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DiscoverYou can now find all Bitamine publications and projects in our new online shop:
shop.bitamine.net
Urumeako Atlas Emozionala:
Discoverwww.atlasurumea.eus
Urumeako Atlas Emozionala proiektu bat baino askoz gehiago da: Donostiako herritar guztiei irekitako gonbidapena da, Urumea ibaiarekin dugun harremana ehundu duten historian, emozioetan eta bizipen partekatuetan murgiltzeko. Biztanleen lankidetza aktiboaren bidez, proiektu honek ibaiaren inguruko memoriak eta sentimenduak jaso eta islatu nahi ditu, hiriaren garapenaren eta bilakaeraren lekuko mutu baina funtsezkoa izan baita.
Cristina Enea Fundazioak bultzatuta eta Donostia Kultura, Tabakalera eta Aranzadi Zientzia Elkartearen babesarekin, Urumeako Atlas Emozionalaren helburua herritarren parte-hartzean oinarritutako lan kultural eta artistikoa sortzea da. Atlas hau ez da datu edo istorioen bilketa soil bat, baizik eta sormen prozesu bat non bizipen pertsonalak gure hiriaren nortasuna ibaiarekin duen harremanaren bidez erretratatzen duen lan baten ardatz nagusi bihurtuko diren.
Erretratu kolektibo hau eraikitzeko, zure parte-hartzea behar dugu. Online inkesta baten eta taldeko elkarrizketen bidez, Urumearekin lotzen zaituzten oroitzapenak, pasadizoak, bizipenak eta sentimenduak bilduko ditugu. Testigantza bakoitza baliotsua eta bakarra da, eta Donostiaren aniztasuna eta aberastasun emozionala islatzen dituen obra bat sortzen lagunduko du. Herritarren parte-hartzea da proiektuaren bihotza, eta hori gabe ezingo genioke atlas emozional horri bizia eman.
Online inkesta zure oroitzapenak eta sentsazioak ibaiaren inguruan erraz partekatzeko diseinatuta dago, eta zure ekarpena funtsezkoa izango da mapa emozional hau eraikitzeko. Zure ahotsa, oroitzapenak eta istorioak entzun nahi ditugu, denboran iraungo duen ondare kultural eta artistikoa elkarrekin sortu ahal izateko.
Esperientzia horiek bildu ahala, atlasa osatuko duten gai nagusiak zehaztuko ditugu. Ondoren, emaitza horiek dibulgaziozko argitalpen batean eta Urumearen izaera eta historia emozionala islatzen duen erakusketa batean islatuko dira. Horrela, proiektu hau esperientzia ukigarri eta ulergarri bihurtuko da komunitate osoarentzat.
Urumeako Atlas Emozionala aukera paregabea da gure ingurune naturalarekin konektatzeko eta ibaiak gure eguneroko bizitzan eta Donostiako historian duen garrantzia gogoratzeko. Elkarrekin, oroimen kolektibo hori berreskuratu eta gorde dezakegu, eta, aldi berean, gure hiriak Urumearekin, iragana, oraina eta etorkizuna lotzen dituen ibaiarekin, duen lotura biziberritzen lagundu.
Ez itxaron gehiago: bete online inkesta eta parte hartu Urumearen oroimenean zeharreko bidaia zirraragarri honen eraikuntzan. Zure istorioa gurearen zati bat da. Lagun iezaguzu emozioen mosaiko hau ehuntzen eta Donostiaren arima eta ibaia islatuko dituen obra bati bizia ematen.
Egitasmo hau Cristina Enea Fundazioak eta Donostiako Udalak sustatzen dute, María José Noain Maura (LOs Viajes de Aspasia) eta Helga Massetani Piemonte (Bitamine) koordinatzaileen laguntzarkin.
ERTZETATIK
DiscoverHabitar el margen
15 years of research, creation and cultural mediation
In 2026, Bitamine will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary. Fifteen years working from Irun and the Bidasoa region as a space of borders, displacement and crossings. Fifteen years fostering processes of artistic research, publishing, cultural mediation and support through an independent practice deeply rooted in the local area.
