Film Screenings: Zinegoak Festival 

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In the context of Zinegoak Festival, the Museum is screening the Brazilian film Onda Nova (1983), about women’s soccer, banned in Brazil for decades.
On the occasion of the 22nd Zinegoak Festival, the Museum is hosting the screening of Onda Nova, the film directed by José Antonio Garcia and premiered at the Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo in 1983. Onda Nova brings together stories about the young players of a newly-formed women’s soccer team in a conservative, male-dominated society. Women’s soccer was forbidden in Brazil between 1941 and 1979. Described as an “erotic and anarchic comedy,” the film was banned by the Brazilian dictatorship and fell into oblivion. In 2024, it was restored and remastered by Cinemateca Brasileira in 4K for the Locarno International Film Festival and then relaunched internationally.
An activity organized with Zinegoak Festival in the context of the TopARTE program of the Gugenheim Museum Bilbao.
Running time: 113 min. 
Language: Original version with subtitles in Spanish 
Recommended age: 15+
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Film Screenings: Zinegoak Festival

In the context of Zinegoak Festival, the Museum is screening the Brazilian film Onda Nova (1983), about women’s soccer, banned in Brazil for decades.

Film Screenings: Zinegoak Festival | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Opera Screenings: Teatro Real Archive

Series of screenings from the Teatro Real Archive, including major opera productions, concerts, dance shows, and theater plays, both classical and modern, to be enjoyed on the big screen.
Programa
Eugene Onegin
Music composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (b. 1840; d. 1893)
After a fifteen-year hiatus, Eugene Onegin is back at the Teatro Real. With music by Tchaikovsky and a libretto by the composer himself and his friend Konstantin Shilovsky, it follows Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse (1931), exploring unrequited love.
Premiered at the Maly Theater, Moscow, on March 29, 1879, and performed at the Bolshoi Theater on January 23, 1881, Eugene Onegin was staged at the Teatro Real for the first time on September 7, 2010. Now, in 2025, marking the 225th anniversary of Pushkin’s birth, it is coming on stage again, with Christof Loy as stage director and Gustavo Gimeno as musical conductor, in co-production with the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet (Oslo) and the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona).
Resident choir and orchestra of the Teatro Real
Lyrical scenes in three acts
Duration: 150 min. 
Language: Russian with subtitles in Spanish 
Streaming will start on time. 
*Activity and program subject to change

Series of screenings from the Teatro Real Archive, including major opera productions, concerts, dance shows, and theater plays, both classical and modern, to be enjoyed on the big screen

Opera Screenings: Teatro Real Archive | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Classical Concerts: York Bowen Festival 

A string concert offering a fine selection of classical and contemporary music.
Bringing to a close the 5th York Bowen International Music Meeting, directed by Adrián Martínez Beorlegui, the Museum is offering a concert by a string quartet whose members are renowned professors who have participated in the festival this year. The program includes an interesting selection of classical and contemporary works.
This activity is organized in the context of the TopARTE program of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Estimated duration: 45 min.
Admission: free with Museum admission for the day
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Classical Concerts: York Bowen Festival

A string concert offering a fine selection of classical and contemporary music.

Classical Concerts: York Bowen Festival | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Opera Week at the Teatro Real: La traviata

Madrid’s Teatro Real is bringing the opera season to a close with its 10th Opera Week, staging La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1883). Come and enjoy our free live stream of what many consider the opera par excellence—in fact, the most performed opera around the world.
La Traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on La Dame aux camélias, a novel by Alexandre Dumas fils. It was first performed on March 6, 1853. The Teatro Real first brought it on stage two years later, on February 1.
This production at the Teatro Real, designed and directed by Willy Decker, features soprano Adela Zaharia (Violetta Valéry), tenor Xabier Anduaga (Alfredo Germont), and baritone Artur Ruciński (Giorgio Germont), leading the cast in charge of bringing the fascinating story to life. They will be accompanied by the resident choir and orchestra of the Teatro Real, conducted by Henrik Nánási.
Duration: 165 min. (with intermission)
Limited capacity
Streaming will start on time
*Activity subject to change

Opera Week at the Teatro Real: La Traviata

Madrid’s Teatro Real is bringing the opera season to a close with its 10th Opera Week, staging La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1883).

Opera Week at the Teatro Real: La Traviata | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Danza en el camino

In the context of the TopARTE program, the Museum’s Atrium is playing host to the closing performance of Danza en el camino, a series of shows that are part of the Burgos &amp; New York International Choreography Contest, holding its 24th edition this year. Beginning in Burgos, Danza en el camino moves along the Northern Way of St James—from Burgos to Palencia, from León to Galicia, and finally to Bilbao— and this last show involves dancing performances by the contest finalists.
An activity organized in the context of the TopARTE program of the Gugenheim Museum Bilbao.
Team:
Burgos &amp; New York Contest Director: Alberto Estébanez. Producers: Sara Saiz, Leticia Bernardo. Technical team: Miguel Tena, Alejandra Miñón, Eva Merchán. Danza en el camino Director: Alfonso Ordóñez. Musical atmosphere: Samuel Peñas. Host: Andrea Santamaría. Communication: Eduardo Vielba. Audiovisuals: Carlos Herrera.
Estimated duration: 75 min.
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In the context of the TopARTE program, the Museum’s Atrium is playing host to the closing performance of Danza en el camino,

Danza en el camino | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Educational Concerts: Bilbao Blues Festival 

Families

If you enjoy music, you are going to love this family show by Diablues ta Bluezifer, with actor and performer Oihan Vega, and double bassist Nagore Sanz.
An educational concert targeted at the little ones, featuring Mikel Etxeberria (vocal sounds, guitar, vocals) and Asier Elorza (vocals, guitar, Dobro resonator guitar, trumpet), who make Diablues ta Bluezifer, as well as Oihan Vega (actor and performer) and Nagore Sanz (double bass).
An activity organized as part of the Bilbao Blues Festival (City of Bilbao), in the context of Museum’s TopARTE program.
Estimated duration: 60 min.
Languages: Spanish and Basque
* Children must be accompanied by an adult
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Educational Concerts: Bilbao Blues Festival

If you enjoy music, you are going to love this show by Diablues ta Bluezifer, with double bassist Nagore Sanz, and actor and performer Oihan Vega as host.

