Xabier Salaberria

Xabier Salaberria works with various artistic media, such as installation, photography, graphic design and exhibition architecture. He explores the processes of formalisation, as well as the potential of these media to become something else, given their changing material, ideological and institutional context. Vacillating between being sign and material, art and something other than art, his works open themselves to contemplation as displaced or even uncompromising objects and situations. A kind of vanishing point from what they normally are and from the norms they defend, they question their time and their place in history. Salaberria speaks of a process of ‘denaturalisation of sculpture’.

Xabier Salaberria (Donostia-San Sebastián, 1969) lives and works in Donostia-San Sebastián. His training period is linked to the Arteleku Art Centre, where he took part in workshops such as those given by Txomin Badiola and Ángel Bados or Pello Irazu. He has participated in various residency programmes such as (JAI) Jarduera Artistikoen Institua (Institute for Artistic Activities); Artium Museoa (Gasteiz) in 2021; SOMA. Mexico City in 2017; Viafarini, Milan in 2010; HIAP, Helsinki in 2008; ACC, Weimar in 2007; ROSEUM. Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö in 2005. His most recent exhibitions include: Infrastructure, curated by Catalina Lozano, CA2M Madrid (2023); An exhibition without Architecture, Museo Artium Gasteiz (2021); Winning by Losing. Centro Centro, Madrid (2019); Restosmateriales, obstáculos y herramientas. 32nd Sao Paulo Biennial (2016); Process and Method (A.T.M.O.T.W.)Xabier Salaberria. Guggenheim Bilbao (2013); The Society Without Qualities. Tensta Konsthall. Stockholm (2013) and Inkontziente-Kontziente (Scenario1 about Europe). GFZK, Leipzig 2011.