Estibaliz Sádaba RUINAS (cuaderno de notas experimental)
Chiharu Shiota My House is your House
Marisa González A generative way
Amaia Molinet Tierra Quemada
Lore Stessel Poëtry of the Gang
Inés García El tacto del contacto
Beatriz Sánchez Fórmulas de Cinética Doméstica Project exhibition
Histrión Teatro DYSPHORIA eszenAZ. Theatre
Marcat Dance El bosque eszenAZ. Dance
Las hijas de Felipe Live podcast
The Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao programme arises from the complicity of people from different disciplines who give value, contribute and enrich our proposals aimed at the different audience communities. The projects and people accompanying us this quarter, who form part of the conversations we started this year, are shown here.
Marlene Krause International Comic Residency
Marisa González Artist
Chiharu Shiota Artist
Gema Matarraz (Histrión Teatro) Actress
Mireille St-Pierre International Comic Residency
Violeta Janeiro Curator
Louka
International Comic Residency
Mariana Enriquez Writer
Christian Fernández Mirón Artist & mediator
#visualarts #installation #exhibition
Chiharu Shiota
My House is your House
Curator: Tereza de Arruda
My House is your House is the site-specific installation presented by Azkuna Zentroa to showcase the art of Chiharu Shiota. In the exhibition, curated by art historian Tereza de Arruda, Chiharu Shiota has worked alongside Azkuna Zentroa on the concept of home, or casa/ etxea, extending the domestic realm to a public space, in dialogue with the architecture of Bilbao’s Alhondiga building.
My House is Your House reflects universal themes explored in Chiharu Shiota's work, such as home, memory, migration, life and death, using everyday objects: clothing, furniture and other personal objects. These elements are enveloped in intricate threaded patterns, which refer both to traditional weaving and eastern calligraphy. Her great-scale works are often red in colour, which symbolises the sun, life and energy in Japanese culture. They are pieces which transcend spoken language, nationality and religion, offering a universal narrative on loss, connection, and the preservation of memory.
(Osaka, 1972) Chiharu Shiota, trained in painting (Kyoto Seika University, 1992-1996) and the visual arts (Braunschweig University of Art, 1997-1999 / Berlin University of the Arts, 19992003), lives and is based in Berlin.
She has exhibited, inter alia, at Nakanoshima Museum of Art de Osaka; Hammer Museum, Los Ángeles; Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (QAGoMA), Brisbane; ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe; Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, Wellington; Mori Museum of Art, Tokyo; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Art Gallery of South Australia; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, United Kingdom; Kochi Museum of Art; and Osaka National Art Museum. During the first quarter of 2025 she has exhibited at the Grand Palais, Paris.
She has also taken part in numerous international exhibitions such as the Oku-Noto International Art Festival, the Biennale of Sydney, the Echigo- Tsumari Art Triennale, the Yokohama Triennale and the SESC Pinheiros of São Paulo. In 2015, Shiota was selected to represent Japan at the 56th Venice Biennale.
FROM 27 MAY TO 28 SEPTEMBER 2025
Exhibition Hall
Free admission
PROGRAMME OF VISITS
Introductory visits
Every Wednesday and Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
Exhibition Hall ree admission prior online registration, until full capacity is reached
Guided tour by curator Tereza de Arruda
Thursday, September 25: 12:00 p.m. and 18:30 p.m. Friday, September 26: 12:00 p.m.
Exhibition Hall Free admission prior online registration, until full capacity is reached
Guide aimed at families
Freely available educational material for children aged 5 and over.
#visualarts #exhibition #technology
Curator: Violeta Janeiro Alfageme
A generative way this anthological exhibition of Marisa González (Bilbao, 1943), reviews this Bilbao artist’s work for having obtained the 2023 Velázquez Award for her long career as a multimedia creator.
Marisa González is one of the pioneering artists in the application of the new technologies of reproduction and creation in artistic creation. Since the 70s her work has moved away from conventional artistic means, to use what was cutting edge technology at the time, i.e. colour photocopies, faxes, as well as other tools, to create generative art as opposed to copying or replicating. Marisa González has created her own method, a language where immediacy, randomness; and trial and error become the protagonists.
This anthology curated by historian and researcher Violeta Janeiro Alfageme, covers 5 decades of this artist’s production offering a large part of her important series and projects.
Marisa González. A generative way started the Reina Sofia Museum on 21st May and will continue in Azkuna Zentroa from 29th October, where it revolves around the industrial landscape of Bilbao and 2 essential works from her career, namely the photographs and videos documenting the dismantling of Lemoiz Nuclear Power Station and Harino Pandera factory in Bilbao.
The exhibition has been arranged by the National Art Centre Museum Reina Sofía (Madrid) in conjunction with Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao.
She was born in Bilbao in 1943, and lives in Madrid. She studied Piano to degree level at the Bilbao Conservatory, and graduated in Fine Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid (1971), followed by a Master’s Degree at the Art Institute of Chicago in the Generative Systems Department (1973) and a BFA at the Corcoran School of Art, Washington D.C. (1976). Her entire artistic career has been influenced by her systematic relationship with the constantly changing technologies of contemporary society. Her works are held in numerous museums and collections, and she has had over 60 solo exhibitions and 150 joint exhibitions, such as the Venice Biennale, the Reina Sofía National Museum Art Centre, Tabacalera (Madrid), or the Barcelona Contemporary Culture Centre (CCCB).
FROM OCTOBER 29, 2025 TO JANUARY 18, 2026
Exhibition Hall Free admission
Inaugural Programme
Wednesday, October 29
6:00 p.m. Talk between artist Marisa González and curator Violeta Janeiro. Bastida Hall
7:00 p.m. Exhibition Opening Exhibition Hall
Introductory visits
Every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. (30 min.). Exhibition Hall
Free admission prior online registration, until full capacity is reached
Workshops for schoolchildren
November 7, 14, 21 & 28; December 5 & 12
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Exhibition Hall
Associate Artist at Azkuna Zentroa
Amaia Molinet, Associate Artist at Azkuna Zentroa –Alhóndiga Bilbao, presents the installation Tierra Quemada This site-specific is part of a long-term process that, from a healing perspective, approaches landscapes marked by violence and oblivion, with a special focus on the Iron Belt of Biscay.
The project weaves together art, archaeology, and magic in a poetic and subjective interpretation of these historical remnants. Through fieldwork and collaborations with specialists from various disciplines, Amaia Molinet has created a constellation of works that take shape as amuletlike sculptures—constructed following the principle of tensile integrity, in collaboration with Adrián Castañeda— and silk pieces developed through eco-printing and botanical printing, using plant species found at sites along the Iron Belt, in collaboration with Yolanda Sánchez.
On October 2 (7:30 p. m.), Tierra Quemada is activated through a performance-ritual with the participation of Pilar López de Alda, Anna Firmberger, Francesca Gaspari and Ibon RG.
OCTOBER 2 – 19
Atrium of Cultures
Free admission
EXHIBITION OPENING: October 2, 7:30 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
October 2, 7:30 p.m.
Free admission
#visualarts #installation #science
Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao is collaborating with the 2025 Quantum Year project organised by the Basque Government as part of the International Year of Science and Quantum Technology with the installation Visiones cuánticas.
This educational space is an invitation to leave behind past knowledge to enter a new unknown counterintuitive universe and open your mind to a new way of thinking and viewing reality.
