Born in 1982 in Caracas (VE) | |
Lives and works in Berlin (DE) |
Education
2009 | Master in Design, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES) |
2006 | BA in Fine Arts, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife (ES) |
Solo exhibition
2024 | Buscando guanábana ando yo, CA2M, Madrid (ES) |
ChertLüdde, Berlin (DE) | |
2023 | Las seis ventanas, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger (NO) |
Casa encontrada, Francesca Minini, Milan (IT) | |
2022 | Los vestigios de la turista, 1646, Den Hague (NL) |
2021 | La carta, por favor, Crèvecœur, Paris (FR) |
Isla, Berlin Art Week Garden, Kindl, Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin (DE) | |
La Ventana, Mural installation for train station, Bahnhof Berlin-Friedrichstraße (DE) | |
2020 | El barco de barro (The Clay Ship), Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen (DK) |
Se empeñaban en tapar las grietas, pero las paredes seguían sudando, Villa Arson, Nice (FR) | |
2019 | Pasaje del olvido, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich (DE) |
Isla, Kunsthal Extra City, Anvers (BE) | |
El Autobús, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (GB) | |
Archivos Olvidados, ChertLüdde, Berlin (DE) | |
2018 | Pica Pica, Düsseldorf Kunstverein, Düsseldorf (DE) |
El Patio, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL) | |
Milagritos y frutas, Crèvecœur, Paris (FR) | |
Casa Isadora, Brücke Museum, Berlin (DE) | |
Tente en el aire, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lissabon (PT) | |
Solo Pintura II, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich (DE) | |
La puerta, ACCA Melbourne, Melbourne (AU) | |
2017 | Agencia Viajes Paraíso, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen (DE) |
Interiores, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund (DE) | |
2016 | La Sauna Caliente, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (AT) |
Solo Pintura, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London (UK) | |
Casa de Cambio, Art Basel Statements, Basel (CH) | |
Desde el Jardín, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow (UK) | |
2015 | La Escuela del Sur, Studio Voltaire, London (UK) |
El Buen Vecino, SALTS, Basel (CH) | |
Oficina del Ciudadano, Galerie Wedding, Berlin (DE) | |
Caracas 2015, Sala Mendoza, Caracas (VE) | |
2014 | Salsa, Gillmeier Rech Gallery, Berlin (DE) |
Caribbean Style, Museo Apparente, Naples (IT) | |
Cyber Café, Frieze, London (UK) | |
Bienvenidos A Nuevo Estilo, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London (UK) | |
2013 | La Caraqueña, Frutta Gallery, (Hadrian), Rome (IT) |
Modern Dowry (with Christopher Kline), Toves, Copenhagen (DK) | |
La Perla del Caribe, The Taut And Tame (Lüttgenmeijer), Berlin (DE) | |
2012 | Regalos Ancestrales I, II (with Christopher Kline), TEA, Tenerife (ES) |
2011 | Field Studies (with Christopher Kline) curated by Lorenzo Sandoval, Altes Finanzamt, Berlin (DE) |
Snakebraid performance, El Apartamento, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (ES) | |
2010 | Snakebraid Performance, Center of Contemporary Art of Torun (PL) |
Regalos Ancestrales (with Christopher Kline), Mark & Kyoko, Berlin (DE) |
Group exhibitions
2024 | Foreigners Everywhere, 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Venice (IT) |
UNION LIBRE, MEMENTO - Espace Départemental d’Art Contemporain, Auch (FR) | |
Fifteen Years of Love at the Pangolin Republic, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (PT) | |
2023 | monotypes shift, Edition VFO, Zürich (CH) |
Sol Calero, Nino Kapanadze, Shana Moulton, Crèvecœur, Paris (FR) | |
El lenguaje contemporáneo, GBG ARTS, Oswaldo Vigas, Venezuela (VE) | |
MONOTYPES, Edition VFO, Kunsthalle Zürich (CH) | |
Public art intervention, Caracas, Venezuela (VE) | |
La tienda Maeno, Oku-Noto Triennale, Suzu (JP) | |
Vielheit [Multiplicity]: Stories from the postmigrant society, Kunst Meran, Merano (IT) | |
2022 | Bergen Assembly 2022: Yasmine and the Seven Faces of the Heptahedron, Bergen Assembly, curated by Yasmine d’O, Bergen (NO) |
ARS22, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (FI) | |
Nunca Lo Mismo (Never the Same), ARCOmadrid, curated by Mariano Mayer and Manuela Moscoso, Madrid (ES) | |
We Paint !, curated by Cristiano Raimondi, Musée des Beaux Arts, Paris (FR) | |
Painting in Person. The new Collection of the CRC Foundation, Complesso monumentale di San Francesco, Cuneo (IT) | |
2021 | Quinceañere, curated by Pablo León de la Barra, Diablo Rosso, Panama (PA) |
Group Exhibition, 2, Amtsalon Gallery Pop-Up, Berlin (DE) | |
The Ocean, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (NO) | |
The Sowers, Fondation Thalie, Brussels (BE) | |
Various others, Nir Altman, Munich(DE) | |
Le tour du jour en quatre-vingts mondes, CAPC, Bordeaux (FR) | |
Indice Ultraviolet: Décalage vers le rouge, CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel (CH) | |
2020 | Raupenimmersattism, SAVVY, Berlin (DE) |
Die absurde Schönheit des Raumes, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (DE) | |
