Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa
A Bilbao city foundation providing workshops, artist residencies, production facilities, exhibition spaces, grants, and mobility programs for contemporary artists.
About Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa
A production space for contemporary artists
Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa is a Bilbao city foundation supporting contemporary-art production. It gives resident artists access to the infrastructure they need to develop their work, from specialized workshops to exhibition spaces.
Studios and technical facilities
- Sculpture workshop
- Printmaking workshop
- Digital imaging workshop
- MediaLab
- Film and photography studio
- Analog lab
- AudioLab
Residencies and opportunities
The program includes artist residencies, grant calls, exchanges, competitions, and mobility programs. Artists who work at the center contribute a piece to the BilbaoArte Collection, which can be viewed and borrowed.
Exhibitions and public programs
BilbaoArte organizes courses, lectures, seminars, exhibitions, screenings, and other events. Sala URIBITARTE40 hosts exhibitions, including shows of work by resident artists, with scheduled guided tours. The foundation also collaborates with outside festivals such as Itinerancias Fílmicas, with LAN Film Festival in Bilbao, PICKNIC Film Festival in Santander, and LOCO in Logroño.
Other Bilbao locations
Sala URIBITARTE40 is at 40 Uribitarte Pasealekua, Bilbao 48009; phone 664 475 684. Estudios Otxarkoaga is at 16 Opengela Casals Pau Hiribidea, Bilbao 48004.
Contact
General email: bilbaoarte@bilbao.eus. Workshop contacts include irudidigitala@bilbaoarte.eus for digital imaging, medialab@bilbaoarte.eus for MediaLab, eskultura@bilbaoarte.eus for sculpture, grafika@bilbaoarte.eus for printmaking, and uribitarte40@bilbaoarte.bilbao.eus for Sala URIBITARTE40.
Artist production and residencies