MEM festival 2022

MEM is an annual cultural festival celebrating local and international electronic, extreme and experimental acts, in Bilbao since 2002.

MEM FESTIVAL

Mañana Incierto Bilbao. Program

Josu Rekalde’s exhibition at CMD San Francisco
Exhibition Hall will be open Monday to Friday from 9am to 9pm

Okela Sormen Lantegia Gallery could be visited any day by appointment writing to txema321 @ yahoo.es

Espacio Marzana Gallery will be open Monday to Friday from 4pm to 8.30pm

Friday 4th November 19 h
CMD San Francisco
Plaza Corazón de María
Opening exhibition Josu Rekalde

Saturday 5th November 19 h
Okela Sormen Lantegia Gallery
Calle San Francisco 11
Iker Munduate sound performance
KeyMPi concert (Berlin)

Sunday 6 November 12 h
Okela Sormen Lantegia Gallery.
Calle San Francisco 11
Aperitif and special opening of “Listen Liquid” an installation by Aideen Barry.
With the support of Cultür Éireann/Culture Ireland

Sunday 6 November 7 pm
Okela Sormen Lantegia Gallery.
Calle San Francisco 11
opening of the in progress exhibition Mañana Incierto

Miren Barrena
Aideen Barry
Enrike Hurtado
Mawa (Juan Pablo Orduñez)
Lola Marquinez
Ian Moir
Rut Olabarri

Monday 7 November 7:00 p.m.
BilbaoArte
Urazurrutia, 32
Concerts:
Fermin el Fiero.
Paolo Gaiba Riva (Berlin)
Lorena Izquierdo & Lazehito Seki (Berlin)

Tuesday 8 November 7:00 p.m.
Espacio Marzana Gallery. 20 aniversario!!!!!!!!!!
Muelle Marzana 5
Opening of the exhibition Mañana Incierto

Federica Bau
Liane Lang
Alberto Lomas
Rut Blees Luxemburg
David Mach
Ian Moir
Rut Olabarri
Monika Oechsler
Raisa Raekallio & Misha del Val
Sophy Rickett
Veronica Smirnoff
Amaia Vicente
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k.ada (Ada Kobusiewicz) -intervention in Bilbao’s Estuary-

Wednesday 9 November 13 h
Calle Encarnación 2 (Atxuri)
Visit to the studio of artist Josu Rekalde

Wednesday 9 November 7:00 p.m.
BilbaoArte
Urazurrutia, 32
“Mañana Incierto” video program

Aideen Barry “Possession” 6,30 min
Kristina Cranfeld “Manufactured Britishness” 14 min
Jon Klein & Liane Lang “Mesmeric Monument” 9 min
Slawomir Milewski “Raspberry Man” 17 min
Monika Oechsler “Sometimes Everything is Forever” 8 min
Rut Blees Luxemburg, Alexander Garcia Düttmann & Paul Clark “The Dump” Opera. 30 min

Thursday 10 November 6 pm – 9pm
Auditorium Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Avenida Abandoibarra
Enrique Hurtado
Liane Lang and Philipp Schlotter with Miren Barrena
Carali McCall
Javier Rodríguez-Pérez Curiel

Friday 11 November 6 pm – 9pm
CMD San Francisco
Plaza Corazón de María
Zoom Meeting, Play With Food Festival (Italy).
Josu Rekalde guided visit to his interactive installation
Shahwali Shayan (in collaboration with the Royal College of Art)
Jesús Alonso
Penghui Jiang (China) online performance (in collaboration with the Royal College of Art.)
Tess Honor Wood

Saturday 12 November. 12 a.m.
Visit to the studio of Alberto Lomas
Padre Larramendi 1. 4th floor

Saturday 12 November 7 p.m.
Okela Sormen Lantegia Gallery.
Calle San Francisco 11
opening of the in progress exhibition Mañana Incierto

Anne Erhard
Maite de Orbe
Cameron Williamson
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Miren Barrena
Aideen Barry
Enrike Hurtado
Mawa (Juan Pablo Orduñez)
Lola Marquinez
Ian Moir
Rut Olabarri

Encounters in the Okela art space with guided tour to the Mañana Incierto exhibition
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Jon Mantxi + Sergio Llanos + Alberto L. Martín + Lucía Chamorro
concert
Javier Rodríguez Pérez-Curiel collaborative performance
Miren Barrena performance
Josu Rekalde collaborative performance

Sunday 13 November 12-2 pm
Espacio Marzana Gallery.
Muelle Marzana 5
Day for families with art activities for all audiences. Finissage.
Performance Installation Josu Rekalde
Javier Rodríguez Pérez-Curiel performance
Performance Miren Barrena

Most of the activities will take place in the neighborhood of Bilbao La Vieja – San Francisco. This is the area where Bilbao was born in the year 1300.
It is a working class neighborhood with a port, industrial and mainly mining past (iron mines). Currently in the neighborhood many immigrants and artists live there. The neighborhood has a lot of cultural activity. There are numerous shops and small restaurants and bars run by immigrants as well as new hipster-style restaurants and bars.

CMD San Francisco is a municipal civic center with a little theater, exhibit hall, library, etc.
The BilbaoArte Foundation is an artistic production center that offers creation grants at an international level and also has an exhibition hall and a cinema.
Okela is an alternative gallery run by artists located in a former butcherie.
Espacio Marzana is a commercial art gallery run by artists, located on the docks next to the iron ore loading docks.