The JAI Institute for Artistic Practices study programme, jointly organised by the Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture and Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country, in collaboration with the Oteiza Museum since 2022, has begun in the workshops and spaces of the museum in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Over the next two months, the sixteen participants selected for the seventh JAI call for proposals will take part in the study programme, which features teachers who are international artists affiliated with the respective programmes of each institution. On 3 August, they will move to Tabakalera, while having previously completed a residency at the Oteiza Museum. Focusing on artistic practice, the JAI summer school also aims to promote research, production and critical work.
\n\nIts mission is to contribute to the training of professionals in the sphere of the arts by creating a space for artistic exchange and interchange. JAI seeks to deepen the transmission of knowledge by constructing spaces for exchange between artists undergoing training and professionals from the international sphere.
\n\nIn order to strengthen this transmission of knowledge in connection with production, the teachers of JAI participate in the exhibition and public programmes of the institutions promoting this seventh edition call for proposals. The teaching panel for 2026 includes Mariana Castillo Deball (Mexico City, 1975), Louidgi Beltrame (Marseille, 1971), Nora Aurrekoetxea (Bilbao, 1989), Maddi Barber (Lakabe, 1988), Debris Stevenson (London, 1990) and Carla Filipe (Vilanova da Barquinha, 1973). Tutoring is provided by the artists Alejandro Cesarco (Montevideo, 1975), Itziar Okariz (San Sebastián, 1965) and Ibon Aranberri (Itziar-Deba, 1969).
\n\nThe training sessions will run from 1 July to 28 August. The course begins at Artium Museoa, where the students will remain until 26 July. From Monday 3 August, they will move to Tabakalera to continue the study programme until 31 August. Between 29 July and 1 August, they will also undertake a residency in the town Alzuza, where the Oteiza Museum is located.
\n\nThe JAI study programme is presented as a resource that facilitates expanded dialogue surrounding artistic activity, in addition to its capacity to provide alternative access to the languages and forms of subjectivation that this produces. The mechanics proposed have been designed to prompt each artist-teacher to offer a unique perspective on these processes. This characteristic means that the programme’s methodology focuses more on the relationships that are forged in the workshop space and on specific practices rather than on theory.
\n\nThe seventh JAI call for proposals received 45 submissions that met the technical requirements. The programme’s study committee, comprising the tutors Itziar Okariz, Alejandro Cesarco and Ibon Aranberri, along with Catalina Lozano, Chief Curator at Artium Museoa, and Oier Etxeberria, Head of Public Programmes at Tabakalera, selected 16 participants based on the quality and interest of the work presented in their portfolios, as well as how well the candidates’ stated objectives aligned with the study programme’s guidelines. The selection process also adhered to parity criteria, resulting in a group that is diverse in terms of the participants’ geographical origins and intergenerational representation, in addition to the plurality of languages and disciplines present in contemporary art practices. The committee also decided to award tuition and living stipends to six participants.
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