badu bada
Turning Basque language into an exhibition. It isn’t a small challenge given that anything connected with our language gives some people a rash. Fleeing from all the clichés, Badu bada is a fun and didactic exhibition. Go there and you’ll see how entertaining an exhibition about Basque can be. See and Learn!
point of departure
At Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, till january 26th.
Fiona Tan is one of the most important contemporary artist in the field of video-art and filming, and her work focuses on memory, time and history. This exhibition is built around three video installations in which the artist, using images from several photo and film archives, questions the observer and the observed.
chicken coop
Architecture has no limits. We normally talk about
projects carried out by members of architecture’s Star system. However, the project we’ve most enjoyed
over recent months is a special project by Swedish
architect Torsten Otesjör: a chicken coop. You can
see it on his website along with many other beautiful pieces of work.
to make you cry
Salt. A bit of salt is really important in your food (and in your life too!) There are many different types of salt, but we have just discovered this special type of salt. Tear-salt. We cry for many different reasons, and the salt that comes in our tears does not always have the same flavour. Tears we shed when we hate some food and tears from laughter have different consequences. Ok, we’ve gone too far … We’ll chuck Isabel Allende’s novel into the fire.
removie monster
By removing a letter from the title, this website offers us posters for films which have just been created. As well as showing just how important a single letter can be, it also shows that the design of posters involves endless imagination: that’s the Removie posters project.
good vibrations film
In the 80’s Belfast wasn’t the most recommendable place in the world. Catholics, protestants, the IRA, the British Army ... There was a punk movement in the middle of all that violence, led by the one-eyed Terry Hooley. Hooley says this at one moment of the film: “New York’s got the hairstyles, London’s got the trousers, but we’ve got the real reasons to be punks”.
grey flag artium expo
This project wants to demonstrate that art is a commitment and a struggle. As art is created in a society and in a civilization, we should take artists to be homo politicus. Many artists’ posters and banners have been brought together for this project. They are going to be hung up on Artium’s outside walls.
zinegoak
The Bilbao Gay-Lesbo-Trans international film festival is going to be held from 3rd January to 10th February. The festival’s grown up and this year there will be ten candles to celebrate its birthday. A chance to be all cosy in a cinema on
the coldest days of the year.
mine detecting balls
Massoud Hassani was born and brought up in Afghanistan. He was able to study design and was
particularly skilful at making toys. His last “toy” has won him prizes and praise. He’s come up with a ball to make underground mines explode and it’s made of cheap, easily-available materials.
william klein + daido moriyama
The best way to see what’s happened in big cities such as New York and Tokyo from the middle of the last century until now is to have a look at these two photographers’ work. The exhibition’s at the London Tate Modern until 20th January, but you don’t have to go to London to see these two masters’ work. You can find it anywhere.
160 meters
…a rock story from Bizkaia. It´s the title of the docuweb produced by StereoZona and directed by Alvaro Fierro and Joseba Gorordo. The film tells the story of rock in Bizkaia beginning in the 90´s and up to nowadays using as an excuse the 160 meters that divide the two margins of the river in Bilbao. If you want to help the project financed by crowdfunding go to:
guggy’s shed
There’s always, or almost always, an interesting
exhibition at the Bilbao Guggenheim. The museum in
our country which has managed to combine art and
tourism (an achievement in many people’s eyes) has
exhibitions by Egon Schiele and Claes Oldenburg on
at present. It’s worth seeing these two great –and
so different– artists’ work.
