Recent projects
Emotional Management in the Art Ecosystem: Towards a Decalogue of Good Cultural Practices
DiscoverBitamine is launching a research project on the emotional, professional, and relational conditions that shape the artistic and cultural ecosystem in Gipuzkoa.
The project starts from a simple yet necessary question: how do precarity, uncertainty, open calls, production rhythms, and sector dynamics affect the everyday lives of the people who sustain this ecosystem?
Through this questionnaire, we aim to gather experiences, perceptions, and forms of discomfort, while also identifying practices of care, strategies of resistance, and possible paths for transformation. The ultimate goal is to develop a collective diagnosis and a decalogue of good cultural practices that can contribute to a more sustainable, fair, and caring cultural sector.
The research is coordinated by Helga Massetani Piemonte (Bitamine) and developed in collaboration with:
Mónica Crespo Doval
Degree in Sociology, Academic Secretary and Tutor Lecturer at UNED-Bergara.Larraitz Nerea Zumeta Sánchez
PhD in Psychology, researcher and tutor at UNED-Bergara.If you work professionally within the artistic and cultural sector in Gipuzkoa, we invite you to participate.
👉 Access the questionnaire: https://form.typeform.com/to/ijbBLP7I
Estimated completion time: 15-20 minutes.
Your participation is anonymous and will contribute to generating collective knowledge about working and living conditions in the cultural sector.
Urumeako Atlas Emozionala - Erakusketa
DiscoverBody, Memory and Riverbed
This Atlas does not follow a river: it immerses itself in it.The exhibition invites us to read the Urumea through those who have inhabited it and the gestures that remain embedded in its memory. Bodies bent over the water to wash clothes. Bodies pulling oars in rhythm. Bodies carrying sand, bottling oil or rolling tobacco. Bodies dancing at local festivities, holding flags, crossing bridges time and again until these crossings became part of everyday life.
The river thus emerges as an organism in constant transformation, but also as a place marked by the traces others have left behind. Some remain, while others have disappeared along with the trades, factories, forms of leisure and ways of relating to its waters. Exploring the Urumea through the body also means asking ourselves what remains of all this, and what kind of relationship we wish to build with the river from now on.
This exhibition marks the culmination of a project developed over three years. It began with a research process that gave voice to local residents. Through surveys, group interviews and participatory workshops, we gathered the perceptions of the people of San Sebastián regarding the river that runs through their city: memories, images, sensations, historical information and more.
Drawing on these testimonies, we created a written atlas, a publication comprising ten narratives that explore the history of the river, the city and the ways in which people inhabit these two places. Now, these ten narratives take on a different language as they enter the exhibition space: words give way to images, sound and movement, revisiting the same events through other ways of telling and experiencing them.
Helga Massetani Piemonte
Curator: Helga Massetani Piemonte
Heritage Collections Management: María José Noain Maura
Texts: Helga Massetani Piemonte and María José Noain MauraIntx'Apain
DiscoverIntx’Apain is an urban art festival that, over three days, transforms around ten walls across the neighbourhood into spaces for creation and connection, bringing together local and international artists and the neighbourhood community. The Basque language will be at the heart of the murals, guided by the central theme Zein da zure hitza? (“What’s your word?”), an invitation to artists and residents to take words as a starting point for creating, sharing and coming together.
Music, rap, bertsolaritza (Basque improvised sung poetry), breakdance, workshops and participatory activities developed in collaboration with ikastolas (Basque-language schools), local associations and community organisations will accompany the artistic interventions, turning the festival into a collective experience.
+ info
Emotional Management in the Art Ecosystem: Towards a Decalogue of Good Cultural Practices
DiscoverBitamine is launching a research project on the emotional, professional, and relational conditions that shape the artistic and cultural ecosystem in Gipuzkoa.
The project starts from a simple yet necessary question: how do precarity, uncertainty, open calls, production rhythms, and sector dynamics affect the everyday lives of the people who sustain this ecosystem?
Through this questionnaire, we aim to gather experiences, perceptions, and forms of discomfort, while also identifying practices of care, strategies of resistance, and possible paths for transformation. The ultimate goal is to develop a collective diagnosis and a decalogue of good cultural practices that can contribute to a more sustainable, fair, and caring cultural sector.
The research is coordinated by Helga Massetani Piemonte (Bitamine) and developed in collaboration with:
Mónica Crespo Doval
Degree in Sociology, Academic Secretary and Tutor Lecturer at UNED-Bergara.Larraitz Nerea Zumeta Sánchez
PhD in Psychology, researcher and tutor at UNED-Bergara.If you work professionally within the artistic and cultural sector in Gipuzkoa, we invite you to participate.
👉 Access the questionnaire: https://form.typeform.com/to/ijbBLP7I
Estimated completion time: 15-20 minutes.
Your participation is anonymous and will contribute to generating collective knowledge about working and living conditions in the cultural sector.
Urumeako Atlas Emozionala - Erakusketa
DiscoverBody, Memory and Riverbed
This Atlas does not follow a river: it immerses itself in it.The exhibition invites us to read the Urumea through those who have inhabited it and the gestures that remain embedded in its memory. Bodies bent over the water to wash clothes. Bodies pulling oars in rhythm. Bodies carrying sand, bottling oil or rolling tobacco. Bodies dancing at local festivities, holding flags, crossing bridges time and again until these crossings became part of everyday life.
