Oier Iruretagoiena
Oier Iruretagoiena started off his creative practice in experimental music before expanding to sculpture, interventions in the public space and text. He uses readily available materials and mediums, leaving evidence of the process and of the inner material composition of the works in the final result. His work accrues various layers of meaning and references touching on various interests which range from rural and religious imaginaries to dystopias or human relations, and it is also characterized by a search for the discordances produced in the ambivalence of ironic distance.
Oier Iruretagoiena (Errenteria, 1988) lives and works in Bilbao. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the EHU-UPV. In 2018 he completed his training with the WIELS residency programme in Brussels. He has had solo exhibitions at the WIELS centre in Brussels, at the San Telmo museum in Donostia-San Sebastián, and at the Halfhouse space in Barcelona (2014), among others. He has also participated in the group exhibitions El sentido de la escultura at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, Generación 2020 at La Casa Encendida in Madrid, Le Petit Cercle Bruxellois at the Institut de Carton in Brussels, Bi Dos Two at the Azkuna Zentroa centre in Bilbao, and Cale, cale, cale!Caale!!! at the Tabakalera centre in Donostia-San Sebastián. In addition, from 2011 to 2020 he was one of the coordinators of the Club Le Larraskito space in Bilbao, and since 2020 he has been a columnist for the newspaper Berria.
