Jorge Oteiza

Moves to Madrid. Wishes to study architecture, but for bureaucratic reasons must enroll in medicine instead.

Drops out of studying medicine and enrolls for a short time at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios in Madrid.

Receives first prize in the IX Certamen de Artistas Noveles Guipuzcoanos in San Sebastián.

Takes part in a group exhibition of young artists at the Museo de San Telmo in San Sebastián.

Wins first prize in the X Certamen de Artistas Noveles de Guipúzcoa in San Sebastián.

Travels to South America and settles in Buenos Aires. Takes part in a group exhibition at Galería Witcomb in Buenos Aires. Displays his work at the Academia de Bellas Artes at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Meets poet Vicente Huidobro.

Helps create experimental political theater in Santiago de Chile.

Teaches at the Escuela Nacional de Cerámica in Buenos Aires.

Named an honorary member for scientific research by the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo in Trujillo, Peru. Publishes the article &#8220;Informe sobre mi escultura&#8221; in the Buenos Aires magazine Cabalgata.

Commissioned to create statuary for the Basílica Nuestra Señora in Aránzazu, Spain. The project will be put on hold for many years when the proposed decorations are rejected by the diocese. The statuary will finally be installed in 1969.

Receives an honorary diploma at the IX Triennale in Milan for his sculpture Ensayo sobre lo simultáneo.

Presents his Monumento al prisionero político desconocido at the International Competition of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the only Spaniard to take part. The book Interpretación de la estatuaria de la megalítica americana is published by Editorial Cultura Hispánica in Madrid.

Participates in the group exhibition Arte fantástico at Galería Clan in Madrid.

Receives the Premio Nacional de Arquitectura for his project for the chapel of the Camino de Santiago.

Takes part in the IV Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, where he receives the International Grand Prize for Sculpture. Publishes, for the Bienal de São Paulo, the catalogue Propósito experimental 56-57. Helps found the artists&#8217; group Equipo 57, but soon disassociates himself from the group.

Moves to Irun, Spain. Exhibits at Gres Gallery in Washington, D.C. Creates Conclusión Experimental n.º 1 and Conclusión Experimental n.º 2 and Desocupación de la esfera.

The proposed Monumento a Batlle, a collaborative project with architect Roberto Puig, receives an award at the Concurso Internacional sobre Monumentalidad e Integración de Escultura con Arquitectura y Ciudad in Montevideo, Uruguay. Creates Homenaje a Mallarmé and Conclusión experimental nº 3. Decides to abandon his practice as a sculptor after creating the latter.

Exhibits at Galería Neblí in Madrid and the Sala Teka in Bilbao with Néstor Basterretxea. Oteiza&#8217;s essay &#8220;El final del arte contemporáneo,&#8221; in which he expounds on his reasons for giving up sculpture, is published in J. Oteiza y N. Basterrechea (Madrid: Galería Neblí, 1960). Oteiza&#8217;s work is featured in the exhibition New Spanish Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Publishes the book Quousque tandem&#8230;! Ensayo de interpretación estética del alma vasca (San Sebastián: Auñamendi, 1963).

The film Acteón, with a screenplay by Oteiza, premieres.

Founds the group GAUR with Amable Arias, Rafael Ruiz Balerdi, Nestor Basterretxea, Eduardo Chillida, Remigio Mendiburu, José Antonio Sistiaga, and José Luis Zumeta.

The magazine Nueva forma publishes the monograph Oteiza, 1933-68, with an epilogue by Oteiza titled &#8220;Estética del huevo: Mentalidad vasca y laberinto.&#8221;

Creates Estela a Madoz, which is installed in Zarauz, Spain.

Resumes work on his incomplete pieces and begins working on Laboratorio de tizas.

Oteiza&#8217;s sculptures for Aránzazu are shown at Galería Múltiple in Madrid.

Exhibits at Galería Txantxangorri in Fuenterrabía, Spain.

Participates in the XXXVII Biennale di Venezia.

