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Created in 1991 by the Provincial Government of Bizkaia, Sala Rekalde is located on Rekalde Street downtown Bilbao. Initially, this Exhibition Hall was the leading art venue in the city from the second half of the 20th century onwards. It put on exhibitions by internationally renowned artists, including the first public presentations of the Guggenheim Collection. To complement this function of opening up towards international art in the pre-Guggenheim period, Sala Rekalde opened another locale, called “Rekalde, Area 2� and located in an industrial building in Alameda
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Mazarredo Avenue, where contemporary Basque art was exhibited. When the Guggenheim Museum was opened in 1997, however, Sala Rekalde was forced to reinvent itself, as the new museum was to become the space in for the type of exhibitions that Sala Rekalde had been specialising in up until then. So, from that point on, Sala Rekalde shifted focus towards contemporary art, focusing on exhibiting works of a more experimental nature and on artists whose work is still being evaluated.