T–festa was born in the Basque Country from conversations between colleagues from the Bilbao Arte and Arteleku screen printing workshops. It arose from the need and desire to create a space that would consider the printing and intervention practices on t–shirts that artists carry out within their own practice. These are creative processes that transit between the circuits of both art and design.
T–festa was consolidated as an organization in 2011 by Laura Fernández Conde, Pernan Goñi, and Rosa Parma. Moreover, an image and a website were created in collaboration with Iñaki Rodríguez, which later led to a festive event.
In June 2012, the first T–festa (Art T-shirt Festival) took place in AlhóndigaBilbao (Azkuna Zentroa), where for four days the work of 32 artists who had been selected through a T-festa public call was shown. The exhibition was accompanied by a program that included concerts, workshops, and talks. This inaugural festival was followed by a second edition in 2014, and a third edition in 2016.