Ertzetatik is a public event celebrating this journey not as a one-off occasion, but as a sustained practice over time. For Bitamine, inhabiting the margins has not been a circumstantial position, but a method: working at the boundaries of disciplines, on the fringes of institutions, and in the zones of contact between languages, communities and cultural contexts.
The programme brings together training, art installations, archiving, publishing, reflection and performance, offering a meeting place for cultural practitioners, artists, researchers and the public. Through displaced artistic practices, obsolete technologies, editorial narratives and contemporary oral traditions, the event highlights processes as a form of knowledge and dialogue as a collective endeavour.
Rather than looking back, Ertzetatik opens a conversation on how a cultural project is sustained over time: through self-management, resilience, trial and error, and community building.
Fifteen years on, the margin is not a periphery: it is a place of production, structure and the future.A day of discussion, reflection and contemporary practices
Date: Friday, 5 June 2026
Time: 4.00 pm to 9.00 pm
Venue: Carlos Blanco Aguinaga Cultural Centre (CBA)
Centre for Culture and Creativity – Central Hall
Plaza San Juan Harria, s/n – 20304 Irun
https://www.irun.org/es/cba
Admission: Free entry subject to availability
Registration for the workshop on displaced artistic practices opens on 4 May 20264.00 pm – 6.30 pm / Lecture – Workshop
DISPLACED ARTISTIC PRACTICES
A theoretical and practical training programme addressing displaced or subaltern artistic practices that explore creative processes which are not the discrete production of objects, but rather those processes in which the raw materials are space, text and the artists themselves.Blanca Sotos: BA in Philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid and MA in Publishing from the University of Salamanca. She has been running marcablanca since 2018 and is director of the MiraLookBooks International Fair of Publications Specialising in Contemporary Culture.
Ramón Mateos: Artist, curator and cultural manager. He coordinates the Madrid Network of Independent Spaces and has been director of Nadie Nunca Nada No since 2013. He acts as an advisor to galleries, private organisations and public institutions linked to contemporary art.
Registration for the workshop on displaced artistic practices//
6.30–7.30 pm / Opening
Editorial narratives of artistic research and processesMaría José Noain Maura (Los Viajes de Aspasia)
Sergio Pérez Berasategi (Opuesto®)
Helga Massetani Piemonte (Bitamine)1- Publishing, design and communication as an ideological practice
Presentation of Bitamine’s editorial project as a framework for thought and a tool for cultural mediation. An overview of the publications produced in recent years, addressing content, design, communication processes and the construction of a discourse aligned with the project’s identity: the margins as a place of production, displacement as a method and self-management as a means of sustainability.
During this session, the working process behind the conceptual and graphic development of the 15th-anniversary poster will be shared, showcasing the methodology, formal decisions and the dialogue between content and design.2- Collaborative projects in which publishing functions as a tool for research and territorial activation, where archive, memory, emotional cartography and cultural production are articulated through a collaborative practice.
Emotional Atlas of the Bidasoa and Urumea - KulturBox #1 and #2//
7.30pm – 8.15pm / Discussion
Contemporary artistic practices for obsolete technologiesRaquel Meyers
Aleli Mirelman (Casa Planas)
Helga Massetani PiemontePresentation and discussion on artistic practices focused on the critical reactivation of obsolete technologies and digital languages from a contemporary perspective.
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8.15 pm – 9.00 pm / Performance
Oral scoreLaura Sam (Spoken word)
Fran Dussourd (Staging)A performance piece exploring orality, the body and the spoken word as political and poetic tools.
//
21:00 / Party
📍The Museum Food & Drinks · Oiasso Museum16:00 – 21:00 / Throughout the day
-Installation by Raquel Meyers
An audiovisual installation linked to artistic practices that work with obsolete technologies and experimental digital languages.-Audiovisual archive
Continuous screening of material covering different moments, projects and processes developed throughout Bitamine’s history.-The publishing space will serve as a reference, exhibition and archive space for the publications and editorial processes developed by Bitamine over the past fifteen years.
