The ARTIUM Collection is made up of almost 3000 artworks. They represent all the techniques used in contemporary art, as well as works by artists who have written and continue to write the history of art of the 20th and 21st century's in the Basque Country and in Spain.
The ARTIUM Collection is made up of almost 3000 artworks. They represent all the techniques used in contemporary art.
At ARTIUM we programme a wide variety of temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art with a number of different objectives, means and exhibition formats
In ARTIUM we have a special interest in young artists from Alava and the Basque Country, and also from other geographical areas.
As a centre for activities, ARTIUM offers all trough the year an intense and ambitious programme of activities linked to contemporary culture. These are always connected with the tesis of the museum's exhibitions and with the social and cultural context of ARTIUM
In our programmes you can find lectures, courses, concerts, contemporary dance and cinema. Distintinctive ARTIUM activities are writers' encounters with works form ARTIUM Collection or reading clubs on narrative or graphic novels.
The Library has 24 reading places, as well as equipment with Internet access to view audiovisual material.
A bibliographical information service available at all times during opening hours, will resolve any doubts that users might have about the Library and its documents collection. Enquiries can also be made by e-mail: biblioteca@artium.org. E-mails will be responded to as quickly as possible.
The Vulture Shadow, by Juan Zamora, from Artium's sky. his work has been made for Artium's programme Mutatis Mutandis
The exhibition is a journey to experimentation, development of artistic languages and self-referential approaches over the course of the history of art.
Share with us your personal collections, whatever they are
Exhibitions, workshops, guided tours, projections, scratch day, lectures, concerts.... From may 17, friday, to 19, sunday
Please, Do Not Touch (curator: Jorge Luis Marzo) and Feria. Iñaki Larrimbe. Opening: may 17, friday, at 8 pm
Linked to the bibliographical exhibition The creative treatment of reality. From may 11 to 26
The aim of the Education and Cultural Activities Department of ARTIUM is to bring key aspects of contemporary art closer to the general public.
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