Begoña Zubero (Bilbao, 1962) studied Audiovisual Communication at the Complutense University of Madrid and specialized in photography at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York. From her earliest works, she has developed a conceptual photographic style, characterized by a high level of technical, formal, and aesthetic quality.

Research and documentation are central elements in her creative process, allowing her to create images of deep intellectual intensity. Throughout her career, she has explored various genres, ranging from the photographic realism of urban environments and still lifes to experimentation with the abstraction of subjective photography.

Fascinated by the architecture of power in 20th-century totalitarian regimes in Europe, in 2002 she moved to Rome, which became the starting point for the Existenz project (2002–2013). This work led her to document symbolic sites such as the architecture of Tempelhof, the Berlin airport station, the Colosseo Quadrato in Rome’s EUR district, the buildings of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the Lubyanka Building in Moscow, and Stalinist architecture in Armenia. In 2012, she returned to Rome as an artist-in-residence at the Royal Academy of Spain, continuing her exploration of memory and the ideological use of architectural and urban spaces.

After her Italian experience, her more recent projects have focused on themes related to contemporary culture and history. In collaboration with architect Ignacio González Galán, she participated in the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Rem Koolhaas, presenting the project Cinecittà Occupata (2014) in the Monditalia section at the Arsenale. This work explores the architectural and social value of Cinecittà through photography.

In 2016, she exhibited in Extraordinary Vision. L’Italia ci guarda at the MAXXI Museum in Rome, organized to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Italian Republic. The selected photographs come from the Gente del Po project, born from her interest in the relationship between culture and ideology during Fascism, with a focus on Michelangelo Antonioni. This project marked a turning point in her career, placing the landscape at the center of her research as a medium capable of preserving identity, memory, and imagination. The project was fully exhibited at the Sala Artegunea in Tabakalera, San Sebastián (2017), and later at the Centro Niemeyer in Avilés (2018).

At the end of 2018, she spent two months in Iraq thanks to an artist residency sponsored by the Moving Artist Foundation, an organization that fosters connections between artists from conflict or post-conflict zones and those from the Basque Country. This experience led to the project NEEEV, Non è esotico, è vitale (2020), exhibited at the Sant’Elia Foundation in Palermo and the Museum of Rome in Trastevere (2022). The exhibition was later reimagined at the Fondazione La Verde La Malfa – Parco dell’Arte in San Giovanni La Punta (CT). Among her most notable exhibitions are the solo show El principio es la mitad del todo at Galería Carrasco in Madrid (2020) and the group exhibition El viaje a Roma at the AECID Cultural Center in Montevideo, Uruguay (2021). In the same year, she participated in Open call/Puertas abiertas at the BilbaoArte Foundation and was present at the Estampa art fair in Madrid and FIG Bilbao, represented by Galería Carrasco Art Madrid/Lisboa. Recent exhibitions include participation in Feria Stampa (2023) in Madrid at the Galería Vanguardia stand (Bilbao), No es exótico, es vital at the Sala La Merced of the Córdoba Provincial Council (December 2023), and at the Pabellón de Mixtos in Pamplona (2024).

She also exhibited at The Phair – Photo Art Fair in Turin with Erica Ravenna (2024), Palermo Mon Amour at the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid (2024), and Etrus at the Ignacio Goitia Store space in Bilbao. In January 2025, she took part in an exhibition organized by the Cajasol Foundation in Córdoba, celebrating the best of contemporary photography from the past twenty years. This exhibition is part of the prestigious Pilar Citoler International Prize for Contemporary Photography, of which Zubero was the first winner.

Also in 2025, on May 22, he opened at MAXXI Architettura in Rome an exhibition, curated by Ariane Varela Braga, based on materials from the Enrico Del Debbio Archive, centered on the spaces of the Academia, Stadio di Marmi and the Farnesina. He currently lives and works between Italy and Bilbao.