EAS-EZE 2026: Jaime de los Ríos and Mikel Otxoteko

The EAS-EZE programme, organised by Bitamine with support from the Etxepare Basque Institute, is celebrating its tenth edition this year, coinciding with Bitamine´s 15th anniversary as a space for artistic creation, outreach and collaboration.

This edition of EAS-EZE will therefore be a special one: two Basque artists will travel to Buenos Aires to present their projects at one of the leading venues for contemporary art in Latin America, the Center for Contemporary Art at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF).

The selected projects are:

Buenos Aires: ecologías urbanas, Mikel Otxoteko

This project interprets Buenos Aires as a web of overlapping migratory ecologies, examining how successive migration flows have reshaped the city. Through five light installations it maps the social, economic and cultural strata that permeate the urban landscape.

Members of the jury were Diana Wechsler, Ane Lekuona and Bitamine.

Instrucciones para encender un diálogo, Jaime de los Ríos

This project examines the internet’s physical and geopolitical infrastructure through ephemeral light sculptures created from real human connections. It offers a poetic, critical reflection on technology, power and human relationships.

EAS-EZE

EAS-EZE is run by Bitamine, in partnership with the Etxepare Basque Institute. The programme promotes artistic research and production, raises the international profile of Basque artists, and fosters mobility and cultural exchange.

Over the past ten years the programme has become a platform for internationalising Basque contemporary art, creating opportunities for research, production and collaboration among artists, institutions and diverse cultural contexts.

In line with the Etxepare Basque Institute’s mission to promote the international presence of contemporary Basque culture, EAS-EZE helps to strengthen collaborative networks and open up new avenues for dialogue and visibility for Basque creative work on the international stage.