ABIAPUNTUA
Alain Urrutia
Free entry
Thursday and Friday, 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm;
Saturday and Sunday, 10:30 am to 6:30 pm.
Closed: 25–26 December, 1 and 6 January
Alain Urrutia, a Basque painter based in Berlin, presents an extensive project consisting of over twenty new paintings, rigorously in grayscale, accompanied by two videos, for his first solo exhibition in Italy in an institutional space.
Urrutia chose Euskara, the language of the Basque Country where he was born and raised, as the conceptual “starting point” (abiapuntua) to launch this body of work.
A collector of images, deeply interested in the visual and mental construction of representation, Urrutia investigates the meaning and memory of objects and subjects extracted from art history, daily life, cinema, and the entire wide iconographic repertoire gathered in his personal archive. This archive is a living organism, a digital atlas in the form of a constellation that, for the first time, will be shared with the public through nine intertwined themes, in a circular journey through the artist's mind.
Alain Urrutia (b. 1981, Bilbao, Spain) lives and works in Berlin.
He graduated from the University of the Basque Country and the Brera Academy in Milan in 2004. He was an artist in residence at the MA Studio (Beijing, 2011) and at the Rogaland Art Centre (Stavanger, Norway, 2008) among others. Urrutia has displayed his work in international art contexts including: CAB Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos (2025); Casa Siza, Mexico City (2024); Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2023); Appleton Square, Lisbon (2018); DIDAC Foundation, Santiago de Compostela (2017); Boston Center for the Arts, Boston (2015); Artium Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country, Araba (2013); CA2M, Madrid (2010).