This journey includes a review of the history of discoveries regarding quantum, its presence, potential and social repercussions, likewise its applications particularly in the field of contemporary artistic creation.
Current cinema, series, literature, performing arts; not to mention visual and sound art follow paths which cross and work around uncertainty.
OCTOBER 10 – 26
Atrium of Cultures
Free admission
ACTIVITIES
Workshops for school students
October 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23 & 24
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Atrium of Cultures
Inés García, a Babestu 2025 programme resident artist, is presenting her latest project El tacto del contacto at the Urquijo Hall. This is an installation which delves into the relationship between moving image, body and space.
The exhibition unfolds from its film perspective turning the Urquijo Hall into a “projection room”. After previously experimenting with slides designed to house her analogical films, the artist takes one step further and transforms the hall by appropriating its architectural elements to propose a new immersive and expanded film experience.
This perspective responds to her interest in questioning how film can be screened in an exhibition space and offering the public an encounter with moving images from the standpoint of attentiveness, physicality and proximity. In this way, the artist has created an intimate universe where contact with the material challenges the traditional boundaries of the screen and the very act of watching. Completing this proposal is a series of pictures on acetate placed in the windows like a cinematic filter, offering a renewed perspective from which to observe the world outside.
FROM 3 TO 16 NOVEMBER
Urquijo Hall (Atrium of Cultures)
Free admission until full capacity is reached
#visualarts #collectivereading
Babestu. Creation Support Programme
Artist Estibaliz Sádaba Murguia proposes an approximation to the project RUINAS (cuaderno de notas experimental), through collective reading. This research, undertaken during her Babestu residency at Azkuna Zentroa, analyses how the women's role has been moulded and how she inhabits the world.
Ruinas (Cuaderno de notas experimental)
It's a collective reading, of texts which make up a diary, a provocative inventory of ideas, they’re stories and forecasts...
I’m afraid to stop beating the eggs, what will happen to me if I do?
Listening to the washing machine and microwave relax me.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3
7:00 p.m.
Bastida Hall
Free admission prior online registration until venue is full
#visualarts #exhibition
Associated Artist at Azkuna Zentroa
Poëtry of the Gang is the resulting exhibition of a photographic project developed by Lore Stessel throughout her residency as Associated Artist at Azkuna Zentroa. The series explores ideas around chaos, instinct, anarchy and the potential of harmony in coinhabiting space.
For two years, Stessel has captured those moments in encounters with local dance and choreography groups, both amateur and professional. In these encounters, the artist has created space for the “accidental” and the “unforeseen”. They reflect the beauty of everyday routines, small gestures, and the power of movement. Everyday life turned into dance.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9
7:00 p.m.
Bastida Hall
Free admission until full capacity is reached
#visualarts #laboratory #sculpturalartefacts #movingimages
Babestu. Creation Support Programme
Fórmulas de Cinética
Babestu 2025 programme resident artist Beatriz Sánchez presents Fórmulas de Cinética Doméstica. This is the result of an artistic laboratory where mobile artefacts and small sculptures have been created from recovered engines, ordinary objects, ceramics and fragments. After a period of research, this project will conclude with two intensive weeks of work in the Urquijo Hall, turned into a workshop open to the public.
Visitors can walk around the space from 11 to 14 December and encounter a sample of the processes and curiosities, i.e. fragile mechanical assemblies which appear to come to life turned into unusual figures. Rather than a conventional exhibition, the display invites the visitor to enter a workshop of mobile experiments. Within this setting, anyone who approaches can move around the activated artefacts and witness a creative process in real time, where randomness and experimentation generate precarious, unstable, and unfamiliar sculptures.
11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION: Thursday, 11 December, 6:00 p.m
Friday 12, Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 December, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.: Beatriz Sánchez will be accompanying the visitors through her project sharing the process she has created
Urquijo Hall
Free admission until full capacity is reached
#liveart #eszenAZ #theatre
DYSPHORIA (the opposite state of mind to euphoria) is a fictional monologue portrayed by Gema Matarranz. It is focused on the recent cases of gender fraud that have taken place in the United Kingdom, assessing the knowledge and the response that society can offer in the face of situations such as these.
Written and directed by the playwright María Goiricelaya, the text delicately explores the legal vacuum, the social concern, and the suffering that these cases and their idiosyncrasies generate for their protagonists. It is ‘a shout, a necessary tour de force in a society in which the legal vacuums of the recent Trans Law require new and urgent solutions’, according to the author.
Histrión Teatro celebrates its 30th anniversary as a professional theatre company with the première of a documentary play that challenges the audience to question their own paradigms and prejudices, based on respect for diversity. The company has produced 23 shows since it was established in Granada in 1994. Today Histrión is seeking to follow its course, where two fundamental elements converge: the text as a structural element, and the acting role, which sustains the emotions, the nexus that conjoins with the audience.
THURSDAY, 9 OCTOBER
BASQUE COUNTRY PREMIERE
7:00 p.m. / 75'
Auditorium
Price: check the website and AZ Info
ARTISTIC INFORMATION
Written and directed by: María Goiricelaya
Acting lead: Gema Matarranz
Set design and construction: Álvaro Gómez Candela
Lighting design: Juan Felipe
Augustín (Tomatierra)
Audio space: Ibon Aguirre
Original music: Ibon Belandia
Production director: Histrión
Teatro
Show performed in residence: Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga de Bilbao; Fernando de los Ríos de Albolote Cultural Centre, Granada; and Medina Elvira Cultural Centre – Atarfe Town Council, Granada.
Company associated with: INAEM
Company resident at the Fernando de los Ríos de Albolote Cultural Centre, Granada
#liveart #eszenAZ #dance #dantzaldia
Renowned dance company Marcat Dance will be presenting El Bosque, a piece directed and choreographed by Mario Bermudez, winner of both the LORCA Prize and the MAX Prize in 2023.
With three performers on stage, El Bosque offers an experience that transcends narrative, appealing to the physical, emotional, and sensory within us. Through movement, the piece evokes the power, magnetism, and duality of the natural world, constructing a scenic space where body and atmosphere merge into a profoundly evocative choreographic language.
El Bosque is presented as part of Dantzaldia, the La Fundición International Dance Festival.
THURSDAY, 6 NOVEMBER
BASQUE COUNTRY PREMIERE
7:00 p.m. / 55'
Auditorium
Price: check the website and AZ Info
ARTISTIC INFORMATION
Direction and choreography: Mario Bermúdez
Dancers: Catherine Coury, Marilisa Gallicchio, and Mario Bermúdez
Original music: Jose Pablo Polo
Lighting design: Mamen B. Gil
Production: Marcat Dance S.L.
Distribution and management: Danzas del Mundo
Las hijas de Felipe is the name Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita started their podcast (Podium Podcast) with in 2020 on the forgotten areas of the Baroque, pursuant to the premise that “whatever’s happening to you now, already happened to somebody in the 16th and 17th centuries.”
This “deliberate ahistoricism sound refuge” has become one of the most followed thanks to its historical gossip, Baroque dramas and forgotten lives where nuns, demons, deceit, alchemy, recipe books and gold abound.
A space where the most remote corners of the 16th and 17th centuries and impenetrable nooks and crannies of the present overlap in a strategic anachronism to luckily suggest musings and unsuspected connections.