Takes part in Arte español contemporáneo at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid.

In August, publishes &#8220;Falsificación con cultura vasca, artistas, vascofonía, universidad: A un periodista, puntualizaciones que sirven para gobernantes&#8221; in the Bilbao newspaper Muga.

Publishes the book Ejercicios espirituales en un túnel: En busca y encuentro de nuestra identidad perdida (San Sebastián: Hordago, 1983).

Receives the Premio Extraordinario from the magazine Euzkadi.

Receives the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

Oteiza&#8217;s work is featured in Qu&#8217;est-ce que la sculpture moderne? 1900-1970 at the Musée National d&#8217;Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Participates in the exhibition Cinq siècles d&#8217;art espagnol: Le siècle de Picasso at the Musée d&#8217;Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

The exhibition Jorge Oteiza: Propósito experimental is held at the Fundación Caja de Pensiones in Madrid and later travels to the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao and the Fundació &#8220;la Caixa&#8221; in Barcelona. Represents Spain at the XLIII Biennale di Venezia, together with Susana Solano. Receives the Premio Príncipe de Asturias for the arts from the Fundación Príncipe de Asturias.

Publishes the poetry collections Existe Dios al noroeste and La ley de los cambios

Publishes El libro de los plagios, in which he accuses Eduardo Chillida of plagiarism.

Exhibits at Galería Tristán in Barcelona. Publishes Itziar, elegía y otros poemas, written following the death of his wife in 1991. Oteiza&#8217;s Odiseo is installed at the Parque de la Ciudadela in Pamplona. Receives the Medalla de Oro from the province of Navarre. Establishes the Fundación Jorge Oteiza.

Publishes Estética del huevo: Huevo y laberinto, Mentalidad vasca y laberinto. Receives the Manuel Lekuona prize from the Eusko Ikaskuntza (Basque Studies Society). Oteiza&#8217;s La tierra y la luna is installed in the cloister of the Universidad de Oñate in Oñate, Spain. 1996 Receives the Pevsner Association Award.

Publishes Goya mañana: El realismo inmóvil, El Greco, Goya, Picasso.

Receives, together with the Orfeón Donostiarra, the Premio Vasco Universal. Oteiza&#8217;s Ola is installed in the foyer of the Museu d&#8217;Art Contemporani de Barcelona. The Universidad del País Vasco awards Oteiza an honorary doctorate. Wins an award from the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.

The Sala Kubo del Palacio Kursaal in San Sebastián presents a comprehensive exhibition of Oteiza&#8217;s work. Exhibits at the Sala García Castañón in Pamplona and the Castillo de Santa Bárbara in Alicante, Spain.

Oteiza&#8217;s Variante ovoide de la desocupación de la esfera is installed opposite Bilbao&#8217;s town hall. Receives an honorary doctorate in fine arts from the Universitat de Barcelona. Announces the opening of the Fundación Museo Jorge Oteiza Fundazio Museoa in Alzuza, in Navarre.

Oteiza, Jorge

Empty Construction with Five Curved Malevich Units

Hillargia

Metaphysical Box by Conjunction of Two Trihedrons. Homage to Leonardo

Study for the Emptying Sphere

Empty Box with Large Opening

Jorge Oteiza’s biography and works on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Biografía y obras: Oteiza, Jorge | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Pablo Palazuelo

Moves to England to attend the School of Arts and Crafts in Oxford.

Receives a grant from the French government and moves to Paris. Meets Eduardo Chillida.

Participates in the I Salon de Mai in Paris, exhibiting an abstract painting for the first time.

Participates in the II Salon de Mai in Paris.

Moves to Villaines-sous-Bois, north of Paris.

Receives the Kandinsky Prize. Participates in Painters of Today in Paris at the Kunsthaus Zürich and in Younger European Painters at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

His work is included in Tendences actuelles de l&#8217;école de Paris at the Kunsthalle Bern.

Has his first solo exhibition, at Galerie Maeght in Paris; he will exhibit regularly at Galerie Maeght in subsequent years. Participates in the Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.

