A moving look at historical memory through children's artwork arrives in Donostia / San Sebastián. 🎨✨

The exhibition brings together historical works created by children during one of the most challenging episodes of the 20th century, hosted at Aiete Cultural Centre.

🎨 ¡Y además dibujan!

📅 From September 10 to October 25, 2026

🕐 Tuesday to Friday: 16:00-20:30. Saturdays: 10:00-14:00 and 16:30-20:00. Sundays: 10:00-14:00

📍 Centro Cultural Aiete, Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ Free admission

📖 Memory and drawings from exile

Ninety years after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, this exhibition gathers drawings made by children who were forced to flee the country. Through their artwork, created with a vulnerable and sincere gaze, the memory of a wounded country that refuses to be forgotten is revealed.

Each sketch offers a direct and innocent testimony of the impact of conflict and displacement, turning paper and colour into a space of expression in the face of adversity.

🎨 The venue: Centro Cultural Aiete

Located on Aiete pasealekua, the Aiete Cultural Centre hosts this poignant artistic and historical exhibition in Donostia / San Sebastián, providing open access to deeply meaningful testimonial works.

ℹ️ Good to know: Open Tuesday to Sunday. Visitors are advised to check the schedule before visiting.

✨ A touching opportunity to rediscover historical memory through the eyes and art of children.

An innovative visual installation brings historical imagery back to life by transforming static archival pictures into moving video sequences using modern technology. 🎨

This installation is linked to the Ipuskoa bizi project by El Diario Vasco and forms part of the European Heritage Days programming in Donostia / San Sebastián.

🎨 PHOTOGRAPHS COMING BACK TO LIFE

📅 From October 1 to October 31, 2026

🕐 Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 20:00

📍 San Telmo Museum, Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ 10 €

📖 Memory in motion through artificial intelligence

This creative showcase is based on old photographs that are transformed into videos through artificial intelligence. The experience proposes an exploration of both collective and personal memory, inviting audiences to reflect on the preservation, reinterpretation, and transmission of visual heritage to future generations.

By blending historical memory with modern digital tools, the display offers a fresh perspective on timeless historical moments preserved through photography.

🏛️ San Telmo Museum and European Heritage Days

San Telmo Museum hosts this project as part of the European Heritage Days activities. Visitors can find the installation placed right at the entrance area leading to the temporary exhibitions inside the museum.

ℹ️ Good to know: Closed on Mondays. Located at the entrance to the temporary exhibitions.

✨ A fascinating encounter between historical memory and contemporary artificial intelligence.

A decade of maritime heritage and research comes together in Errenteria with a comprehensive retrospective exploring our profound connection to the ocean. 🌊⚓

Organised by the Arkeolur Association, this event brings together material from twenty different exhibitions mounted between 2016 and 2026.

🎨 10 YEARS OF MARITIME HISTORY

📅 13 to 31 October 2026

🕐 Monday to Saturday, 17:00 – 20:00

📍 Xenpelar Culture House, Errenteria

🎟️ Free admission

📖 Shipwreck remains, nautical charts and sea chronicles

This anthology gathers displays previously exhibited across Errenteria, Pasaia, Donostia, Castro Urdiales, Bermeo, Pinofranqueado, and Irun. The themes explore lighthouses, shipping companies, abandoned vessels, Argentina, maritime disasters, and rescue services.

Visitors can view illustrated explanatory panels alongside authentic maritime artifacts: ship logbooks, shipwreck relics, nautical charts, navigation compasses, and flag signaling codes.

🎨 Screenings, lectures and the Arkeolur Association

The initiative features two special events at 18:30: on 22 October, a screening of Lucía Goñi's documentary Galerna: el horizonte infinito about the 1961 storm; and on 23 October, the lecture Rescate en la mar: Historia del salvamento marítimo by Manuel Torres.

ℹ️ Good to know: Open to all audiences, featuring bilingual explanations. Closed on Sundays.

✨ A fascinating journey into the living heritage of navigation and the sea.

San Telmo Museum presents a rarely seen creative side of one of today's most renowned filmmakers. 🎨✨

This exhibition introduces audiences to Isabel Coixet's visual art through an evocative selection of works closely connected to her distinct artistic vision.

🎨 Isabel Coixet. Kaosaren diziplina. Collage

📅 From September 11 to November 1, 2026

🕐 Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 20:00

📍 San Telmo Museum (Laboratorio), Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ Free admission

📖 The filmmaker's visual artwork

Widely recognized for her acclaimed film career, Isabel Coixet reveals in this exhibition an intimate aspect of her artistic activity, developed alongside her filmmaking over recent years.