Educational Concerts: Bilbao Blues Festival | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

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In this course, we dive into neuroscience to explore individual aesthetic experiences, learning that there is no such thing as universal beauty in art.
The evolution of “beauty” is constantly influenced by physiological and circumstantial reasons with strong ties to our emotions. The perception of beauty—the quality of that which is beautiful—in art has traditionally been associated with balance and harmony, eliciting pleasure or satisfaction of the mind. This has been the prevailing view in Western art since the 18th century and the Enlightenment. Early-20th-century avant-gardes, Dadaism in particular, subverted this view, changing the ways in which we saw and understood the world around us. Today, we also tend to take into account the creative, divergent minds of individual artists.
This course will be conducted by Mara Dierssen, Doctor in Neurobiology and science communicator with an interest in the connections between neurobiology and art.
Target audience: adults interested in contemporary art 
Type of course: online 
Structure: 4 modules, 16 video lessons, additional resources 
Workload: 6 hours (at your own pace) 
Language: Spanish 
Certification: Upon completion of the course, participants will get a certificate
What will you learn in this course?
<ol>
<li>The experience of beauty and the beautiful in contemporary art from the perspective of neuroscience.</li>
<li>The role of the artist not just through the creative process (as it is usually understood), but also through their divergent intelligence.</li>
<li>A multidisciplinary approach to the Museum Collection and to art at large.</li>
<li>A more “porous” and “democratic” view of contemporary art, with the presence of multiple and diverse aesthetic experiences and their scientific basis.</li>
</ol>
Program
The course will be divided into four thematic modules, with examples by relevant artists.
Module I: The Neurobiology of Art
Understanding the human brain as the organ where the mind is and art as a result of brain layout and social behavior, neuroscience offers some of the keys to approach the brain from a scientific/biological perspective.
In this module, we will explore the work of relevant scientists and the role played by diversity in the contemporary view on beauty, which has traditionally been seen as unique or canonical.
Video 1: Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s Drawings of Neurons
Video 2: Art and Perception
Video 3: Is there Such Thing as Universal Beauty?
Video 4: Semir Zeki and Neuroaesthetics
Module II: The Artistic Mind 1: Creativity and Divergence
There are many different kinds of creative minds. In modern and contemporary art, those that stand out tend to have a capacity for divergence and disruption, breaking away from tradition, contributing new techniques, or shifting the beauty paradigm.
Examples of artists and works revealing this kind of minds are:
Video 1: Claude Monet’s Water Lillies and Pablo Picasso’s The Poet (A Fragmented View of Reality)
Video 2: Marcel Duchamp’s Bottle Rack and Andy Warhol’s Coca-Cola (The Everyday Object as Objet d’Art)
Video 3: Jackson Pollock’s Enchanted Forest and Helen Frankenthaler’s Santorini (New Painting Techniques: Drip and Soak-stain)
Video 4: Jean Dubuffet’s Will to Power and Louise Bourgeois’s Maman (Beauty in What Is Ugly or Strange)
Module III: The Artistic Mind 2: Synesthesia
People with synesthesia experience a merging of senses where stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in another. This means they see the world differently. This ability can be used in art, as well as in other creative processes.
In this module, we focus on artists who were synesthetes, including:
Video 1: Vincent Van Gogh (The Color of Sound)
Video 2: Wassily Kandinsky (Improvisations and Compositions)
Video 3: Joan Mitchell (“Secret Magic”)
Video 4: David Hockney (Stage Designs: Color, Lighting, Music)
Module IV: Art and Emotion
What do we feel when we look at a work of art? Do other people feel the same? The emotions—or lack thereof—expressed by artists have different effects on those viewing or experiencing their work.
Using the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s educational project Artetik: From the Art as starting point, in this module we will take a few works of art and discuss the emotions they evoke in their viewers.
Video 1: Anish Kapoor’s Tall Tree and the Eye and fascination; Cristina Iglesias’s Jealousy and curiosity; Gilbert and George’s Waking and fun.
Video 2: Anselm Kiefer’s The Paths of World Wisdom and puzzlement; Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree for Bilbao and harmony; Gerhard Richter’s Seascape and calm.
Video 3: El Anatsui’s Rising Sea and inspiration; José Manuel Ballester’s The Raft of the Medusa and fear; Jenny Holzer’s Installation for Bilbao and wonder.
Video 4: Robert Motherwell’s Iberia and boredom; Jeff Koons’s Puppy and love; Javier Pérez’s Mask of Seduction and fear.

Online Art Courses: Art and Neuroscience – Beyond Beauty: The Creative and Divergent Mind of the Artist

In this course, we dive into neuroscience to explore individual aesthetic experiences, learning that there is no such thing as universal beauty in art.

Online Art Courses: Art and Neuroscience – Beyond Beauty: The Creative and Divergent Mind of the Artist | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

12€ Adults - 6€ Senior - 6€ Students

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Online Art Courses: Art and Neuroscience – Beyond Beauty: The Creative and Divergent Mind of the Artist

Film Screenings: Zinegoak Festival

Opera Screenings: Teatro Real Archive

Classical Concerts: York Bowen Festival

Opera Week at the Teatro Real: La Traviata

Danza en el camino

Educational Concerts: Bilbao Blues Festival