Awarded the Carnegie Prize by the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Exhibits for the first time in Spain, at Galería Juana Mordó in Madrid. Participates in the Biennale de Menton.

Returns to Spain and settles in his family&#8217;s home, La Peraleda, close to San Lorenzo del Escorial.

Holds an exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.

Exhibits with Pol Bury at the Kunst Museum in Denmark.

Receives the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Participates in the Bienal de Escultura de Cáceres.

Palazuelo&#8217;s work is included in Espacios urbanos at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona.

Palazuelo&#8217;s work is included in Pasajes in the Spanish Pavilion at Expo &#8217;92 in Seville.

The Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao presents an exhibition of Palazuelo&#8217;s works on paper.

Receives the Premio de Artes Plásticas, awarded by the Comunidad de Madrid. The exhibition La visión is presented at the Palacio de Daralhorra and Palacio de los Condes de Gabia in Granada, Spain. Palazuelo&#8217;s work is included in Artistas españoles años 80-90 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and in Madrid: El arte de los setenta at the Sala de Exposiciones de la Comunidad de Madrid.

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid presents a major retrospective of Palazuelo&#8217;s work.

Receives the Premio Tomás Francisco Prieto, awarded by the Fundación Casa de la Moneda in Madrid. Exhibits at the Institut Valencià d&#8217;Art Modern in Valencia, Spain. The exhibition Indret opens at the Museu d&#8217;Art Contemporani de Barcelona.

Palazuelo&#8217;s work is included in Arte contemporáneo español at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.

Palazuelo&#8217;s book Escritos, conversaciones is published.

Awarded the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture. Exhibits sculptures, drawings, and gouaches from the previous five years at the Museo Casa de la Moneda in Madrid.

Participates in Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic at the Museu d&#8217;Art Contemporani de Barcelona. The exhibition later travels to the Hayward Gallery in London.

Exhibits recent work at Galeria Joan Prats in Barcelona.

Awarded the Premio Velázquez de las Artes Plásticas by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid presents Pablo Palazuelo 1995-2005, a continuation of the retrospective it dedicated to the artist ten years earlier.

The Museu d&#8217;Art Contemporani de Barcelona presents a major retrospective of Palazuelo&#8217;s work, co-organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; the exhibition is shown at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao the following year. Participates in the exhibition Homage to Chillida at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Palazuelo&#8217;s work is featured in the exhibition 33 Artists: Spanish Prints at the Zhu Qizhan Art Museum in Shanghai.

His work is featured in Entre Picasso y Dubuffet: La Colección Jean Planque at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao.

Palazuelo, Pablo

Circino XXXVI

Circino XXXVII

Sign I

Pablo Palazuelo’s biography and works on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Biografía y obras: Palazuelo, Pablo | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa

Has first solo exhibition at the Centro Cultural Okendo in San Sebastián.

Specializing in painting, earns a fine arts degree from the Universidad del País Vasco.

Receives grants for artistic creation from the provincial government of Guipúzcoa.

Receives the national diploma from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Exhibits at Galerie Crime and Galerie de la Grande Masse des Beaux Arts in Paris.

Wins second prize in the Certamen de Artistas Noveles de Guipúzcoa in San Sebastián.

Enrolls at Université Paris 8, earning a degree in philosophy in 1997. Receives a grant from Fundación Cultural Banesto.

Galería &amp; Ediciones Ginkgo in Madrid presents the solo exhibition Arañitas cartesianas.

Exhibits at Galería &amp; Ediciones Ginkgo in Madrid and Galería Adriana Indik in Buenos Aires. Wins the 24th Premio de Pintura, Escultura y Arte Digital Bancaixa for painting.

The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, mounts an exhibition of Pérez Agirregoikoa&#8217;s work.

Exhibits at Casa Torre de Ariz in Basauri, Spain. Receives an artist-in-residence grant in Careyes, Mexico.

