Speakers 2026

Teuntje Fleur is a graphic artist based in Rotterdam, known for her colourful visual language filled with playful shapes, patterns, and graphic compositions. In her work, she explores how colour, form, and imagination can connect with the inner child. With a distinct preference for primary colours, she creates dreamlike worlds in which circles, triangles, and squares come together in energetic and recognisable images. Her work invites visitors to look again, discover, and make space for imagination.

Hyperventilated brass band: saxophones, trombones, trumpets, clarinet, French horn. Starting with simple instructions, they create self-regulating compositions and choreographies. They have performed on the Puente de la Salve, on a bus, at the Kiosko del Arenal, at the Markina fronton, and on Ea Beach. They present pieces created specifically for each performance. Txaranga Urretabizkaia is an open group whose number of musicians varies. Its members have played in bands such as Eten, Gora Japon, Los Plomos, Hamburgesa Vegetal, Magmadam, Kakofunk, Polígono Elgoibar, -Gailu, etc.

In 2009, Pierre Lafitte, along with a group of friends who shared a passion for music and parties, founded the Moque Moque association. Together, they quickly launched Baleapop, a festival that became established in Northern Basque Country for ten years, combining contemporary creation and alternative music with a “DIY” philosophy. He created the online radio station Dia!, which launched in 2019. In the summer of 2020, he opened a temporary art gallery in Saint-Jean-de-Luz dedicated to micro-editions, comics, and artisanal creations. From this initiative, Udada was born, a multinational, multidisciplinary festival. What they love most is discovering and programming artists: they promote murals, organize live performances, and curate exhibitions.

Una Editorial Grande is a publishing project founded in 2024 by Iván Mayorquín and David Espinosa “El Dee.” The publishing house focuses on comics and graphic novels, aiming to serve as a bridge between national and Latin American authors and the broad audience interested in these stories. Its mission is to showcase a fresh and contemporary vision of comics through works and authors with unique perspectives, always with a fair and mindful approach within the publishing industry.

Usoa Zumeta was born in San Sebastián on January 17, 1969. She grew up in Usurbil, where she still lives. Her father was the well-known painter José Luis Zumeta, and her mother was Nani Sanz, a retired shopkeeper from San Sebastián. She studied Fine Arts at the UPV. Although she initially turned to audiovisual art and painting, she later decided to focus solely on painting. He took a screen printing course at Arteleku—his only formal training in the medium—which allowed him to experiment until he became an expert and began creating reproductions of his father’s works as well as those of many other great artists.

He has published more than 20 illustrated books and has received numerous awards. In 2011, he was nominated for the Best New Author Award at the Barcelona Comic Fair. In 2012, he was a finalist for the FNAC-Sin Sentido International Award. He has won two White Ravens Awards. In 2018, he won the Premi Llibreter from the booksellers of Barcelona and the Best Illustrated Album Award at Comic Con in Madrid. In 2023, he won the International Graphic Novel Award at the Angoulême Festival. He has won two Junceda Awards. In 2024, he was a guest illustrator at the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, where he received a special mention in the Non-Fiction category for ‘Vertical: An Illustrated History of Climbing’.

Yolanda holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country, having  specialised in graphic design back in 2007. She currently works as an illustrator in both the publishing and advertising sectors. She enjoys exploring concepts, communication and storytelling, and to this end she employs concise forms and compositions alongside images with a simple aesthetic. She won the Euskadi Prize for Literature in the illustration category  n 2018, and his illustrations have been selected and exhibited internationally.

The illustrator and comic artist Zeina Abirached was born in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, in 1981. She studied Fine Art, specialising in Graphic Design in Lebanon, and Animation at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, where she moved in 2004.

In 2006 she published her first illustrated book, a children’s story adapted from the short film Mouton, which she had directed herself. Shortly afterwards, her first two comics, Beyrouth-Catharsis and 38, rue Youssef Semaani, were published to great acclaim in France.

In Spain, and internationally, she made a name for herself with El juego de las golondrinas, a work that was highlighted at the Angoulême Festival as one of the best works of 2007. In 2015, she once again stood out at the Angoulême Festival with El piano oriental, for which she received the 2016 Phénix Award.

She combines her work as a writer and comic artist with that of an illustrator, and has undertaken major commissions for festival posters and book covers, amongst other projects.