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Mendizabal, Asier
1973 Ordizia, lives in Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain).

venue: casa Ciriza

Through his installations, videos and photographs, Asier Mendizabal addresses desire as a territory of multiple confrontations between individual and collective beliefs. Departing from symbolic references to music, youth culture and political movements, Mendizabal investigates ways in which groups congregate in the name of ideology or simply out of a need to be together. Mendizabal’s sparse installations also speak of the longing for a clear cut distinction between friends and enemies. However, his work is not about taking sides or expressing precise political views, but, rather, reveals those mechanisms that help us recognize ourselves as part of a group or a society.
curriculum:
Education
BasisStipendium, grant from Fonds BKVB, Dutch Culture Ministry, 2003.

Fellowship of the Basque Government, with Iñaki Garmendia, 2001.

Residency grant, de-Ateliers, Amsterdam, 2000.

Grant Support to Creation, Diputación de Gipuzkoa, 1998.

Post Graduate diploma, Byam Shaw School of Art, London, 1997.

Workshop directed by Txomin Badiola and Angel Bados, Arteleku, Donostia-San Sebastian, 1997.

Universidad del País Vasco, Fine Arts, Bilbao, 1996.

Erasmus Scholarship, Byam Shaw School of Art, London, 1995.

Selected individual exhibitions
Galería T4, Barcelona (Spain), 2003.

De-Ateliers, Amsterdam, 2000.

No Time for Love. D.A.E., Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain), 2000.

Selected group exhibitions
Cine y Casi Cine. Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2003.

Les Printemps de Septembre. Toulouse (France), 2003.

Lost Territories. Galerie Schroder, L’Aja (Belgium), 2003.

Després de la Notícia. CCCB, Barcelona (Spain), 2003.

Goierri Konpeti. Galerie du Triangle, with Iñaki Garmendia, Bordeaux (France), 2003.

Organisational Forms. Skuç Galerija, Ljubljana, 2002.

Great Theatre of the World. Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Biennial (Taiwan), 2002.

Gure Artea 2002. Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (Spain), 2002.

Tour/Early Works. De Ateliers, Amsterdam, 2002.

Front Line Compilation. D.A.E. Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain), 2002.

Desartxibo Publicación Para Memoria. Arteleku, Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain), 2002.

Gure Artea 2000. Koldo Mitxelena, Donostia-San Sebastián (Spain), 2000.

Gaur, Hemen, Orain. Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao (Spain), 2001.

Flatland Gallery, Utrecht (The Netherlands), 2001.

Parcours d’Incidents. De-Ateliers, with Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Amsterdam, 2001.

Blackout Totale, NICC, with Willem Oorebeek, Antwerp (The Netherlands), 2000.

Intervenciones TV. Festival de Vídeo, Gasteiz-Vitoria (Spain), 2000.

Certamen de Artistas Noveles de Gipuzkoa. Koldo Mitxelena, Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain), 1999.

Exposición del Taller Angel Bados/Txomin Badiola, Reinauguración de Arteleku. Arteleku, Donostia-San Sebastián (Spain), 1998.

Montehermoso-Oihanederra, Gasteiz-Vitoria (Spain), 1998.

Coop. La Central, Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain), 1998.

Sala Barrena, Ordizia (Spain), 1997.

Certamen de Artistas Noveles de Gipuzkoa, Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain), 1997.

Byam Shaw, London, 1997.
 
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