++++ Born 1967 in Bilbao, Spain. Lives and works in Berlin and Bilbao.

++++ Jon Mikel Euba resorts to both image and text in his works ‘based on video, drawing and words, in order to construct ambiguous narratives and to stage incidents or mysterious situations, in which landscape attracts recurring fragmented actions, transformed by infinite repetition into abstract icons. Starting from the editing of images from his personal archive, film stills, sentences and found passages, he generates a new cinematic text, a new structure that transcends such informational units to describe new modes of behaviour. The starting point of his installation for Manifesta is a ‘greguería’ by Gómez de la Serna, a poem whose meaning is at once defined and concealed as it gradually unfolds. (Nuria Enguita Mayo)

Two in a car romance three adultery four kidnapping five crime six shooting with the police, 2002.Drawing