Exhibition

This exhibition by the Basurama Architects collective invites visitors to approach, interact with, and manipulate different objects, games, instruments, and other utensils, turning the exhibition spaces into centers of participation and engagement for audiences of all ages with waste and reuse. The exhibition is therefore playful and interactive, but also educational. In fact, visitors have DIY explanatory sheets in the form of instruction manuals to develop some of the pieces on display at home.

This exhibition was the main exhibition of the Second Edition of MUGAK; the Basque Country International Architecture Biennial. The exhibition highlights the artistic and heritage contributions of the Ulm School of Architecture—founded in 1953 in that German city—a center that researched and developed urban planning, industrial architecture, product design, graphic design, and communication during the 1950s and 60s. It was a continuation and development of the Bauhaus Weimar-Dessau-Berlin, whose centenary is being celebrated this year. In fact, Ulm's first rector was Max Bill, a Swiss artist, architect, and designer who was also a Bauhaus.

Through this exhibition project, it is intended to teach and highlight the reaction, slow, insecure and often misunderstood, but firm in its convictions, of spontaneous civic movements of intellectuals, creators, groups, and individuals, who were gaining the streets and public opinion against fear and confrontation slogans.

The exhibition is a journey through almost 80 years of the factory’s history, a place that forms part of the collective imagination of Basque industrial memory. The factory, located in Irún, was looted after its closure due to bankruptcy, and many of the pieces designed and manufactured there are part of the GORDAILUA collection (Center for Heritage Collections of movable goods of Gipuzkoa).

The exhibition explores a selection of the world’s most interesting libraries, from classical ones such as Alexandria or the British Library, to contemporary examples like Dokk1 Aarhus, Oodi Helsinki, and the Hyundai Card Libraries in Seoul, as well as proposals that go beyond the traditional concept of library, such as the Aby Warburg Library, the Mobile Public Libraries of Colombia, or the Human Library, composed of human “books.”

This exhibition explores, through the work of Pilar Soberón, the limits of physicality and materiality in architectural space. The body as a physical entity is an occupied and occupying body, but it also articulates between the limits of the intangible, the carnal, and the non-material, such as sound, light, and volume…