SHOP ONLINE
DiscoverYou can now find all Bitamine publications and projects in our new online shop:
shop.bitamine.net
Urumeako Atlas Emozionala:
Discoverwww.atlasurumea.eus
Urumeako Atlas Emozionala proiektu bat baino askoz gehiago da: Donostiako herritar guztiei irekitako gonbidapena da, Urumea ibaiarekin dugun harremana ehundu duten historian, emozioetan eta bizipen partekatuetan murgiltzeko. Biztanleen lankidetza aktiboaren bidez, proiektu honek ibaiaren inguruko memoriak eta sentimenduak jaso eta islatu nahi ditu, hiriaren garapenaren eta bilakaeraren lekuko mutu baina funtsezkoa izan baita.
Cristina Enea Fundazioak bultzatuta eta Donostia Kultura, Tabakalera eta Aranzadi Zientzia Elkartearen babesarekin, Urumeako Atlas Emozionalaren helburua herritarren parte-hartzean oinarritutako lan kultural eta artistikoa sortzea da. Atlas hau ez da datu edo istorioen bilketa soil bat, baizik eta sormen prozesu bat non bizipen pertsonalak gure hiriaren nortasuna ibaiarekin duen harremanaren bidez erretratatzen duen lan baten ardatz nagusi bihurtuko diren.
Erretratu kolektibo hau eraikitzeko, zure parte-hartzea behar dugu. Online inkesta baten eta taldeko elkarrizketen bidez, Urumearekin lotzen zaituzten oroitzapenak, pasadizoak, bizipenak eta sentimenduak bilduko ditugu. Testigantza bakoitza baliotsua eta bakarra da, eta Donostiaren aniztasuna eta aberastasun emozionala islatzen dituen obra bat sortzen lagunduko du. Herritarren parte-hartzea da proiektuaren bihotza, eta hori gabe ezingo genioke atlas emozional horri bizia eman.
Online inkesta zure oroitzapenak eta sentsazioak ibaiaren inguruan erraz partekatzeko diseinatuta dago, eta zure ekarpena funtsezkoa izango da mapa emozional hau eraikitzeko. Zure ahotsa, oroitzapenak eta istorioak entzun nahi ditugu, denboran iraungo duen ondare kultural eta artistikoa elkarrekin sortu ahal izateko.
Esperientzia horiek bildu ahala, atlasa osatuko duten gai nagusiak zehaztuko ditugu. Ondoren, emaitza horiek dibulgaziozko argitalpen batean eta Urumearen izaera eta historia emozionala islatzen duen erakusketa batean islatuko dira. Horrela, proiektu hau esperientzia ukigarri eta ulergarri bihurtuko da komunitate osoarentzat.
Urumeako Atlas Emozionala aukera paregabea da gure ingurune naturalarekin konektatzeko eta ibaiak gure eguneroko bizitzan eta Donostiako historian duen garrantzia gogoratzeko. Elkarrekin, oroimen kolektibo hori berreskuratu eta gorde dezakegu, eta, aldi berean, gure hiriak Urumearekin, iragana, oraina eta etorkizuna lotzen dituen ibaiarekin, duen lotura biziberritzen lagundu.
Ez itxaron gehiago: bete online inkesta eta parte hartu Urumearen oroimenean zeharreko bidaia zirraragarri honen eraikuntzan. Zure istorioa gurearen zati bat da. Lagun iezaguzu emozioen mosaiko hau ehuntzen eta Donostiaren arima eta ibaia islatuko dituen obra bati bizia ematen.
Egitasmo hau Cristina Enea Fundazioak eta Donostiako Udalak sustatzen dute, María José Noain Maura (LOs Viajes de Aspasia) eta Helga Massetani Piemonte (Bitamine) koordinatzaileen laguntzarkin.
ERTZETATIK
DiscoverHabitar el margen
15 years of research, creation and cultural mediation
In 2026, Bitamine will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary. Fifteen years working from Irun and the Bidasoa region as a space of borders, displacement and crossings. Fifteen years fostering processes of artistic research, publishing, cultural mediation and support through an independent practice deeply rooted in the local area.
