Guggenheim Museum Bilbao hosts Ever is Over All from 1 October
Published on 10/04/2026 at 06:11 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Ever is Over All. Pipilotti Rist in Bilbao from 1 October 2026 to 17 January 2027. The exhibition brings the Swiss artist’s two-channel video installation to gallery 103, extending the museum’s Film & Video programme into autumn.
The work is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s current exhibition peg for visitors in Spain, with its opening date falling inside the five-day retrospective and 30-day forward window around 4 October 2026.
Ever is Over All opens at the Bilbao museum on 1 October
The museum’s 2026 programme lists Ever is Over All. Pipilotti Rist from 1 October 2026 to 17 January 2027, with Mikel Onandia as curator. The exhibition is installed in gallery 103, while the same programme places a Steve McQueen exhibition in gallery 105 from 9 October 2026.
The Rist presentation centres on Ever is Over All, a 1997 video installation. It combines two projections: one follows a smiling woman in a light blue dress as she breaks car windows while walking along a pavement, while dreamlike tropical flowers appear alongside the sequence. The soundtrack was composed by Anders Guggisberg. The museum’s 2026 exhibition programme records the dates, gallery and curator.
Pipilotti Rist’s two-channel work meets Bilbao’s riverfront museum
Rist’s installation brings moving image, sound and flowers into a building whose materials are glass, limestone and titanium. That relationship matters here because the museum’s permanent architecture makes the exhibition space part of the visitor’s visual route, rather than a neutral container.
The building was designed by Canadian American architect Frank Gehry and constructed between October 1993 and October 1997. It stands on a former wharf beside the Nervión, where the site’s industrial and port history was incorporated into the redevelopment of Bilbao’s riverfront. The Guggenheim Foundation describes the building as covering a 32,500-square-metre site along the river. Its architecture and riverfront setting help place the Film & Video gallery within the wider museum complex.
For a traveller, the date connects a contemporary video work with a building that has been part of Bilbao’s cultural landscape since its construction was completed in 1997. The exhibition’s two screens and slowed soundtrack also make gallery 103 a distinct stop from the museum’s larger galleries devoted to paintings, sculpture and collection displays.
Visiting Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: what travellers from Western Europe should know
- Ever is Over All. Pipilotti Rist runs at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao from 1 October 2026 to 17 January 2027, in gallery 103.
- The exhibition is a current presentation inside the museum, not an announcement of a future venue change. The programme identifies the work as a two-channel video installation.
- The museum is on Bilbao’s Nervión riverfront, on the site of a former wharf and port area. Bilbao is in northern Spain.
- The building uses titanium, glass and limestone, and was constructed between October 1993 and October 1997.
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Frequently asked questions about Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
When does Ever is Over All take place at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao?
It runs from 1 October 2026 to 17 January 2027 in gallery 103.
What is Ever is Over All?
It is Pipilotti Rist’s two-channel video installation from 1997, combining a street sequence with dreamlike tropical flowers.
Where is Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and how do you get there?
The museum is on the Nervión riverfront in Bilbao, Spain, on a former wharf and port site.
