AZKUNA ZENTROA – ALHÓNDIGA BILBAO SHOWCASES ITS DESIGN AND CREATIVITY ECOSYSTEM IN A NEW EDITION OF THIS IS BASQUE DESIGN MERKATUA
- The design community at dendAZ showcases their projects and products on the 11th, 12th, and 13th of July in the Atrio, sharing their processes through encounters and workshops for different audiences
- The exhibition My House is Your House, by artist Chiharu Shiota, leads the Center’s proposal for the summer months
- In July and August, there are proposals to explore the building and the city from an artistic perspective
Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao, Center for Contemporary Society and Culture of the City Council of Bilbao, organizes This is Basque Design Merkatua in the Atrio on the 11th, 12th, and 13th of July.
This event is an opportunity to discover the personal and professional project behind dendAZ. This is Basque Design, the reference project for promoting local design at Azkuna that materializes in the Center’s store.
In this space, you can find products from the thirty designers who make up the Center’s design community. A local, artisanal, and quality production that focuses on innovation and artistic experimentation from an ecological perspective.
A diversity of products including fashion, jewelry, decoration, accessories, toys, books, illustrations, and stationery, all crafted with the same approach of local design, quality, craftsmanship, and sustainability.
WORKSHOPS
In addition to showcasing their products in the Atrio, the designers share their processes through encounters and workshops for different audiences.
Susana Blasco.Mosaic vs Photographic Weaving Workshop
Date/Time: Friday, July 11th / 17:00 – 19:30
Capacity/Space: 10 people / Atrio
Tickets: 12 euros // 9 euros with AZ card
Sales: AZinfo and sarrerak.azkunazentroa.eus
In this workshop, Susana Blasco, a graphic designer and visual artist specializing in collage with found photography, will discuss her work while attendees practice two advanced analog techniques for treating photography on paper.
On one hand, weaving, inspired by textile craftsmanship techniques such as looms, matting, or wickerwork. And on the other hand, mosaic or working with small square fragments of photographs, like tiles. Participants will experiment with both techniques (and some variations), emphasizing the creative and expressive possibilities of these image manipulations.
Higi Vandis.Bang! Comic Workshop for All Audiences
Date/Time: Saturday, July 12th / 11:00 – 13:30
Capacity/Space: 15 people / Atrio
Tickets: 12 euros // 9 euros with AZ card
Sales: AZinfo and sarrerak.azkunazentroa.eus
The illustrator and designer Higi Vandis will share how to tell a story in panels in a simple way. Participants will discover that you don’t need to be a great artist to make comics, as long as the narrative works.
DEND-AZ SIGNATURES
dendAZ Signatures: Aerre Design (Design), Ailanto (Fashion), Amakuyi (Design), Ane Pikaza (Illustration), Angélica Barco (Design), BaRock Jewelry (Jewelry Design), Ciaobellaido (Jewelry Design), Cookplay (Tableware Design), Dwamba (Illustration), Elena Ciordia (Illustration), Ezkexa (Fashion), Fournier (Game Design), From The Basque Country With Love (Design and Illustration), H05_Bilbao (Fashion), Higi Vandis (Illustration), Irisusiri (Illustration), Josune Urrutia (Illustration), Kiribiltxo (Jewelry Design), Koloreka (Illustration), Kostako (Fashion and Illustration), KreativeArt (Illustration), Lipper X Biaff (Fashion Design), Loitz Cerámica (Tableware Design), Malús Arbide (Fashion Design), Manualdemano (Accessory Design), Mario Gaztelu (Illustration), Minik (Accessory Design), MRLASPIUR (Jewelry Design), Nerea Gómez (Illustration), Palopalú (Game Design), SKFK (Fashion), Susana Blasco (Illustration), The Real Studio (Accessory Design), Tytti Thusberg (Fashion), Ziriak (Furniture Design).
