Present day - Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

BBKateak 

In June 2022, the museum launched BBKateak, an initiative that, over the course of these two years, has made it possible to exhibit 64 encounters between 110 artists from the…

Read news

Gau Zuria 

The founding of Bilbao (June 15, 1300) is commemorated every year with an extensive program of live and nightly shows. Music, light and sound shows, performing arts or literature, among…

Read news

Three new exhibitions for the summer

BBK and the museum welcome the summer with the new exhibition program that, over the next few weeks, will be spread throughout the rooms of the museum. From June 7,…

Read news

Donation of the Roberto Sáenz de Gorbea Collection 

The collector and gallery owner Roberto Sáenz de Gorbea has donated an important set of artworks comprised of paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper to the Bilbao Fine Arts…

Read news

New phase of the Agravitas expansion

On 19 January 2024, the first V-columns of the structure of the expansion of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum were placed. This marked a very important milestone in the implementation of…

Read news

BBKateak new rotation

  Getting beyond conventions Murillo captures the ecstasy of this standing Saint Adelelmus by tinkering with the volume, weight and scale until achieving the monumentality and artistic solidity of a…

Read news

Iberdrola-Museum Conservation and Restoration Programme

The Iberdrola-Museum Conservation and Restoration Programme takes shape in actions whose goal is to ensure the material integrity of the works of art in order to properly conserve and exhibit…

Read news

Art to Touch. Visual accessibility programme

Since 2012, Iberdrola and the museum have been partnering in the Art to Touch programme, whose main goal is to make learning about and enjoyment of works of art accessible…

Read news

Preview of 2024 activities

During the architectural enlargement process and the parallel museographic transformation, the Bilbao museum’s ties with its history and its future outlook have become the driving ideas around which its public…

Read news

Tour de France posters

The Basque Country will host the Grand Départ of the 110th edition of the Tour de France and the first three stages of the race, starting in Bilbao on 1…

Read news

That Time

Tabakalera and the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum present the joint exhibition That Time. Both institutions are premièring what is their first collaboration, which arose as an opportunity during the expansion…

Read news

Gau Zuria

The founding of Bilbao (15 June 1300) is commemorated every year with an extensive programme of live performances, including music, light and sound, performing arts and literature, among others. The…

Read news

Calendar of events

Bergé Collection Donation

exhibition

Eduardo Chillida – Godofredo Ortega Muñoz

exhibition

The Sota Family

exhibition

Intermission

exhibition

BBK Art Route V

exhibition

Begoña María Azkue Bequest 

exhibition

Sergio Prego. Thirteen to Centaurus

exhibition