In this show at Azkuna Zentroa, Las hijas de Felipe abandon the calm and demureness characterising them to delve into the delighting path of mortification, the most extravagant penitence and punishments converted into fetishes, presenting flagellant seducers and saints with the most abominable vice
SATURDAY, 15 NOVEMBER
12:30 p.m.
Auditorium
Price: check the website and AZ Info
ARTISTIC INFORMATION
Produced, written and hosted by: Las hijas de Felipe (Ana Garriga & Carmen Urbita)
#liveart #eszenAZ #dance
Haatik presents OTS, a dance that reimagines the avantgarde cultural movement that inspired HERRI GOGOA, the Basque Country’s first record label. It was founded in the late 1960s, though it was never officially recognised due to censorship. However, it managed to release over two hundred albums showcasing a wide range of artistic expressions, such as traditional and classical music, political chants, contemporary compositions, rock, etc.
From Lourdes Iriondo to Mikel Laboa, and from Karmelo Bernaola to Shegundo Galarza, HERRI GOGOA actively worked to shine a light on the modernity and richness of Basque music.
Haatik worked with guest choreographer Jone San Martin Astigarraga on the creation of OTS. Together with the internationally acclaimed dancer and creator from Donostia/ San Sebastián, they explore and reinterpret Basque dance, discovering new ways of structuring and “writing” them in space.
As a piece inspired by a record label, music plays a central role in the performance. Using the HERRI GOGOA catalogue, Haatik Dantza has crafted a “snapshot” of this universe, building a tapestry of compositions, sound documentaries, and musical testimonies which come alive from one performance to the next through improvisation and experimentation.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4
7:00 p.m. / 60'
Auditorium
Price: check the website and AZ Info
Direction and Production: Aiert
Beobide and Iurre Aranburu
Choreography: Jone San Martín and Haatik
Sound Design: Manu Gaigne
Dancers (6): Aiert Beobide, Amaiur Luluaga, Iñigo Etxeberria, Itzel Vela, Jon Arsuaga, Leire
Romero, Libe Sukia, and Nagore Zabala
Set Design: Ikerne Giménez
Costume Design: Ramón García
Lighting Design: Arantza Heredia
Image and Communications: Iurre Aranburu
Lighting Technician: Anartz Beobide
Technical Services: Eragin Stac
#liveart #concert
Músicas memorables is an intergenerational co-created project by the hablarenarte association together with the teacher and artist Christian Fernández Mirón, revolving around orality and folk songs connecting the traditional to the contemporary.
After 3 editions held in various cities in the Spanish State and a 4th in Santiago de Chile, the project has arrived in Bizkaia in conjunction with the Bermeo Association of Neskatillas & Rederas and Ondarroa Association of Neskatillas. It started back in May with the oral tradition laboratories providing memories, stories and children/youngsters’ songs and evening social gatherings.
Taking these encounters where the sound was recorded a free access database has been built with memorable music and associated testimonies highlighting the importance of oral tradition and folk songs for both collective memory and contemporary creation. Composition, recording and production of the repertoire 2 local artists generated were carried out during the 2nd stage of the musical residency, to be presented publicly in a concert on 16th December.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16
7:00 p.m.
Auditorium
Price: check the website and AZ Info
#publications #presentation
Publication presentation
Azkuna Zentroa-Alhóndiga Bilbao organized the course Feminist Perspectives in Artistic Productions and Art Theories co-directed by the EHU Art Anthropology Chair Lourdes Méndez and Xabier Arakistain art curator between 2012 and 2018.
Throughout its 7 editions, female artists, academics, institution directors, researchers, curators and art critics dealt with the theoretical and political problems facing female researchers to continue building non-sexist knowledge; likewise those artistic practices questioning the different dimensions of the “art” institution.
Their contributions are included in the publication Feminist Perspectives in Artistic Productions and Art Theories whose presentation is on 16th September. Divided into 3 volumes, it contains the contributions of 50 participants in the Centre courses between 2012 and 2017; and completed with the publication corresponding to the 2018 course.
This edition of the collection is sponsored by the Bizkaia Provincial Council Department of Employment, Social Cohesion and Equality, as well as the Bilbao City Council department of Equality.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
12:00 p.m Bastida Hall
Free admission prior online registration, until full capacity is reached
This publication is on sale from 16th September at the Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao store dendAZ, and online at dendaz.azkunazentroa.eus
#literature #fiction #presentation
Book presentation
Mariana Enriquez is presenting her latest book Cómo desaparecer completamente (Anagrama, 2025) at Azkuna Zentroa.
As a journalist, deputy editor of the Página 12 newspaper supplement Radar and teacher Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) is part of the group known as “the new Argentine narrative”. She has renewed gothic literature by doing away with medieval castles, mansions and abbeys taking it to contemporary situations like the dictatorship in Argentina and psychedelic London of the 60s and 70s. Discovering the sinister in everyday life, that which no-one talks about yeti s deeply felt, thus the Argentinian writer sews the different facets together.
Cómo desaparecer completamente tells the story of a 16 year old lad downtrodden in apathy, a victim of sexual abuse by his father, which he needs to turn around in the black of his days in an Argentina enveloped in its umpteenth economic crisis.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
7:00 p.m.
Auditorium
Free admission prior online registration, until full capacity is reached
#cinema #zinemaldia
Azkuna Zentroa presents a selection of films premiered at the latest edition of Zinemaldia in collaboration with the San Sebastian Film Festival.
This is a cycle of new films screened in the Official, Perlak, Horizontes latinos and New Directors’ Sections; reflecting the current film production panorama.
September 29, Monday
7:00 p.m. Presentation and screening
Karmele
Spain | 114’ | OVSS
D: Asier Altuna | Official Selection
Special screenings
September 30, Tuesday
7:00 p.m.
Un simple accident / It Was Just an Accident
Iran | 103’ | OVSS
D: Jafar Panahi | Perlak
October 1, Wednesday
7:00 p.m.
Affeksjonverdi / Sentimental
Value
Norway | 135’ | OVSS
D: Joachim Trier | Perlak
October 2, Thursday
7:00 p.m. Un poeta / A Poet
Colombia, Germany, Swede 120’ | OVSS | D: Simón Mesa Soto
Horizontes latinos
October 3, Friday
7:00 p.m.
The President’s cake
Irak | 105’ | OVSS
D: Hasan Hadi | Perlak
October 4, Saturday
6:30 p.m.
Vaegtloes / Weightless
Denmark | 97’ | OVSS
D: Emilie Thalund | New Directors
8:30 p.m.
The Son and the Sea
United Kingdom | 102’ | OVSS |
D: Stroma Cairns | New Directors
October 5, Sunday
6:30 p.m.
Vie privée
France | 101’ | OVSS
D: Rebecca Zlotowski | Perlak
8:30 p.m.
Los domingos
Spain, France | 115’ | OVSS
D: Alauda Ruiz de Azua
Official Selection
FROM SEPTEMBER 29 TO OCTOBER 5
Auditorium
5€ / 4€ with AZ Card
Tickets: Cines Golem Alhóndiga box office and at golem.es
October 1, Wednesday
10:30 a.m. Schools
Heidi, Katamotzaren erreskatea
October 2, Thursday
10:30 a.m. Schools
Kaixo, Frida!
