Nekane Aramburu Gil (San Sebastian, 1965) is a Spanish art historian with an extensive international career, who has worked as a cultural manager, museologist and curator since the 1990s.
[2] In 1993 she founded TRASFORMA, developing museum, ethnographic, historical, environmental and industrial architecture projects, in parallel to a program on emerging practices and new technologies.
As director of Espacio Ciudad, a cultural entity of the City Council of Vitoria (Alava), she launched a pioneering program of exhibitions and publications on the relationship between the urban, architecture, contemporary thought and trans disciplinary practices.
She has carried out extensive research in the academic field and from the independent and institutional essay as in the case of "Archivos colectivos: History and actual situation in the independent spaces and artist collectives in Spain 1980-2010" (with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Culture) and from her experience as promoter of the network of spaces and collectives Red Arte (1994-2000).
She has carried out specific projects on independent management, creating the first national network of autonomous entities in 1994 -Red Arte- and working on these practices especially in Latin America and Southern Europe/Maghreb.
Also through Mujeres Santas she develops an extensive study in Latin America on post colonialism applying new practices of analysis and mediation that delve into issues of gender and environmental and social responsibility or in the French Grand East with Matériaux Inmateriel on the mechanisms of environmental responsibility in the collections and management of the FRAC of Champagne-Ardenne/Reims, Lorraine/Metz and Alsace/Strasbourg.)
[3][4] She teaches curators, managers and artists in various university master's degrees as well as specialized workshops in Colombia in Medellín (2008) and Bogotá (2012)., Montevideo, Uruguay (2009), Lima, Perú (2011), Bahía Blanca and Buenos Aires in Argentina (2011), Havana in Cuba.
CCE/Montevideo (2009), Caras B del videoarte español (with Carlos T. Mori) in Bangkok / Seoul / Sydney / Prague / Berlin (2010 and 2013), Palabras corrientes (with Marisa González) Instituto Cervantes.
New York / Beijing (2006), Todo cuanto amé formaba parte de tí, Damascus / Dublin / Brussels (2007-2010), Bluesky.
San Sebastián( 2011 to 2019), Gaur(sic) (London / Managua / Costa Rica / Honduras / Córdoba-Argentina / Montevideo / Mexico / Santiago de Chile, Albi-France.