Itziar Okariz

Itziar Okariz works within the context of action and performance, questioning the ways of regulating language and the production of signs that define us. Her work - vocal performances, actions, videos, installations and text pieces - examines the links between architecture, territory, body, ritual, sexuality and semiotics. She is often associated with feminist practices, punk-rock, and queer critiques of normative gender constructions. In recent years, her practice has been linked to forms of art transmission and pedagogies.

Itziar Okariz (Donostia-San Sebastian, 1965) lives and works between Bilbao and New York. Some of her latest works are Dream Diary at Dream Time: UCCA Center for Contemporary Art Beijing; Diario de Sueños, Museo Macba, Buenos Aires; Out of residecy, Curva Pura, Rome; Las estatuas, Museo Oteiza, Alzuza; Itziar Okariz, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel. In 2019, together with Sergio Prego, he occupied the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with a project entitled Perforado por... curated by Peio Aguirre.