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25th Anniversary

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Coinciding with the Museum’s 25th anniversary, the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra (BOS) is celebrating its 100th anniversary. To celebrate both anniversaries, the Museum will host a concert open to all visitors. The program will include Pictures at an Exhibition, the suite composed by Modest Mussorgsky for the memorial exhibition of his friend Viktor Hartmann. The music depicts Mussorgsky’s tour of the exhibition, with each of the ten numbers of the suite serving as a musical illustration of an individual work by Hartmann. Originally a piano composition, it was adapted by Maurice Ravel into a picturesque work for full symphony orchestra. In addition, BOS will play Andromède, a powerful, dense symphonic poem by unjustly forgotten French composer Augusta Holmès. It will be a great occasion to celebrate friendship and dialogue between the various arts.

Concert for Two Anniversaries

Coinciding with the Museum’s 25th anniversary, the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra (BOS) is celebrating its 100th anniversary. To celebrate both anniversaries, the Museum will host a concert open to all visitors.

Concert for Two Anniversaries | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The Missing Element 

Enjoy the amazing breakdance, rap and beatbox numbers from The Missing Element, paying tribute to the Museum in its 25th Anniversary in the context of the Works &amp; Process at the Guggenheim project. In this performance, the artists will create an immersive experience inspired by the elements of nature —water, earth, fire, and air—with their sounds and music. Producer: Caroline Cronson; executive director: Duke Dang.
Lead creator: Chris Celiz, world champion beatboxer. Film and video design: Kash Gaines. Lighting design: Sebastian Paczynski.
Dancers and beatboxers:
David “Twice Light” Adelaja 
Graham Reese “Bboy Kilo” 
Joseph “Klassic” Carella 
Anthony “Invertebrate” Rodriguez 
Chris Celiz 
Kenny Urban 
Amit Bhowmick 
Gene Shinozaki 
Neil Meadows “NaPoM”
Runtime: 50 min

Performance

Enjoy the amazing breakdance, rap and beatbox numbers from The Missing Element, paying tribute to the Museum in its 25th anniversary in the context of the Works & Process at the Guggenheim project

Performance | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Deabru beltzak: Symfeuny

This show is part of the Museum’s 25th Anniversary Program, designed to thank the city for its support to the Museum. Symfeuny (Max Award for Best Street Theater Show 2021) is an amazing show by Deabru Beltzak where percussion and fire take center stage, promoting the interaction with the audience and enhancing the need to feel and listen.

Shows

This show is part of the Museum’s 25th Anniversary Program, designed to thank the city for its support to the Museum. Symfeuny (Max Award for Best Street Theater Show 2021)

Shows | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Hamar, by Gabriel Erkoreka

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Basque musician Gabriel Erkoreka composed Hamar, a piece to be performed like a music installation in various spaces inside the Museum. Hamar explores different parts of Frank Gehry’s building, engaging in dialogue with the works in the Permanent Collection and adding a sound dimension to them, enhancing our awareness of space by highlighting their presence.
On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the Museum will offer new performances of Hamar on April 30 and May 1 – two on Saturday and two on Sunday, all four in the afternoon. Visitors will come across the performers in various spaces as they get around the Museum.

Performances

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Basque musician Gabriel Erkoreka composed Hamar,

Performances | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

A Cooperation Framework Between Art, Science, and Technology

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International Symposium, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
On October 6, 2022, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is hosting an international multidisciplinary symposium under the title Ecologies of Water: A Cooperation Framework Between Art, Science, and Technology. Aimed at highlighting the importance of water to the future on Earth, the symposium seeks to promote dialogue and cooperation between artists, scientists, and technologists against the backdrop of climate change and its challenges.
Proof of the Museum’s commitment to the proposal and promotion of sustainable futures, Ecologies of Water, organized in association with the European initiative STARTS4water and the consortium of organizations that are part of the initiative—such as Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto (Italy); V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media (Netherlands); UrbanDig Project (Greece) and LUCA School of Arts (Belgium)—will gather some of the leading speakers on the subject: international scholars and local researchers in the fields of art and ecology. In the context of the event, the Basque Country will be understood as a key setting for reflection, with historical links to water—both river- and sea-based—economies.
Keynote speakers include Amalia Zepou, social innovator co-founder of the NPO Kollektiva and UrbanDig Project's S4W manager (Athens); Mark IJzerman, artist and researcher (V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam); Paolo Naldini, director of Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella, Italy); Ralph Dum, Senior Expert, European Commission, DG Connect and Head Officer of the STARTS program; Valery de Smedt, Head of Research at LUCA School of Arts (Brussels); and Cristina Iglesias, artist. Moderator: Manuel Cirauqui, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao curator.
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Ecologies of Water

On October 6, 2022, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is hosting an international multidisciplinary symposium under the title Ecologies of Water

Ecologies of Water | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Bilbao Choir-Kirmen Uribe-Euskadi Brass

In this most special show, produced for the 25th anniversary of the Museum, music and art, literature and architecture come together. A literary journey imagined by Kirmen Uribe, framed by the architecture of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and set to music by the Bilbao Choral Society and the Euskadi Brass ensemble.
The story goes over the various stages of the history of the Museum, retracing its steps back to its origin —the drive and partnership of the society that made it possible— and the circumstances of its coming into existence, following its development and revisiting its various exhibitions, and exploring its surroundings, with links to the Euskalduna shipbuilding company, the Bilbao-based industry, Paris, Russia, and New York. The voices of the Bilbao Choir and the brass instruments of Euskadi Brass will carry Uribe’s words on their wings across the Museum Atrium.

