De Vita Beata

29/02 – 09/03

AGNÈS presents: ‘DE VITA BEATA’ an art exhibition in the centre of Madrid.
The art label AGNÈS presents its new art exhibition entitled ‘DE VITA BEATA’, by the artist Carle Naide. The opening of the exhibition will take place on the 29th of February, at 19:00 hours, in the Bate Social Store, located in the emblematic district of the letters in Madrid.
The exhibition will be attended by the artist Carle Naide (Madrid, 1994) who has emerged as one of the most promising exponents of the emerging art scene in the city. For Carle, art is conceived as a means of establishing meaningful connections. His work, characterised by its elegance and subtlety, offers a unique exploration of art without an artist. Through oil painting, he does the work of a visual archaeologist, rescuing the richness of the past and fusing it with the contemporary vision of the present, thus projecting a glimpse into the future.

BSS 1ST ANNIVERSARY 08/02 – 16/02

what a crazy year… On the occasion of our first anniversary of the opening of Bate Social Store, for the first time we present our own office product, in very limited units: a special drop of t-shirts and the most expensive lighter in the world.
Thursday 8th 18h early access only with guest list
From Friday 9th – Saturday 16th, open until sold out.

IED PRESENTS: MIGUEL VIDES

18/01 – 25/01

Directed by local designers Lucas Criado & Andrea López, Italian Insituto Europeo di Design presents at Bate Social Store the work of the artist Miguel Vides, hosted and produced by students.
An exhibition of works made between 2022 and 2023. The central piece and inspiration for the exhibition is the Egg, which not only appears as a symbol but also serves as a poster present in this exhibition, being, on many occasions, the starting point for several of the works presented. The space opens up like the inside of an egg, showing a varied work where graphic design, photography and drawing enter into conversation. The common denominator of these pieces is universal icons such as eggs, water, birds or frozen lemons. All this wrapped in a language close to pop, designed to connect with everyone.

Presented by Insituto Europeo di Design Madrid.

Directed by Andrea López & Lucas Criado
Hosted by:

@irenerosa21
@decabezaalinfierno
@malaikajaafar
@giulianacarneade
@anareyesmart
@mariaagonnzalez
@aleexboutin
@flying_kidd

SISYPHE BOUTIQUE

14/12 – 05/01

The Spanish fashion brand Sisyphe, presents exclusively for Bate Social Store, a bespoke shopping experience designed together with the Bate.work studio.

Sisyphe, the brand installed between Malaga and Madrid, defines in this ephemeral experience its own way of fashion consumption: with an ironic and refined vision of concepts such as money, hedonism, appropriation and resignification of symbols or routine,
hedonism, the appropriation and resignification of symbols or the routine of office life.
This is an experience with a very clear and transparent purpose: the sale and transaction of a limited product.

A space designed and produced by the creative studio Bate, which serves as a meeting point for the community that makes up the fashion brand, where you can find products from the new collection, as well as garments and colourways only available at the Bate Social Store.

https://www.instagram.com/sisyphemodas/

Andrés Aparicio “CINCO MINUTOS Y VUELVO” 16/11 – 02/12

Solo exhibition of the Sevillian artist Andrés Aparicio, exclusively for Bate Social Store.

Andrés Aparicio was born in Villarasa in 1989 (Huelva). At the age of twenty-seven he starts studying Fine Arts at the University of Seville. In 2019 he travels to Palermo, where he discovers his ingenuity and spontaneity, his bright and contrasting colours, and where he gives himself to a free interpretation of everything he observes. It was in Palermo that his teachers dubbed him “Andrea Paricio”, a pictorial continuation of Andrea Dimarco, an exponent of the New Italian Figuration, both characterised by a playful language, which refers to an imagery inspired by everyday life and its fatal counterpart: oblivion, expiration, disuse.
Andrés being the son of craftsmen, his painting has a strong awareness of the work itself. This is reflected in the link between the hand and the head, in the bond between inherited tradition and the capacity to innovate, in the play with its limits. “I play with painting as my father measures and works with wood or as my mother draws a pattern on a canvas. The important thing is to build while understanding its context so that what is created coexists in unison”.

In the proposal CINCO MINUTOS Y VUELVO, Andrés shows the importance of context in his work. He generates physical paths that place the spectator in the right circumstance to understand from where and for what the artist creates. And he plays with it – with the work – as cities play with signs. It is, then, the spectator who will have to appropriate the signs to reveal the way back home. In this sense, the signs themselves are unimportant: it is the path that opens up with them that matters, and the memories that settle in our memory.
The trip to Palermo will allow Aparicio the chance contemplation of a large red tarpaulin, unfurled every morning by the market workers; a tarpaulin without any aesthetic pretensions, but of a profound involuntary beauty, which Aparicio will paint repeatedly in order to preserve and remember it in the greatest detail. Like a love letter to a memory.

In a society where the life of things is volatile, Andrés’s works place us in an arid space, made up of multiple premises that are closed – rented – closed again. In this continuous cycle of uninhabitability and emptiness, movement and supply are but hasty masks of nothingness. This state of restlessness could lead us towards a sense of nothingness. Surprisingly, however, at the end of the street, there is an old stall that remains open. In this corner, we find a glimmer of hope to cling to and feel that we belong. It is a place where we can be and, consequently, remember.

