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Sol Calero

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 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)
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