Larrosa - Nora Aurrekoetxea
25.10.25 – 06.12.25
Madé van Krimpen is pleased to present Larrosa, the first solo exhibition of Nora Aurrekoetxea at the gallery. Having graduated from the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam last year, the artist continues her exploration into the poetics of material, gesture, and space.
Opening Saturday, October 25, from 5 to 8 pm
I don't know if it's a fixation or fetish but I remember how at home my mum was folding towels, fabrics, and I became interested in it to the point that I would record her hands creating these ephemeral shapes, like a soft sculpture.
Playing with shapes and forms of the domestic and the public, Nora challenges our connotation and assigned roles of objects, such as of a bouquet of flowers, reversing ornament and function. Alluding to this interplay, the exhibition is titled Larrosa (rose in Basque) and will consist of works that deal with our relation, emotional attachment, and interdependence to space, objects, and how narratives unfold in them. Bringing together materials from construction sites like concrete canvas with intimate objects, her practice departs from form to then slowly unfold the content. She casts, drills, and pours shapes that are often majestic in size yet they are beholders of small marks: a memory, a gesture, a potential. As she describes, her pieces are always dependent on the viewer, the space, the time: a never complete unraveling of meaning, a co-existence. Maybe it screams to me but it will whisper to you.
Aurrekoetxea finds inspiration in architecture, design and industrial elements, construction sites, random urban collages of objects like garbage, witnessing and working with what is already present, prioritizing unpredictability and free-spaces. The works presented at the gallery were born from these encounters, and will find companions in a literary text written by Céline Mathieu and a site-specific intervention carried out by the artist. These pieces have been developed with the assistance of Idoia Leache.
Rosatxu
Concrete cavas and bolts
140 x 80 x 48 cm
2025
About Nora Aurrekoetxea
Graduated in Fine Arts at the University of The Basque Country and holding an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London, Nora Aurrekoetxea (1989, Bilbao) is a Basque artist based in Amsterdam.
She has recently completed her residency at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, and has been artist in residence at Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Solomon R. Guggenheim (New York), BilbaoArte (Bilbao) and Paradise Air (Matsudo). She has been awarded with prizes such as ARCO Madrid, IX International Art Prize FMJJ, AC/E Acción Cultural España, Elise Mathilde Fonds, Gure Artea Prize and Generaciones 2022.She has exhibited in galleries such as Intersticio (London) and Juan Silió (Madrid), and in independent spaces such as P////AKT (Amsterdam) and Racoon (Barcelona), Foundation Fiminco (Paris), and Museo Guggenheim (Bilbao). Her work is part of the permanent collections of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, ARTIUM Basque Museum Centre of Contemporary Art, Fundación María José Jove, ARCO Foundation, CA2M Museum and Botín Foundation, among others. 
Open studios at Rijksakademie Amsterdam 2025