©original text by Aurora Díaz

NII HAI

19/10 – 28/10

English Brand founded by Rossie Williams comes to Madrid to present his Denim collection, a special sale of the most exclusive items of the brand and garments in collaboration with Bate.work. Nii HAi clothes are designed to encourage people to feel powerful & confident, in both what they wear and what they do. Aesthetically exclusive yet socially inclusive. Nii HAi aim to develop this idea to encompass broader aspects of business in the future, expanding beyond clothing. 
Early Access 19_10 18h
Public Access 20_10 11h

NINETIES X DAVIT RUIZ

28/09-07/10

Nineties presents together with Madrid-based photographer Davit Ruiz an exclusive exhibition and capsule collection at the mutant gallery-shop Bate Social Store.

Nineties is a skate collective from Madrid led by Rodrigo Mena and Jacobo Prieto, creative and skate lovers for decades. Together they give a breath of fresh air to the local scene, relying on the aesthetics and basic principles of skateboarding to encourage new generations.

This exclusive collaboration with photographer Davit Ruiz (Madrid, 1986) develops his most experimental side as a street photographer, playing again and again with irony and different exhibition formats. Davit Ruiz, a Nineties photographer since its inception in 2021, works in commercial and editorial photography for clients such as Lexus, Nike, Vice, GQ and Tapas, among others.

On this occasion, the collaboration is materialised in a capsule collection that includes tables and exclusive garments, and will be available until 07 October 2023.

PURA UTZ 07/09-16/09

Gallery re-opens for fashion brand Pura Utz.

Pura UTZ was founded in 2018 by Bernabela and Anna, two friends who met through a non-profit organisation and shared the same dream of handmade jewellery. The team started out with six women, working out of Bernabela’s house in Santiago Atitlan, a bustling town in Guatemala. Together they create beautiful, high-quality beaded jewellery and pouches, inspired by the fruits of the land – a project that has helped enable a full-time income for more than fifty women in Guatemala.

GUILLERMO SOLAS

8/06 – 17/06

Guillermo Solas presents at Bate Social Store “Sudden Awareness of Myself”, a unique exhibition in Madrid where he challenges the limits of digital art.

Guillermo Solas pushes the boundaries of artistic expression by merging the realms of digital innovation and visual art. “Sudden Awareness of Myself presents an extraordinary collection of artworks that masterfully reflect the essence of being born, growing up and navigating the virtual world.

Moving away from his previous art projects, Solas dives into a more introspective exploration, delving into the intricacies of digital identities and their evolution in contemporary society. With technology as a profound source of inspiration, the artist examines how society interacts with the digital realm and the reciprocal relationships between “us” and the intangible but undeniably present virtual world. Solas recognises that we are all part of a higher self and seeks to capture this essence through his thought-provoking works.

The exhibition, curated by Carlos Palencia presents a wide range of artworks, from depersonalised portraits that evoke the 21st century (with a touch of Magrittian surrealism) in pieces such as “A selfie”, where the subject may not physically appear, to re-imagined and digitised versions of art history itself.

Many of the pieces are interconnected through an installation spider’s web that the artist uses as a metaphor to show the connections we create individually from our individual selves, but which inevitably expand and reinforce the idea of an “I” that transcends the personal, a web that the viewer must unravel in order to make their way through the exhibition. We are all connected and part of a greater whole.

In accordance with the ideas of the philosopher Pierre Levy, Solas defends the virtual as a dimension of reality, not as something independent of it. Reflecting his own personal concerns and in harmony with his time, the artist addresses fundamental issues such as identity and technology. He neither celebrates nor demonises the latter, but rather gives it the place in his work that we all give it in our daily lives: that of a protagonist.

Guillermo Solas’ exhibition, Sudden Awareness of Myself, challenges visitors to reflect on the multifaceted nature of identity and the ever-evolving role of technology in our lives. Navigating the boundaries between the virtual and the physical, Solas deftly captures the essence of our interconnectedness and raises profound questions about the extent of our individual autonomy. Join us from 8-17 June at Bate Social Store in Madrid for an immersive art experience that will leave you pondering the limits of the self.

MATINAL F.C

25.05 – 03.06

Matinal FC, official shop and community space.

@matinal.fc is a community, creative studio and cultural movement focused on Post Football culture ⚽.

An ephemeral installation by MATINAL at the gallery / mutant store @bate_social_store inspired by the concept of playing at home and reproducing the movement generated around a football pitch, with the table football as a representation of the stadium. A piece intervened by local artist Javier Mars @hell0javi will act as the central axis of the space, inviting public interaction and the generation of new conversations.

The collaboration between MATINAL and the creative office @bate.work is materialised in an exclusive clothing capsule, as well as the development of an agenda with different activities focused on the community: round tables with active agents of the Post Football scene, table football tournaments, football morning sessions and generation of third halves.

*Football table available for auction.

Agenda TBA
Drawing by @sandrarramiro

Matinal Investigates the various forms of sport off the pitch: its presence in fashion, in post-match conversations or in new physical formats, which make up the Third Time Culture. Post Football goes beyond victory and results – winning matters, but it’s not everything.