October 4, Saturday
4:30 p.m. Heidi, Katamotzaren erreskatea
80’ l V Basque I +5 years
D: Tobias Schwarz, Aizea Roca
October 5, Sunday
4:30 p.m. Kaixo, Frida!
82’ l V Basque I +5 years
D: Karine Vézina, André Kadi
ABREVIATURES:
D: Director
VOSS: Original version with Spanish subtitles
V Eusk: Basque version
#zinemateka #cinema
The master of the thriller, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, will be the star of the third edition of the Contemporary Japanese Film Season being held at the Zinemateka at Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao. The stylistic, thematic, and generational links to the comic-book universe connect Kurosawa’s work to manga. Our programme, organized in association with the Madrid Japan Foundation, provides an opportunity to enjoy the film-maker’s back catalogue, much of which has never been screened in cinemas and only has a minimal presence on streaming platforms.
The filmmaker achieved international recognition with the psychological thriller Cure (Kyua, 1997), which opens the current cycle. License to Live (Ningen gokaku, 1998), Charisma (Karisuma, 1999), Barren Illusions (Ôinaru gen'ei, 1999) and Bright future ( Akarui mirai, 2002) are other titles selected to understand and enjoy their creations.
From his more recent offerings, we present two films which can be viewed as a diptych: Eyes of the Spider (Kumo No Hitomi, 1998) and Serpent's Path (Hebi No Michi, 1998).
FROM 4 TO 20 NOVEMBER 2025
Tuesdays and Thursdays Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas
5€ / 4€ with AZ Card Tuesday, +65 years: €2 (sale only at the box office)
Tickets: Cines Golem Alhóndiga box office and at golem.es
Collaboration with:
Tuesday, November 4: 5:00 p.m.
November 6, Thursday: 7:30 p.m.
Cure (Kyua) 1997
D / S: Kiyoshi Kurosawa 111´ l OVSS
Tuesday, November 4: 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 6: 5:00 p.m.
License to Live (Ningen gokaku) 1998
D / S: Kiyoshi Kurosawa 109´ l OVSS
Tuesday, November 11: 5:00 p.m. & 7:15 p.m.
Barren Illusions (Ôinaru gen'ei) 1999
D / S: Kiyoshi Kurosawa 118´ l OVSS
Thursday, November 13: 5:00 p.m.
Bright future (Akarui mirai) 2002
D / S: Kiyoshi Kurosawa 85´ l OVSS
Thursday, November 13: 7:30 p.m.
Charisma (Karisuma) 1999
D / S: Kiyoshi Kurosawa 83´ l OVSS
Tuesday, November 18: 5:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 20: 7:30 p.m.
Eyes of the Spider (Kumo No Hitomi) 1998
D: Kiyoshi Kurosawa • S: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Yoichi Noshiyama 115´ l OVSS
Tuesday, November 18: 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 20: 5:00 p.m.
Serpent's Path (Hebi No Michi) 1998
D: Kiyoshi Kurosawa • S: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hiroshi Takahashi 103´ l OVSS
ABBREVIATIONS
D: Director
S: Screenplay
OVSS: Original Japanese soundtrack; Spanish subtitles
INFORMATION
Every projection is in Original Japanese soundtrack; Spanish subtitles
Request the cycle hand programme in AZ Info, download it on azkunazentroa.eus or request it by sending an email with your details to info@azkunazentroa.eus, and we will get back to you.
ACuTe. Art and Technology Professional Network Symposium (European Project 2022-2026)
May 13, 14, and 15, 2025
Prototipoak Bilbao. International Biennial of New Artistic Forms
May 27–31, 2025
June
June
July 11, 12, and 13, 2025
#comic #residency
Azkuna Zentroa –Alhóndiga Bilbao, Cité internationale of the Angoulême Bande Dessinée et de L’image and the Quebec Maison de la Littérature have chosen 3 people to carry out their artistic projects as part of this creation support programme focused on the comic field. Marlene Krause, Mireille St-Pierre and Louka Butzbach will take part in this international cross-residency, which will run successively across the three venues between January and April 2026.
Furthermore, these 3 stays coincide with a festival period at each venue where they can further their professional relationships, take part in activities; as well as holding encounters with the public: the Angoulême International Comic Festival; Gutun Zuria Bilbao – the International Literature Festival in Bilbao; and Québec BD Festival in Quebec. This format enables the creators to mutually enrich themselves besides exploring the cultural environments of each participant city. Moreover, thanks to
THE AIM OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMIC RESIDENCY IS TO PROMOTE ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES WITHIN KEY PROFESSIONAL GRAPHIC NOVEL ENVIRONMENTS
the exchange of experiences and ideas their creativity is boosted via the crossinfluences coupled with an assortment of artistic perspectives.
Throughout the residency they will have a shared workshop in each city; and in addition to travelling and accommodation expenses they will receive 4,500 Euros to cover the duration of their residencies.
(Wanne-Eickel, Germany, 1984). Marlene Krause is an illustrator, graphic novel author and teacher, who has published several books including: Momento Móvil (2019), Maud (2018) and À un autre endroit (2014), as well as numerous fanzines. She co-organised the self-publishing festival Gutter Fest in Barcelona and has collaborated with institutions such as the Goethe Institut and Instituto Cervantes. She received a scholarship with Comic stipendium Berlin, likewise a comic scholarship through Deutscher Literaturfonds. Furthermore, her work has appeared in individual and collective exhibitions in Germany, Spain, France, Lithuania and Chile. Within the framework of this International Comic Residency, she is developing Precariedad (working title), a bio-fictional narrative —a fictional story drawing on autobiographical elements as well as real places and situations— that addresses precarious employment in the tourism sector in Barcelona.
Mireille St-Pierre was born in Rimouski in 1985. After working for several years as a graphic designer with various agencies, she fully immersed herself in the world of illustration. Her internationally acclaimed work shines out in her ability to delicately capture the nuances of human sensitivity. Her first graphic novel, La brume (The mist), was published by Nouvelle adresse in 2020. In 2024 she returned with Suivra le néant. These projects received several awards, including the Applied Arts Awards; a selection by the jury of the Society of Illustrators of New York 67th annual exhibition; and a mention in the preliminary list for the Prix des libraries 2025 award, granted by the French Booksellers’ guild.
Louka Butzbach is a comic book author based in Marseille. Following his early forays with micro-publishing, he released his first book, La Constituante (Éditions Matière, 2023), an anachronistic narrative set in a comic workshop during the French Revolution. His body of work, poised between short story, fable, theatre and dream, offers youthful, androgynous and melancholic characters a stage on which to unfold their restless search for freedom. He has contributed to magazines including Lagon, Colorama Clubhouse or Strapazin, and also devotes himself to illustration and painting. His practice often extends to collective projects, among them the web series Cheezy Dream (2024) and the exhibition cycle Exposissimo (2021-2023).
A programme to support artistic creation in projects related to the visual arts, performing arts, film and audiovisual media, and literature.
El tacto del contacto
Sight, sound, and touch traverse the most recent installations, sculptures, and experimental films of artist and filmmaker Inés García . Her latest project, El tacto del contacto, explores the development of cinematic language and its arrangement within the exhibition space.
#installation #experimentalcinema
Visual and sound artist, Ivonne Villamil works at the intersection of art and science, exploring geophony. Meteoro arises from the urgent need for social andcultural action and reflection on climate change.
