni Bilbao, respectively.

Aranberri’s work is included in the exhibitions Gaur, hemen, orain at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao, Ironía at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, and Here &amp; Now at the Fukuoka Art Museum in Fukuoka, Japan.

Presents the exhibition Gaur-egun at Galería Trayecto in Vitoria, Spain. 
Takes part in Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt. 
His work is featured in the show Generación 2002, sponsored by Obra Social Caja Madrid.

Aranberri’s work is featured in Tranzakzio denbora = The Timing of Transaction at Arteleku in San Sebastián, Spain. 
Accepted into the 2003–04 International Studio 
Program at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. 2004 Awarded the Casa de Velázquez grant by the French Ministry of Education. 
Together with Iñaki Garmendia and Azucena Vieites, wins first prize in the Gure Artea competition, sponsored by the Basque government.
Awarded the Altadis Prize for the Plastic Arts. Aranberri’s work is included in the exhibitions How Do We Want to Be Governed? at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Tour-isms: The Defeat of Dissent at Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona, and Visa for Thirteen at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.

Receives an artist-in-residence grant from the IASPIS International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm, where he develops the project (Ir.T. no. 513): Zuloa. Presents the solo exhibition Cavity at Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi in Berlin.

Presents the solo exhibition Mar del Pirineo at Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz in Pamplona.

The Kunsthalle Basel presents the solo exhibition Integration. 
Takes part in Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany, and Chacun à son goût at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

The solo exhibition Disorder opens at the Frankfurter Kunstverein (Germany). 
Participates in the shows There Is No Road, at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón, Spain, and Greenwashing, at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy. 
His work is included in the film and video program Una estaca en el lodo, un hoyo en la cinta. El campo expandido del Land Art, 1968–2008, organized by CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Móstoles, Madrid.

His work is part of the group exhibition Cambio de aceite, at the Pepe Cobo y Cía. art gallery in Madrid.

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid presents the exhibition Ibon Aranberri. Gramática de meseta. 
His work is part of the exhibitions Ars Itineris at Museo do Mar de Galicia in Vigo, Spain, and Desplazamientos, at Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona, Spain.

Fundació Antoni Tàpies organizes the show Ibon Aranberri. Organogramme, bringing together past series and more recent works created especially for this exhibition.

Participates in the Busan Biennale in South Korea, under the theme Garden of Learning. 
His work is selected for Lugares en pérdida, an exhibition held at Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporáneo in Navarre, Spain

Following his participation in the residency program Production-in-Residence 2011, he exhibits his work at the Baltic Art Center in Visby, Sweden.

The Secession Building in Vienna organizes the exhibition Finite Location.

His work is on view in Moving Image Contours: Points for a Surrounding Movement, exhibition housed in Tabakalera – International Center for Contemporary Culture in Donostia/San Sebastián.

Obstáculos para la renovación opens at Galería Elba Benítez in Madrid. 
Creates intervention Makina eskua da at Museo de la Industria Armera in Eibar, in the context of San Sebastián as European Capital of Culture 2016.

A show devoted to his work, Common Practices, is held at Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi in Berlin. 
His work can be seen in a number of exhibitions, including Stimulants: Circulation and Euphoria, at Tabakalera – International Center for Contemporary Culture in Donostia/San Sebastián, and Arte para pensar la nueva razón del mundo. Colección del MNCARS, held at Museos de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (MUNTREF) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The first edition of the project Museo bikoitza at San Telmo Museoa in Donostia/San Sebastián has Aranberri as its guest artist. 
His work is part of Subespecies de almacén, an exhibition of Galería CarrerasMugica in Bilbao.

Exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu in Japan.

Participates in Artea oinez, the annual contemporary art exhibition staged at Palacio del Condestable in Pamplona, Spain. He had been part of the exhibition before.
Shows his work at Zeru bat, hamaika bide: prácticas artísticas en el País Vasco entre 1977 y 2002, held at ARTIUM-Museum of Contemporary Art in the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, and at Un momento atemporal: 35 años Injuve Artes Visuales in Tabacalera Promoción del Arte in Madrid.