The Asociación Cultural Cruce in Madrid presents the solo exhibition Tenue pasión de lo real.

The Dojo de Montreuil in Montreuil, France, presents the solo exhibition Faible passion du réel.

La Fênetre in Ivry-sur-Seine, France, organizes an exhibition of Pérez Agirregoikoa&#8217;s work.

Awarded a grant for artistic creation from the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in León, Spain. La Casa Encendida in Madrid presents the solo exhibition Tonto el que lo lea. Pérez Agirregoikoa&#8217;s work is also shown in solo exhibitions at the Sala Rekalde in Bilbao and Galería Salvador Díaz in Madrid.

Exhibits at Galería Braga Menéndez in Buenos Aires. Pérez Agirregoikoa&#8217;s work is included in Populism at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art in Helsinki; the exhibition later travels to Vilnius, Lithuania, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt.

Along with Abigail Lazkoz and Txuspo Poyo, wins first prize in the Gure Artea competition, sponsored by the Basque government. Presents the exhibition God bless you violence at Büro DC in Cologne and the exhibition Felicidades at Galería Salvador Díaz in Madrid.

Presents the exhibition Talent at the NorrlandsOperan in Umeå, Sweden. Pérez Agirregoikoa&#8217;s work is included in the exhibitions Existencias at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in León, Spain, and Chacun à son goût at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Lonely at the Top: Klankeffecten #5: Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa is presented at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Antwerp, Belgium. Has two exhibitions at Galería Carreras Múgica in Bilbao: This aggression will not stand&#8230; This will not stand! and En directo el Ochote Ozenki: Concierto para puño alzado; the latter travels to Galerie Marietta Clages in Cologne. Pérez Agirregoikoa&#8217;s work is featured in the exhibition World Record: Art and Sport, organized by the Institut Valencià d&#8217;Art Modern, at the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing.

His work is featured in the exhibition The Matrix: An Unstable Reality at the 28. Ljubljanski mednarodni graficni biennale in Ljubljana , Slovenia.

The gallery Carreras Múgica, Bilbao, inaugurates the exhibition Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa [personal (civil) war] ; and Easy Ryder is presented at Biziak, the space for contemporary art, music and thought. He gives a talk on Japanese artist Mitsuo Miura at RMS, El Espacio, Madrid. His work is included in group exhibitions organized by Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles, Madrid; Carreras Múgica, Bilbao; Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz; MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Vigo; and B.P.S. 22, Charleroi, Belgium.

Makes the intervention Fin de fiesta at Passage Souterrain in Paris.

The exhibition ¿Queréis un amo? ¡Lo tendréis! is held at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. 
The exhibition Erased opens at the Clages gallery in Cologne, Germany.

Culture is What is Done to Us is on at the Clages gallery in Cologne, Germany. 
The Culture Lovers opens at Galería CarrerasMugica in Bilbao. 
Creates Letra morta for the 31st São Paulo Art Biennial, Brazil. 
His work forms part of the exhibition Suturak // Cerca a lo próximo at San Telmo Museoa in Donostia/San Sebastián.

Creates permanent installation for the Bar Guggenheim Bilbao. 
Participates in the Jakarta Biennale, Indonesia, with the installation Neither Forward nor Back: Acting in the Present. 
His work is exhibited in the context of Rainbow in the Dark, at Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden; Formas de lo cotidiano, at Galeria Estrany-de la Mota in Barcelona, Spain; Punk. Its Traces in Contemporary Art, in Artium Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Dead Letter and two recent series of work are part of the exhibition Sábado, domingo, sábado, held in Galería CarrerasMugica in Bilbao. 
Exhibits disable at the Clages gallery in Cologne, Germany. 
Participates in the group exhibition Punk. Sus rastros en el arte contemporáneo at the Museu d’Art Contemporani (MACBA) in Barcelona, Spain.

38 de Julio – 37 de Octubre opens at Artium Vitoria-Gasteiz. 
His work is part of the group exhibition Improbable Libraries at La Casa Encendida in Madrid.