Working with both manual and digital collage techniques, Coixet creates compositions using photographs, clippings, written fragments, and found objects. Her pieces weave together personal memories, individual reflections, glimpses of other lives, and imagery from diverse settings.

🏛️ Laboratorio Hall at San Telmo

The exhibition is presented in the Laboratorio room at San Telmo Museum, situated at Plaza Zuloaga in Donostia / San Sebastián.

ℹ️ Good to know: Closed on Mondays.

✨ A unique opportunity to explore Isabel Coixet's personal artistic universe through collage.

LaCENTRAL Art Gallery in Donostia / San Sebastián presents the joint exhibition "BIDAIDEAK", an event celebrating almost five decades of a shared creative journey. 🎨✨

The showcase brings together acclaimed artists Ricardo Ugarte and Julia Otxoa to commemorate a 48-year path of life and art developed hand in hand.

🎨 BIDAIDEAK

📅 From October 8 to November 7, 2026

🕐 Tuesday to Friday from 11:00 to 14:00 and 16:30 to 20:00; Saturdays from 11:00 to 14:00 (opening: October 8 at 18:30)

📍 LaCENTRAL Art Gallery, Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ Free admission

📖 Sculpture and Graphic Art in Dialogue

The exhibition showcases a carefully curated selection of sculptures and graphic works produced by both creators. The pieces on display capture their individual and intersecting aesthetic realms, bearing witness to a creative bond nurtured across time.

Through this selection, the project invites visitors along an intimate retrospective trail where sculptural forms and works on paper converse, reflecting a 48-year journey of artistic partnership.

🎨 The Artists at LaCENTRAL Art Gallery

Located on Kale Berria 5 in San Sebastián, LaCENTRAL Art Gallery provides the setting to honor the collaborative milestone of Julia Otxoa and Ricardo Ugarte, prominent figures in the local art world.

ℹ️ Good to know: The gallery opens during regular business hours from Tuesday to Saturday, remaining closed on Sundays and Mondays.

✨ An exceptional tribute to 48 years of life and artistic creation in the heart of San Sebastián.

Tabakalera presents the audiovisual installation "Walker", a project conceived specifically for the Donostia art centre that invites visitors to experience the power of extreme slowness and contemplation. 🎨🎬

The exhibition brings together graphic work and three pieces by acclaimed Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang, featuring actor Lee Kang-Sheng, as part of Tabakalera's programme exploring the intersection of contemporary art and cinema.

🎨 WALKER

📅 From 18 September to 6 December 2026

🕐 Tuesday to Sunday: 11:00–13:00 / 16:00–20:00

📍 Tabakalera, Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ Free admission

📖 The lost value of stillness

The project originated in 2011 when Tsai Ming-Liang collaborated with Lee Kang-Sheng on the theatrical play Only You. Fascinated by a scene where the actor walked with extreme slowness, the director decided to transfer this bodily pace to the screen, turning the body into an observer travelling the world.

This quest connects with Xuanzang, a Tang Dynasty monk. Lee Kang-Sheng portrays a contemporary version of this monk: barefoot, head shaved, in a red robe, walking through urban settings in radical introspection. The exhibition showcases three key works from the series: Walker (2012), No Form (2012), and Journey to the West (2013), filmed in Hong Kong, Taipei, and Marseille.

🎬 Film and contemporary art

Since 2012, the Walker series has grown to twelve works filmed across ten cities. The latest instalment was shot in San Sebastián in summer 2025 in collaboration with Tabakalera, presented in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section of the 2026 San Sebastián Film Festival.

ℹ️ Good to know: Closed on Mondays.

✨ A unique opportunity to discover the profound contemplation and poetic vision of Tsai Ming-Liang.

Aiete Cultural Centre dedicates its exhibition space to local artist Oihana Egaña in a show focusing on drawing and graphic narrative. 🎨🖌️

This exhibition is part of the quarterly Illustration Corner series, an ongoing programme that regularly highlights the work of prominent illustrators.

🎨 The Illustration Corner: Oihana Egaña

📅 From 9 September to 9 December 2026

🕐 Tuesday to Friday: 16:00-20:30. Saturdays: 10:00-14:00 and 16:30-20:00. Sundays: 10:00-14:00

📍 Aiete Cultural Centre, Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ Free

📖 Illustration Exhibition

The showcase brings together a curated selection of works by Oihana Egaña, offering a journey through her creative projects. Visitors can take a close look at her visual storytelling, the primary role of imagery in her work, and her unique artistic voice.