Almanaque opens at La Pared in Avellanedo, Spain

Partial View staged at the Reina Sofía Museum. This anthological exhibition gathers a selection of works from the 1990s to the present to show the evolution of Aranberri’s artistic language.
Solo exhibition at Raven Row in London.
Group exhibitions: 90 berriak (Los nuevos noventa) at San Telmo Museoa in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain; That Time at Tabakalera International Center for Contemporary Culture in Donostia-San Sebastián; and Non kompon at Kampai Espazioa in Bilbao, Spain.

Shows his work in Epílogo. Escenas del desastre en la colección MUSAC, a group exhibition at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in Spain.
Entresaka staged at ARTIUM-Museum of Contemporary Art in the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz, as a sort of sequel to the 2023 exhibition at the Reina Sofía Museum, introducing Aranberri’s new piece Entresaka and revisiting his work from the 1990s to the present.

Aranberri, Ibon

Horizons

Ibon Aranberri’s biography and works on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Biografía y obras: Aranberri, Ibon | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Manu Arregui

Earns a degree in fine arts from the Universidad del País Vasco, specializing in audiovisual studies.

Arregui&#8217;s work is shown in the exhibition Trans Sexual Express at Fundación Bilbao Arte Fundazioa in Bilbao; the exhibition later travels to Gijón and Corunna, Spain, and Budapest.

Participates in Arte y electricidad, a project by Fundación RDZ, at Arteleku in San Sebastián, Spain.

Receives a grant from the Fundación Marcelino Botín in Santander, Spain. 
Arregui&#8217;s first solo exhibition, Sticky Bacon, is presented at Galería Espacio Mínimo in Madrid and later travels to Galería Dasto in Oviedo, Spain.

Presents the exhibition On My Own at Fundación Bilbao Arte Fundazioa in Bilbao. 
Arregui&#8217;s work is included in the exhibitions Bad Boys at the 50th Biennale di Venezia and Monocanal at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid; the latter travels to Corunna, Murcia, Valladolid, San Sebastián, Gijón, and Barcelona.

Takes part in the exhibitions Arquitectura efímera at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in León, Spain (also creating a video for the accompanying DVD, with new music by the group Fangoria), and Itinerarios at the Fundación Marcelino Botín in Santander, Spain.

Presents the exhibition Sed de infinito at Galería Espacio Mínimo in Madrid. 
Arregui&#8217;s work is included in the exhibition Sesiones animadas at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid; the exhibition later travels to the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Awarded the Altadis Prize for the Plastic Arts. 
Receives an honorable mention in the Generación 2006 competition, organized by Obra Social Caja Madrid. 
Takes part in the exhibitions Dibujando el revés at the Centro Cultural Montehermoso and Catarsis at Artium, Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, both in Vitoria, Spain.

Presents the exhibitions Sed de infinito at the Centro Cultural Montehermoso in Vitoria, Spain, and Un impulso lírico del alma at Espacio AV in Murcia, Spain. 
Arregui&#8217;s work is shown in the exhibitions Chacun à son goût at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Cuestión xeracional at the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Existencias at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in León, Spain, Todo cuanto amé formaba parte de ti at the Instituto Cervantes in Damascus and Dublin, and Beauty and Sadness at Galeria do Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional in Lisbon; the latter exhibition later travels to Industrie- und Handelskammer in Frankfurt. 
Participates in the Bienal Internacional del Deporte en el Arte at the Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto Jovellanos in Gijón, Spain, and the Festival delle Letterature Internazionale di Roma in Rome. 
His work is featured in the exhibitions Por tierra/Overland at the Centro Cultural del Matadero in Huesca, Spain (as part of Periferias 2007), and Planes futuros at the Sala de la Muralla del Baluarte in Pamplona, Spain.

Teaches a workshop titled “De bits a átomos” at the Fundación Bilbao Arte Fundazioa in Bilbao. 
Participates in the Biennal d&#8217;Art Leandre Cristòfol in Lleida, Spain. 
His work is featured in the exhibitions España 1957–2007: L&#8217;arte spagnola da Picasso, Miró, Dalí e Tàpies ai nostri giorni at the Palazzo Sant&#8217;Elia in Palermo, Italy, Geopolíticas de la animación at the Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo in Vigo, Spain, Atemporalidad: Colección Pecar at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Santander, Spain, and Otoimatge at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in Valencia, Spain.

The solo exhibition Objeto singularísimo is presented at Galería Espacio Mínimo in Madrid, and another solo exhibition, Streaming, takes place at La Conservera, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, in Murcia, Spain. 
Awarded the Premio del Concurso de Artes Plásticas by the government of Cantabria, Spain.
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Participates in Miradas singulares, voces plurales at the Claustro de Exposiciones del Palacio Provincial in Cádiz, Spain; Estancias, Residencias, Presencias. Una construcción particular, at the Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA) in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain; and ARTIUM Collection. Based on Real Events, at Artium Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo in Vitoria, Spain.

Presents Con gesto afeminado at Espacio Contemporáneo Archivo de Toledo (ECAT), in Toledo, Spain. His work is part of the group exhibition Diez Años de Fotografía Española Contemporánea. Colección Fundación Coca-Cola at the Instituto Cervantes in São Paulo.

Participates in the exhibitions Diferencia y Acuerdo at Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid; Montaje de Atracciones (Tirar del Hilo. Colección Artium) at Artium Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain); and Trayectorias. Diez años de vídeo y fotografía en la colección Coca-Cola at MEIAC Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz (Spain).

His work is included in the presentation Selecciones de la Colección del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao IV at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Participates in the group exhibition Ensoñaciones animadas en la Colección MUSAC, at the Centro Cultural de España (CCE) in Montevideo, Uruguay. 
Shows his work in the exhibition Sin quietud, at the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC) in Badajoz, Spain. 
His work Ejercicios de medición sobre el movimiento amanerado de las manos wins the 9th ARCOmadrid/BEEP Electronic Art Award.

Takes part in Video Steal, a video art workshop at Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa in Bilbao. 
Disarmingly Cute (2007) is shown as part of the film program Sexualities in Troubled Times. Gender, Sex and Other Fictions, at CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid. 
Shows his work in the Altadis Contemporary Art Awards Collection at the Town Hall exhibition center in Logroño (Spain).

Participates in the exhibitions Lo Audio-Visual. Arte sonoro en las colecciones de 9915, at Sala EP1 in Seville, Spain; and Una mirada en abierto (Works from the Fundación Coca-Cola collection), at La Conservera contemporary art center in Ceutí, Spain.

His exhibition Chelsea; Sunrise opens at the Espacio Mínimo gallery in Madrid. 
Shows his work in several exhibitions: at CentroCentro-Palacio de Cibeles in Madrid; Vacío perfecto. Una lectura de la Colección MUSAC, at MUSAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in León, Spain; Anticipándonos al futuro (Works from the contemporary art collection of Fundación Coca-Cola) at the Palacio Episcopal in Málaga, Spain; and No hay color, at Casas del Águila y la Parra and Torre de Don Borja in Santillana del Mar, Spain.

Exhibits his work Ejercicios de medición sobre el movimiento amanerado de las manos at Convent de les Arts in Alcover, Tarragona, Spain. The work is then part of Métrico Imperial, an exhibition organized by Espai Tactel in Valencia, Spain. 
Participates in the exhibitions Descubriendo un diálogo en el tiempo, at Museo Lázaro Galdiano in Madrid; No todo es color, at Sala Municipal La Pasión in Valladolid, Spain; and Espacio-tiempo: Sobre la luz como materia, instrumento y lenguaje, at the contemporary art center DA2 (Domus Artium 2002) in Salamanca, Spain.

Arregui, Manu

Disarmingly Cute

Manu Arregui’s biography and works on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Biografía y obras: Arregui, Manu | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Txomin Badiola

Enrolls in the faculty of fine arts at the Universidad del País Vasco in Leioa, graduating in 1982.

Badiola&#8217;s work is selected for the IV Bienal de Pintura de Bilbao.

Has his first solo exhibition, at the Aula de Cultura de la Caja de Ahorros Municipal in Bilbao.

Badiola&#8217;s first exhibition in a private gallery takes place at Galería Windsor Kulturgintza in Bilbao. He also exhibits at Galeria Metrònom in Barcelona and Galería Ciudadela in Pamplona. 
Begins teaching in the faculty of fine arts at the Universidad del País Vasco, continuing to teach at the school until 1988. 
Receives a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

Founds the EAE (Euskal Artisten Elkartea [Basque Artists&#8217; Association]), together with artists José Chavete, Iñaki de la Fuente, José Ramón Morquillas, Fernando and Vicente 
Roscubas, and Txupi Sanz and art critic and professor Xabier Sáenz de Gorbea. Receives a grant from the province of Vizcaya.

Exhibits at Galería Windsor Kulturgintza in Bilbao. 
Wins second prize at Gure Artea 1984, sponsored by the Basque government.

Receives a grant from the Basque government to create works in bronze. 
Wins second prize in the international art competition Villa de Bilbao.

Wins first prize at Gure Artea 1986. 
Exhibits at the Casa de Cultura in Avilés, Spain.

Exhibits for the first time in Madrid, at Galería Soledad Lorenzo. 
Receives the ICARO Award for an outstanding young artist from the newspaper Diario 16.

Moves to London for a year on an artist-in-residence grant from the Delfina Studio Trust. 
Curates an exhibition of Jorge Oteiza&#8217;s work, Oteiza: Propósito experimental, which will be shown at Fundació “la Caixa” in Barcelona and Madrid and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao.

Creates, with sculptor Pello Irazu, an installation at the Riverside Studios in London. 
Receives the Grand Prix Henry Moore from the Utsukushi-ga-Hara Open-Air Museum in Japan.

After receiving a grant from the Comité Conjunto Hispano-Norteamericano, moves to New York, where he will live for the following eight years. 
Creates the M.D. series. 
Begins to publish essays on art in several magazines, including Flash Art, Spazio humano, and Giornale dell&#8217;arte. 
Takes part in the Bath International Festival in Bath, England, with a show at Artsite Gallery.

Exhibits at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York.

Exhibitions of Badiola&#8217;s work are shown at Galeria Joan Prats in Barcelona; Galería 
Windsor Kulturgintza in Bilbao; Galería Charpa in Valencia, Spain; and the Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero in Caracas, Venezuela.

The Nave Sotoliva in Santander, Spain, exhibits Badiola&#8217;s sculptures from the previous three years.

Presents the piece Family Plot at John Weber Gallery in New York. 
Together with Angel Bados, leads a workshop at Arteleku in San Sebastián.

The exhibition 4 Fake &amp; Shake Stories opens at Galería Soledad Lorenzo in Madrid.

The exhibition The Other&#8217;s Game is shown at the Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea in San Sebastián, Spain. Badiola&#8217;s work is included in The Guggenheim Museums and the Art of This Century, the inaugural exhibition of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Returns to Bilbao from New York. 
Holds the exhibition The War Is Over at Galería Tomás March in Valencia, Spain. 
Badiola&#8217;s work is featured in the exhibition El punto ciego: Spanische Kunst der 90er, at the Kunstraum Innsbruck in Innsbruck, Austria.

Exhibits at Galería Soledad Lorenzo in Madrid and Galeria Luis Serpa Projectos in Lisbon. 
Badiola&#8217;s work is featured in Spanish and Basque Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Badiola&#8217;s exhibition Uncertain Spaces opens at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney.

The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona holds a major retrospective of Badiola&#8217;s work from 1990 to 2002, entitled Malas formas, which later travels to the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao. 
Exhibits at Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris.

Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz in Pamplona presents an exhibition of Badiola&#8217;s work. 
Participates in the International Istanbul Biennial.

Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv mounts an exhibition of Badiola&#8217;s work. 
Badiola&#8217;s work is featured in the exhibition Lacoonte devorado: Arte y violencia política at Artium, Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo in Vitoria, Spain. 
Together with Margit Rowell, curates Oteiza: Myth and Modernism at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; the exhibition later travels to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Exhibits at the Centro de Arte Caja Burgos in Burgos, Spain. and in the gallery Soledad Lorenzo in Madrid.

Presents the solo exhibitions Una cantidad exacta de fracasos at Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz in Pamplona and La forme qui pense at the Musée d&#8217;Art Moderne de SaintÉtienne 
Métropole in Saint-Étienne, France. 
Takes part in the exhibition Unknowns: Mapping Contemporary Basque Art, curated by Juan Luis Moraza, at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Badiola&#8217;s work is featured in the group exhibitions Zonas de riesgo: Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundació &#8220;la Caixa&#8221; at the CaixaForum in Barcelona, España 1957-2007: L&#8217;arte spagnola da Picasso, Miró, Dalí e Tàpies ai nostri giorni at the Palazzo Sant&#8217;Elia in Palermo, Italy, and Pasións privadas, Visións públicas at the Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo in Vigo, Spain.

Continues to work on the catalogue raisonné of Jorge Oteiza&#8217;s sculpture, a project he began in 2007.

Galería Soledad Lorenzo in Madrid presents Goodvibes / Lo que el signo esconde. 
Creates, with Jon Mikel Euba and Sergio Prego, the project PRIMER PROFORMA 2010 BADIOLA EUBA PREGO 30 ejercicios 40 días 8 horas al día at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC) in León, Spain.

Badiola&#8217;s work is featured in the group exhibition Olor Color. Química, Arte y Pedagogía at Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona.

His work is part of the exhibition Genealogías silenciosas, at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante (MACA), Spain.

The exhibition Capitalismo Anal Capitalism is staged at Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz in Madrid. 
Galería CarrerasMugica in Bilbao organizes the exhibition titled Una entrada mil salidas. 
Participates in the group exhibition Los nombres del padre, organized by Centro de Arte Pepe Espaliú in Córdoba, Spain. 
His work is featured in Suturak // Cerca a lo próximo, staged at San Telmo Museoa in Donostia/San Sebastián.

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) in Madrid organizes the anthological exhibition Another Family Plot. 
Presents works in the show titled Demasiado cercana como para ignorarla, demasiado remota como para poder intervenir, at Galería CarrerasMugica in Bilbao. 
Publishes Oteiza. Catálogo razonado de escultura, a comprehensive study of the work of Jorge Oteiza.

Creates site-specific intervention El pueblo no está con nosotros on the facade of IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern in Valencia, Spain. 
His work is included in the temporary exhibition There Is a Lot of Past to Go. Oroi, at Artium  Vitoria-Gasteiz. 
Participates in the group exhibition Subespecies de almacén, at Galería CarrerasMugica in Bilbao.

Badiola, Txomin

Family Plot: Second Version

Txomin Badiola’s biography and works on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Biografía y obras: Badiola, Txomin | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

José Manuel Ballester

Receives the Primer Premio de Dibujo Antonio del Rincón, awarded by the provincial government of Guadalajara, Spain.

Completes a fine arts degree at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 
Wins second place in drawing at the 51 Salón de Otoño at the Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid.

Receives first prize in drawing in the II Certamen de Artes Plásticas de la Comunidad de Madrid at the Centro Cultural Casa del Reloj in Madrid.

Wins the Primer Premio de Pintura Ciudad de Alcalá in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.

Receives an honorable mention at the IX Bienal de Pintura Ciudad de Zamora; the work he presents in the exhibition is purchased by the regional government of Castile and León. 
Has his first solo exhibition at Teatro Albéniz in Madrid.

Receives a grant to attend the XXIII Université Internationale d’Été, organized by the Institut National de la Jeunesse in Paris. 
Receives first prize at the III Bienal de Pintura de Murcia; the work he presents in the exhibition is purchased by the regional government of Murcia.

Exhibits at the Fundación Colegio del Rey, Capilla del Oidor in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid; and Sala Imagen, Caja San Fernando in Seville.

Exhibits at Galería Levy in Madrid. 
Ballester’s work is included in the exhibition Realisms: Spanish Contemporary Art at the Takashimaya Museums in Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, and Kyoto.

Exhibits at Levy Galerie in Hamburg.

Exhibitions of Ballester’s work are presented at Galería Clave in Murcia and Espacio Caja Burgos in Burgos, Spain.

Receives first prize in painting at the XVIII Alexandria Biennale in Alexandria, Egypt. 
Galería Tórculo in Madrid and Galería Antonio de Barnola in Barcelona present exhibitions of Ballester’s work.

Fundación Arquitectura COAM in Madrid presents Fragmentos, an exhibition of Ballester’s graphic work.

Exhibitions of the artist’s work are held at the Palacio del Almudí and Galería Espacio Mínimo, both in Murcia.

The Palacio de Exposiciones in Medellín, Colombia, and Sala Amós Salvador in Logroño, Spain, present exhibitions of Ballester’s work.

José Manuel Ballester: Naturalezas muertas opens at the Museo Ibercaja Camón Aznar in Saragossa, Spain.

Receives the Premio Nacional de Grabado, presented by Calcografía Nacional, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. 
Exhibits at Galería Espacio Mínimo in Murcia; Sala Rivadavia in Cádiz; Galería Estiarte in Madrid; and Galería Antonio de Barnola in Barcelona.

DRAC Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand, France, presents an exhibition of Ballester’s work, Traits d’Architecture, as part of Les Mars de l’Art Contemporain. 
Galería Estiarte in Madrid features a series of photographs by the artist as part of the PhotoEspaña photography festival.

Participates in the VIII Bienal de Artes Plásticas Ciudad de Pamplona; the work he presents in the exhibition is purchased by the city of Pamplona. 
Galería Estiarte in Madrid presents Heliograbados: José Manuel Ballester.

Ballester’s work is included in exhibitions at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin; National Gallery in Athens; ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; Centro de Arte Museo de Almería in Almería, Spain; and Galería Marlborough and Galería Estiarte, both in Madrid.

Sala La Gallera in Valencia, Spain, presents the exhibition Lugares de paso.

Ballester’s work is included in Monocromos, de Malevich al presente at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.

José Manuel Ballester: Habitación 523 is presented at the Palacio de Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Receives the Premio de Pintura Francisco de Goya from the city of Madrid. 
Exhibitions of the artist’s work are held at Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke in Paris and Galería Vanguardia in Bilbao. 
Ballester’s work is included in the exhibition Modern Photographs: The Machine, the Body and the City, Selections from the Charles Cowles Collection at the Miami Art Museum. The exhibition later travels to the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York.

The Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing presents the exhibition Obra reciente sobre China. 
Exhibitions of Ballester’s work also take place at Casa Asia in Barcelona; Fundación Astroc in Madrid; Nicholas Metivier Gallery in Toronto; and Charles Cowles Gallery in New York.

Receives the Premio de Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid for photography. 
Exhibitions of Ballester’s work are held at Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke in Paris and Distrito 4 in Madrid. 
Work by Ballester is included in En Privat 1 at Es Baluard, Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo in Palma.

Exhibitions of the artist’s work are presented at the Monasterio de San Juan de la Peña in Jaca, Spain; Palacio del Almudí in Murcia; and Galería Estiarte in Madrid.

Wins the Premio Nacional de Fotografía. 
An exhibition of Ballester’s work, Fervor de metrópolis, is presented at the Pinacoteca do Estado in São Paulo. 
Exhibits at Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke in Paris.

Exhibits his work at the Museo Lasar Segall, São Paulo (Brazil); the Museo Arqueológico, Madrid; and Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid. La obra de Ballester se incluye en Ficciones y realidades: Arte español de los 2000 en la colección arte contemporáneo del Museo Patio Herreriano de Valladolid (España).

Spazi Nascosti. Il lavoro del renascismento italiano is presented at the Royal Spanish Academy in Rome. His work is included in the exhibition Trayectorias. Diez años de vídeo y fotografía en la colección Coca-Cola at the MEIAC Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz (Spain).

60 miradas a Ferrovial opens at CaixaForum, Madrid; Concealed Spaces is presented atl Frost Art Museum, Miami; and Bosques de Luz is inaugurated at Tabacalera, Madrid. He participates in the exhibitions Seducidos por el arte: pasado y presente de la fotografía, at CaixaForum, Barcelona and Madrid; On Painting, at Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain); and Selecciones de la Colección del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao IV at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Exhibits work at Galería Rafael Ortiz in Seville (Spain) and Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke in Paris. 
The show titled Lux opens at Centro de Arte Faro de Cabo Mayor in Santander, Spain. 
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente in Segovia (Spain) organizes the exhibition Thresholds of Silence. 
Presents In ictu oculi in the Jaén Cathedral, Spain. 
Miradas de Asturias. Allumar opens at Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto in Gijón, Spain, and travels later to the Conde Duque cultural center in Madrid and Museu da Electricidade in Lisbon.

Works of the series Museos en blanco are shown at the Ivorypress gallery in Madrid. 
His work is on display in Trasfondos, at the Crucero Bajo exhibition room in Hospital Real in Granada, Spain. 
Bosques de luz is shown in Sala Kubo-Kutxa Aretoa in Donostia/San Sebastián. 
Participates in the exhibition Selections from the Guggenheim Bilbao Collection IV.

An exhibition of his work under the title Paisajes encontrados: El Bosco, El Greco, Goya is on at Museo Lázaro Galdiano in Madrid.

The show Paisaje deshabitado is organized by Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente (CEART) in Fuenlabrada, Madrid. 
The exhibition Gli spazi nascosti di Jose Manuel Ballester nei Palazzi di Genova is held at Museo di Palazzo Reale, Musei di Strada Nuova, in Genoa, Italy. 
His work is on display at Universidad Internacional de Andalucía in Málaga, Spain, as well as in Tiempos Modernos and Galería Pilar Serra, both in Madrid.

Centro Cultural Bancaja in Valencia, Spain, organizes Bosques de luz, a show dedicated to Ballester’s work. 
The solo exhibition Fervor de metrópoli is held at Centro Niemeyer in Avilés, Spain, and later tours to Sala Cielo in Salamanca and Sala Patio de Escuelas at Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. 
A retrospective devoted to the artist, Entre la ficción y la realidad, opens at Sala Verónicas in Murcia, Spain. 
The Ivorypress gallery in Madrid organizes a solo exhibition titled Variaciones a partir de Malevich. 
Participates in the project Twelve Photographers at Museo del Prado in Madrid.

Fervor do Brasil is showcased at Casa América, Madrid.
Belleza y memoria: Úbeda, Baeza, Jaén is exhibited at Hospital de Santiago, Úbeda.

Un día en el zoo is shown at Galería Pilar Serra, Madrid.

Ballester, José Manuel

“Art cannot change reality directly, but it can at least try to change the way we understand it, and this is a first hopeful step.”
José Manuel Ballester

Artiste

The Third of May

Around Guernica

The Royal Palace

The Raft of the Medusa

José Manuel Ballester’s biography and works on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Artists

A

El Anatsui

Elssie Ansareo

Ibon Aranberri

Manu Arregui

B

Txomin Badiola

José Manuel Ballester

Miquel Barceló

Georg Baselitz

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Clemente Bernad

Joseph Beuys

Christian Boltanski

Louise Bourgeois

Daniel Buren

C

Eduardo Chillida

Francesco Clemente

June Crespo

Enzo Cucchi

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