Josu Rekalde (Amorebieta -Bizkaia- 1959) combines artistic creation with his job as professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of the Basque Country. His field of work is multidisciplinary although his best known facet is related to video, sound and new technologies. The themes he works with move from intimacy to the social relationship, from the I to the Other, from the metalinguistic to the narrative.

His work has been exhibited and spread in numerous places such as The World Wide Video Festival in The Hague, Holland (1993). Festival of the ZKM of Karlsrue in Germany (1993), ICA. Spanish video visions. London, (1994), De rand van Europa, Videonale, Bonn (1994), Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao (1995), the Museum of Girona (1997), Espace des Arts de Tolouse (1998), Aix en Provence (1999) ), Mappin Gallery of Sheffield (1998), Saarbrucken film festival (1999), Espace d’Art Contemporani de Castelló (2000), Center La Panera de Lleida (2004), Göete Institute of Rome (2004), Videokuns aus Spanien. Kornhaus Forun. Bern. Switzerland (2005). Espacio Menosuno in Madrid (2006), the Na Solyanke Gallery in Moscow within the framework of the exhibition: Jokes and Nightmares, Spanish video art from Dalí to the present day (2011), at the Puertas de Castilla Center “Miradas al Videoarte” (Miradas al Videoarte) ( 2012, “ARTISTS AS CATALYSTS” by Ars Electronica at the La Alohondiga Center in Bilbao (2013), Proyector Festival, Madrid (2016), Museum of Art and History of Durango (2018), MediaLab Madrid (2018) or MEM, Experimental Music Festival in Bilbao (2818).

His work Anthropozulo was awarded as one of the best international video creations in the framework of the ZKM festival (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie) in Karlsrue (Germany) (1993). has works have been acquired at the Centre La Panera in Lleida, the Espace des Arts in Toulouse and at Arteleku (Diputación de Gipuzkoa). It is also worth mentioning his work as artistic director of the opera «Kaiser von Atlantis» (2010), and «Apocalipsis» (2017).

He is part of the Research Group of the University of the Basque Country IKERSOINU. Ikersoinu investigates the relationship between sound and action, reflecting on the artistic practices around sound, as well as the performative capacity of the sound act.