EN - Tania Barrenetxea (Bilbao, Spain) is a visual artist and photographer. Trained in contemporary photography in 2021 at the Center for Contemporary Photography (CFC) in Bilbao. As a photographer, she explores the power of images as traces and as catalysts, creating an emotional, symbolic, and intimate visual language. Her body of work represents an ongoing investigation on identity, trauma, and that liminal space where the known and the unknown converge.Through self-referential work, she delves into the complex relationship between fragility and empowerment that arises from acknowledging our vulnerability, seeking to open a space for reflection and healing.
ES - Tania Barrenetxea (Bilbao) es fotógrafa y artista visual. Se forma en fotografia contemporánea en 2021 en el Centro de Fotografía Contemporánea (CFC) de Bilbao. Como fotógrafa, explora el poder de las imágenes como huella y como catalizadoras de experiencias, creando un imaginario emocional, simbólico e íntimo. Su cuerpo de trabajo constituye una investigación continua sobre la identidad, el trauma y ese espacio liminal donde lo conocido y lo desconocido confluyen. Desde el trabajo autorreferencial, se adentra en la compleja relación de fragilidad y empoderamiento que surge de sabernos vulnerables, tratando de abrir un espacio para la reflexión y la sanación.
Education
20/21 “Construction of a personal project” in CFC Centro de Fotografía Contemporánea, Bilbao
2023 “Photobook Café” with Eduardo D’Acosta and relevant guests
Workshops and masterclasses with: Elisa Miralles, Jon Cazenave, Lurdes R. Basolí, Lidia Vives, Mara Saiz i.a
Grants & Awards
2024 International Discovery of the Year. Refocus Awards, EEUU
2024 Grants for Fine and Visual Arts Publications, Basque Government
2024 Selected on Visual Arts call Getxo, Bizkaia
2023 Gold Winner in Budapest International Foto Awards, People category, Budapest
2023 Finalist MAPA Grant on Lens, Madrid
2023 Finalist Argizaiola Saria, Bilbao
2022 Winner on BAFFEST Festival, Barakaldo
2022 Selected for PHE22 Photoespaña Santander portfolio reviews, Santander
2022 Honorable mention in the IPA International Photography Awards, Los Angeles
2022 First Prize Siena Creative Photography Awards, Conceptual category, Siena
2022 Awarded with La Máquina Grant, Madrid
2022 Second prize in Tolosa Herria Awards, Tolosa
2022 Finalist on 31º Premio nacional Badia del Vallès, Badia del Vallès
2021 Special jury mention in Blackkamera grant, Bilbao
2019 Second prize in Premio Nacional de Fotografía f8, Jaén
2019 Selected on BAFFEST Festival, Barakaldo
2018 First prize Egoaizia, Eibar
Exhibitions
2025 Solo exhibition "Apegos feroces" in Sala Villamonte, Getxo
2024 Solo exhibition "Apegos feroces" in BBK Kuna, Bilbao
2024 Collective exhibition “ellas, nosotras, beraiek, geu” in Sala Amárica, Vitoria-Gasteiz
2024 Collective exhibition “Desire to live” in The Stendhal Room, Madrid
2024 Collective exhibition “Lazos” in Freezer Fotofest, La Plata, Argentina
2024 Collective exhibition “Lazos” in Fotoseptiembre Festival, CDMX
2023 Solo exhibition "Apegos feroces" in EASD Castilla y León, Soria
2023 Solo exhibition "Apegos feroces" in Baffest Festival, Barakaldo
2023 Solo exhibition "Apegos feroces" in Efti, Madrid
2023 Collective exhibition in Juntas Generales de Bizkaia, Bilbao
2022 Collective exhibition in Fortezza Medicea and Piazza Caduti delle Forze Armate, Siena
2022 Collective exhibition in Baffest Festival, Barakaldo
2022 Collective exhibition in Archivo de Tolosa, Tolosa
2021 Online collective exhibition in Femgrafia
2021 Collective exhibition in Centro Cultural Margarita Nelken, Madrid
2021 Collective exhibition in Espacio Encuentro Feminista, Madrid
2019 Collective exhibition in El Pósito de Linares, Jaén
2018 Collective exhibition in Fundación Universidad Isadoriana, Murcia
2016 Collective exhibition in the Gallery Estudios a tu aire, Bilbao
2015 Collective exhibition in Usurbe Antzokia, Beasain
Filmography
2021 Photography assistant - La camisa blanca
Online & Print features
2023 Interview in Punto de Enlace on RNE
2022 Interview in La Faktoria on Euskadi Irratia
2022 Interview in Vivir para ver on Radio Euskadi
2022 Interview in El Correo newspaper
2022 Portfolio feature in LF magazine
2022 Feature in EMC Magazine
2022 Feature in FEEM magazine #10
2021 Cover art base ГУДБАЙ ISBN 978-5-9908944-4-0
2021 Feature in FEEM magazine #5
2020 Feature in PhotoVogue Italy
2020 Interview with writer Helena Lind
2019 Interview in Negromundo
2018 Review in Scene 360 Magazine