Talks
•Hamaiketako
When: June 7 and 14, Saturdays
Time: 11:30 – 13:00
Venue: Getxophoto Office – Amezti 6, 5º 5º
Seats: 14 (each session)
Prize: 5€
The Hamaiketako talks (like a kit-kat in Basque) will take place on Saturday mornings, in the company of local artists and cultural agents with time and space to share.The aim is to foster unhurried conversation, to get to know each other, to exchange concerns, to dare to ask questions… In short, it’s an escape from the traditional “student-teacher” dynamic, offering an opportunity to enjoy a morning with the director of Kutxa Fundazioa exhibition spaces, Ane Abalde, and the arcuitect and photographer, María Azkarate.
••Tickets
•07/06 Saturday
•Ane Abalde
Director of Kutxa Fundazio exhibitions spaces
Born in San Sebastian in 1980, Ane Abalde studied Art History at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and completed a master’s degree in Design and Management of Exhibition Projects at the Elisava School and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She has worked at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa, Artium Museo de Arte Contemporáneo or Manifesta, European art biennial held in San Sebastian in 2004. Since 2016 she has been Director of the exhibition halls of Kutxa Fundazioa, and in 2019, she also assumed, in addition, the direction of Heritage of Kutxa Fundazioa. In both areas, she has a close relationship with photography by managing the Kutxa Fundazioa Artegunea exhibition hall, dedicated to photographic projects, as well as Fototeka, a large archive of documentary photography from Gipuzkoa.
•14/06 Saturday
•María Azkarate
Architect and photographer
Born in Vitoria in 1977, María Azkarate lives and works in Pamplona. Trained at the University of Navarra, she is an architect specialized in urban planning. As a photographer, she explores from a critical perspective the transformation of the territory and the human habitat. She is particularly interested in the symbolic potential of the territory and its visual expression through the photographic medium, her works seeks to encourage reflection on the complexity and depth of the everyday landscape and its political implications. She combines her practice as an author with professional architectural photography and teaching. Her has been featured in various exhibitions in the Basque Country and Navarra, including 30-30-30 on the transformation of metropolitan Bilbao at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum (2023), together with Vanessa Winship and Corinne Vionnet. In 2020 her work Tercer paisaje was the winner of the Baffest, Festival of women photographers of Barakaldo.