#sound #climate #cosmos #science
Fórmulas de Cinética Doméstica [3]
Beatriz Sánchez’s career is focused on audiovisual creation and digital art together with painting, drawing and sculpture.
She’s carrying out Domestic Kinetic Formulae [3], a research project and traditional manufacture of mechanised sculptural devices at Azkuna Zentroa.
#laboratory #sculpturalartifacts #movingimage
RUINAS (cuaderno de notas experimental)
Through her work, Estibaliz Sádaba Murguia aims to create a space for reflection and debate to facilitate an artistic and feminist exploration of the context in which we live. In Ruins (experimental notebook), she demonstrates the confinement of women within the domestic space. #experimentalwriting #texts #sounds #performance
Artistic creation support programme that accompanies artists whose works represent an inspiring look at artistic languages.
Idoia Zabaleta
Artist Amaia Molinet (Lodosa, 1988) works through the mediumof photography, embracing it as an expansive field.At the intersection of art, archaeology, and magic, Tierra Quemada has developed a field study of the remains of Bizkaia's iron belt.
#photography #memory #territory
Idoia Zabaleta (Vitoria, 1970) is a choreographer and biologist. Her research and production proposal entitled Zintza Lilura consists of the development of a device in relation to the bodily axis, holding fast, and balance, in which kinetic art, bodily health, and kinesiological tuning all converge.
#movement #kineticart #corporalhealth
The dancer and choreographer, Olatz de Andrés set up the company L ŏkke. In Time as a body she researches the ways of transforming the experience and perception of time through movement as a live action; and writing, drawing and audiovisual as a register thereof. #dance #movement #body
Lore Stessel explores the interface between photography and painting. In her photographic project Poëtry of the Gang, she explores the beauty of daily routines, small gestures and the power of movement through dancers freely moving before her lens.
#photography #dance #movement
A programme aimed at supporting and fostering the analysis and production related to current creation, that favours the exchange between artistic communities, audiences and other professionals.
Multidisciplinary artist and researcher Rosa Casado's work focuses on questions related to performance and critical spatial practice. In 2025 she is developing the sound and performative piece Here Be Dragons as part of La ilusoria estabilidad del suelo, a project undertaken in her role as an Associate Researcher at Azkuna Zentroa. Through this work, she explores which elements fade away, become blurred, or emerge when the terrestrial is considered from the perspective of the aqueous bodies covering the planet.
Here Be Dragons is an attempt to map the planet’s twilight areas. Above sea level, twilight refers to the space and time when the world sways between night and day. Whereas below sea level, twilight refers to the ocean’s intermediate area where little sunlight penetrates, a dark, cold, high pressure environment that is unimaginably vast, barely known, relatively unexplored and highly vulnerable, where the planet’s largest migration travels its waters daily in an immense wave of life.
#performativepractices
Ixiar Rozas
Una serie de ritmos
As a writer and researcher, Ixiar Rozas works with voice, language and sounds. Her research is a continuum of previous spaces.
To listen to Una serie de ritmos and, right there, to hold the writing. That material contains a rhythmic breathing, a source of energy. And new fermentations will emerge from those compositions. There are ancient words that we use in Basque to denote nudity. And there are words, perhaps on the verge of disappearing, with their own phonetic variants and phonemes which can be heard echoing through the valleys. These materials will be deployed at Azkuna Zentroa to work with other artists and to continue sharing.
#language #sound
Oscilación ROSA
Artist and stage and visual researcher, María Ibarretxe will be carrying out her choreographical research project ROSA’s Oscillation in Switzerland as part of the International Cross Dance Residency from 1st to 14th December undertaken by Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao and the Geneva L’Abri Creation Centre with the participation of L’Alakran Company via their Par Mobile initiative.
María Ibarretxe’s work crosses over: film, voice, sound installation and choreography. ROSA’s Oscillation is a choreographic research project exploring the chromatic and bodily dimensions of the “mystery-love-garden” triptych. Using materials from the PACAP 8 –Mystery School of Choreography, curated by Meg Stuart and Ana Rocha, this project consists of a file structured rather like a rose garden plantation cycle articulated through the dance of voice.
#education #visit #experimentation #livevideo #improvisation
In this energized visit we conduct quantum-physics experiments in the form of activities using light to understand how it works. Through the experiments, participants in the workshop will be able to interpret various optical phenomena such as refraction, birefringence, etc., all of which derive from the properties of light, as well as other activities providing a simple understanding of quantum mechanics.
Aims of the energized visit:
• Allow participants to connect with quantum physics.
• Enable them to interpret those phenomena.
• Help them understand that, in the quantum world, there are some things we know are there even if they cannot be seen.
13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 OCTOBER
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Atrium of Cultures
Aimed at secondary school students
Arranged with schools
This is a practical workshop that uses improvisation as both process and creative outcome. Participants will create live videos using minimal resources, without relying on advanced technology or software. The entire experience will be immediate, creative, playful and will require very few materials.
Using a webcam and a range of simple materials (magazines, scissors, pencils, coloured card, toys, etc.), students will build their own video creations. Through hand movements, they will play with paper puppets, collages they have made, small figures… making scene changes, transforming elements, and creating surprises that unfold live as the webcam projects the recording set in real time.
ESKOLA ESKOLA
28 AND 29 OCTOBER (TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY)
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Iparraguirre room
Aimed at ESO and Bachiller students
Arranged with schools
#education #mediation #dance #drawing #time #image #technology
In 2020,Olatz de Andrés and Ixiar Garcia began a joint artistic exploration when Olatz invited Ixiar to join her in Tiempo como cuerpo, a research project investigating how to transform our perception of time through movement, drawing, writing and audiovisual media. In this workshop, we will share some of the exercises, games and reflections from that research.
This workshop aims to share some exercises, games, and reflections from this research.
ESKOLA
NOVEMBER 14, FRIDAY
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Auditorium
Aimed at 1st and 2nd year
Baccalaureate students (1 classroom per workshop)
Arranged with schools
The anthology exhibition by Marisa González (Bilbao, 1943), reviews the artist’s career on the occasion of her receipt of the 2023 Velázquez Prize.
Marisa González appropriates the technologies of her age in order to explore their possibilities and construct a critical discourse that invites us to question reality.
In line with the artist’s trajectory and ways of doing things, we place ourselves in the present and focus on the value that images have nowadays in a digital world overloaded with information. We question the logic that underpins the internet and rehearse other consumption habits.
What happens when we give an image time?
ESKOLA
NOVEMBER 7, 14, 21 AND 28, DECEMBER 5 AND 12
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Exhibition Hall / foyer
Aimed at secondary school students
Arranged with schools
#education #mediation #cinema
DAVID CRONENBERG. Eastern Promises (2007)
16 SEPTEMBER
David Cronenberg (Toronto, 1943) is the author of a vast prizewinning filmography likewise a reference of the so-called “body terror” genre. Eastern Promises tells the story of Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen), chauffeur of a powerful Russian mafia family in London, whose life changes radically on meeting Anna Khitrova (Naomi Watts), a midwife who was greatly affected by the death of a patient during childbirth.