FEATURES, Museum Nikolaikirche, Berlin (DE) | |
MECARÕ. L’Amazonie dans la collection Petitgas, MO.CO., Montpellier (FR) | |
2019 | Postales de Futuro, Baró Galeria, Madrid (ES) |
El hecho alegre. Una mecánica popular de los sentidos, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (ES) | |
Expanded Painting, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia (IT) | |
A Shiver in Search of a Spine, Arario Gallery, Seoul (KR) | |
2018 | Papier. Salon, Wentrup, Berlin (DE) |
The Theatre is Lying, ACCA Melbourne, Melbourne (AU) | |
2017 | Amazonas Shopping Center, Preis der Nationalgalerie. A joint exhibition of the nominated artists for the Preis der Nationalgalerie, 2017. Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum for Gegenwart, Berlin (DE) |
HO HO HO, Frutta Gallery, Rome (IT) | |
Casa Anacaona, Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone (UK) | |
What’s Up - The Americas, LVH Art, London (UK) | |
First Day of Good Weather, organised by Despacio (Costa Rica), Sies & Höke, Düsseldorf (DE) | |
Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine, and Venice, Italy (IT) | |
2016 | London is Open: Art for Everyone, Art On The Underground, London (UK) |
Curated by a Tree, 1857, Oslo (NO) | |
Tropical Punch, Galerie Nathalie Halgand, Vienna (AT) | |
Closer to the veg, Fitzroy Park Allotments, London (UK) | |
Je Ne Sais What?, Carnelutti Law Firm, Milan(IT) | |
2015 | Salon of Hybrid Things, curated by Maurin Dietrich and Nina Mende, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE) |
Women’s Art Society II, curated by Adam Carr, Mostyn, Llandudno (UK) | |
Office for Paradoxical Relations, space design, NGKB, Berlin (DE) | |
You Will Find Me If You Want Me In The Garden, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris (FR) | |
Oh, Of Course, You Were Berry Picking, DREI Gallery, Köln (DE) | |
2014 | Small Rome, Frutta Gallery, Rome (IT) |
Borders, curated by Adam Carr, Artuner, Online show | |
Accordion, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London (UK) | |
2013 | Women’s Art Society, curated by Adam Carr, Mostyn, Llandudno (UK) |
The Phylogenesis of Generosity, Prizessinnengarten Outdoor Sculpture Triennial, Berlin (DE) | |
Von flussigen Stammbaumen im Geroll der Vernetzung: ein Familienporträt, Espace Beaumont, Luxembourg (LU) | |
Performing and costume for Michele Di Menna - Ooze Generator, 12. Triennale Klein plastik, Fellbach Item Perspectiva, Krome Gallery, Berlin (DE) | |
Come, All Ye Faithfull, curated by Carson Chan, Florian Christopher, Zurich (CH) | |
2012 | Case Report, Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona (ES) |
The Rescue of the Effects, curated by Lorenzo Sandoval, General Public, Berlin (DE) | |
2011 | Feather Throat, Grimmuseum, Berlin (DE) |
curatorial activities
2011 - | co-founder of Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin (DE) |
2022 | Cabilla, TEA, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, TEA Tenerife (ES) |
2021 | Desde el Salón (From the Living Room)-Sol Calero selects from the Hiscox Collection, Whitechapel, London (UK) |
2016 | Oedipusmas Special, 1646, Den Hague (NL) |
2015 | Che Che Cole, 63rd-77th STEPS, Bari, Online |
Works in Institutional Collections
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (US) | |
Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M) (ES) | |
Lafayette Anticipations (FR) | |
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (FR) | |
Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) (FR) | |
Museo Madre, Napoli (IT) | |
Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmio Di Cuneo (IT) | |
Hiscox Collection, London (UK) | |
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (DE) | |
Musée des Abattoirs/FRAC Occitanie, Toulouse (FR) | |
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (DE) |
Awards/Prizes/Scholarships
2019 | Nominated for the Prix Jean-François Prat, Paris |
2017 | Nominated for the Preis der Nationalgalerie, in association with Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin |
Audience award of the Preis der Nationalgalerie, Berlin | |
2016 | Shortlisted, Future Generation Art Prize |
2014 | XVII Salón Banesco Jóvenes Con FIA, Third Place in National Prize, Caracas |
2009 | Leonardo Da Vinci, Berlin |
2005 | Séneca / Sicue, Universitat de Barcelona |
2004 | Erasmus, Interactive Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University |
Editions
2023 | Super Super Markt |
2022 | Solidarity Prints for Artists at Risk in Ukraine |
2021 | Studio Voltaire |
Whitechapel Gallery | |
Designing Motherhood | |
Absolut Art | |
2020 | Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen (DK) |
Art For Black Lives | |
2019 | Tate Liverpool |
2018 | BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE |
2017 | Jahresgabe, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund |
2016 | « House of Voltaire », Studio Voltaire, London |
Glasgow International Festival, Glasgow | |
« Jahresgabe », Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf |