The work of Juan Aizparte (Donostia-San Sebastián, 1974) explores how history, economics and politics influence us as individuals, and also how these phenomena contain the narratives that build our cultural myths. He began his studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lejona (University of the Basque Country), specializing in sculpture, graduating in 1998 from the École Nationale Superieure de Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux (France). The same year he began a collaboration with the Association zebra 3 in the Buy-Self catalog and in 1997 with the magazine Permanent Food.
Through films, performances, sculptures, installations and interventions in the public space, Aizpitarte proposes questions and reflections in the public sphere, on the relationship with the other, the place we occupy in front of power, in front of art. His works are propositional, sometimes impertinent and even contesting, always keeping a playful and at the same time firm atmosphere. His works have been exhibited all over the world in multiple research projects -Ciudad de Vacances, Signos Sobre Signos, or Agur Jaunak- and personal exhibitions -such as Mater (Horno Space, Pamplona 2022), Ex_ile (Altxerri Galery, San Sebastian), Anthropometry (Vita Kuben, Umëo 2020), Yo el traidor (Museo Marítimo, Donostia 2019), Souvenirs (Galeria Maior, Palma de Mallorca 2018); In Between (Public Art, Stockolm 2015); Cosmic Ray (La chaufferie, Strassbourg 2012); The Gray Wall, (MA Studio Beijing 2012) ; Exodus (Biennale Evento, Bordeaux 2011), or The rise of Rad (Torrence Museum, L. A 2010.) among others.
In addition to artistic production, it develops parallel training and education programs in the visual arts and cultural projects for the dynamization of different contexts. Among them the launching in 2008 of the artistic association Línea Curva and the Espacio Réflex project that from San Sebastián-Donostia establishes axes of network collaboration mainly on an Atlantic scale, promoting projects that involve creators and civil society. In the international context she has been working since 2012 in the Corners project, where she carries out participatory actions in peripheral European communities. He has been a member of the arts council of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and president of the Basque Country delegation of the Institute of Contemporary Art (IAC).