MIKE NICHOLS. Working Girl (1988)
14 OCTOBER
Michael Igor Peschkowsky, known as Mike Nichols (1931-2014), began directing films in 1966 with Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. From thereon he had a career full of successes like The Graduate, where he won an Oscar for the best direction. Working Girl belongs to his filmography of the 80s.
KIYOSHI KUROSAWA. Wife of a Spy (2020)
2 5 NOVEMBER
Thriller master Kiyoshi Kurosawa is the protagonist of the 3rd part of the contemporary Japanese film cycle at Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao Zinemateka. The work of this filmmaker is analysed as part of this programme through Wife of a Spy, a World War 2 spy story for which he was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for the best direction.
ESTIBALIZ URRESOLA SOLAGUREN. 20,000 Species of Bees (2023)
16 DECEMBER
20,000 Species of Bees, Estibaliz Urresola’s first fiction feature film is an invitation to reflect on gender identity in childhood along with the search, acceptance and investigation processes about who everyone is. The protagonist, Cocó, (Sofía Otero, Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance), doesn’t fit in with everyone’s expectations and doesn’t understand why.
ADULT AUDIENCE
TUESDAYS: 16 SEPTEMBER, 14 OCTOBER, 25 NOVEMBER, 16 DECEMBER
6:30 p.m. / 60'
Mediateka BBK: TK101
Free admission upon registration on the website until full capacity is reached
NEIL GAIMAN. Sandman
24 SEPTEMBER
Sandman is one of the most popular and highly acclaimed comics of all times, with its inimitable combination of old and modern mythology where contemporary fiction, historical drama and legends are perfectly entwined. This essential work is the result of Neil Gaiman’s talent and imagination in collaboration with the most talented artists in this medium.
LEIJI MATSUMOTO. Captain Harlock
15 OCTOBER
Captain Harlock is the most notable work of mangaka Leiji Matsumoto. The protagonist is exiled from his land and becomes a space pirate roaming through the cosmos. A veritable cult series which became famous on TV several years ago.
HÉCTOR GERMÁN OESTERHELD & F. SOLANO LÓPEZ.
The Eternaut
5 NOVEMBER
The Eternaut was first published as a comic in the Argentinian magazine Hora cero semanal between 1957 and 1959. It narrates a fantasy event, namely the invasion of Buenos Aires by alien race ominously known as Them. Juan Salvo stands up to the aliens throughout history, travelling through time eventually becoming much to his regret mankind’s last survivor.
ENKI BILAL. The Nikopol Trilogy
26 NOVEMBER
The Nikopol Trilogy is a series of 3 stories taking place over a 12 year period during which Enki Bilal set forth his concerns about the progress of the human species. The first story follows a cryogenized Alcide Nikopol who reappears in Paris in 2023 after 30 years. This volume includes the albums: The Carnival of Immortals (1980), The Woman Trap (1986) and Cold Equator (1992).
WEDNESDAY: SEPTEMBER 24, OCTOBER 15, NOVEMBER 5 & 26
6:30 p.m. / 60'
Mediateka BBK: TK202
Free admission upon registration on the website until full capacity is reached
#education #mediation #cinema
The Azkuna Zentroa Zinemaldia programme, run in collaboration with the San Sebastian International Film Festival, includes a selection of children’s films and sessions arranged with schools.
ESKOLA
OCTOBER 1, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 2, THURSDAY
10:30 a.m.
Arranged with schools
PROGRAMA
October 1, Wednesday 10:30 a.m.
Heidi, Katamotzaren erreskatea
V Euskera I 80´
October 2, Thursday 10:30 a.m.
Kaixo, Frida! V Euskera I 84´
In November the school audience session reactivates with performing arts via the project created by Mitusu and Azkuna Zentroa
November 18, Tuesday 9:45 a.m. & 11:30 a.m. I 60’
KHEA ZIATER
Scrooge eta mamuak
November 19, Wednesday 9:45 a.m. & 11:30 a.m. I 45’
BIG BOUNCERS
Plancton
November 20, Thursday 9:45 a.m. & 11:30 a.m. I 50’
YARLEKU
La casa más pequeña
ESKOLA
NOVEMBER 18, 19 & 20
9:45 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
Arranged with schools
The Easy Reading Clubs organised with different bodies and collectives begin the Mediateka in September. These sessions enable people with different reading capacities to enjoy reading the same book in an adapted format as well as sharing stories guided by a coach.
SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER
Tuesdays (basque) Thursdays (spanish) 5:00 p.m. / 60'
Mediateka. TK101
+ Info: lecturafacil.net
A family activity to encourage reading at an early age likewise a habit of reading outside school.We will learn about the book as an object together with some narrative techniques to enjoy reading as a family.
Max capacity: 8 minors & 8 adults (min 2 families)
FAMILY
SATURDAYS: OCTOBER 14, 18 / NOVEMBER 8, 22 / DECEMBER 13
12:00 p.m. / 60'
Mediateka BBK. TK101
4-6 years
Free admission prior registration at the Txikiteka attention point on the same day as the activity
Programme aimed at creation and reading through the Mediateka reference library.
DECEMBER 2025JANUARY 2026
Azkuna Zentroa publications contain contemporary artistic practice for its outreach and circulation.
Un modo de hacer generativo / A Generative Way
Marisa González
Exhibition catalogue
Spanish / English
Pages: 241
21 x 29,7 cm
35€
Engeki Quest. Sirimiri Dreams en Bilbao
Orangcosong
Adventure book
Spanish / English / Basque / Japanese
Pages: 208 14,8 x 21 cm
15€
Collection: Feminist Perspectives in Artistic Productions and Art Theories 2012-2013 / 2014-2015 / 20162017 / 2018
Various authors
Book
Spanish / English / Basque
23 x16,4 cm • 18€ /unidad
Presentation: Tuesday, September 16. 12:00 p.m. Bastida Hall
Tierra Quemada
Amaia Molinet Book
Spanish / English / Basque
1 folder (3 booklets + 4 fold-out posters)
17 x 24 cm.
18€
El ensayo de la exposición (1977-2017)
Various authors
Book
Pages: 436 14,8 x 21 cm
28€
Behatokia. Observar y transformar la ciudad desde las prácticas artísticas y culturales
Urbanbat
Book
Spanish Pages: 208 13 x 21 cm.
18€
La ola en la mente
Isabel de Naverán Book
Spanish Pages: 252 13 x 21 cm. 18€
Metakoadernoak. The creative notebooks of Azkuna ZentroaAlhóndiga Bilbao
Macarena Recuerda Shepher, Amparo Badiola, Gema Intxausti, Susana Talayero, Ander Pérez Puelles, M. Benito Píriz, Julia Martos, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Jon Gerediaga, Lorea Burge, Gala Knörr
Spanish / English / Basque • 5€/unit
Eyezorros
Miguel A. García
LP Vinyl
Side A: 1. posb01 yunman-04:40 / 2. oceanusbf 07:58 / 3. prism 05:58
Side B: 4. yonyo hiru 10:42 / 5. guuu-08:02 22€
Una voz para Erauso. Epílogo para un tiempo trans
Cabello/Carceller Exhibition catalogue
Spanish / English / Basque Pages: 316 24€
Decrecer Book-Exhibition catalogue
Spanish / English / Basque Pages: 200 24 × 24 cm 24€
This is Basque Design Merkatua exhibits the products and projects of 30 creators who make up the Centre design community in the Azkuna Zentroa-Alhóndiga Atrium of Cultures.
