The butcher’s we built Koloreka over has faded away over the years, but when you come in you can still sense its spirit in a very special place: the refrigerator.
In this space of only 5m2 is what is probably the smallest exhibition hall in the city. With permanent work by Nerea Urrestarazu in her most personal version: originals, paintings and limited editions.
Eventually we hold temporary exhibitions with artists from the San Sebastian cultural scene.
Nerea Urrestarazu
GUARDASOLAK / ISOLA
Nerea blends engravings, paints, and cellulose fibers in a compositional process that borders on the cinematic, creating scenarios that suggest a space open to the viewer's imagination. Halfway between figurative and abstract, her lines are soft, with flat colors and a strong predominance of negative space in the compositions, also giving prominence to the support itself.
Guardasolak is a collection of prints created using digital imagery with embossing on 300 g/m² Canson® Montval® watercolor paper. Margot, Enrique, Eli, and Thomas are the protagonists of the series, in which the umbrella is the unseen protagonist. 40 x 20 cm. Limited edition.
Isola is a graphic reflection on some aspects and characteristics of solitude, drawing inspiration from literary works.
112 ATELIER
Bigarren Azala - 112 Atelier. July - August 2025
112 Atelier, formed in 2024 by Dutch graphic designer Marcel Flier and Basque painter Beñat Olaberria, is a collaboration grounded in a shared interest for abstract art, monochromatic palettes, and the creative process. Their work combines backgrounds in design and painting, exploring materiality through experimentation, transformation, and intuition.
Miguel Balliache
Aleatorio. November 2024
Miguel Balliache (Caracas, 1973). Architect by training and multidisciplinary artist who has been living in Donosti for years
A set of pieces that, through various techniques such as painting, collage and assembly, present us with a narrative of situations and moments full of contrast. Humour and playfulness intertwine with an intimate perspective of the artist, creating a vibrant dialogue where the essential thing is not only the subject, but the way in which these elements converge to shape the visual discourse. Each work contains its own universe, full of seemingly random elements, which together seek to communicate a unique and unexpected story.
Pablo casares
Eskai. November 2023
Pablo Casares (Donostia, 1972) is an artist with a diverse career in which he has explored poetry, drawing and, in the last decade, the soundscape.
Eskai arises from an interest in approaching a classical way of observing the landscape, and brings together a group of oil paintings made spontaneously from photographs. The project is inspired by the aim of reconciling the everyday and modest nature of these landscapes captured as snapshots, with that taste for attending to the sensations that a more entertaining contemplation can offer us.
Laura Miner
Of stone and cement. February 2023
Laura Miner (Donostia, 1966) Her extensive artistic career has led her to fish in all kinds of fishing grounds, hence she pulls any art in a spontaneous and original way. His lair is in Undermount (Igeldo), a place without cartography, in the image and likeness of it and all that is eclectic.
His proposal includes a set of variations made from photographs taken of the stones and cement that make up the architecture of the place that will host the exhibition.
Maite Rosende
Scraps. November 2022
Maite Rosende (Donostia 1991) studied illustration and mural painting in Barcelona. She has participated in the street art festivals Asalto (Zaragoza) and Altza Apain (Donostia) and has worked in the field of children's and young adult literature with the publishing houses Mamut (Barcelona) and Denonartean (Pamplona). Her work has been recognized by Iberoamérica Ilustra (Mexico) and by the San Sebastian Film Festival. She currently lives and works in Donostia.
Her proposal is based on the work done during the year 2021 in seven notebooks in an attitude of play and enjoyment. The exhibition includes original collages of different sizes made from them.
Ane Zaldibar.
Keep Looking. February, 2022
Donostia illustrator Ane Zaldibar held an exhibition of the work she does in addition to being a member of the Koloreka team.
Ane studied art at Bilbao and Seville. After graduating she moved to Barcelona where, in 2010, she took a degree in illustration, and began to take an interest in independent publishing. Since then she has edited around 20 publications, taken part in numerous specialist festivals, and contributed drawings to many different media outlets. Currently she lives and works in Donostia.
Her work includes medium-size drawings, collages made using material discarded during everyday work at Koloreka, and several fanzines and comic books.
We invite any artist connected to San Sebastián whose work is suitable for display in our 5m² refrigerator.
We will hold two exhibitions per year. If you are interested in exhibiting your work, please send an email with your proposal to lanevera@koloreka.com.
If you would like to know more about how to participate, you can download the guidelines via the following link.
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