🎨 The Artist and the Programme

Oihana Egaña was born in San Sebastián in 1973. She studied Teaching and Basque Philology, and has held a strong passion for imagery since childhood, which is reflected in her numerous illustration projects.

The Illustration Corner is a programme hosted at Aiete Cultural Centre that welcomes the works of a different illustrator every three months.

✨ A wonderful opportunity to discover contemporary graphic art in San Sebastián.

Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola presents a new edition of Aztarnak, a film programme that uses cinema as an exploration space to trace signs of the present and imagine possible futures. 🎬✨

Curated by the eighth class of students in the Film Curating department at the San Sebastián film school, the series unfolds across ten screenings designed as a collective atlas of contemporary visions and inquiries.

🎬 Aztarnak Film Series 2026

📅 From 15 February to 13 December 2026

🕐 First screening at 17:00

📍 Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE Cinema, Tabakalera), Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ Free admission

📖 Traces, territories, and collective horizons

Aztarnak, which means "traces" in Basque, explores clues and signals to reimagine tomorrow. Divided into three thematic blocks, the programme presents questions and alternative paths to envision multiple, expansive horizons in dialogue with technological and environmental shifts.

The first thematic block examines the idea of territory, showcasing films set in dissident or unconventional spaces to question how we inhabit what remains. The opening screening features Julen Etxebarria's El tercer paisaje alongside Lisandro Alonso's Jauja.

The project also fosters direct dialogue with attendees: one hour after each screening, an adjacent room opens for audiences to help build a collaborative image atlas using physical materials alongside the student curators.

🎬 EQZE Curatorial Programme

Located on the ground floor of the Tabakalera building, the EQZE cinema hosts this initiative, offering a shared space to reflect upon and experience film within a community.

ℹ️ Good to know: Free admission until capacity is reached.

✨ A singular film programme to reflect on our present and imagine the future together.

The Urumea River becomes a map of shared human experiences through an exhibition intertwining collective memory and contemporary artistic codes. 🌊🎨

This cultural project arises from the contributions of local residents living alongside the riverbanks, shaping a sentimental and creative exploration of this liquid lifeline.

🎨 Urumea Emotional Atlas

📅 From October 2, 2026 to March 21, 2027

🕐 Monday to Friday: 9:30-18:00 | Saturdays: 10:00-14:00 and 15:00-19:00 | Sundays and public holidays: 10:00-14:00

📍 Cristina Enea Environmental Resources Centre, Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ Not indicated

📖 Ten sentimental tributaries

Many of the people who live and coexist near the Urumea have shared anecdotes, memories, and life experiences along the banks of this vital river corridor.

This dialogue has shaped the Urumea Emotional Atlas, structured around ten sentimental tributaries that group different thematic strands. The initiative expands into an exhibition that uses artistic codes to foster a renewed connection with the river.

🏛️ Cristina Enea Environmental Centre

Hosted at the Cristina Enea Environmental Resources Centre on Frantzia pasealekua, the project invites visitors to engage with the natural and social fabric of Donostia / San Sebastián.

✨ A unique journey to reconnect with the Urumea River through the memories and artistic expressions of its people.

An artistic and historical exploration reflecting on the memory and evolution of the San Telmo Museum. 🎨🏛️

As part of the seventh edition of the Museo Bikoitza program, artists Usue Arrieta and Ainara Elgoibar, members of the Tractora artists' cooperative and selected by Maddi Barber, present their joint research project.

🎨 Museo Bikoitza: "Baltzune + P-003687"

📅 From June 12, 2026 to June 12, 2027

🕐 Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 19:00

📍 San Telmo Museum, Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ €4 / €10

📖 Artistic research into the museum collection

Both artists take the institutional history of San Telmo Museum as their central reference. Ainara Elgoibar investigates piece P-003687, the catalog code for the sculpture "Los Fundadores: Alonso de Idiáquez y Gracia de Olazábal", focusing particularly on the physical cut separating the two figures.

Meanwhile, Usue Arrieta traces the cardinal role that civil society played in establishing the museum. Using letters sent to the museum director in 1917, she explores through sound the relationship between the discipline of anthropology and artistic creation in the Basque Country.

🏛️ The Museo Bikoitza program and Tractora cooperative

Museo Bikoitza regularly invites contemporary artists to re-examine the permanent collection. In this iteration, the collective efforts of the Tractora members merge sculpture, archival manuscripts, sound exploration, and critical museum history.

ℹ️ Good to know: Open Tuesday through Sunday; the museum is closed on Mondays.

✨ A captivating chance to rediscover San Telmo's heritage through fresh contemporary lenses.