A variety of products related to fashion, jewellery, decoration, accessories, toys, books, illustrations, stationery, etc., whose manufacture shares the common denominatorsof local design, quality, craftsmanship and sustainability; will be exhibited.
Moreover, these 3 days present a unique opportunity to gain first-hand insight into the personal and professional project behind these brands and other new ones, committed to artistic innovation and experimentation from a sustainable perspective. Likewise, the public can take part in various workshops to be held over the weekend.
This is Basque Design Merkatua is held as part of the Bilbao Bizkaia Design Week (BBDW) which this year is held under the slogan of From emergency to regeneration, i.e. dealing with the evolution of sustainable design towards the restoration and revitalisation of the ecosystems or communities where they operate.
NOVEMBER 21ST FRIDAY, 22ND SATURDAY AND 23RD SUNDAY
Friday from 4:00 pm to 8:30 pm Saturday from 10:00 am to 8:30 pm
Sunday from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Atrium of Cultures Free admission
If you’re interested in taking part in This Is Basque Design Merkatua to showcase your brand, register before November 3rd via the QR code or at azkunazentroa.eus.
Under the heading Sustraidun musika – Music with roots and the baton of Iñaki Urkizu Kerejeta, the Bilbao Municipal Band premieres the season with a repertoire filled with Latin rhythms, Mediterranean melodies not to mention the echoes of African and Arabic folklore.
The International Unseen Film Festival
The International Unseen Film Festival disseminates films to heal, transform, covering many stories along the way which may help to learn and put an end to some of the challenges we humans face.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
Atrium of Cultures
Free admission
16–23 OCTOBER
Golem Alhóndiga + Info: kcd-ongd.org/cine-invisible
Women Filmmakers’ Festival
This 28th edition of Zinemakumeak gara! has: premieres, retrospective films, talks, workshops and conferences revolving around contemporary film creation produced by women, likewise promotion of audiovisual culture particularly among the younger audiences.
27-31 OCTOBER
Golem Alhóndiga
+ Info: zinemakumeak.com
The Basque Country International Architecture Biennial holds its 5th edition with the slogan Castles in the air, or how to build utopia today. Azkuna Zentroa will be holding some the biennial activities open to the public and all the actors taking part in urban life.
Tuesday, October 28
Talk: Oteiza and the immobile city. End of the millennium utopias
Friday, October 31
Talk: Doriana & Massimiliano Fuksas Fuksas architecture studio) with Ramon Prat, director of the ACTAR publishing house.
Tuesday, November 4
Talk: Zorrozaurre 1984. Planning the city that never was
Within the framework of the Seriesland Festival, held from 6 to 8 November in Bilbao, Azkuna Zentroa will host a special day bringing together Basque and international professionals. Seriesland pro features round tables on creative projects financing, digital series pitching sessions and speed meetings. The festival will close with an exclusive evening of premieres showcasing new children’s and youth series at Golem Cinemas.
This initiative to foster the use of Basque reaches its 12th edition, where hundreds of people of all ages and conditions sit round a table together to talk in Basque.
International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao
Zinebi presents the talent and creativity of directors from the 5 continents chosen for the 67th edition at Azkuna Zentroa.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4
7:00 p.m.
Bastida Hall + Info: bienalmugak.eus
FRIDAY, 7 NOVEMBER
Bastida Hall / Golem Alhóndiga +info: seriesland.eus
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19
Atrium of Cultures
21-28 NOVEMBER Golem Alhóndiga
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Azkuna Zentroa live arts season
International Literature Festival
Film and audiovisual season
UNTIL 28 SEP. 11:00am8:00pm Chiharu Shiota My House is your House Exhibition p.8
TUESDAY SEP. 5:30pm 6:30pm Guided tours of the building 5:30 p.m. (Basque), 6:30 p.m. (Spanish) Visit p.64
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY SEP. 6:30pm Exhibition tours Basque / Spanish Chiharu Shiota. My House is your House Exhibition p.8
16 TUESDAY SEP. 12:00pm Feminist Perspectives in Artistic Productions and Art Theories Publication presentation p.24 6:30pm Film dialogues: David Cronenberg. Promesas del Este Conversation p.44
18 THURSDAY SEP. 7:00pm Mariana Enríquez Cómo desaparecer completamente Book presentation p.25
19 FRIDAY SEP. 7:00pm Bilbao Municipal Music Band Concert Music p.54
24 WEDNESDAY SEP. 6:30pm Comic dialogues: Neil Gaiman. Sandman Conversation p.45
25 THURSDAY SEP. 12:00pm Guided tour by curator Tereza de Arruda Chiharu Shiota. My House is your House Exhibition p.8 6:30pm
26 FRIDAY SEP. 12:00pm Guided tour by curator Tereza de Arruda Chiharu Shiota. My House is your House Exhibition p.8
29 MONDAY SEP. 7:00pm Donostia Zinemaldia Presentation and screening: Karmele Cinema p.27
30 TUESDAY SEP. 7:00pm Donostia Zinemaldia It Was Just an Accident Cinema p.27
FROM 2 TO 19
8:00am9:00pm Amaia Molinet Tierra Quemada Exhibition p.12 FROM 10 TO 26
8:00am9:00pm Visiones cuánticas Installation p.13
FROM 29 OCTOBER TO 18 JANUARY 11:00am8:00pm Marisa González A generative way From Tuesday to Sunday Exhibition p.10
TUESDAY OCT. 5:30pm 6:30pm Guided tours of the building 5:30 p.m. (Basque), 6:30 p.m. (Spanish) Visit p.64