It’s not You. It’s Me opens at Centre d’Art la Panera in Lleida, Spain. 
Participates in the show Words Don’t Come Easy – Money Doesn’t Either at KIT – Kunst im Tunnel in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Pérez Agirregoikoa, Juan

Project Turned into Installation

Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa’s biography and works on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Biografía y obras: Pérez Agirregoikoa, Juan | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Javier Pérez

Earns a degree in fine arts from the Universidad del País Vasco in Leioa, having also studied at the Karl Hofer Gesellschaft in Berlin and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Moves to Paris, where he will earn a master&#8217;s degree from the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Receives a grant to work abroad from the province of Vizcaya.

Receives a grant from DRAC Île-de-France in Paris and aid for his first solo exhibition from the Délégation aux Arts Plastiques in Paris. Pérez&#8217;s work is included in Passions privées at the Musée d&#8217;Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Traces de la dance at the Musée d&#8217;Art de Joliette in Joliette, Canada. Begins the work Desaparecer dentro , which he will develop the following years and which consists of a bust made of red wool pleats.

Holds his first solo exhibition in Paris at Galerie Chantal Crousel. Exhibits at La Fundición in Bilbao. Participates in Lieux recyclés , an outdoor exhibition on the Rue des Jardins Saint-Paul in Paris.

Presents his work Estancias at the Musée d&#8217;Art Moderne et Contemporain in Strasbourg. The subject of his doctoral thesis is approved: &#8220;Género e identidad sexual en el arte del siglo XX.&#8221; Pérez&#8217;s work is featured in L&#8217;empreinte at the Musée National d&#8217;Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Holds exhibitions at the Sala Rekalde in Bilbao and Espacio Uno at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. Participates in a group exhibition with Helena Cabello and Ana Carceller at the Sala Montcada of the Fundació &#8220;la Caixa&#8221; in Barcelona. Pérez&#8217;s work is included in the group exhibition Skin/Shell at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Receives the Gure Artea prize, awarded by the Basque government, and the Premio Ojo Crítico Prize from Radio Nacional de España.

Exhibits at Gandy Gallery in Prague and Galería Salvador Díaz in Madrid.

Exhibition Reflejos de un viaje at the École Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Rouen/Frac Haute-Normandie, France. Presents Directions at the Fundació &#8220;la Caixa&#8221; in Lleida, Spain. Pérez&#8217;s work is included in an exhibition at the Spanish Pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hannover. His work also appears in The Tower Wounded by Lightning at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Represents Spain at the XLIX Biennale di Venezia, where he shows the piece Un pedazo de cielo cristalizado. Has two exhibitions: La torre de sonido at La Chapelle de la Vielle Charité in Marseille and La casa de pan at Horno de la Ciudadela in Pamplona. Exhibits a series of small and medium-sized drawings at Gandy Gallery in Prague.

Exhibits the work Sueños largos at Galería Salvador Díaz in Madrid. Begins the installation Tempus fugit , which he will develop for the next two years. Pérez&#8217;s Un pedazo de cielo cristalizado is installed in the entrance hall of Artium, Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo in Vitoria, Spain.

A retrospective exhibition of Pérez&#8217;s work since 1994 opens at the Carré d&#8217;Art, Musée d&#8217;Art Contemporain in Nîmes, France, and later travels to Artium, Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo in Vitoria, Spain. Participates in Monocanal at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. The exhibition later travels to several other museums in Spain. Pérez&#8217;s Levitas is included in the exhibition Transparencies at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

An exhibition of Pérez&#8217;s work entitled Mutaciones is mounted at the Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. Takes part in an exhibition with Luis Bisbe at La Villa du Parc, Centre d&#8217;Art Contemporain in Annemasse, France. Pérez&#8217;s work in included in the exhibition Goya + España at the Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee in Caraglio, Italy. Creates the series of small drawings entitled Metamorfosis .

The exhibition Anomalies is presented at La Criée, Centre d&#8217;Art Contemporain in Rennes. Exhibits at the Ecoparque de Trasmiera in Arnuero, Spain, and Galerie Guy Bärtschi in Geneva.

