Jon Mikel Euba studied at the Fine Arts Faculty in Bilbao and then took courses at Arteleku (San Sebastián, 1992-1995). His work includes performance art, drawings, installations, video, photography and graphic arts. He is known particularly for his use of words in the production of monumental sculptures.
He is generally thought of as a political artist. He uses strategies that seek to prevent his work from being pigeon-holed and to generate new, always ambiguous discourses that can be read in more than one way. With influences from Jean-Luc Godard and Andy Warhol, he sets up mysterious situations based on decontextualisation, recomposition, reiteration and deliberate confusion between space and time in images and abstraction. Nuria Enguita describes his work as based on 'the psychological representation of violence' but the specific, counter-narrative way in which he expresses himself tends to leave dramatic tension hanging in the air. Jon Mikel Euba problemises the established protocols of forms of doing, producing and participating, and calls representational and expositional spaces into question. He has received the Gure Artea Award (2002) and the Plastic Arts Grant for 2013 from the Botín Foundation.
He has staged solo exhibitions at the Palacio de Abrantes (Salamanca, 1999), the Amadís Gallery (Madrid, 2000), the Basque Centre and Museum for Contemporary Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz (2002), the Tàpies Foundation (Barcelona, 2003) and the Soledad Lorenzo Gallery (Madrid, 2008, 2011). He has also taken part in Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt, Germany, 2002), the Busan Biennial (South Korea, 2004), the Istanbul Biennial (2005) and the Venice Biennale (2001) among other events.
Jon Mikel Euba studied at the Fine Arts Faculty in Bilbao and then took courses at Arteleku (San Sebastián, 1992-1995). His work includes performance art, drawings, installations, video, photography and graphic arts. He is known particularly for his use of words in the production of monumental sculptures.
He is generally thought of as a political artist. He uses strategies that seek to prevent his work from being pigeon-holed and to generate new, always ambiguous discourses that can be read in more than one way. With influences from Jean-Luc Godard and Andy Warhol, he sets up mysterious situations based on decontextualisation, recomposition, reiteration and deliberate confusion between space and time in images and abstraction. Nuria Enguita describes his work as based on 'the psychological representation of violence' but the specific, counter-narrative way in which he expresses himself tends to leave dramatic tension hanging in the air. Jon Mikel Euba problemises the established protocols of forms of doing, producing and participating, and calls representational and expositional spaces into question. He has received the Gure Artea Award (2002) and the Plastic Arts Grant for 2013 from the Botín Foundation.
He has staged solo exhibitions at the Palacio de Abrantes (Salamanca, 1999), the Amadís Gallery (Madrid, 2000), the Basque Centre and Museum for Contemporary Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz (2002), the Tàpies Foundation (Barcelona, 2003) and the Soledad Lorenzo Gallery (Madrid, 2008, 2011). He has also taken part in Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt, Germany, 2002), the Busan Biennial (South Korea, 2004), the Istanbul Biennial (2005) and the Venice Biennale (2001) among other events.