http://www.arteleku.net/

After considering the situation that contemporary art was going through during the 80s, in 1987 Gipuzkoa Provincial Council encouraged the creation of a space designed to promote art and contemporary culture.

Arteleku operates outside conventional norms and has gradually become a meeting point for creating, reflecting on, experimenting with and disseminating art and culture. It promotes a kind of teaching that transcends boundaries and a greater degree of individualisation in the face of the standardisation process that we can observe in traditional centres where art is taught and disseminated. Arteleku is located on the outskirts of Donostia-San Sebastián in the district of Loiola. In its 5,000 m2, distributed over three floors, local and international artists and anyone interested in improving their knowledge of art and contemporary creative work can find a professional support structure and a physical space where they can work, carry out research and exhibit. Its installations and facilities are constantly being updated to meet the increasingly varied needs of modern creative artists: a documentation centre specialising in contemporary art, an ultramodern multimedia room, spaces loaned out on a temporary basis, a lecture hall, a set, industrial production workshops...

A significant interdisciplinary activity programme enables it to act as an observatory of the latest artistic trends, either through projects of its own or those produced in collaboration with others, - monographic courses, workshops and seminars run by specialised technicians, exhibitions or performances coordinated by guest artists. This centre, which is a symbol of creative activity in the Basque Country, aims to a certain extent to provide a response to the way that the art scene has evolved, which has been heavily influenced by globalisation and new technologies.