Nekane Aramburu


Nekane Aramburu Gil is a Spanish art historian with an extensive international career, who has worked as a cultural manager, museologist and curator since the 1990s. She was selected by competition as director of the Es Baluard museum in February 2013, following the recommendations of the Code of Good Practice in Museums and Art Centers in Spain, a position she held for six years. Since that date Es Baluard has been an organic and dynamic museum; its collections, activities and educational models were rearranged giving rise to an active cultural complex.

Biography

Nekane Aramburu, máster in Museología in the Universidad del País Vasco. She works as a projects' director in contemporary art, art centers, and museums, to develop dynamic strategies and new models of education/mediation.
Her career includes: the direction of the Es Baluard Museum, direction of Espacio Ciudad. Centro de Arquitectura y Urbanismo and director of Trasforma. Her work began in the Museum Network of the Provincial Council of Alava, among whose functions was the cataloguing and documentation of the initial collection of Artium, Basque Center-Museum of Contemporary Art, the museographic renovation of provincial museums or the activation of the Salado de Añana Valley. She has also collaborated intensively with institutions such as Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo, the Cervantes Institute, the Kutxa Foundation in San Sebastián, the La Caixa Foundation of Barcelona and the Klemm Foundation in Argentina.
In 1993, she founded TRASFORMA, developing museum, ethnographic, historical, environmental and industrial architecture projects, in parallel to a program on emerging practices and new technologies. As director of Espacio Ciudad, a cultural entity of the City Council of Vitoria, she launched a pioneering program of exhibitions and publications on the relationship between the urban, architecture, contemporary thought and transdisciplinary practices.
She has carried out extensive research in the academic field and from the independent and institutional essay as in the case of "Archivos colectivos: History and actual situation in the independent spaces and artist collectives in Spain 1980-2010" and from her experience as promoter of the network of spaces and collectives Red Arte
She has conceived and directed Mediation and Education platforms, for general and specific audiences, such as Digital Generation at the Montehermoso Cultural Center in Vitoria, Spain or Les Clíniques d'Es Baluard, a stable program of non-formal education for artists. She teaches curators, managers and artists in various university master's degrees as well as specialized workshops in Colombia in Medellín and Bogotá., Montevideo, Uruguay, Lima, Perú, Bahía Blanca and Buenos Aires in Argentina, Havana in Cuba.
She has been a juror and advisor to different national and international institutions and committees: Basque Government. Basque Council of Culture, Fundación de los Museos. Quito. Mariano Aguilera Award, Ministry of Culture. Velázquez Award, Ramon Llull Institute. Venice Biennale or Diputación de Valencia among others.
Since 2007, she has been a member of different professional boards of directors: ICOM, MAV, IAC and currently of ADACE, being also a member of CIMAN.

Selection of curated exhibitions

Fragile. CCE/Montevideo, Caras B del videoarte español in Bangkok / Seoul / Sydney / Prague / Berlin, Palabras corrientes Instituto Cervantes. New York / Beijing, Todo cuanto amé formaba parte de tí, Damascus / Dublin / Brussels, Bluesky. Fundación Telefónica de Buenos Aires, Absolute Beginners. Sala Amárica, Vitoria, Noveles. XLIII and XLIV. Koldo Mitxelena. San Sebastian, Epilogue. PhotoEspaña/Cervantes Institute. Madrid, Ultramar. Kubo Kutxa. San Sebastian, Cosmic Ray. La Chaufferie/ESADS. Strasbourg, La Rabia fundadora. Lima-Peru, Troubled Waters-Eaux Agitées. Aquarium. San Sebastián, Gaur, Archipel Ouest. Îles du futur en FRAC/Corse / MAN. Museum of art of Nuoro.
Committed to environmental/sustainability and gender policies, in 2018 MAV's Miradas de Mujeres Biennial interviews Aramburu and among the multiple statements she emphasizes on gender inequality in institutions "Everything that is done real and effective for the visibilization of women is important. There is no truce anymore."
Her research as a theoretical essayist has been published in different media, sharing knowledge in different Universities, Masters and specialized courses.

Acknowledgments

In 2013, she was awarded the MAV Award by the Association of Women in the Visual Arts, manager category.

Publications

Books and monographs as author and/or editor
  • Alternativas. Políticas de lo independiente en las artes visuales Edita: Cendeac
  • The echo images. Isaki Lacuesta. Edited by: Ajuntament de Girona
  • Annelise Witt. Poesía del fang
  • Ciutat de vacances. Es Baluard/Consorci Museus/Arts Santa Mónica -
  • Colección Es Baluard. Catálogo razonado
  • Robert Cahen. ''Paisatges Edita: Es Baluard
  • Ells i Nosaltres Es Baluard
  • Ereccions. Ayuntament de Palma
  • Mujeres Dadá/ Dones Dada.
  • Marina Nuñez. Phantasmas. Reproductibilitat 2.3.
  • Reproductibilitat 1.0.
  • Reproductibilidad 2.2. Colección Olorvisual.''