The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen presents an exhibition of Pérez&#8217;s work that will later travel to two other venues in France: the Fonds Régional d&#8217;Art Contemporain de Haute-Normandie in Sotteville-lès- Rouen and the Maison de la Culture in Amiens. Exhibits at Galerie Claudine Papillon in Paris.

Pérez&#8217;s work is exhibited alongside that of Judith Huemer in the exhibition Tourist_Terrorist_Artist at Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art in Vienna. It is also featured in the exhibition Speed 1: Natura naturata at the Institut Valencià d&#8217;Art Modern in Valencia, Spain.

Pérez&#8217;s Máscara de seducción (1997) is included in the exhibition Installations: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The solo exhibition Aria de Capo is held at Galería Salvador Díaz in Madrid. Early works by Pérez are shown at the Casal Solleric in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Mimmo Scognamiglio Arte Contemporanea in Milan presents the solo show Javier Pérez: Rituales de tránsito.

Exhibits his work at Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, and Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris. His work is also included in group exhibitions at Musée des Beaux-Arts et d&#8217;Archéologie de Besançon, France, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Palais des Beaux- Arts/Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, and Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna.

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, UK, inaugurates Body of Christ , and installation featuring works by the artist. His work is part of the group exhibition a painting show at the Autocenter gallery in Berlin.
His work is part of the group exhibition Surreal versus Surrealism in Contemporary Art, at IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern in Valencia, Spain.

Lamentacions opens at Museum of Montserrat, Barcelona (Spain). 
Participates in the Salzburg Music Festival with El carrusel del tiempo, an intervention made for the Karl-Böhm Saal in Salzburg (Austria). 
Holds shows in Galeria Carles Taché in Barcelona, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art in Vienna, and Galerie Guy Bärtschi in Geneva. 
Participates in the exhibition Mirror Image (Pull the thread. Artium Collection), held in Artium –Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Presents En puntas at Galería Vanguardia in Bilbao and in Galerie Claudine Papillon in Paris. S12 Galleri og Verksted da Bergen, Norway, also holds an exhibition devoted to the artist. 
His work is part of the group exhibition Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain, hosted by Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Participates in the IN SITU 2014 arts festival at Gellone Abbey in Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, France. 
El baile del infinito is on show in the context of Bilbao Art District 2014. 
Exhibitions are hosted by Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art in Salzburg, Austria and Galeria Carles Taché in Barcelona, Spain. 
His work is included in the group exhibition Translucent Skin – Works from the Iberdrola Collection, organized by Iberdrola Foundation in Bilbao, and Suturak // Cerca a lo próximo, held at San Telmo Museoa in Donostia/San Sebastián.

His work is on view during the IN SITU 2016 arts festival held in Lagrasse Abbey, France. 
Presents work at Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art in Vienna. 
Galería Vanguardia in Bilbao opens the show Edén.

Carroña is selected as guest work by the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao. 
Art galleries Art Bärtschi &amp; Cie in Geneva and Galerie Papillon in Paris present recently created works by Pérez.

Shows his work at Galeria Carles Taché in Barcelona (Spain) and Keteleer Gallery in Antwerp (Belgium). 
Holds the exhibition Javier Pérez at Transpalette Centre d’art contemporain – Association, Emmetrop in Bourges, France. 
His work is included in group exhibitions such as After ’68, held at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao; There Is a Lot of Past to Go. Oroi, at Artium Vitoria-Gasteiz; and L’Inventaire, Vol. 8, Acquisitions de 2001 à 2002, at Frac Normandie Rouen, France.

His work is exhibited at Galerie Papillon in Paris.

Pérez, Javier

Mask of Seduction

Levitas

Javier Pérez’s biography and works on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Biografía y obras: Pérez, Javier | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Sigmar Polke

Moves with his family from East Germany to Düsseldorf, in West Germany.

Attends the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, graduating in 1967.

Founds the Capitalist Realism group with Gerhard Richter and Konrad Lueg (who later goes by the name Konrad Fischer). Along with Manfred Kuttner, the group&#8217;s members show work in an exhibition titled Demonstrative Ausstellung, installed in a storefront on Kaiserstrasse in Düsseldorf.

Has his first solo show, at Galerie René Block in Berlin. 1970s Creates work that explores the relationship between photography and painting and questions the objectivity of the camera lens.

Travels to Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he compiles a mass of photographic material that he will use in later works. Exhibits, along with Achim Duchow, at the Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn.

Receives the prize for painting at the XIII Bienal de São Paulo.

Polke&#8217;s work is shown at the Kunsthalle Tübingen. The exhibition later travels to the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Begins teaching at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, where he will remain until 1991. Participates in Documenta 6 in Kassel, Germany.

Begins to create abstract works made with chemical products, exploring chemical reactions and questioning the artist&#8217;s absolute control over the work. 1981 Included in the show A New Spirit in Painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Participates in Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany.

An exhibition of Polke&#8217;s work opens at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam and later travels to the Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn.

Polke&#8217;s work is shown at the Kunsthaus Zürich, in a show that later travels to the Kunsthalle Köln in Cologne.

Participates in the Nouvelle Biennale de Paris.

Participates in the XLII Biennale di Venezia, where he is awarded the Leone d&#8217;Oro for a mural made of hygroscopic pigments (pigments that absorb moisture from the atmosphere, changing color as a result). Participates in the Sixth Biennale of Sydney.

Receives the Internationale Preis des Landes Baden- Württemberg für bildende Kunst. Exhibits at the Musée d&#8217;Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

The Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden mounts an exhibition of Polke&#8217;s photographs. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art also mounts an exhibition of Polke&#8217;s work, which later travels to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; and Brooklyn Museum in New York.

Exhibits at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Exhibits at the Carré d&#8217;Art, Musée d&#8217;Art Contemporain in Nîmes, France; and at the Institut Valencià d&#8217;Art Modern in Valencia, Spain.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles mounts an exhibition of Polke&#8217;s work titled Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish. The show later travels to SITE Santa Fe and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The Tate Gallery in Liverpool presents an exhibition of his work. Participates in the Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Receives the Carnegie Prize.

The Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn holds a major retrospective exhibition of Polke&#8217;s work that includes more than two hundred works spanning his entire career. Polke&#8217;s work is included in the inaugural exhibition of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, The Guggenheim Museums and the Art of This Century. 1998 Receives the Infinity Award, presented by the International Center of Photography in New York.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York presents a retrospective of Polke&#8217;s works on paper. The exhibition later travels to the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg.

A comprehensive exhibition of Polke&#8217;s graphic work is mounted at the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn, completing the retrospective show the institution dedicated to him in 1997. Exhibits at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. Receives the Kaiserring prize from the city of Goslar, Germany.

The exhibition Sigmar Polke: Music of Unclear Origin opens at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.

Exhibits recent paintings and drawings at the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas. The show later travels to Tate Modern in London. Receives the Praemium Imperiale for painting, awarded by the Japan Art Association. Polke&#8217;s work is included in German Painting after World War II at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

The Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo organizes the exhibition Alice in Wonderland , which later travels to the National Museum of Art in Osaka.

The Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim in Mannheim, Germany, holds a retrospective of Polke&#8217;s photographs from 1960 on. Exhibits at the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg in Regensburg, Germany. Polke&#8217;s work is included in Homage to Chillida at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Participates in the 52nd Biennale di Venezia. The Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden presents a retrospective of Polke&#8217;s work, which later travels to the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau in Dresden. His work is featured in the exhibitions The Thirtieth Anniversary: Collection of the National Museum of Art at the National Museum of Art in Osaka and Notations: Kiefer, Polke, Richter at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Patrick Painter Inc. in Santa Monica, California, presents the exhibition Sigmar Polke: Large Paintings and Unique Photographs. His work is featured in the exhibitions Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum: The Art of Appropriation and Here Is Every: Four Decades of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Traces du sacré at the Musée National d&#8217;Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

The Arts Club of Chicago presents the exhibition Sigmar Polke: Lens Paintings , which later travels to Michael Werner Gallery in New York.