The river thus emerges as an organism in constant transformation, but also as a place marked by the traces others have left behind. Some remain, while others have disappeared along with the trades, factories, forms of leisure and ways of relating to its waters. Exploring the Urumea through the body also means asking ourselves what remains of all this, and what kind of relationship we wish to build with the river from now on.
This exhibition marks the culmination of a project developed over three years. It began with a research process that gave voice to local residents. Through surveys, group interviews and participatory workshops, we gathered the perceptions of the people of San Sebastián regarding the river that runs through their city: memories, images, sensations, historical information and more.
Drawing on these testimonies, we created a written atlas, a publication comprising ten narratives that explore the history of the river, the city and the ways in which people inhabit these two places. Now, these ten narratives take on a different language as they enter the exhibition space: words give way to images, sound and movement, revisiting the same events through other ways of telling and experiencing them.
Helga Massetani Piemonte
Curator: Helga Massetani Piemonte
Heritage Collections Management: María José Noain Maura
Texts: Helga Massetani Piemonte and María José Noain MauraIntx'Apain
DiscoverIntx’Apain is an urban art festival that, over three days, transforms around ten walls across the neighbourhood into spaces for creation and connection, bringing together local and international artists and the neighbourhood community. The Basque language will be at the heart of the murals, guided by the central theme Zein da zure hitza? (“What’s your word?”), an invitation to artists and residents to take words as a starting point for creating, sharing and coming together.
Music, rap, bertsolaritza (Basque improvised sung poetry), breakdance, workshops and participatory activities developed in collaboration with ikastolas (Basque-language schools), local associations and community organisations will accompany the artistic interventions, turning the festival into a collective experience.
+ info
RECENT CALLS
- CLOSED
HAU #9
DiscoverDESIGN COMPETITION FOR TRADITIONAL BASQUE OBJECTS
The aim of this competition is to update the design of a traditional object present in Basque culture. The competition asks applicants to adapt, renovate and reinterpret traditional objects from the point of view of contemporary design, establishing new relationships with our history and broadening the lines of research and fields of action of design. In this way, the aim is to strengthen the links between tradition and contemporaneity, combining respect and recognition of craft design with the experimentation and potential of contemporary industrial design.
The piece to be reviewed in this call is the kriseilu.
This call is opened to any person or legal entity of any age (students, professionals or collectives) in the design field (industrial and product design, architecture, engineering, fine arts, etc.) from any country. Participation in the competition is free.
DEADLINE
4 may 2026 - CLOSED
EAS EZE #10
DiscoverPROGRAMME FOR THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF CONTEMPORARY BASQUE ART
Bitamine is launching this call within the framework established by its plan for the internationalisation of contemporary Basque art. The aim of this programme is to encourage artistic research and production, contribute to the promotion of creators, and promote the international mobility of artists.
It is open to artistic projects by people living and working in the Basque Country.
WHAT DOES IT CONSIST OF?
The aid is developed in two phases. Initially, the project will be worked on for several months in the Basque context. Once it has been completed, it will be exported for presentation in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina), where it will be shown in different spaces that are benchmarks of current contemporary culture.
Together with local institutions, a calendar of activities will be established in which the artists will participate in different venues, museums, cultural spaces and local artists.
DEADLINE
15th april
ENQUIRIES
enter@bitamine.net
- CLOSED
HAU #9
DiscoverDESIGN COMPETITION FOR TRADITIONAL BASQUE OBJECTS
The aim of this competition is to update the design of a traditional object present in Basque culture. The competition asks applicants to adapt, renovate and reinterpret traditional objects from the point of view of contemporary design, establishing new relationships with our history and broadening the lines of research and fields of action of design. In this way, the aim is to strengthen the links between tradition and contemporaneity, combining respect and recognition of craft design with the experimentation and potential of contemporary industrial design.
The piece to be reviewed in this call is the kriseilu.
This call is opened to any person or legal entity of any age (students, professionals or collectives) in the design field (industrial and product design, architecture, engineering, fine arts, etc.) from any country. Participation in the competition is free.
DEADLINE
4 may 2026 - CLOSED
EAS EZE #10
DiscoverPROGRAMME FOR THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF CONTEMPORARY BASQUE ART
Bitamine is launching this call within the framework established by its plan for the internationalisation of contemporary Basque art. The aim of this programme is to encourage artistic research and production, contribute to the promotion of creators, and promote the international mobility of artists.
It is open to artistic projects by people living and working in the Basque Country.
WHAT DOES IT CONSIST OF?
The aid is developed in two phases. Initially, the project will be worked on for several months in the Basque context. Once it has been completed, it will be exported for presentation in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina), where it will be shown in different spaces that are benchmarks of current contemporary culture.
Together with local institutions, a calendar of activities will be established in which the artists will participate in different venues, museums, cultural spaces and local artists.
DEADLINE
15th april
ENQUIRIES
enter@bitamine.net