Curated by Fernando Pérez, Director of Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao, the exhibition brings together, for the first time in Bilbao, some of Allora & Calzadilla’s most important works from the last decade.

The concept of KLIMA, which dates back to ancient Greece, signifies an inclination towards the sun. The works in this ambitious, open-ended chronology engage with the solar orientation taken by all life forms. Each artwork in the exhibition can be thought of as a unique climate that, when brought together as a whole, creates a cosmic entanglement—travelling as far back as 4 billion years ago, all the way to the present day. This presentation highlights the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of Allora & Calzadilla’s practice, as well as themes that run throughout their œuvre: geological time and the evolutionary history of life on Earth; the postcolonial condition, environmental justice, climate debt, geopolitics, and energy resources.

KLIMA highlights the importance of Allora & Calzadilla’s sculptural-performance based works to their career trajectory, a number of which will be regularly staged throughout the course of the exhibition, in collaboration with local musicians.