Permanent exhibition. 100 years. The modern and/or the contemporary.

A hundred years is more than enough time to see how artistic cycles shift and new eras take shape. Back around 1924, ideas from the European avant-garde were starting to reach everywhere, while at the same time people were beginning to talk seriously about what “Basque art” might be. A century later, that label feels less fixed and more like a flexible way of connecting the local with the global, and the specific with the universal.

This exhibition draws mainly from the San Telmo Museum’s collection, along with works from other institutions like the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council and Kutxa Fundazioa. Rather than following a straight timeline, it moves back and forth between past and present, tracing art made close to home—from San Sebastián to Gipuzkoa, and out to the Basque Country as a whole. The idea is to let the works speak for themselves, creating links and conversations between them in a rich web of connections.

Photo: De lo visible y de lo invisible, 1966-1967

Arias, Amable