25th Anniversary Concerts: The World Is a Museum

In this most special show, produced for the 25th anniversary of the Museum, music and art, literature and architecture come together. A literary journey imagined by Kirmen Uribe

25th Anniversary Concerts: The World Is a Museum | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

BBK Secciones/Intersecciones

From October 25 to December 2, the Museum will be carrying out “Denontzako BBKartea”, a campaign sponsored by BBK on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. In the context of this campaign, all Basque Country citizens will get free admission to the Museum. It is a way of thanking the community for letting the Museum take root in the region and of telling them they are part of the Museum’s success throughout the years.
Book your tickets online as of October 13, 9:00 am. A call center will also be available for bookings, Monday to Friday from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, at +34 94 555 1380.
Tickets are nominative, personal, and non-transferable. You will be asked to show your ID or your town registration certificate as proof of identity and residence in Araba, Bizkaia or Gipuzkoa.

Denontzako BBKartea

From October 25 to December 2, the Museum will be carrying out “Denontzako BBKartea”, a campaign sponsored by BBK on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Denontzako BBKartea | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Seguros Bilbao

25th anniversary 

December 3, 5, 7, 9 and 10: first screening at 6:10 pm. and last screening at 11:10 pm. (one pass per hour) 
December 4, 6, 8 and 11: first screening at 6:10 pm. and last screening at 10:10 pm. (one pass per hour)
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is introducing Immersions, an event organized to celebrate the Museum’s 25th anniversary with the public, to be held in the early days of December 2022. Immersions is a free light and sound show using projection mapping techniques to deliver an immersive experience, sponsored by Seguros Bilbao, a company belonging to Grupo Catalana Occidente.
Immersions is a sequel to Reflections, the show designed by the British studio 59 Productions and projected on the façade of Frank Gehry’s building for the Museum’s 20th anniversary. It takes the tale of the Museum and the city inside, with the Atrium and its organic forms as canvas.
Going over the Museum’s history milestones and using the original soundtrack as a source of inspiration, Immersions offers a surround sound and light projection show inviting viewers to become the active protagonists of a world-class immersive sensory experience.

Immersions

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is introducing Immersions, an event organized to celebrate the Museum’s 25th anniversary with the public

Immersions | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

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At the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, we have a lot to celebrate. The year 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Museum, which revolutionized the cultural, social, artistic, and economic life of the area where it stands. In no time, we earned international acclaim and, more importantly, we have managed to keep it to this day. We are so grateful for this!
Many things have changed since then, and we are ready to face the challenges the future holds with hope and joy. The uncertainty and the restrictions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic have spurred us to think and take advantage of the opportunities associated with flexibility, proactivity, and the use of technology for inspiration and the promotion of art, and for being a dynamizing element in our environment.
Along these lines, the slogan we have chosen for our 25th anniversary is one we really believe in: “Art inspires the future.” Will you be joining us in the celebrations?

Art inspires the future

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Sections/Intersections

Opening Talk

Gallery 103

Audio guide

Gallery 105

2nd floor

3nd floor

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September 8, 2022 – January 22, 2023

Material Life

September 20, 2022 - December 31, 2023

Marking History

October 19, 2022 - February 5, 2023

Yayoi Kusama

October 19, 2022 – February 26, 2023

Unfolding Narratives

In 2022, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is celebrating its 25th anniversary with an ambitious presentation of works from the permanent collection that unfolds throughout the galleries museum-wide. 
The exhibition is conceived as a large triptych, constructed through three thematic approaches that are placed in dialogue with one another, as a means to rediscover works that have historically defined both the interior and the exterior of the Museum. Thus, in Sections/Intersections, each floor of the building offers a section of the collection in three primary axes: Material Life, Unfolding Narratives, and Marking History. For the first time, this exhibition offers a panoramic view of the wealth of the cultural and artistic holdings the Museum has acquired through the present day. Also in celebration of the Museum’s 25th Anniversary is an exceptional installation by Yayoi Kusama on view at Gallery 103.
Curators: Lekha Hileman Waitoller, Manuel Cirauqui, Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães, Lucía Agirre, Maite Borjabad
El Anatsui 
Rising Sea, 2019 
Aluminum and copper wire 
800 x 1400 cm 
Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa

If materials could talk…

Mona Hatoum

Jannis Kounellis

Asier Mendizabal

Yoko Ono

If Walls Could Talk…

El Anatsui

Jenny Holzer

Jeff Koons

Sol Lewitt

Joseph Beuys

Christian Boltanski

Francesco Clemente

Abigail Lazkoz

In the Museum

Sections / Intersections. 25 Years of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection

In 2022, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is celebrating its 25th anniversary with an ambitious presentation of works from the permanent collection that

Sections / Intersections. 25 Years of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

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