THE ART OF CHIHARU SHIOTA, THE STAR OF THE SUMMER
The Center’s summer program is led by the exhibition My House is your House, which has received over 14,000 visits since its opening. Organized by Azkuna Zentroa, the exhibition explores the work of artist Chiharu Shiota, one of the most prominent figures in contemporary art worldwide, from her beginnings to her latest installations. The color red and the monumental scale connect the Atrio with the Exhibition Hall, through networks of wool that invite visitors to immerse themselves in a poetic and dreamlike world.
For her first monographic exhibition in Euskadi, Chiharu Shiota has worked on the concept of home/casa, extending the domestic sphere to the public space, in dialogue with the architecture of the Alhóndiga de Bilbao. The result, as a site-specific installation, invites the public to experience different home environments that connect each person with their memories through elements of everyday life.
Additionally, introductory tours of 30 minutes will be held every Thursday. Entry is free, with prior registration until full capacity. Registrations at azkunazentroa.eus and at AZ Info.
UDA+
This year, the Center presents under the UDA+ umbrella, a program with activities that add new experiences in the personal and collective realms, the everyday and the extraordinary. Through exhibitions that invite reflection on the ephemeral nature of existence, and that transform the mundane into poetry. It includes, among others, exhibitions, workshops, and family activities that promote creativity and learning through observing the environment.
Highlights include proposals to explore the building and the city from an artistic perspective. In addition to the daily guided tours of the building, you can have a different experience with the Derivas Catalog developed by Oscar Gómez Mata, Artist Associated with Azkuna Zentroa, along with artist Espe López.
These are individual walks or drifts, partially guided, promoting a shift in thinking, perceiving our surroundings differently, and perceiving oneself as an observer.
From Azkuna Zentroa, there is also the opportunity to discover Bilbao from a different perspective with Engeki Quest. Sirimiri Dreams in Bilbao, the adventure book created by the Japanese collective orangcosong (Chikara Fujiwara and Minori Sumiyoshiyama) to walk and explore a Bilbao that is not usually seen on tourist routes. Sirimiri dreams in Bilbao starts from the sirimiri / xirimiri (fine rain), a local symbol, to guide an individual walk through the neighborhoods of Irala, Zabala, San Francisco, and the Old Town.
This book, created with the collaboration of local residents and collectives, is structured as a non-linear narrative. Its paragraphs respond to the individual actions and decisions of each person who embarks on the adventure and, in doing so, contribute to creating a new perspective of the city and the people who inhabit it.
Additionally, in the Mediateka – Txikiteka, families and children aged 0 to 12 can share and experiment with literature, comics, or video games. Within this framework, Hutsean martxan is celebrated, which, using common techniques in comic drawing and writing, proposes to write, interpret, and comment on the stories that emerge in the process.
EXHIBITIONS
My House is your House. Chiharu Shiota
Until September 28th
Hours: 11:00 am to 8:00 pm
Space: Atrio and Exhibition Hall Entry: Free
Elena Aitzkoa. Ur Aitzak
Space: Atrio de las Culturas
Entry: Free
Running on Empty. Marta Cartu, Pauline Lecerf, and Cole Degenstein
Until September 14th
Hours: Monday to Saturday: 11:00 am – 8:00 pm // Sundays and holidays: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Space: Mediateka BBK Gallery
Entry: Free
TOURS
Guided tours of the building
Date: From July 1st to August 31st (both inclusive)
Hours: Monday-Sunday: Basque 12:00 pm and 5:30 pm // Spanish 1:00 pm and 6:30 pm
Registrations: azkunazentroa.eus and AZ info
Drifts at Azkuna Zentroa
Authorship: Oscar Gómez Mata and Esperanza López
Languages: Spanish and Basque
Available at dendAZ and dendaz.azkunazentroa.eus
Engeki Quest. Sirimiri Dreams in Bilbao
Authorship: orangcosong
Languages: Spanish, Basque, English, and Japanese
Available at dendAZ and dendaz.azkunazentroa.eus
WORKSHOPS
Hutsean martxan
From July 1st to 29th, Tuesdays and Thursdays: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Ages 6-12
Free entry, with prior registration at the Txikiteka of Mediateka, 10 minutes before the start of the activity
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