Ertzetatik is a public event celebrating this journey not as a one-off occasion, but as a sustained practice over time. For Bitamine, inhabiting the margins has not been a circumstantial position, but a method: working at the boundaries of disciplines, on the fringes of institutions, and in the zones of contact between languages, communities and cultural contexts.
The programme brings together training, art installations, archiving, publishing, reflection and performance, offering a meeting place for cultural practitioners, artists, researchers and the public. Through displaced artistic practices, obsolete technologies, editorial narratives and contemporary oral traditions, the event highlights processes as a form of knowledge and dialogue as a collective endeavour.
Rather than looking back, Ertzetatik opens a conversation on how a cultural project is sustained over time: through self-management, resilience, trial and error, and community building.
Fifteen years on, the margin is not a periphery: it is a place of production, structure and the future.A day of discussion, reflection and contemporary practices
Date: Friday, 5 June 2026
Time: 4.00 pm to 9.00 pm
Venue: Carlos Blanco Aguinaga Cultural Centre (CBA)
Centre for Culture and Creativity – Central Hall
Plaza San Juan Harria, s/n – 20304 Irun
https://www.irun.org/es/cba
Admission: Free entry subject to availability
Registration for the workshop on displaced artistic practices opens on 4 May 20264.00 pm – 6.30 pm / Lecture – Workshop
DISPLACED ARTISTIC PRACTICES
A theoretical and practical training programme addressing displaced or subaltern artistic practices that explore creative processes which are not the discrete production of objects, but rather those processes in which the raw materials are space, text and the artists themselves.Blanca Sotos: BA in Philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid and MA in Publishing from the University of Salamanca. She has been running marcablanca since 2018 and is director of the MiraLookBooks International Fair of Publications Specialising in Contemporary Culture.
Ramón Mateos: Artist, curator and cultural manager. He coordinates the Madrid Network of Independent Spaces and has been director of Nadie Nunca Nada No since 2013. He acts as an advisor to galleries, private organisations and public institutions linked to contemporary art.
Registration for the workshop on displaced artistic practices//
6.30–7.30 pm / Opening
Editorial narratives of artistic research and processesMaría José Noain Maura (Los Viajes de Aspasia)
Sergio Pérez Berasategi (Opuesto®)
Helga Massetani Piemonte (Bitamine)1- Publishing, design and communication as an ideological practice
Presentation of Bitamine’s editorial project as a framework for thought and a tool for cultural mediation. An overview of the publications produced in recent years, addressing content, design, communication processes and the construction of a discourse aligned with the project’s identity: the margins as a place of production, displacement as a method and self-management as a means of sustainability.
During this session, the working process behind the conceptual and graphic development of the 15th-anniversary poster will be shared, showcasing the methodology, formal decisions and the dialogue between content and design.2- Collaborative projects in which publishing functions as a tool for research and territorial activation, where archive, memory, emotional cartography and cultural production are articulated through a collaborative practice.
Emotional Atlas of the Bidasoa and Urumea - KulturBox #1 and #2//
7.30pm – 8.15pm / Discussion
Contemporary artistic practices for obsolete technologiesRaquel Meyers
Aleli Mirelman (Casa Planas)
Helga Massetani PiemontePresentation and discussion on artistic practices focused on the critical reactivation of obsolete technologies and digital languages from a contemporary perspective.
//
8.15 pm – 9.00 pm / Performance
Oral scoreLaura Sam (Spoken word)
Fran Dussourd (Staging)A performance piece exploring orality, the body and the spoken word as political and poetic tools.
//
21:00 / Party
📍The Museum Food & Drinks · Oiasso Museum16:00 – 21:00 / Throughout the day
-Installation by Raquel Meyers
An audiovisual installation linked to artistic practices that work with obsolete technologies and experimental digital languages.-Audiovisual archive
Continuous screening of material covering different moments, projects and processes developed throughout Bitamine’s history.-The publishing space will serve as a reference, exhibition and archive space for the publications and editorial processes developed by Bitamine over the past fifteen years.
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