Exhibitions are dedicated to the artist at The Horst-Janssen-Museum and the Oldenburger Kunstverein, both in Oldenburg, Germany. His work is exhibited for the first time in India at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai. Exhibitions also organized at Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zürich, and Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen. Dies on June 10 in Cologne.

Polke, Sigmar

Kathreiner's Morning Wood

Sigmar Polke’s biography and works on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Biografía y obras: Polke, Sigmar | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Sergio Prego

Earns a degree in fine arts from the Universidad del País Vasco.

Receives a grant from the provincial government of Guipúzcoa.

Awarded second prize at the XXXVI Certamen de Artistas Noveles de Guipúzcoa in San Sebastián and consolation prize for painting in the Gure Artea competition sponsored by the Basque government. Moves to New York.

Prego&#8217;s work is included in Gure Artea 1996.

Begins working at Vito Acconci&#8217;s studio in New York; will continue working there until 2002. Premieres the video Tetsuo (Bound to Fail) on Canal Bizkaia; the video is produced by Consonni, with the collaboration of Arteleku in San Sebastián, and Canal Bizkaia, with the support of the Basque Ministry of Culture, Prego&#8217;s work is included in XIV Muestra de Arte Joven, organized by the Instituto Nacional de la Juventud in Madrid. Exhibits at Galería Antonio de Barnola in Barcelona.

Prego&#8217;s Tetsuo (Bound to Fail) is included in Gure Artea 2000. Participates in the exhibition Trasvases: Artistas españoles en vídeo , which travels to the Centro Cultural de España in Lima, Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires, and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City.

Prego&#8217;s work is included in the exhibition Ofelias and Ulises: En torno al arte español contemporáneo, shown in the Antichi Granei Pavilion at the XLIX Biennale di Venezia.

Galería Soledad Lorenzo in Madrid presents an exhibition of Prego&#8217;s work. Exhibits the video Yesland, I&#8217;m Here to Stay (2001) as part of the Pantalles i projectors series at the Sala Montcada, Fundació &#8220;la Caixa&#8221; in Barcelona.

The solo exhibitions Winter Star and Sergio Prego open at Lombard-Freid Projects in New York and Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, respectively. Takes part in the exhibitions Absolut Generations , in the &#8220;Extra 50&#8221; section of the 50th Biennale di Venezia , and The Real Royal Trip at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.

Presents the site-specific installation ANTI-after T.B.at the Sala Rekalde in Bilbao. Prego&#8217;s work is shown in Art Unlimited: No Limits for Today&#8217;s Art , held in conjunction with Art Basel.

Exhibits his work Boomtube (2005) at Buchmann Galerie in Berlin. Shows the video installation Sunoise (2005) at the Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea in Siena, Italy.

Exhibits at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga in Málaga, Spain, Galería Soledad Lorenzo in Madrid, and Lehmann Maupin in New York.

Exhibits at Alfonso Artiaco in Naples and Buchmann Galerie in Berlin. Prego&#8217;s work is shown in Chacun à son goût at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Speed 3 at the Institut Valencià d&#8217;Art Modern in Valencia, Spain. The solo exhibition Où? Scènes du Sud: Espagne, Italie, Portugal is presented at the Carré d&#8217;Art, Musèe d&#8217;Art Contemporain in Nîmes, France.

Artists

O

Jorge Oteiza

P

Pablo Palazuelo

Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa

Javier Pérez

Sigmar Polke

Sergio Prego

R

Robert Rauschenberg

Gerhard Richter

James Rosenquist

Mark Rothko

S

Ixone Sádaba

Xabier Salaberria

Doris Salcedo

Antonio Saura

Julian Schnabel

Richard Serra

Alyson Shotz

Susana Solano

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