Eduardo Chillida Chair: Maite Garbayo – Maeztu

Maite Garbayo-Maeztu will be this year´s guest researcher for the Eduardo Chillida Chair, promoted by the Etxepare Basque Institute at the Goethe Universitat Frankfurt am Maine.

Maite Garbayo-Maeztu (Pamplona-Iruñea, 1980) is a Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow in the Department of Art History and Music at the University of the Basque Country. Her research explores the intersections between feminism, visual and popular culture, and contemporary art in Spain and Latin America in the 20th century.

In her seminar ‘Hard, soft, living matter’, she will explore artistic and performative practices by focusing on their materiality. Starting with a material genealogy of 20th-century Basque sculpture, represented by male artists such as Chillida, Oteiza, Basterretxea and Mendiburu, XX will also examine the deconstruction of materials that began in the 1990s and is particularly significant in the work of certain female artists.

 Programme:

15th June | 12pm – 4pm

Introduction to New Materialism

17th June | 4pm – 8pm

Workshop with Itziar Okariz (artist)

A reflection on performance as a form of construction, emphasising its role in the production of signs and as a tool for their transformation. Okariz will base her work on some of her performances, such as ‘Las estatuas’.

19th June| 4pm – 8pm

Session 1: ‘Poner el cuerpo: performance and materiality’.

Session 2: ‘Curating Performance’

22nd June | 12pm – 4pm

Session 1: ‘Ixiptlah and the indigenous and pre-Hispanic conception of image’.

Session 2: ‘Women who carry: artists and images in the Spanish Civil War’.

In addition to the official programme of events, researcher Carmiña Doval will deliver a lecture on 15th June as part of the Eduardo Chilllida Chair. The lecture is open to the public and will centre around her book ‘Geometrías del orden: Formal strategies in the compositional language of Eduardo Chillida’.

Eduardo Chillida Chair

In operation since 2012, this Chair aims to promote specialized study and research into Basque art of the 20th and 21st centuries in the international context.

The Chair is based at the Goethe University´s Institute of Art History in Frankfurt and the classes are part of the Curatorial Studies run by the Institute. The Frankfurt Art Library also houses a special section dedicated to the artist’s complete bibliography, providing a key resource for researchers. Each year, the Chair invites a leading researcher to teach two subjects, in addition to a seminar or series of talks.