1 WEDNESDAY
7:00pm Donostia Zinemaldia: Sentimental Value Cinema p.27
2 THURSDAY OCT. 7:00pm Donostia Zinemaldia: A Poet Cinema p.27
2 THURSDAY OCT 7:30pm Amaia Molinet: Tierra Quemada Performance p.12
3 FRIDAY OCT. 7:00pm Donostia Zinemaldia: The President’s cake Cinema p.27
12:00pm Ipuin txiki
4 SATURDAY
4:30pm Donostia Zinemaldia (family programme) Heidi, Katamotzaren erreskatea
p.27
6:30pm Donostia Zinemaldia: Vaegtloes / Weightless Cinema p.27
8:30pm Donostia Zinemaldia: The Son and the Sea Cinema p.27
5 SUNDAY OCT. 4:30pm Donostia Zinemaldia (family programme) Kaixo, Frida!
6:30pm Donostia Zinemaldia: Vie privée
8:30pm Donostia Zinemaldia: Los domingos
9 THURSDAY OCT. 7:00pm Histrión Teatro. DYSPHORIA
14
15 WEDNESDAY
p.27
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6:30pm Film dialogues: Mike Nichols. Armas de mujer Conversation p.44
6:30pm Comic dialogues: Leiji Matsumoto. Capitán Harlock Conversation p.45
16-23 OCT. Film Sozialak: The International Unseen Film Festival Cinema p.54
18 SATURDAY OCT. 12:00pm Ipuin txiki
27-31
28 TUESDAY
29 WEDNESDAY
Zinemakumeak gara! Women Filmmakers’ Festival
7:00pm Mugak / Oteiza and the immobile city. End of the millennium utopias
Marisa González A generative way p.10
6:00pm Talk between artist Marisa González and curator Violeta Janeiro. Conversation
7:00pm Exhibition Opening Exhibition
31 FRIDAY OCT. 7:00pm Mugak / Doriana & Massimiliano Fuksas Fuksas architecture studio) with Ramon Prat, director of the ACTAR publishing house Talk p.55
FROM 29 OCTOBER TO 18 JANUARY 11:00am8:00pm
Marisa González A generative way From Tuesday to Sunday
FROM 3 TO 16 NOV. 11:00am8:00pm Inés García El tacto del contacto
TUESDAY NOV. 5:30pm 6:30pm Guided tours of the building 5:30 p.m. (Basque), 6:30 p.m. (Spanish)
THURSDAY NOV. 6:30pm
4 TUESDAY NOV. 5:00pm 7:30pm
Exhibition tours Basque / Spanish Marisa González. A generative way
Contemporary Japanese Film Season Cure (Kyua) 1997 License to Live (Ningen gokaku) 1998
7:00pm Mugak / Zorrozaurre 1984. Planning the city that never was
5 WEDNESDAY NOV. 6:30pm
6 THURSDAY NOV. 5:00pm 7:30pm
Comic dialogues: Héctor Germán Oesterheld & F. Solano López. El eternauta
Contemporary Japanese Film Season License to Live (Ningen gokaku) 1998 Cure (Kyua) 1997
6 THURSDAY NOV. 7:00pm Marcat Dance El bosque
p.10
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p.10
p.28
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7 FRIDAY NOV. Seriesland Pro Audiovisual p.55
8 SATURDAY NOV. 12:00pm Ipuin txiki Reading p.47
11 TUESDAY NOV. 5:00pm 7:15pm
13 THURSDAY NOV. 5:00pm 7:30pm
Contemporary Japanese Film Season Barren Illusions (Ôinaru gen'ei) 1999 Cinema p.28
Contemporary Japanese Film Season Bright future (Akarui mirai) 2002 Charisma (Karisuma) 1999
15 SATURDAY NOV. 12:30pm Las hijas de Felipe
18 TUESDAY NOV. 5:00pm 7:30pm
Contemporary Japanese Film Season Eyes of the Spider (Kumo No Hitomi) 1998 Serpent's Path (Hebi No Michi) 1998 Cinema p.28
19 WEDNESDAY NOV. Berbagunea Conversation p.55
20 THURSDAY NOV. 5:00pm 7:30pm
Contemporary Japanese Film Seasons Serpent's Path (Hebi No Michi) 1998 Eyes of the Spider (Kumo No Hitomi) 1998
p.28
21-28 NOV.
Zinebi. International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao Cinema p.55
21 FRIDAY NOV. 4:00pm8:30pm This Is Basque Design Merkatua Projects and Products Showroom p.53
22 SATURDAY NOV. 10:00am8:30pm This Is Basque Design Merkatua
and Products Showroom p.53
22 SATURDAY NOV. 12:00pm Ipuin txiki Reading p.47
23 SUNDAY NOV. 10:00am3:00pm This Is Basque Design Merkatua
25 TUESDAY NOV. 6:30pm Film dialogues: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Wife of a Spy Conversation p.44
26 WEDNESDAY NOV. 6:30pm Comic dialogues: Enki Bilal. La trilogía de Nikopol Conversation p.45
FROM 29 OCTOBER TO 18 JANUARY 11:00am8:00pm Marisa González. A generative way From Tuesday to Sunday Exhibition p.10
FROM 11 TO 14 DEC. 11:00am8:00pm Beatriz Sánchez Fórmulas de Cinética Doméstica Project Exhibition p.17
TUESDAY DEC. 5:30pm 6:30pm Guided tours of the building 5:30 p.m. (Basque), 6:30 p.m. (Spanish) Visit p.64
THURSDAY DEC. 6:30pm Exhibition tours Basque / Spanish Marisa González. A generative way Exhibition p.10
3 WEDNESDAY DEC 7:00pm Estibaliz Sádaba RUINAS (cuaderno de notas experimental) Collective reading p.15
4 THURSDAY DEC. 7:00pm Haatik Dantza Konpainia OTS Dance p.21
9 TUESDAY DEC. 7:00pm Presentación: Lore Stessel. Poëtry of the Gang Project Exhibition p.16
16 TUESDAY DEC. 6:30pm Film dialogues: Estibaliz Urresola 20.000 especies de abejas Conversation p.44
16 TUESDAY DEC. 7:00pm Christian Fernández Mirón & hablarenarte Músicas Memorables Concert p.22
We appreciate the support of the private and public bodies accompanying us as part of their commitment to the territory, working with our mission to connect society and contemporary culture.
Promotor
Strategic Patron
Associates
Cultural alliances
Cultural alliances: Live arts
Technological Partner
City alliances
Our network is open to any organisation interested in taking part in this project which contributes to the creation of a more creative, critical and diverse society through art.
Programme subsidised by Bizkaia Provincial Council
Loyalty programmes
The Azkuna Zentroa stage areas are equipped with digital technologies that improve the space and your experience thanks to the Next Generation European Funds assigned to the modernisation and sustainable management of the Basque performing arts infrastructures.
Every day from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Consult special times online
A one-hour tour of the Alhóndiga to learn about the history of the building, its transformation and the current project.
Individuals
Tuesday: 5:30 p.m. (Basque), 6:30 p.m. (Spanish)
Free entry prior registration: AZ Info / 944 014 014 / info@azkunazentroa.eus / azkunazentroa.eus
Groups
· Reserve the date and time at least 72 hours in advance at AZ Info, by phone 944 014 014 or by email info@azkunazentroa.eus
· Prices: Basque or Spanish: € 60 for groups. English or French: € 70 for groups. Associations and teaching centers (check in advance).
Exhibition tours
· Half-hour introductory tours to contextualise exhibitions:
Chiharu Shiota . My House is your House
Exhibition Hall
Until 28 September, every Wednesday and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. (Basque or Spanish, depending on demand)
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Marisa González. A generative way
Exhibition Hall
From November until 18 January, every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. (Basque or Spanish, depending on demand)
· Free entry prior registration: AZ Info / 944 014 014 / info@azkunazentroa.eus azkunazentroa.eus
The AZ card lets you enjoy a wide range of cultural, social and physical activities at our centre. With this card you will receive periodical information regarding all the activities taking place, and obtain interesting discounts and advantages. The renewal of the card due to loss and/or modification of data has a cost of 3 euros.
We should like to remind you that the AZ Card is personal and non-transferable. Please bring it with you at all times to obtain discounts when purchasing your tickets at AZ Info.
Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao fosters accessible cultural diversity for everyone. To this end, and amongst other measures, it offers reduced rates for groups, professionals, students, young adults, people with functional diversity and other collectives, prior proof of identity.
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Azkuna Zentroa is a friendly, open and accessible space for everyone.
We work on the continuous improvement of the space and the programme to ensure that all audiences have a rewarding experience, are able to participate in the creative processes, and experience, share and enjoy culture on equal terms. Should you require any specific information, please proceed to Az Info, the information point located in the Atrium.
Azkuna Zentroa has the AENOR certificate of Universal Accessibility according to the UNE 170001-1 Standard
Check the Center's accessibility measures on our website: azkunazentroa.eus
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