17/07/2026
Taxio Ardanaz (Pamplona/Iruña, 1978) is an artist based between Navarre and the Basque Country. He graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and has furthered his education through seminars and workshops with artists and curators including Julie Mehretu, Esther Ferrer, Itziar Okariz, Mirosław Bałka, and Peio Aguirre.
His multidisciplinary practice encompasses painting, installation, photography, and research-based projects that examine the relationship between ideology, representation, and collective memory. Drawing on historical archives, political imagery, and the material traces of conflict, Ardanaz investigates how images construct and mediate narratives of power, identity, and resistance. Through a restrained visual language that combines documentary strategies with formal abstraction, his work reflects on the ways in which political histories remain embedded in landscapes, architecture, and everyday objects.
Recent solo exhibitions include presentations at CarrerasMugica, Bilbao (2023, 2017), Galería Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca (2022), El Sario–Public University of Navarre, Pamplona (2021), Tabacalera Promoción del Arte, Madrid (2017), and Artist x Artist, Havana (2016). His work has also been presented in museums and institutions including Museo de Navarra, San Telmo Museoa, CIAJG Guimarães, Matadero Madrid, and Centro Huarte.
Ardanaz has undertaken international residencies at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, Amna Suraka in Iraqi Kurdistan, Artist x Artist in Havana, Kunsthaus Bregenz (Austria), Oficina de Arte (Mexico), and in China. In 2021 he was artist-in-residence at Tabakalera, Donostia–San Sebastián, where he developed izan eta esan, a project exploring the intersections between language, image, and political subjectivity. In 2026 he was awarded a three-month residency at Matadero Madrid, developing PANCARTA, a research project examining the banner as a graphic device and political object within the history of social movements.