VITORIA-GASTEIZ.- Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country presents the exhibition Inés Medina. Plastic Arts Analytical Research, 1978-1995 [A3 Gallery, until 1 June 2025]. The exhibition presents the plastic arts research of the artist Inés Medina (Cáceres, 1950), ranging from her first monochrome experiments to, taler, the introduction of the computer into her creative processes. To mark the exhibition, Artium Museoa has published a publication that includes an extensive interview with the artist by the researcher Sara Abisambra Borrero.

This new exhibition presents the plastic arts research of the artist Inés Medina (Cáceres, 1950), ranging from her first monochrome experiments in 1978 until the mid-1990s, coinciding with her trip to New York, where she stayed for the next 15 years until her definitive return to the Basque Country. Divided into series, the project covers the first two decades of her career, focusing on the field of geometric abstraction and the introduction of the computer into measurement and image generation research, ending around 1995.

The exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of Medina’s work, an artist who shared the debate with a generation of artists associated with Basque formalist traditions, opening up in the late 1970s to international artistic discourse and practices. Her work defends art as a tool for understanding reality, something that has largely been silenced only to be strongly defended today. In this exhibition, the artist underlines the process of a practice that goes hand in hand with theoretical research, writing and psychoanalysis, in purely geometric series whose titles allude to the potential of the image, uniting art, knowledge and life experience.

Inés Medina was born in Cáceres and has lived in Bilbao since the age of six. Trained as a visual artist at the University of the Basque Country, where she also obtained her PhD, she spent 15 years in New York, an experience that has markedly influenced her work. Her art has been continuously exhibited since 1980, primarily in Spain and the USA, and her career has been recognised with awards such as that from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation (2005), a triple prize for artistic creation from New York University (2005) and a grant from Emakunde for her artistic research (2007). Her work can be found in such important collections as the Helga de Alvear Museum (Cáceres), Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Artium Museoa (Vitoria-Gasteiz) and San Telmo Museum (Donostia-San Sebastián).

Artium Museoa has published a new publication in its #Hitzak series to accompany the exhibition, in which the curator Sara Abisambra Borrero has authored Conversing with Inés Medina: the plastic arts as a quest for knowledge, an in-depth interview with Inés Medina in which they both review the artist’s career, ranging from her early interests as a student at the Bilbao Fine Arts School, the seed of the today’s Fine Arts Faculty at the University of the Basque Country, until the present day.

At the same time as the exhibition, which can be visited in the A3 Gallery until 1 June, Artium Museoa has opened a new entrance to the gallery, through a door that connects directly to the museum’s Lorategi garden area, located in its inner courtyard.