Nekane Aramburu holds a PhD summa cum laude in Art History and a Master’s in Museology. She was appointed director of the Fundación Apel•les Fenosa in 2022 through a competitive process, having previously served as director of institutions such as the Es Baluard Museum in Palma de Mallorca (2013–2019) and Espacio Ciudad in Vitoria (1999–2010). Alongside her work in museum and institutional management, Aramburu has developed new forms of management and curating, exploring languages and communication formats for both material and immaterial heritage at national and international levels. Her projects focus on transmedia practices and cultural ecosystems, advocating for sustainability and networked structures. Her exhibitions are long-term curatorial essays that address new models of historiography, knowledge exploration, and mediation. Internationally, she has collaborated with institutions such as the HEAC in Strasbourg, De La Cruz Collection, Man Museum of Art in Sardinia, Musée d’Art de Genève, Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, The Félix González-Torres Foundation, UNTREF / Bienalsur, FRACs in Corsica, Alsace, Reims, and Metz, Cervantes Institutes, and AECID centers, among others. An editor and author of over seventy books, she has served as an advisor to various institutions and organizations and has been a jury member for international events.
TRANS-EUROPE is the column by Nekane Aramburu for INES_Magazina. It traverses space-time between continents, establishing a channel for reflection, exploration, and analysis of the contemporary art scene, immersed in transmedia practices and their ecosystems. This channel acts as a mirror and a connecting axis between the Americas and old Europe in a flow of exchange and processes. Her column aims to provide a critical perspective on the present dystopia, exploring both the past and current reality to offer a reactive viewpoint that dialogues with society in real-time.
Since the early 2000s, Nekane Aramburu has been a key driving force behind the network of New Latin American Curatorship, a project that promotes the creation of horizontal networks between institutions and independent spaces. In this context, the TRANS-EUROPE column not only limits itself to artistic analysis but becomes a vehicle for connecting different geopolitical and cultural realities, in an effort to reconfigure curatorial and artistic dynamics in a globalized world. Aramburu presents an innovative approach, where borders not only dissolve but transform into points of convergence and critique.
