Gallery Weekend
Donostia · San Sebastián

With Donostian roots and ties, Rafa Satrústegui presents his work in a solo exhibition in San Sebastián for the first time in 22 years. The last was in 2004 at Galería Dieciséis, under the direction of Gonzalo Sánchez, who passed away in 2007.

With his habitual delicacy and lyricism, the artist returns to Donostia — now to Arteko gallery — with a series of paintings and works on paper in which he seeks to convey, using the barest of resources and registers, the power and versatility of gesture, exploring its frontier with the sign. To do so he silences every colour but Prussian blue, the near-exclusive pigment of this exhibition titled Sugerencias prusianas.

Zu Atrapatu Arte (Trashvertising) is a multidisciplinary project around sculpture and painting that addresses branded garbage as residue and the "auratic" deposit of the brands themselves — the result of an approach to found objects and chance, of critical commentary, and of a paradoxical process that seeks to transform detritus.

Trashvertising — from the English words trash and advertising — attempts to analyse how waste can be used to advertise, given the communicative capacity and power of a particular brand. The project strips debris of its semiotic discourse, dignifies it, and returns it to its original place.

Ruoxi Jin (Harbin, 1997, China) works primarily in sculpture and performance, weaving intricately constructed narratives in which genealogical anecdotes and magic tricks converge.

A sense of fluidity runs through Jin's practice, echoing not only the past lives of the objects she combines, but also those of the artist herself. The virtuosity of her heteroclite assemblages reflects a poetic vision open to crossings and associations. Assemblage becomes not only a formal inquiry but a means of fostering affective bonds and shared experiences.

Ruoxi Jin graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2024. Her recent solo exhibitions include MA Félicité, Frac Île-de-France, Paris, 2026; Microclimats at Galerie Mennour, Paris, 2025; Prix sur demande at Galerie du Crous, Paris, 2025; REGRETS, DNSAP, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, 2024.

Ekain Arte Lanak presents Mikel Lertxundi's small-format sculptures and drawings from the exhibition Nature Harmony Poetry. The artist has transformed heavy, robust materials — stone, wood, iron — into light and fragile ones, emptying them of matter and filling them with suggestions and messages, turning them into precious objects, almost amulets.

A proclamation of the great and profound values of the small, and a pleasurable proposal to every sense and for every sense, to the point of provoking a tactile gaze. A timeless aesthetic contribution to tradition and centuries of history. An invitation to discover poetry in the harmony of nature.

A way of bringing the Earth and its inherent equilibrium closer to the viewer, to offer a breath and a pause in these times of instability and accelerated change.

Basoan zehar presents a recent series of engravings and prints in which Elena Setién explores the forest in communion with humanity. The exhibition asks how "to step into the forest is to traverse oneself until finding one's own essence".

Through a patient, meticulous technique, the artist translates onto paper the density of light filtered through the trees, the texture of moss, the permanence of the trunk. Each print works as a fragment of memory — intimate and collective — of the Basque landscape, an invitation to silence and slow reading.

Water & Sacred Shores brings together two complementary photographic series exploring humanity's instinctive bond with water, the body and the shores. In Sacred Shores, Bibelas captures the encounter between sand, ocean and sky as a place of transcendence — evoking the passage of time, nostalgia and the wonder of the suspended moment through double exposures and disconcerting scales.

Water investigates the liquid element as a space of dissolution and sensory memory, where the body floats, dissolves and protects itself, questioning the fluidity of identity and the power of imagination.